Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say hi before a show, and as I walked away, Courtney yelled, ‘Go play basketball with Dave Grohl!’
ESPN The Magazine article and video: Kenny Mayne catches up with Jeff Ament, the bassist for Pearl Jam, to discuss his love for music, basketball and the Sonics.
Jimmy Kimmel Fallon, as Eddie Vedder, performs “Jeremy (Lin).”
Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament (front row, far right) and other luminaries at the 1992 MTV Rock N’ Jock basketball game. (Source: Jeff Ament’s Army)
20 years ago today: A shrouded Kurt Cobain on the set of the video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
Every time I went to the gym, the games, sitting in the locker room I would put on Pearl Jam. It was [Eddie Vedder] speaking straight from his heart. All of the troubles he went through with his mother and his family, he’s motivated me for the last 20 years and I still listen to him today.
On Feb. 11, 1991, the New York Times sports section published the following piece on the band Mookie Blaylock, soon to be known as Pearl Jam. “That was the ultimate,” frontman Eddie Vedder later told writer Kim Neely. “I mean, to be in the New York Times was great, but to be in the sports section! …It was totally amazing.”
SIDELINES: THE NAME GAME; And Mookie Plays On …
By Jack Curry
MOOKIE BLAYLOCK has a concert tonight in Los Angeles. Huh? Mookie Blaylock’s sound is often compared to the rock band, U2. Double huh?
The Nets’ unassuming point guard is a rock star? Not quite. Believe it or not, there are two Mookie Blaylocks. One plays for New Jersey and the other is the name of a new Seattle band. But why did they choose Mookie Blaylock?
“We needed a name to tour and it sounded cool,” said Jeff Ament, the bassist for Mookie Blaylock and a former all-state point guard in high school. “We tried being different by going for the underdog. If we were Magic Johnson, it would be too typical.”
Bad news. Mookie Blaylock is an interim name. The band has an album due out in June and is deciding on a new name. Ament said it won’t be Daron O’Shea Blaylock. That’s Mookie’s real name and it’s not cool enough.
really cool bands
(via pitchfork)
Baikal Lake Ice by Daniel Korzhonov
Aw.
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German Smurfs, Gizblow...
Battle for the Planet of the Apes, US lobby card #7. 1973
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