Weller

[MrBen]

Mod God. How annoying is that. Not sure where it came from but I promise it shall be it's only outing.

[FJDGoose]

This is great :) Paul Weller appears at 2 mins 28

 

[Jah Lush]

Weller was an abrasive fecker when he was on the gear.

Back in the 90s he crashed into me at a Dr John gig at Dingwalls without apologising. I thought about having words but he was obviously a bit smashed so let it slide. At the after show party at HQ I'd gone to the loo for a slash and Weller was in there with Noel Gallagher and a couple of other Britpop tossers shoving gak up their hooters. Much merriment was being had but as we're leaving the lav Weller spots Martin Carr of the Boo Radleys, who he'd earlier shared a stage with as a guest of Dr John, tears after him and starts trying to knock seven bells out of him for apparently hitting a couple of bum notes on stage. It took three or four of us to drag him off.

It left me thinking he was a bit of an arsehole.

[Jeremy]

MrBen Wrote:

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> It's cool to say you like the Jam. Saying you like

> Style Council is not cool.

I don't hate SC, just don't like them as much as the Jam.

Walls Come Tumbling Down is a good song, and could have been on the last Jam album... similarly, Beat Surrender could have easily been a Style Council song. He didn't suddenly become a bad songwriter in the space of a couple of years.

[Seabag]

I saw him smoking a fag over his child's head

In a "ffffs blow it that way" way

Wreckless rock star behavior

[miga]

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[StraferJack]

Main boo Easley played a gig on East dulwich grove 4 or 5 years ago

[Jah Lush]

The very same Martin Carr, SJ.

[StraferJack]

yup

If I actually reread my posts before posting on a phone they might make more sense

Main Boo Radley is what I meant...

It was probably more than 4 or 5 years ago no I think about it

checks.. July 2008. Not too far off

[TillieTrotter]

I was there that night SJ, did we see each other? As for Weller, I like a lot of his stuff including the Wild wood album and 22 Dreams. He's fairly hit and miss live (I've seen him many times in various incarnations over the last 2 decades) I do agree with the Lush however, that you have to admire someone who can ride many decades.

This is a particular favourite when I'm feeling melancholy :-)

[StraferJack]

"I was there that night SJ, did we see each other?"

we sure did - even had a pint together out the back in the bowling greens

[holloway]

his debut solo album 'paul weller' is superb. one of my favourites. bjork's solo album 'debut' also one of the best solo efforts i've heard.

[????]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> Jam were ace, I missed them as I grew up as I was

> too in to punk and new wave - but when I got into

> them retrospectively, after they'd split I thought

> they were red-hot. Was gutted to have not been

> 'on it' at the time.

> Fantastic songs, well delivered, great poetry

> IMO.

> Style Council - maybe one or two songs.

> Solo - not bovered.

you what??? the Jam were at the forefront of 'New Wave' and came up and played all the same venues with all the main Punk bands and were considered part of that explosion, although Paul Weller famously set fire to a copy of Sniffin' Glue on stage

[MrBen]

Who is the pre-eminent statesman of britrock generation 2. Weller or Gallagher?

[El Pibe]

parameters?

[????]

Well one is a talented songwriter with a varied songbook, some of which I like, and the other is in a slade tribute band, you decide

[Jeremy]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> parameters?

I dunno, I like their early stuff but they disappeared up their own arse some time around 1992.

[El Pibe]

:D

[ed_pete]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Weller was an abrasive fecker when he was on the

> gear.

> Back in the 90s he crashed into me at a Dr John

> gig at Dingwalls without apologising. I thought

> about having words but he was obviously a bit

> smashed so let it slide. At the after show party

> at HQ I'd gone to the loo for a slash and Weller

> was in there with Noel Gallagher and a couple of

> other Britpop tossers shoving gak up their

> hooters. Much merriment was being had but as we're

> leaving the lav Weller spots Martin Carr of the

> Boo Radleys, who he'd earlier shared a stage with

> as a guest of Dr John, tears after him and starts

> trying to knock seven bells out of him for

> apparently hitting a couple of bum notes on stage.

> It took three or four of us to drag him off.

> It left me thinking he was a bit of an arsehole.

Wins the award for the most names dropped in one post. When's the book coming out Jah ?

As for Weller - as a teenager The Jam were magnificent. As a solo artist wealthy enough to be self indulgent at times. Go to a gig and the biggest cheers are still when he plays Jam songs which says it all.

[MrBen]

Fact: ask any long serving cabbie who he's had in the back and there's a 90% chance he'll mention Weller.

[red devil]

Has anyone been to the Somerset House exhibition on The Jam?

Any good?...

[FJDGoose]

steveo Wrote:

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> Is there a smugger man on the planet than 'Jools'

> Holland?

David f@cking Mitchell ?

[stevie23b]

at least ian brown wernt a knob gallagher and weller got rightous pair a pricks

[dumpertruck]

stevie23b Wrote:

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> at least ian brown wernt a knob

Incorrect. As well as being a tuneless bellend, he's also a pathetic coward.