Jeff Ament Biography

Jeff Ament ( Born Jeffrey Allen Ament ) is an American musician and songwriter who serves as the bassist for the American rock band Pearl Jam. He is

considered to be one of the greatest rock bassists of all time. Along with Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder, he is one of the band’s founding members, and 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. Ament is also a member of the bands Temple of the Dog, Tres Mts., Three Fish and RNDM.

Jeff Ament Age

Ament an American musician and songwriter who serves as the bassist for the American rock band Pearl Jam was born on  March 10, 1963.

Jeff Ament Height

Ament an American musician and songwriter who serves as the bassist for the American rock band Pearl Jam has a standing height of 6 feet 2 inches.

Jeff Ament Family

The first of five children, Ament was born in Havre, Montana to George and Penny Ament and grew up in the town of Big Sandy, Montana, a town with a population of less than 700. Ament’s father George was mayor of Big Sandy for fifteen years, as well as a barber and a school bus driver. She described his family growing up as “pretty poor” and “hard-core Catholic.”

Jeff Ament Education

According to our research, she participated in basketball, football, and track at Big Sandy High School, from which he graduated in 1981. He then went on to college at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana, where he studied art and played basketball. 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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Jeff Ament Career

Green River

He became acquainted with fellow Seattle musicians Mark Arm and Steve Turner, and he was asked to join their new band Green River in 1984. The band also included drummer Alex Vincent, with guitarist Stone Gossard eventually being added to the line-up. By the time the band finished the recording of its debut EP, Come on Down, Turner decided to leave the group, citing his distaste with Ament and Gossard’s heavy metal leanings. He was replaced by Ament’s former Deranged Diction bandmate, Bruce Fairweather. The band released the EP Come on Down in 1985 and followed it up with Dry As a Bone in 1987, the first release on Sub Pop records. The band’s only full-length studio album, Rehab Doll, was released in 1988. In-fighting lead to the group’s break-up during the recording of Rehab Doll.

A stylistic division had developed between Ament and Gossard on one side, and Arm on the other. Ament and Gossard wanted to pursue a major-label deal, while Arm wanted to remain independent, viewing the duo as being too careerist. Regarding the accusation, Ament later said that during his time with the band he had to work at a restaurant in order to pay his rent, while the other members were supported by their parents. He said, “Did I want to play music and have my rent paid for? Hell yeah.”The band achieved a considerable local reputation in Seattle and had a significant influence on the genre later known as grunge, with Green River being described as “arguably the first grunge band.”

Jeff Ament  Mother Love Bone

Following Green River’s dissolution, Ament established Mother Love Bone in 1988 along with former Green River members Gossard and Fairweather, former Malfunkshun frontman Andrew Wood, and former Ten Minute Warning and Skin Yard drummer Greg Gilmore. The band quickly worked on recording and performing locally and by late 1988 had become one of Seattle’s more promising bands. In early 1989 the band signed to PolyGram subsidiary Mercury Records. In March of that year the group issued its debut EP, Shine.

In late 1989 the group returned to the studio to record its debut studio album, Apple. It was planned for a March 1990 release. Only days before the release of Apple, however, frontman Wood, who had a long history with drug problems, overdosed on heroin. After spending a few days in the hospital in a coma, Wood died, effectively bringing Mother Love Bone to an end. Apple was released later that year.

Jeff Ament Net Worth

He is an American musician who has a net worth of $70 million dollars. Jeff Ament was born in Havre, Montana, and grew up poor. He began playing bass when he was in his teens and went on to attend the University of Montana where he majored in Art and played on the basketball team.

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Skatepark opens in Hamilton with help from Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament

MTN News 1:14 pm July 7, 2019

HAMILTON – Years of planning and fundraising paid off Saturday as a new skatepark officially opened in the Bitterroot. Organizers are calling it the largest skating area in the state; at 13,000 square feet, Circle 13 Skatepark in Hamilton is finally up and running after 25 years of planning. Board president Bryan Dufresne says years ago the only way for kids to skate safely, and legally, was to go out of town.“And I saw the amount of joy it brought kids and just thought — there is no reason Hamilton can’t offer this to our community,” Dufresne said. Voters approved a bond two years ago to purchase the land at Claudia Driscoll Park, and then donations — along with sponsors — made the facility a reality.

Pearl Jam guitarist Jeff Ament has helped build 20 skateparks in Montana. “I feel lucky to be in the position I’m in. I’m a Montana kid, I grew up in Montana, and there’s really, honestly, nothing more exciting than putting skateparks in towns. The smaller the town, the better,” Ament said. He discovered a love for skating visiting California and says he’s excited to bring that back to his home state. A local assisted-living home also contributed donations. “These kids are going to be the future of our country, so it’s a great cause and we wanted to be involved and try to help make safe places for kids to come and skate and play,” said Discovery Care Center administrator Rick Bucheit.

Skaters of all ages are stoked for the new park. “It’s been a long, long process, but to see all the kids out there having a blast makes it all worth it,” Ament said. He says he puts half of his earnings from the band into his foundation for building skateparks. They build about five skateparks across the state every year, and Ament says they’re not done yet. Skaters say before Circle 13, the closest parks were in Victor and Missoula.