The Jeff Ament Appreciation Thread

[Strat]

Of course his voice is awful but i actually like what he does here. The music in almost every song is very appealing to me. Super interesting textures and sounds.

It feels like one long musical interlude accompanying one mans diary.

Jeff rules.

[dad]

it can't all be Sweet Lew, fellas.

[dad]

Jeff rules.

[Strat]

And also - as someone who can’t sing, I can respect him putting himself out there like he does

[dad]

that's exactly how i feel about it.

much respect for the vulnerability.

[liebzz]

I don’t find his voice offensive. I don’t think it stands out, but neither in a bad or a good way. I find his arrangements to be fascinating.

[Jeez]

Definition of a well rounded citizen. Sport, Music, Politics, Activism, Painting, Photography, Charity, Pet Owner, Humble, Mugging victim, Sex on Legs. Sure I missed a few including putting up with Eddie Vedder but I feel pretty inspired by old Jeff during these times. Hope that he feels proud of his many contributions as he’s also lost a lot of close friends during his career but kept his counsel.

The new album is also pretty good. Bravo.

[VinylGuy]

yeah, the guy is really passionate and i dig that.

[contamination]

Of course his voice is awful but i actually like what he does here. The music in almost every song is very appealing to me. Super interesting textures and sounds.

It feels like one long musical interlude accompanying one mans diary.

Jeff rules.

This. And on some of the songs the melody doesn't necessary go where you would expect, but it is actually what makes the song interesting and makes you wanna go back and listen to it for the second and third time, and then you realize that it's exactly how the melody should go.

[VinylGuy]

yeah, thats a good insight on the album.
Im not bothered by the vocals at all. I like them enough.

I Hear Ya has become a favorite these days.

[verb_to_trust]

I did not like this

[epilogue]

yeah, thats a good insight on the album.
Im not bothered by the vocals at all. I like them enough.

I Hear Ya has become a favorite these days.

I think this is a strong album with zero duds. Jeff's best?

Time will tell but the first impression is strong.

[VinylGuy]

yeah, i think its its best. Its super cohesive.

1. I should be outside
2. Heaven Hell
3. Tone
4. While my heart beats

[dad]

yeah, i think its its best. Its super cohesive.

1. I should be outside
2. Heaven Hell
3. Tone
4. While my heart beats

i need to give While My Heart Beats a listen--never have.

i'd say mine would be:

1. Tone - really dig this one.
2. ISBO - given this close to as many listens as Tone.
3. Heaven Hell - not enough listens, but i really like, The Noise, The Noise, and Drugs.

[VinylGuy]

While My Heart Beats remains as a very mid tempo album for me. Every know i then i listen to it and find some good cool things, but its the one i dont need to listen really.

[joostone]

While My Heart Beats is a grower. It has some stellar tracks and is the one Im coming back to the most.
Overall, 4 solo albums is really impressive. You kinda know there will be a fifth album in 3 years or something...

The next project 'Deaf Charlie' is already on the horizon..

https://missoulian.com/entertainment/ar ... c43e6.html

Wicks and Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament have known each other for years, but it wasn’t until now that they dove into a new project, called Deaf Charlie. Both had the demands of their main gigs put on hold during a pause, a relatively rare occurrence for them.

“We’ve been talking about it forever, but it was just like we never, neither of us have ever had the time,” he said.

Wicks said they were both game to try anything. “Jeff said, ‘The only rule is there’s no rule, and so that was sort of the mantra going into it.’ ”

For instance, the first single, “Something Real,” has Ament singing in a falsetto.

“He’s got this incredible voice and for me, that was the funnest part," Wicks said, getting to act as a second set of ears, "cultivating that and playing producer.”

Besides recording together, they could exchange tracks without worrying about a looming deadline.

“He just heard things in these songs that I didn’t hear,” Ament said earlier this summer. “So I got excited about that and said, ‘Well, you just take them wherever you want,” he said. He thinks Wicks is expressive and meticulous, and “sometimes this stuff takes a while, so there’s no end game. It’s not a band,” more of “a big art project.”

They released the track with a video that features a group of younger Missoula musicians, including keyboardist Connor Racicot, that he met through Drum Coffee. (He employs a lot of musicians and artists.) Tenor saxophonist Cade Chastain plays a free-ranging solo, after Ament encouraged to go far out and make it sound like Albert Ayler.

They contributed to a number of tracks, although there’s no release date in mind for the album yet, as Ament just released a solo album, “I Should Be Outside,” based on a different batch of material made during COVID.

[Bammer]

Haven’t listened but I like what dad and strat are saying.

Yeah it takes balls to sing.

[joostone]

[washing machine]

This is good road trip music as I trek thru the Arkansas Ozarks and Ouchitas.

Agree with VG, strat and others that the textures are where this album shines. Wish I had more to add at the moment but the road calls.

[VinylGuy]

You are badass WM.