...but without Paul Weller
I’ve tried to think of a more ludicrous “group reforms but without key member” zing, but I think The Jam without Weller might be the most ridiculous comeback possible.
Not that I give a toss either way about the boring gits.
NIN w/o Reznor would be a good laugh.
Time for that Nirvana reunion.
Public Image Unlimited!
Okay that’s a good one but I’ve always assumed NIN was a one-man band, so for this game they don’t count.
You’d figure Grohl and Novoselic would be entertaining, tho. And PIL certainly had enough other good members to be worth watching.
You’d figure Grohl and Novoselic would be entertaining, tho.
Especially if they had no guitarist and just did all the songs Lightning Bolt style instead.
That would be wunnerful, yes. I’m sure they’ll play backup for Francis Bean sometime within the next 10 years anyway, god help us.
There’s quite an obvious one but I’ll leave it to Ned to say. Suffice to say that they may have written his favourite album...
I guess a big thing here is that Weller notoriously left The Jam cos the other pair were too lumpen. If they’d just decided to form a new band together there would be less of the tearjerking whiff of Creme Brulee about the whole thing.
Rick Buckler has been touring with a jam tribute band anyway.
?? lumpen? foxton had mad ennergettik bass parts, not boring rock plod at all!
David Van Day’s The Jam now, please.
I don’t think ripping off “Taxman” makes you Bootsy Collins.
copying bootsy collins isn’t the only way to not plod, either
okay i’m listening to girl on the phone on my ipod right now...foxton is way motown actually.
I’m being unnecessarily mean, I know. And Foxton (and Buckler) sounds fine within the context of that band, but I don’t think either of them are very exciting and trying to launch a comeback with that name but without the main songwriter feels, at the least, dodgy to me.
oh dude the whole concept of this reunion is mad tarded! (don’t get me wrong)....i just thought they were a pretty nice pop/rock band! good backing for weller.
when i think “lumpen” i guess i think of stuff like oasis’s rhythm section, not the jam.
i guess this is sort of the UK equivalent of a replacements reunion w/o paul westerburg? (ha both Paul W’s even!)
Lumpen’s in the ear of the beholder, true. I think there were suggestions from several quarters when The Jam split up that Buckler, at least, wasn’t up to playing in the style Weller wanted to go with. I like Style Council better anyway, but that’s probably down to over-familiarity with The Jam’s stuff as much as anything.
i should hear style council. i’m not even that huge of a jam fan anyway, but i love the greatest hits i have.
i dunno, you gotta admit foxton had more junk in his trunk than coldplay or travis!!!
oh also i have setting sons, which is cool too.
maybe foxton & buckler could hook up with merton mick
does it have something to do w/Weller recently performing Jam songs?
Perhaps someone could link to some other news articles which confirm this momentous ne...oh, wait.
“Speaking about the absence of Weller, drummer Rick Buckley said: ”Paul Weller has a fantastic solo careers and is one of the UK’s most talented songwriters. Paul is always welcome to join us for the reunions, but until then, we’ve got a new tour and a new album to do.“”
Funny, I’m sure believe Mr. Buckler hasn’t always been quite so warm and generous in his comments about Mr. Weller....
they should tour w/the new cars and rundgren can sing for both groups!
There should be a law against reforming a band without their original frontman and creative brain.
What about if it’s just a brain? In a jar?
Actually I think Ray Manzarek tried that in the late 70s.
Especially if they had no guitarist and just did all the songs Lightning Bolt style instead.
The Watt/Hurley set at ATP a couple years back was just about that.
Of course, they could just get the weller vocal tracks off Polydor and tour with a cassette player upfront!
Paul is always welcome to join us for the reunions, but until then, we’ve got a new tour and a new album to do.
I like how they make “a new tour and a new album” sound like a pressing obligation despite the 20+ year interim.
it’s at times like this i like to remember an old NME “thrills” article that called him “dick suckler”. mind, even that’s not as funny as the basic idea of these two knob-ends going on tour. fuck me ragged.
the only way this could possibly be half-interesting would be if they actually went out and JUST DID THE BASS AND DRUM PARTS and nobody played anything else. and that wouldn’t be interesting so much as unusually stupid.
this is just wrong.
i’m taking it too seriously, amn’t i?
Think they’ll do “Smithers-Jones”?
This will of course not be as disastrous as Queen without Freddie Mercury. But it is still a very, very, very bad idea.
“Think they’ll do ”Smithers-Jones“?”
Shouldn’t “Smithers-Jones” be considered a Stiff Little Fingers song rather than a Jam song by now?
i think they’re better off without that cunt weller.
They should do a “be Paul Weller” lottery for each song at each gig.
Apart from “Smithers-Jones” and “Don’t tell them you’re sane” that is.
“They should do a ”be Paul Weller“ lottery for each song at each gig.”
Especially Paul Weller gigs.
You been to one?
Everyone sings along like it’s one big ‘all together now’
“You been to one?”
Not while I still have my strength.
“Rick Buckley”...I love it. Does this mean that Bruce “I’m A Freak” Foxton will be lending his sonorous baritone to exciting new interpretations of Tim and Jeff’s legacy?
Jake Burns should do the vocals
Presumably Tracie was unavailable.
Coming soon: The Still Council, with Mick Talbot and Someone Out Of Galliano.
In view of the fact that Bruce Foxton’s replacement in SLF is apparently Ali McMordie, I can’t help but wonder whether Bruce he quit SLF in order to do this, or whether he’s doing this because he was kicked out of SLF.
I wonder if Mr. Grout or Dr. C remember when Mr. McMordie was a member of Reading band Friction Groove with a bunch of former members of Between Pictures?
Heh, I even remember the advert for the bass vacany in that band:
“Bass player wanted, apply Martin Rushent Genetic Studios, reading (0734 xxxxxx)”
They got signed to Atlantic on the strength of the Ali McMordie connection. Irony: they wouldn’t have signed SLF but they would because “ooh, famous bass player” sindrome.
(I won a copy of Timebomb at a “Carribean Club” local bands night (which was packed to the rafters, this was really big event! MB Hi-Power blew away all comers! And other more Reading nostalgia coming soon to a thread near you! a wopbaomaloobop.)