Jeff Ament
Jeff Ament
Jeffrey Allen Amentis an American musician and songwriter who serves as the bassist for the American rock band Pearl Jam. Along with Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder, he is one of the founding members of Pearl Jam. Ament is also known for his work prior to Pearl Jam with the 1980s Seattle-based grunge rock bands Green River and Mother Love Bone, and is particularly notable for his work with the fretless bass, upright bass, and twelve-string bass guitar...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth10 March 1963
CityHavre, MT
CountryUnited States of America
I've seen kids turn their lives around. It's usually a kid who's outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker personality or doesn't fit in. Skateboarding ends up being something they latch onto. It sounds hokey, but finding a focus on something - whether it's skateboard or playing your guitar - can be life changing.
We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.
We saw something starting to happen with the industry and we called them out on it,
People see Eddie for 20 seconds at the Grammys and think, Goddamn, he must be like this all the time. I feel sorry for his friends.
People from Farm Aid have approached us about shows. We'd never done it. So part of my pitch to the band is that this IS farm aid.
We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.
Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.
Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.
I think I've become numb to that over the last 15 years,
Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.
I don't have a great voice or even a good voice.
I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.
I feel like in a lot of ways I can relate to the fans, just being a fan of music myself.
We opened for Black Flag, and none of the bands had dressing rooms, but Henry Rollins had his own. He had struck me as different from that.