The Jam. One of the most important bands of our time.

@henryclark6444

3 ай бұрын

The jam were crap ! Never mind the bollocks ?

What a brilliant episode packed with hardly known details about the history of The Jam and edited wonderfully with pure love! You did a great job to preserving the memory of the band!

@SweetJimmyNetwork

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for Watching.

That was a good video. I was a teenage jam fan back in the 80s. Great band.

@SweetJimmyNetwork

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching.

Interesting video… I didn’t know The Jam once had a keyboard player!

I was 16 when I first heard The Jam, and it introduced me to a plethora of british Mod Revival bands that blended power pop with late 70s punk rock

They were a brilliant band. Call it what you want

@SweetJimmyNetwork

4 ай бұрын

I agree. That first record is solid.

Excellent! Many thanks.

Slow down lil buddy, you’ve done some great research. Let us all drink it up rather than waterboard us with it! Sheesh…😂🤣💀✌️👍🏻

Great vid and I'd never heard about Bob Gray so thanks for that.

Great band

"Polydor was losing the (punk) race" @3:00 Considering that Polydor had artists like the Bee Gees at the time, I feel surprised to learn that they even wanted to compete in the heavier genres. I kinda thought of them as an 'easy listening' label.

It's all true -- I took some shit for liking The Jam better than The Pistols or The Clash or The Damned. Then I got a ticket to see Weller and his "pals" in San Francisco and they blew off the gig, supposedly because they didn't like the sound system. Never did see them. Did see the Pistols and the Clash.

@SweetJimmyNetwork

4 ай бұрын

Hey, thanks for sharing. Was the Sex Pistols crowd rough?

@simonagree4070

4 ай бұрын

Nah -- it was San Francisco, still a bastion of hippies at the time, though there was probably a noisier contingent from L.A. Most of the crowd was just there for the freak show, we all threw random junk and coins at the stage. Both the show and the band's prior radio appearances are widely available -- Steve and Paul were interviewed together on KSAN, uncensored, with listener calls late at night, and that was hilarious. Johnny and Sid were interviewed, censored, by a DJ who hated them, and that was dull.

@kevingreenhaw7372

3 ай бұрын

​@@simonagree4070I was at Winter Land for the Pistols.Im from SF, and caught ALL the groups KSAN 95 were playing. 1977-1980 was the best period for new music. The Jam actually had a keyboard player.Paul Weller and I were born in 1958. He is still the most dynamic musician around. I'm lucky to have seen him a few times. I also caught flack for loving the Jam. Saw the Clash, Stranglers, and the Attractions early on, but Paul and Bruce just nailed it for me. I remember a lite crowd at the Pistols.Everyone was heading to the FabMab to catch a late Avengers set.

Paul Weller gave an interview with a uk fanzine / magazine? Can't remember name this was 1979 Well Said they were always punk & thats what they will always be.

Mod for it

Sid Vicious, like a lot of bag heads, had a big gob but not the toughness to back it up. He tried picking a fight with Freddie Mercury and didn’t win that either. I do love The Jam. Good songwriting with an energetic delivery will always be a winning formula. Bruce Foxton is also one of my favourite bassists.

The culture that grew around The Jam was huge, the identity, the attitude ect..They still hold a lot meaning to people to this day...Back then if you didn't like The Jam , you were an idiot..Ha.. Great time..Check out young band called Sharp Class and you see the influence on young musicians still resonating... Excellent piece...Well done..

@SweetJimmyNetwork

4 ай бұрын

Thank you, sir. I will check out Sharp class.

@4th_Lensman_of_the_apocalypse

4 ай бұрын

@@SweetJimmyNetworkand the Molotovs another young The Jam influenced/copyist band

@tommysterling69

3 ай бұрын

@@4th_Lensman_of_the_apocalypse they’re a bunch of rich kids who got all their gear from daddy’s money and are stuck playing the same old tunes

In the UK the Jam were part of punk and were followed by punks, when the first wave of punk died out they became part of the Ska/ Mod revival so the audience changed

great video! keep 'em coming!

Did you record this commentary with a coffee can on a string?

@SweetJimmyNetwork

4 ай бұрын

Don't be silly. There was no string.

You forgot to mention the Jam supported Sex Pistols in Dunstable

@markforster2794

4 ай бұрын

No he didn’t. You’re not listening.

@vinylrichie007

4 ай бұрын

@@markforster2794It is hard to listen. This dude reads his script way too fast.

@crose7412

4 ай бұрын

@@vinylrichie007 Then listen repeatedly!

Punk is Garageband Rock from the 50s with more distortion pedals and cheaper clothes 👌 Well that's how we thought of it playing in the mid / late 1970s good bit of fun mind !

@SweetJimmyNetwork

4 ай бұрын

The garage rock movement actually started in the 60s post Beatles on Ed Sullivan. There is a great box set called nuggets with some cool tracks

@royphillips7435

4 ай бұрын

Got the 3 nuggs box sets European , American and British they're quite good another good set is called Trash

@SweetJimmyNetwork

4 ай бұрын

@royphillips7435 I had had the Brit and American. Didn't know about Europe. It seems there is 3 volumes of punk. I learned of The Sonics from Nuggets.Was totally worth the price of admission. I heard about Nuggets from Little Steven's radio show.

@royphillips7435

4 ай бұрын

Sonics are brill , also another great 5 cd set is Nederbeat 1964 -69 all Dutch garage , psych n prog and another good box 4 cd is the Mojo English garage Psych stuff. Rock on my man 👌😊

@tommysterling69

3 ай бұрын

@@SweetJimmyNetworkbollocks. Punk would’ve started without the beatles

Love the punk rock history videos

Punk-Mod-Beat. :0)

Sixties punkers,revival.🤪🙃🤯😁🤪🎸🎙♂️👊💣💥🕶

I understand many people feel the Jam were a mod band because of their style, but they very much were part of the punk - new wave movement. The Jam themselves all state they were part of this movement

@SweetJimmyNetwork

4 ай бұрын

There were different opinions by the band itself. Weller and Buckler said the opposite of each other

@OldWolflad

4 ай бұрын

Problem is, they said different things at different points in time. I accept that they embraced the mod mantra when mod/ska music came along around 1979, but prior to that they were very much part of the punk/new wave movement. People mistakenly think all punks had to have spikey hair as was prevalent in the 1980s punk movement, but in 1977 very few punk/new wave bands were like that. Other than the Pistols, none of the Clash (Paul Simonen aside), Damned, Stranglers, Buzzcocks, 999, Sham 69, Vibrators, SLF, Boomtown Rats, Undertones, etc really dressed like classic punks. Overall, the Jam were a key part of the both the punk/New Wave and Mod eras, and not just one or the other. That is crystal clear, and I don't know why certain punks and mods cannot see or accept that. @@SweetJimmyNetwork

To me,The Jam weren't punks,just The Who spedded up

@Blackdiamondprod.

4 ай бұрын

The Who was also a punk band.

@vinylrichie007

4 ай бұрын

Well the Jam albums were in the Punk section at the record store.

@leoninocat5070

4 ай бұрын

The who punk?

@Blackdiamondprod.

4 ай бұрын

@@leoninocat5070 describe and define “punk music” for me real quick.

@MrJeepsters

4 ай бұрын

Musicalement, ce n'était pas un "style" punk (angelic upstars, 999, Spizz Energy ou Wire l'avaient). Les textes, par contre, l'étaient. On peut dire la même chose d'Elvis Costello.

Some great early singles, fitted in with the zeitgeist of the time, not really punk I guess. Does it matter though? They were new, they articulated the times.

The Jam's first two albums, In the City and This Is the Modern World are punk. After that, no. And after those two albums they achieved remarkable chart success.

This dude talks too fast. Actually, reads too fast.

@crose7412

4 ай бұрын

@vinylrichie007 Perhaps you listen too slowly - I didn't have a problem with it.

Fun fact: Wella knocked out Sid Viscious one night…. Laid him out cold …. That’s Punk!!! Lol

@hughzapretti-boyden9187

3 ай бұрын

No he didn't!😂 I was there at the Nashville when it happened!

@alanmahoney167

3 ай бұрын

​@@hughzapretti-boyden9187So what did happen then?

@hughzapretti-boyden9187

3 ай бұрын

@@alanmahoney167 handbags at dawn! Sid was an obnoxious, gobby prick & butted Weller & Weller replied with a slap & was lobbed out of the club. Laid out cold!?!😂

I'm from Guildford and woking and I can categorically say that BF is a very lucky boy as he didn't treat some of the locals to well. Reality is a dark place so I wouldn't want to upset the jam fans. Put it this way he wouldn't be sharing it in his memoirs..👎

@SweetJimmyNetwork

4 ай бұрын

Interesting, was he rude?

@crose7412

4 ай бұрын

@doasyoulikefawkes7127 Stop beating about the bush and spit it out if you've got something to say.

@jonathansteadman7935

3 ай бұрын

In a recent interview he said he lives near Guildford. Those were violent times , only had to say the wrong thing. The woke crowd today wouldn't last five minutes back then.

Yuck!!!! The Jam ARE one of the Original British "Punk" bands. Don't need your Mumbling Video.

Interesting content spoilt by childish presentation