Eddie Vedder is another musician I think I would like not just as a musician but as a person. I was never huge into Pearl Jam, but the songs he wrote and performed for the movie "Into The Wild" were wonderful. (He also resurrected a lost Can-Con gem for that soundtrack, "Big Hard Sun", originally performed by Indio.)
Nikki Monninger is the bass player for the Silversun Pickups. I find her inexplicably adorable. She is the most basic bassist in music. Nothing she plays seems the slightest big complicated. It's just quarter notes and eighth notes. While the hyperactive frontman is wailing away on this guitar and running all over the stage, she is just serenely standing there in her cardigan and plunking calmly away at her quarter-notes. Such a contrast. She's also a lot taller than him, which is kind of amusing to me. She's so style-less that it's a style all her own. The other thing she brings to their music is her backing vocals, which are haunting and beautiful. Sometimes her voice and the frontman's voice mesh together so perfectly that it sounds like a single voice. She left the band for a few years to have children. She gave birth to twin girls. She is back with the band now, and says that her daughters will sell merch until they're big enough to move equipment.
-k
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