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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.
Post subject: Re: The Jeff Ament Appreciation Thread
Posted: Fri August 13, 2021 12:57 pm
A Return To Form
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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.
Post subject: Re: The Jeff Ament Appreciation Thread
Posted: Fri August 13, 2021 7:43 pm
likes rhythmic things that butt up against each other
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Strat wrote:
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.
Post subject: Re: The Jeff Ament Appreciation Thread
Posted: Sat August 14, 2021 6:50 pm
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VinylGuy wrote:
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.
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Guys I was baked out of my mind, I was just grooving
Post subject: Re: The Jeff Ament Appreciation Thread
Posted: Sat August 14, 2021 8:28 pm
jeeeesus relax already
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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.
Post subject: Re: The Jeff Ament Appreciation Thread
Posted: Sun August 15, 2021 9:26 am
AnalLog
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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..
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.
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