Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament's first solo album, Tone, will be released Sept. 16 via the band's Ten Club and select indie retailers, reports Billboard.com. The songs on the disc are culled from a batch of 35 that Ament says were never submitted for use by Pearl Jam. Which could be true. Or they're just the duds that Eddie Vedder vetoed.
This article appears in Sep 3-9, 2008.