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Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament Unveils Debut Solo Album |
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Created On: Wednesday, 03 September 2008
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"Tone" will only be available on CD as part of a one-time-only pressing of 3,000 copies. The album represents an accumulation of 10 years worth of songs Ament never solicited for potential inclusion on a Pearl Jam album.
"It just got to a point where I had to clean off the shelf a little bit," he told Billboard.com. "I broke this group of 35 songs into three groups and decided to finish one of them."
Richard Stuverud, Ament's collaborator in his prior solo project Three Fish, plays drums on six tracks, while King's X frontman Doug Pinnick sings lead on "Doubting Thomasina."
One "Tone" track, "The Forest," was actually put to tape by Pearl Jam "but Ed (Vedder) never got around to recording vocals for it. So I just wound up using the original version with a drum machine."
Another track, "Hi-Line," was written for a film based on the short story "Dry Rain."
Ament, who toured with Three Fish, said he "eventually" may play some solo gigs, and that "me and Richard doing a two-piece thing with loops and a set of both our songs" could be a possibility at some point.
Meanwhile, later this fall, Pearl Jam will reconvene to continue work on its ninth studio album with producer Brendan O'Brien.
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