Why does Jeff Ament get credit for the title of “Spoonman”?
In the movie Singles there is a fictional band called Citizen Dick. Probably for amusement value alone, Jeff came up with a bunch of fake titles for the band’s demo tape, one of them being “Spoonman.” Around this time Chris recorded a bunch of acoustic demos using the titles dreamed up by Jeff, one of them being “Spoonman.” Chris recalls “I’d always thought it’s be really cool just to write down 10 or 12 titles in order, as though it was a record already, and then write the songs later, based on those titles, just for fun,” he said. “I was supposed to come out of the Matt Dillon character’s apartment, and the cassette package was in there, and I just picked it up. Cameron (Crowe, the film’s director) was laughing, saying how he thought it was the typical titles for the introspective solo tape from a local musician guy, and it just clicked at that point. I thought I’d just do it for him as a surprise. That’s kind of what I do really, for fun. That’s pretty much all I do, just sit around
