Grounded Podcast Substack with Jeff Ament

demetrios

https://substack.com/@groundedpodcast/note/c-122410880

Music fans, you won’t want to miss tomorrow’s episode of Grounded!

https://groundedpodcast.substack.com/

Pap

🎧📻

trees

Sweet looking forward to listening 

Merkin Baller

Had it been disclosed before that Jeff got a visit from the Secret Service over his 2018 Missoula poster? 

It was news to me. 

Shaindli1

Merkin Baller said:

Had it been disclosed before that Jeff got a visit from the Secret Service over his 2018 Missoula poster? 

It was news to me. 

Wut 😨

demetrios

Maritsa 

Out now! Our 25th episode with Pearl Jam founding member (and Montanan) Jeff Ament is live!

We ask about the viral moment when his bandmate Eddie Vedder defended Bruce Springsteen against attacks from President Trump, the concert poster that landed the Secret Service at his door, and the way his upbringing and college years shaped his viewpoints and passion projects, including Montana Pool Service.

You can watch bonus content on our Substack page, too! https://groundedpodcast.substack.com/p/dissident

Pap

Thank you, D! Maritsa must have Greek roots

ComeToTX

Merkin Baller said:

Had it been disclosed before that Jeff got a visit from the Secret Service over his 2018 Missoula poster? 

It was news to me. 

me too.  pretty wild.

Pap

Pap

JA: Why aren't the colleges doing a better job?... Colleges should be the place where you can have those conversations... Every college should set up a forum where people can go and ask dumb questions... Colleges should be the place where everybody can ask the dumbest questions... And everybody should learn about that stuff... And they shouldn't be threatened to be deported... College is where I sort of started to form my identity, and my politics... And it was radically different from the politics I grew up with... There's a lot that I would change about my college years, but I would not change that... I would not change people that I was around that taught me so much about just having a different point of view... We used to send more kids to school to have these conversations... Again, in America that we talk about... My dad's barber shop... People coming in and arguing about stuff and may be leaving with a question mark about something you believed your whole life... We're in a tricky spot right now because everybody is really dug into their little corner of their smartphone, which is not very smart... 

MG: Was there like a specific turning point or event for you in college that you remembered turning into say like: Oh, this is something that I really want to get engaged in?

JA: There's two things: I started playing in a punk rock band... I sort of came from a very Republican angle on politics... And the people that I was playing in bands with... There's a kid from Los Angeles... There's a kid from Hawaii... There's a kid that grew up in Missoula whose parents ran a dance studio... And so, it was very very liberal and very progressive... I felt kind of like an idiot those first few months... I was just listening to those folks have these conversations about things... Very shortly, I took a comparative religion series and I was in a classroom with like twenty kids... There was a Buddhist kid in the classroom... There was an atheist, which I didn't even know atheism... And then there was a gay kid in the class... This is crazy, but growing up in Big Sandy I didn't know that there were gay people... It wasn't a part of anything I was around or anything that anybody talked about... So, just being around that diversity and hearing people talk about things from a different angle, it just sent me on this path to educate myself and learn about the history from a different point of view... And learn about histories that weren't even taught... We were taught very little about native American history... We're taught very little about the civil rights movement... We were taught very little about women's rights... It was just a place to have a clean slate and ask the dumb questions... And I asked a lot of dumb questions in my first year of college... And it was OK... Our teachers would stick up for me when somebody laughed at me... And that was a powerful thing...

julieooliern

Pap said:

JA: Why aren't the colleges doing a better job?... Colleges should be the place where you can have those conversations... Every college should set up a forum where people can go and ask dumb questions... Colleges should be the place where everybody can ask the dumbest questions... And everybody should learn about that stuff... And they shouldn't be threatened to be deported... College is where I sort of started to form my identity, and my politics... And it was radically different from the politics I grew up with... There's a lot that I would change about my college years, but I would not change that... I would not change people that I was around that taught me so much about just having a different point of view... We used to send more kids to school to have these conversations... Again, in America that we talk about... My dad's barber shop... People coming in and arguing about stuff and may be leaving with a question mark about something you believed your whole life... We're in a tricky spot right now because everybody is really dug into their little corner of their smartphone, which is not very smart... 

MG: Was there like a specific turning point or event for you in college that you remembered turning into say like: Oh, this is something that I really want to get engaged in?

JA: There's two things: I started playing in a punk rock band... I sort of came from a very Republican angle on politics... And the people that I was playing in bands with... There's a kid from Los Angeles... There's a kid from Hawaii... There's a kid that grew up in Missoula whose parents ran a dance studio... And so, it was very very liberal and very progressive... I felt kind of like an idiot those first few months... I was just listening to those folks have these conversations about things... Very shortly, I took a comparative religion series and I was in a classroom with like twenty kids... There was a Buddhist kid in the classroom... There was an atheist, which I didn't even know atheism... And then there was a gay kid in the class... This is crazy, but growing up in Big Sandy I didn't know that there were gay people... It wasn't a part of anything I was around or anything that anybody talked about... So, just being around that diversity and hearing people talk about things from a different angle, it just sent me on this path to educate myself and learn about the history from a different point of view... And learn about histories that weren't even taught... We were taught very little about native American history... We're taught very little about the civil rights movement... We were taught very little about women's rights... It was just a place to have a clean slate and ask the dumb questions... And I asked a lot of dumb questions in my first year of college... And it was OK... Our teachers would stick up for me when somebody laughed at me... And that was a powerful thing...

I love this!

Shaindli1

As a history professor, this makes my heart sing!

trees

Pap said:

This was a great poster and i have the long sleeve shirt 
I always put it on when i vote

runstaples

Cool interview, Jeff and Tester are both good dudes, but we already knew that.

demetrios

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxABz-BoNxc

In the 25th episode of Grounded, fellow Montanan and Pearl Jam co-founder Jeff Ament joins JT and MG to talk politics, music and Big Sandy, Montana. We ask about the viral moment when his bandmate Eddie Vedder defended Bruce Springsteen against attacks from President Trump, the concert poster that landed the Secret Service at his door, and the way his upbringing and college years shaped his viewpoints.

Pap

trees said:

Pap said:

This was a great poster and i have the long sleeve shirt 
I always put it on when i vote

demetrios

Pap said:

Thank you, D! Maritsa must have Greek roots

Ah yeah! 

KK257911

Shaindli1 said:

As a history professor, this makes my heart sing!

I agree. I taught at the university level for nearly a decade until caring for my parents forced an early retirement. Though I was at a small but progressive liberal arts university tucked inside a very rural conservative community, we had engaging conversations across campus frequently.  After the '18 Missoula show, I brought the poster into my classes and we had lively discussions about it.  I miss those discussions - they are more important now than ever.

I could have met Jeff before that show, but I decided to leave him be to enjoy the pre-show festivities.

julieooliern

🥹 You’re a good human

demetrios

julieooliern said:

🥹 You’re a good human

Indeed.

demetrios

demetrios said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxABz-BoNxc

In the 25th episode of Grounded, fellow Montanan and Pearl Jam co-founder Jeff Ament joins JT and MG to talk politics, music and Big Sandy, Montana. We ask about the viral moment when his bandmate Eddie Vedder defended Bruce Springsteen against attacks from President Trump, the concert poster that landed the Secret Service at his door, and the way his upbringing and college years shaped his viewpoints.

Up!

Jeff recently chatted about politics, music, and Big Sandy on Grounded! Here, he answers a 3-parter band question from Jon Tester: Who is the funnest to be around? Who is the most creative? Who is the most political? Catch it (Here).