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(courtesy of Jeff Ament, bassist of Pearl Jam) While many know Jeff Ament as the bassist of the band Pearl Jam, Ament is also a former skateboarder, a skate park builder, and a long-time Wally Inouye fan. With the help of Wounded Knee Skateboards, Vans, and the Tony Hawk Foundation, Ament started Montana Pool Service, a skatepark whose name gives a nod to Inouye's own Inouye's Pool Service. Built on a Native American reservation, Montana Pool Service seeks to educate about the tribes in the Montana area and assist with supplying decks to skaters on the reservations. Ament has also worked to bring a skate park to South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation. On the right is a skateboard that Jeff Ament illustrated. The illustrations feature the skaters he saw as the big leaguers of the culture at the time, such as Mike Olson, Neil Blender, Steve Schneer, Jeff Grosso, and Stacy Peralta.
Object ID
Art in Motion 006.00