Jeff Ament remembers the legendary David Lynch

David Lynch, the filmmaker whose works include the classics Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks, has died aged 78.

Photo: Michael Ryan Kravetsky

Make stuff. Every day. Seeing Eraserhead and Elephant Man in 1981 when I went to college in Missoula (where DL was born) was akin to seeing the Northern Lights, the Pacific Ocean, Francis Bacon or hearing Phillip Glass, Hendrix or dropping acid the first time” Jeff Ament wrote on his Instagram on Saturday.

David Lynch’s death was announced on his official Facebook page by his family on Thursday, January 15, 2025.

Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole” – David Lynch

In 2017, Ed Vedder appeared (as Edward Louis Severson) in the third and final season of Twin Peaks to perform the previously unreleased track Out of Sand.

A few years earlier, Pearl Jam singer had been interviewed by David Lynch backstage at the Change Begins Within – A Benefit Concert for The David Lynch Foundation.

Below you can see the full interview.

UPDATE 1/21/25

On his Instagram, Jeff Ament remembered Leonad Peltier, a Native American activist who was convicted of two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of two FBI agents in a June 26, 1975, shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment. On January 20, 2025, Peltier’s sentence was commuted to indefinite house arrest by President Joe Biden shortly before he left office. He is scheduled to be released from prison on February 18, 2025.