Pearl Jam - "Porch/Ament Vanilli"

Watch Jeff Ament. He's not playing the bass. He grabs at the strap attachment DURING the bass fill. It's not a hammer-on. There must be a roadie backstage filling in for him.

Shame on you, Ament...Still caught up in that Mother Love Bone funky-fresh-style-over-substance mode.

Shame on you, sir.

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[petefader]

Only one explination. This must be some later release..a dvd or something. HIS BASS CUT OUT AND THEY FIXED IT IN POST. I'm a bass player and an engineer. Why do you think he stopped playing in the the first place and CHECKED HIS VOLUME KNOB AND CABLE? Come on people, think.

[GlamRockRuss]

hmm, either they dropped the bass riff in after the show for an edit for the vhs or more likely I think:

the bass riff is C on the A string and G on the E string, thats:

A-3-3--

E--3-3-

At this volume you could easily "hammer on from nowhere" (the technique is called)

You just hit these frets with your first finger, and you'd be able to hear it clearly and get good note definition (as you can hear), he doesn't have to change hand postion!!! Vertical not horizontal movement. Mystery solved?

[GreenDay7dookie]

also he's playing a lot of hammer ons

[GreenDay7dookie]

he most likely had tech diffuculties during the performance, but the SNL guys filled it in during editing

[HughWalenski]

Heheh, ironically one of the best televised rock performances ever. Plenty of people use backing tracks, but this band just ain't one of them.

[husky450s]

why is so hard to find this song

[liiliiliiliil]

the audio must have been edited by the engineer for the airing of course they want it perfect right ? engineer must have patched a part of the bassline from the other part to that part. if he is not  playing that time why would he bother fixing the cable and the volume?

[liiliiliiliil]

@acsdata i agree to that

[acsdata]

Well, there's no doubt Dave is playing his part.

[disabledmind]

okey, I play guitar, and i've played the bass sometimes and I have to say that you can pull the strings with you're left hand without picking the string. and you can play open strings that is what he does.

[strungoutbeaner]

If he's checking his cable i'm assuming he's cutting out, which you don't hear in the performance. So i think maybe since he was having technical difficulties they probably redubbed his part in post production.