Hey Basschick!
Good to see you back on the board. I always loved reading your posts
on the Jeff Ament Yahoo! board, which is sadly no longer running.
Anyway, just wanted to say hello and good to have you back:) Will you
be catching any Pearl Jam shows this summer?

Coffy


--- In threefish@yahoogroups.com, basschick0310 <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> someone in this site wanted to know how we knew Jeff was attracted
> to younger women.
>
> She also wanted to know how some of us had met him. Answers are as
> follows:
>
> Quite a few of us lived in Seattle at one time or another. One or
> two of us graduated from UW with his long-time girlfriend in 2000
> (although she was not a 'normal' student, i.e. 21/22, but she was
> considerably younger than he).
>
> Thus, since we lived in Seattle, we saw him frequently. Some of us
> actually worked in places he frequented.
>
> As to the second comment, about music being extricated from
personal
> lives, there is, of course, a considerable amount of material drawn
> from Jeff's personal life, as there is from ANY artist's life, when
> creating something of artistic value. The personal life sometimes
> aids and abetts us in delivering the full value and meaning of the
> artist's work. Therefore, while we did not advocate infiltration
of
> his personal space, we had shared information that we had so that
> others might understand why, for example, Jeff wrote the lyrics
> to "Pilate" or the more introspective material from "The Quiet
> Table".
>
> bassy