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 had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks - Cars/'Candy-O,' Ramones/'Road To Ruin,' Cheap Trick/'Heaven Tonight' and the first Devo record. I don't remember skating without music.
It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved.
We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.
We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.
Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.
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.
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.
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.
That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.
We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.
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.
Our first record didn't come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time. It sounds way better.
I led the state in defensive interceptions my senior year, with seven in nine games. Then I went to Montana to play basketball and found out quickly that my college career wasn't going to work out how I'd envisioned it.