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'm a big fan of power trios where there's only three instruments.
Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.
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.
We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.
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,
Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.
We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.
Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.
I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.
I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.
I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana so... there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I've got to go out and make up for lost time.
There really is a certain magic that happens when you're in the studio. And it's important in life to feel that magic: to feel that there is something greater moving all this along.
Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.