I FUCKIN FEEL LIKE TALKIN ABOUT JEFF AMENT

SomethingCreative
SomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,412
edited June 2009 in The Porch
Seriously one of the best of all time.

Don't believe me? Listen to Present Tense and Whipping.

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"Well, I think this band is incapable of sucking."
-my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
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  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    He's good but not one of the best. Would you seriously put him up there with the likes of Victor Wooten, Flea, the guy from Primus?
  • Zidane
    Zidane Ottawa Posts: 362
    Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Jeff Ament.

    But to consider him one of the best...? I like that story where Les Claypool tried to get in Metallica:

    "In 1986, after the death of Metallica bassist Cliff Burton, Claypool auditioned to play bass for Metallica, playing the song "Master of Puppets" on his bass. In Metallica's Behind the Music, Claypool said that during the audition he jokingly asked the others if they wanted to "jam on some Isley Brothers tunes." James Hetfield remarked that Claypool was not awarded the job because "he was too good"."
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  • Ledbetterman10
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    he's alright
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  • DeLukin
    DeLukin Posts: 2,757
    I loved Jeff's fretless slither on Ten - & always wondered why he got away from that because I thought it helped to give PJ a distinctive sound. I guess, like Eddies growl, that's just one of the pieces lost in the band's evolution. A great bass player to be sure though...
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  • ScrapeMySky
    ScrapeMySky Posts: 426
    The good thing is that in a band like this you don't need to be the best or fastest or most badass player in the world. You just need to know how and when to deliver. And I think we all know that he does!
  • surforia
    surforia SoCal Posts: 352
    Ament has a great groove to him... His bass line in "Save You" is killer...
    Matt Freeman from Rancid is my personal favorite bass player tho...
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  • cippociappo
    cippociappo Posts: 692
    I love Jeff!! It's hard to compare him to others without ending up comparing the whole band with other bands.

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  • dreamweaver
    dreamweaver New York Posts: 735
    you can't compare jeff, flea, or victor wooten to each other... it's like saying vanilla is superior to chocolate
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  • Yielded
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    Jeff's a very tasteful player (ie. he knows when to let it rip and when to hang back), and to me that's one of the most important aspects of being a bass player.
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,397
    my idol through junior high & highschool. i used to dress up like ament. '92, collecting & viewing live video bootlegs of him & ed just flying around stage, jumping from front speaker amp's, off dave's drum set stand etc.. i was so moved i would do that in my room of the bed with my bass guitar. lol. during '95, seeing that rugrat doll wrapped around his bass guitar strap, and anything else he would hang, the canadian flag @ mudfest '93 etc.. he is awesome & still today, the guy still has it! :)

    i miss though those hat's he used to wear. and his side project with three fish.
    one of my favorite side projects.
    they did promise on much music together they would play 2000 in instanbul.
    never happened. :|
    please next time, if you form up, play east coast canada then! :mrgreen:
  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    haha... i love that picture... wheres that from?

    jeffs the fuckin man! go listen to "the real me" and tell me he didnt do ox justice! this wouldnt require so much debate if they would just turn him up in the mix

    maybe not wooten or claypool or flea but PJs music doesnt call for that... and id say jeff has a better ear as a songwriter than any of those other guys... instead of just mindless funktastic slappin (not that theres anything wrong with that) ... but comparing jeff to them is like comparing stone to satriani and vai :lol:
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  • Red Mosquito75
    Red Mosquito75 Moline IL Posts: 1,038
    jeff is good...seems like a cool guy to
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Far be it from me to sit here and say Flea and Les aren't good bass players --- obviously, they're phenomenal -- but they aren't really my cup of tea.

    I prefer my bass to be sort of laid back and groovy (listen to Faithfull, for instance). Les and Flea are more ostentatious ... more right up in your face. Which is fine. But unless you want Pearl Jam to turn into a funk band, I'm not sure it works for them.

    Jeff is one of the best at what he does. Comparing him to Flea or Claypool is like saying Mike McCready is a better guitar player than Stone. It's two different kinds of guitar playing.
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  • CJMST3K
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    I hope Jeff's head is feeling ok.

    ...bass is really an ear-thumping instrument.

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  • touringfan
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    Jeff is the straw that stirs the drink. Love me some Jeff.
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  • shell bell
    shell bell Posts: 337
    Jeff is the MAN! I was lucky enough to see him w/ three Fish several times. Awsome side project that needs to be brought back, that is of couse after they (PJ) plays a tour.
    when you get confused just listen to the music play........

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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,397
    the greatest ament pose/bass guitar shot! 8-)

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  • SomethingCreative
    SomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,412
    inmytree3684 wrote:
    He's good but not one of the best. Would you seriously put him up there with the likes of Victor Wooten, Flea, the guy from Primus?


    I say what I mean and I mean what I say


    Jeff does some crazy ass stuff but its very tastefully done, he doesn't over do it... not as "in your face" as the dudes you mentioned
    "Well, I think this band is incapable of sucking."
    -my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
  • PJFAN_seattle
    PJFAN_seattle Posts: 2,965
    he inspired me 2 pick up the bass! thank you jeff!=D
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  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    read the new deep and the dude has some bad luck with getting mugged and it was sooo kewl that the local seattle community came together for him. that was awesome.

    oh an um i think i wet myself when i finally saw the real me...he made the ox so f'n proud...he really dialed it in for that performance...best eva

    ummm also gotta say i love hearing jeremy live just because of him

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