Jeffrey Allen Ament (born March 10, 1963 in Havre, Montana) is an American musician who serves as the bassist for the American rock band Pearl Jam. Along with Stone Gossard, Dave Krusen, 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, Washington-based grunge rock bands Green River and Mother Love Bone, and is particularly notable for his w...
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Jeffrey Allen Ament (born March 10, 1963 in Havre, Montana) is an American musician who serves as the bassist for the American rock band Pearl Jam. Along with Stone Gossard, Dave Krusen, 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, Washington-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 was also a member of the side project band Three Fish. In 2008, Ament released his first solo album, Tone.
Jeff Ament was born in Havre, Montana and grew up in the town of Big Sandy, Montana, a town with a population of less than 700. Ament's father was mayor of Big Sandy for fifteen years, as well as a school bus driver. Ament described his family growing up as "pretty poor" and "hard-core Catholic." Ament has one brother, Barry.
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