Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam - Touring Band 2000

 

  • Artist

  • Location

  • Title

  • Released

  • Genre

  • Format / Region

  • Bassist

  • 12-string bass

  • Songs including the 12

  • Pearl Jam

  • Seattle, Washington, USA

  • Touring Band 2000

  • 2001

  • Rock

  • Region 0

  • Jeff Ament

  • Hamer Custom Duo-Tone

  • Jeremy

This is the second custom 12-string bass built by Hamer for Jeff Ament. It incorporates a partially hollow upper body cavity with three small sound holes. There is a piezo bridge-saddle pickup in addition to its electro-magnetic pickups, much like the design and function of Hamer's Duo-Tone acoustic / electric guitar. The theory behind this bass was that it would achieve both an electric tone as well as an acoustic tone from the same instrument.

1995 Jeff Ament Custom Hamer "Acoustic Electric" Natural Finish 12-String Bass

In practice the bass didn't seem to achieve as much of the acoustical properties as Jeff had hoped. Jeff still thought the electric tone was great and the style was a nice aesthetic change from his original 12-string bass.

Jeff Ament playing ‘Jeremy’ on his Hamer “Ament” B12A 12-string bass.

Pearl Jam’s Let’s Play Two - Live at Wrigley Field DVD released in 2017 includes only one song played by Jeff Ament on his Hamer 12-string bass, ‘Jeremy’. During an interview segment Ament states, “Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick is the whole reason I played 12-string bass in the early days.”

 

Pearl Jam - In Their Own Words DVD

The cover and DVD include this photo of Jeff Ament leaping with his Hamer B12A ‘Ament’ 12-string bass. There is no other 12-string bass content.

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