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...
I like the video...but geez all of PW's videos are so similar:
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I'm not cool anymore so not sure how important videos are to "kids nowadays" but that one is pretty boring.
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DIG the fact that WELLER was playing his old "Going Underground" Rickenbacker, I believe he gave the guitar to Steve Cradock a number of years ago. NICE to see the guitar make a return on such a fantastic track!! WAKE UP THE NATION DON'T BE NO DRAG!!!
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