1. Jeffrey Allen Ament was born on March 10,1963 and is an American musician best known as the bassist of rock band Pearl Jam, which he co-founded alongside Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder.
36 Facts About Jeff Ament
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Jeff Ament is known particularly for playing with the fretless bass, upright bass, and twelve-string bass guitars.
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Jeff Ament is a member of the bands Temple of the Dog, Three Fish, RNDM, Tres Mts.
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Jeff Ament was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pearl Jam on April 7,2017.
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The first of 12 children, Jeff Ament was born in Havre, Montana to George and Penny Jeff Ament and grew up in the town of Big Sandy, Montana, a town with a population of less than 700 people.
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Jeff Ament began playing the bass guitar as a teenager, often playing along with Ramones, The Clash, and The Police records.
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Jeff Ament participated in basketball, football, and track at Big Sandy High School, where he graduated in 1981.
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Jeff Ament then attended the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana, where he studied art and played basketball.
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Jeff Ament quit college in the middle of his second year after the university told him they were no longer going to continue its graphic design program.
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In 1983, Jeff Ament relocated to Seattle, Washington with his band Deranged Diction.
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Jeff Ament became acquainted with fellow Seattle musicians Mark Arm and Steve Turner, and he was asked to join their new band Green River in 1984.
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Jeff Ament was replaced by Ament's former Deranged Diction bandmate, Bruce Fairweather.
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Jeff Ament briefly spent time in the band War Babies, but he eventually got back together with Gossard and a childhood friend of Gossard's named Mike McCready.
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Jeff Ament took an active role during Pearl Jam's dispute with Ticketmaster in 1994 over prices and surcharges.
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Jeff Ament was replaced by Jack Irons, a close friend of Vedder and the former and original drummer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Jeff Ament has won two Grammy Awards for Best Recording Package for his work on the album Lightning Bolt and on Chris Cornell's self-titled compilation.
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Jeff Ament had a side project band named Three Fish, which he formed in 1994 with Robbi Robb of Tribe After Tribe and Richard Stuverud of the Fastbacks.
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Jeff Ament performed with other members of Pearl Jam on Neil Young's 1995 album, Mirror Ball, and subsequently took part in an eleven-date tour in Europe as part of Young's backing band.
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On September 16,2008, Jeff Ament released his first solo album, Tone, through Monkeywrench Records.
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On January 24,2011 Jeff Ament announced on Pearl Jam's official website his side project with dUg Pinnick of King's X and Richard Stuverud of the Fastbacks.
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In 2012, Jeff Ament started another band with singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur and drummer Richard Stuverud.
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Jeff Ament had a brief acting cameo in the 1992 movie, Singles, along with Stone Gossard and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam.
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Jeff Ament appeared as himself, playing bass in lead actor Matt Dillon's backing band, Citizen Dick.
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In 2022 Jeff Ament scored, together with Josh Klinghoffer, the FX on Hulu television series Under the Banner of Heaven, adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best-selling book.
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Jeff Ament has cited the Who, Ramones, the Clash, Led Zeppelin, and Neil Young as his biggest musical influences.
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Jeff Ament wrote the music for one of the band's biggest hits, "Jeremy", as well as "Nothingman".
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Jeff Ament plays guitar and keyboard on Dance of the Clairvoyants.
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In 2011, Jeff Ament endorsed luthier Mike Lull, and a signature model was produced, which is available in four different colors.
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Jeff Ament is an avid reader and has cited Mikhail Bulgakov and Cormac McCarthy as his favorite authors.
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Jeff Ament assisted in financing the construction of Missoula's Mobash Skatepark.
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Jeff Ament is a supporter of organic farming and United States Senator Jon Tester.
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Tester grew up near Big Sandy and Jeff Ament knew of Tester before either were famous.
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Jeff Ament is credited for the album artwork and art direction for the Pearl Jam albums Ten, the album photograph for Vs, and created the concept for Yield, which was nominated for the Best Recording Package Grammy in 1999.
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Jeff Ament has won two Grammys for his art design for the Pearl Jam album Lightning Bolt and the posthumous Chris Cornell compilation Chris Cornell.
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The magazine reported that Jeff Ament was knocked to the ground while trying to escape the robbers.
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Jeff Ament sustained a head injury and was treated at the scene.