Fresh back from a short tour of the US and Japan, Paul Weller talks about the 30th anniversary of The Jam's sixth and final studio album, The Gift, and where he's at right now. Repost From The Huffington Post By: Jason Holmes Paul Weller bounds into his chair, an electronic cigarette gripped in his hand. We're in the BBC's Studio Three in Maida Vale. Visibly calm owing to post-tour exhaustion and a morning trip to the gym, Weller is here to be interviewed by John Wilson for BBC Radio 4's Mastertapes series. "Back in those days, bands put out an album a year, you toured with it for a year, then you went back in the studio and repeated the process. Looking back, I was glad I experienced that pressure. It helped me refine my craft and find myself as a writer. It kept me on my toes," says Weller, Gibson acoustic on knee. "It wasn't a treadmill, it was just what bands did back then. I never questioned it." Lest the passing decades dim...
Did I miss something? I don't recall Eton Rifles being played...I thought he went straight into That's Entertainment?
ReplyDeleteAlso to note...Broken Stones was added to by some choruses of "Oh Happy Day"
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You didnt miss anything. They didn't do 7 & 3 or Eton Rifles. There were a few 'add lib' moments.
ReplyDeletea great show that the band and crowd were both up for.
You are correct. They didn;t do 7 & 3 either. But the improvisation we'll made up for it.
ReplyDeleteA great Weller gig, as usual.
they didnt do 7&3 or Eton Rifles but the improvisation well made up for it. There was a bob Dylan cover mixed into the acoustic set and Weller wet into a song momentarily, but I dont recall what it was.
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Any idea if there's a recording of this floating around somewhere? It was only my 2nd PW gig (first was SF's 2005 show), and I'd like to get a recording of one or the other someday...
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