Born in Montana in 1963, Jeff Ament dropped out of his graphic design course at the University of Montana in 1983 and moved to Seattle with his hardcore punk band Deranged Diction: when that band split in June ’84, he was recruited by Mark Arm, Steve Turner and Alex Vincent to play bass in their new band Green River.
Four decades later, best known as the bassist in Pearl Jam, Ament remains one of the lynchpins of the Pacific North-West music community, with a storied CV bearing testament both to his central role in the development of the ‘grunge’ movement and to the restless creative urges which have compelled him to collaborate with a broad variety of his musical peers.
In 2016 he walked us through some of classic albums he has played on.
