I love the Jam, but I really don't know what it is about him- I can't stand Bruce Foxton. I mean, I acknowledge his talent and contribution to the band, it might just be his hair or bouncing about but I just don't like the bloke.
The Jam's lack of success in the US was due to the fact that much like with the Small Faces, they were too "British" for American audiences (Same can also be said for Blur prior to "Song 2".). The average American of the time just could not relate to the average Brit of that era. The record company didn't know how to promote them here either, for example, having them opening up for Blue Oyster Cult.
I was first introduced to the Jam about 17 years ago, and it changed my tastes in music.
I love the Jam and always have, but if they show up at Irvin's Jazz Playhouse as listed Much , nobody will be more surprised than me (except maybe Irvin) Then again, He has Brass Band Jams all the time. Imagine the Jam backed by some of the best brass and reed players in the world!! Two things would be pouring - beer & sweat. I have seen stranger things happen - after all, I'm in N'awlins Dawlin
what's the difference................... Drugs lol
Can you explain your kind of music ? It's just Jam music lol..... Good one Bruce thats why everyone loved The Jam from mods, punks, football crews, it was just good raw music that kids of that time could easily relate too. Im glad I had my teenage years then and not now. It was far more fun, the PC brigade are taking over nowadays. Fuck them all !!!!!
I just read the great Mick Talbot from the Merton Parkas and some other little band called the culture club or "Style Council" or something played keyboard on this classic cover. Linda Rondstats still better.
Hah, yep, classic late 70s/early 80s canned audience. Canned as in canned laughter, not out of it on special brew, although I could believe that too, looking at 'em. I doubt there was even an audience there when they filmed that slot for the show. At least things like this allowed kids to see and hear bands like the jam I guess. We didn't get much of them anywhere else.
This was from American Bandstand in early 1980 when they were touring Setting Sons. This was recorded about two weeks before PiL's infamous appearance. Obviously lipped from the studio version, that is Mick Talbot playing piano. Also, heavily influenced by Motown, this version is actually closer to one done by The Who during the "A Quick One" time period
Anyway, shoes... Bruce is wearing Jam Shoes & Paul's sporting a pair of Badgers. My guess is that Rick is wearing Gibsons or Docs, more likely the latter!
Mod fashion what a delight to own, Fred Perry's were £8 each!
would have liked to be a fly on the wall on this recording. His voice is the perfect balance between power and cool emotion. Can almost see him jumping up from the piano during the recording like jerry lee lewis and kicking the bench out from him.
For a new band that Geoff Deane, former PR The Jam is raving about check out JUST FUZZ. Seen em live in London 3 times and they are awesome. They play Clapham Grand in October and I for one wont be missing it.
Wow the audience in this vid havent got a clue. They look like they were watching Oliva Newton-John. Jam fans were raw in comparison. Fab band, really relevent to the times and still inspiring today.
Weller doesn't look too keen on this interview. I guess I'd be a little dicey lip synching in that setting too. Dick Clark was such a Pro here. Thanks for the post.
the jam has nothing to do with poncy fashion, mr clean and if i get the chance ill f x x c up your life, weller had more time for orwell than clothes bud listen to his words,usa got the see the british kids got the streets, in the street today and we are so satisfied, 1981 chelmsford essex england year of the riots, chelmsford was all nazi, i 13 and was going to stone the nazis of the multi storey, paul weller your a geezer, dont smoke in bed like steve marriot, you died young and stayed pretty
I saw this when it first aired in Feb. or March of 1980. I was already obsessed with all things Jam! Remember being disappointed by the snotty , frankly dull interview. But I didn't care, Weller was my idol up 'til TSC, then I wised up fast! Right around this time Dick Clark had a "new wave" band on every week; it lasted a couple months- first the snotty Jam, then Madness kept pinching his ass, then the infamous PIL debacle; after that no more English bands (until the lame New Romantic stuff!)
this shows the motown influence that weller has always had it runs through the fuckin blood, he is a british legend that i would put in the same bracket as the beatles , who, and the stones.
such a fan of weller n jam the video is hilarius! you can tell they really cant be fucked to talk to the host, weller was lookin at the croud half way through a song as if to say what the fuck!! the mod father rocks
28 years on, The Jam is the only thing in this video that doesn't look dated.
The disparity is great in this video between The Jam and the American audience. They were way ahead of everybody, nd this clip only shows how retarded the pop music scene in the US in 1980 was.
That audience is hilarious, they're all sitting there bopping along like they're from the brady bunch or something. And what's up with the host, it's like he was talking to a child!
Jesus!!. Nothing against Americans, I lived there for two years and enjoyed it very much. However that audience is totally embarrasing. Along with Dick, they just did not get it!!. At 1.10 Weller looks out of the audience and would love to know what he was thinking. One of the greatest ever song writers looking out at that!!. Great clip though ...
I'm American and I was embarrassed by THAT audience! I was only 12yrs old back then but if I remember correctly the AB audience were always obnoxious camera hogs.
BuryladBen5 I am correcting you. you are wrong. For the past 100 years the best music has come from US, South America & Caribbean Isles, not British isles. W/o music from these shores there is no British music.
Exactly what i'm saying. Ungreatful bastards aswell. We're bailing them out in a fuckin war aswell. They say they did the same in World War Two. Bollocks because we didn't start the war, Germany did.
A lot of people gave "Jimi a chance"...Little Richard, Ike and Tina Turner, The Isley Brothers, the good people at the Apollo Theater, a good many people in Greenwich Village...Chas Chandler didn't "discover" Jimi, just recongized his novelty in Britain as compared what it was considered in the US. Don't think this was hard to do after the very apparent success of "Northern Soul."
Why expect anyone outside of Britain to give a toss about geezer football fans obsessed w/how "hard" they are?! Americans gave TONS of support to British bands, whether they understood all the colloquialisms or not. I lived in England & Brits didn't always understand my lingo & cultural references. Who cares?! To blame Americans for the Jam's inability/unwillingness to break here is ignoring all the fine print. And don't forget Jam fans in the states were more loyal to TSC than were the Brits.
brilliant clip ,weller was just too british for the american puplic "just a thin clear layer of Mr sheen looking back at me ",only a brit would know what he was on about, as with butterfly collectors,"by making the walking lame !!! clasic poetry!!!
Look at that prick in the yellow shirt, He's probably never even heard of the Jam and he's jumping around like a douche bag just to get on T.V. I'm sure having to deal with 'ol Dick Clark and his stupid politically correct American Bandstand where the theme to the show was written by Barry Manilow (gezzus) was was a real treat for the lads. I'm american and I couldn't stand American Bandstand, it was so fake loaded with jackoffs in bad clothes and haircuts.
I'm a big fan of Weller's music and have seen many interviews with him at different phases of his career. It's not Dick, it's Paul. He's a great songwriter but extremely "stroppy" as they say in England. For a guy who made being a "pop star" his childhood goal in life, he has a terrible habit of biting the hand that feeds. Politeness and respect (ie, minding your Ps and Qs) is VERY English. My personal hunch is that this is all tied up in some kind of inferiority complex masked in superiority.
I remember waking up & just happening to catch this on a late Saturday morning, def in the summer of 1980. For back in '79 I wouldn't have even known who they were. But by this time school was out for good & The Jam et al was all I wanted to know.
What a painful interview! Dick doesn't seem to get it - at all. And what a painful tour that must've been for them. Going from what they were accustomed to in England to *that*....
Funny enough, Dee C. Lee, one of the backing singers in Wham! was married to Paul Weller and sang in the Style Council with Paul. They had a son together.
went to see them on the setting sons tour late 79 at newcastle city hall,awesome live band,all mod cons and this album were their peak though not commercially,sound effects etc had nowhere near the quality
This is 1979. I saw this 29 years ago! This is the first time since then. This changed my taste in music as much as anything I can remember. I went out and bought All Mod Cons in the cut out section (that dates me) for $1.99. One of the greatest bands ever.
The Jam were on "Fridays" around this time, the ABC late-night TV show. I was there for the taping :) Have those same Jam Shoes Weller has on in this clip - black pair and a white pair!
Got my tickets to the From The Jam (Foxton & Buckler) LA shows in January as well - sorted!
Excellent!! Loved The Jam. The first album I ever bought was Setting Sons. It all looked a bit orchestrated? Perhaps thats why Paul looks pissed off? I dunno? Anyway, thanks for posting this. Up the Mods!
I had heard weeks before the The Jam were going to be on AB. The time passed so slowly and the anticipation was unbearable. Yeah it was lip synced but alot of performances were in those days. Yeah he looks pissed off but carloop is right, he quite often did. The vast majority of the US never "got" mods, but it defined me then and still does today.
Dick Clark is an idiot. "why don't some people like you?" He obviously didn't know shit about the Jam or else he would have realized how intelligent they were. Two great songs, one great band, one dickhead emcee.
I was thrilled to find this. Dick didn't need to be a Jam expert. At least he had them on the show and didn't censor much back then. They weren't exactly selling a lot of records here so I think this is a positive thing. I used to watch AB all the time when I was a kid and EVERY band made it to this show - they don't have that any more - not on a Saturday morning. God, I'm actually defending Dick Clark..must stop! I love the answer about San Francisco and the "more drugs" comment!
I understand what you mean- AB was a good way for bands to get "out there". I remember seeing X, laughing, and then being disappointed because they, like the Jam, had to lip synch. These were legitimate musicians that deserved to play live- and not be subjected to Dick's inane questioning. The AB idea was good, but should have changed to accommodate bands of this caliber, some 30 years into its life cycle.
Paul sure seems pissed. Probably because he had to lip sink and promote a cover that the label wanted to push to as a hit (Heat Wave). Oh, and I'm sure bullshitting with Dick Clark didn't help.
Look at the disco crowd cheering on the Jam, I think this is what inspired Nirvana's "smells like teen spirit". No, they didn't get it, and they still dont (except San Francisco, as Foxton pointed out), but they'll brag, "I was there!" Weller looks extremely nervous or coke-d up....I dont think he liked being there. I dont blame him.
Yeah the Americans didn't really get The Jam, i don't blame them though. An American audience couldn't familiarise with the majority of Jam lyrics where an English one could. Plus most English bands that have made it in America write lyrics that appeal to everyone. The Beatles or Stones for instance. The Jam where more focused and concentrated.
Yes many other English were polular in Non English speaking countries as i have said in my first comment! But, whereas The Beatles, Rolling Stones where just as popular in other countries aswell as UK. The Jam where much more popular in UK than anywhere else. This is not saying that they didn't have alot of fans in countries abroad
is cover the who
Pankeverde 4 months ago
@Pankeverde martha and the vandals*
madasahammer1 4 months ago
@madasahammer1 aa thanks ... very good cover I really like the jam :)
Pankeverde 4 months ago
@Pankeverde yeah its amazing how they've taken that song and made it like this, purely amazing
madasahammer1 4 months ago
@madasahammer1 Vandellas, not Vandals :D
situazionauta 1 month ago
I love the Jam, but I really don't know what it is about him- I can't stand Bruce Foxton. I mean, I acknowledge his talent and contribution to the band, it might just be his hair or bouncing about but I just don't like the bloke.
geflad 6 months ago
The Jam's lack of success in the US was due to the fact that much like with the Small Faces, they were too "British" for American audiences (Same can also be said for Blur prior to "Song 2".). The average American of the time just could not relate to the average Brit of that era. The record company didn't know how to promote them here either, for example, having them opening up for Blue Oyster Cult.
I was first introduced to the Jam about 17 years ago, and it changed my tastes in music.
srbmod93 6 months ago
'Jim Buckler....more drugs" ...God, I love Weller's comedy.
spikepedestal 6 months ago
Check out the cool old Hofner he's got.
TheBGSMusic 7 months ago
the audience..............wankers.....
corraddo1 10 months ago
paul weller looks like his looking for the exit away from the annoying crowd
salvadory 10 months ago
I love the Jam and always have, but if they show up at Irvin's Jazz Playhouse as listed Much , nobody will be more surprised than me (except maybe Irvin) Then again, He has Brass Band Jams all the time. Imagine the Jam backed by some of the best brass and reed players in the world!! Two things would be pouring - beer & sweat. I have seen stranger things happen - after all, I'm in N'awlins Dawlin
MegaVoodooChile 11 months ago
@MrMeddled I'm in !!!!
scatmando 1 year ago
what's the difference................... Drugs lol
Can you explain your kind of music ? It's just Jam music lol..... Good one Bruce thats why everyone loved The Jam from mods, punks, football crews, it was just good raw music that kids of that time could easily relate too. Im glad I had my teenage years then and not now. It was far more fun, the PC brigade are taking over nowadays. Fuck them all !!!!!
scatmando 1 year ago
@scatmando couldnt agree more ..........
sherbert500 7 months ago
The surlyness of the Jam looks odd among the Americaness of this show
jackwilshiresfakeid 1 year ago 3
@jackwilshiresfakeid because the americans just dont get us brits.........its why most of them are fucking idiots lol
sherbert500 7 months ago
Saw these guys many times,wasnt a band to touch them
currypot1965 1 year ago 2
weller foxton and buckler = legends
sherbert500 1 year ago
@sherbert500 Amen.
currypot1965 1 year ago
lovin mr weller
shalouinman 1 year ago
Jam music !!!!!!!!!!
costco5626 1 year ago
very reminiscent of the who interview on the kids are alright
tubby61 1 year ago
the neck on that bass is bloody long..or is that normal
2bsom1 1 year ago
I just read the great Mick Talbot from the Merton Parkas and some other little band called the culture club or "Style Council" or something played keyboard on this classic cover. Linda Rondstats still better.
Annamandabella 1 year ago
The Scott Richards Case - (SRC) version from 69 is better!
mrtwig80 1 year ago
This is the BEST version of this song ever!!
CombatRocks 1 year ago
yh he looks very uncomfortable, live is better
CRAZYforJOHNLENNON 1 year ago
Wouldnt be miming by any chance.... lol .
You can just tell Weller is uncomfortable here, always best live and no dubbing
whenuryoung 1 year ago
very nice tune! I'm Lovin' it!
akada 1 year ago
great tune..................XXXXX!
ymkm9906 1 year ago
seen the jam at the poole arts centre my home town. now medicine hat!!
mrmattstrat 1 year ago
i found this fu cking funny poor lads lol
dustyrose1964 1 year ago
sounds like the who interview off the kids are alright taking the piss out of the yank
tubby61 2 years ago
There's a version by a new band called The Floe which is amazing. Totally different to any of the existing covers. Check it out.
TheFloeMusic 2 years ago
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the who's version was much better
loaxin 2 years ago
you really can't top the original... bittersweet classic
johnc310 2 years ago
What's with that audience? Are they actors? No wonder Paul looks a bit bewildered in the interview. Fascinating to see though.
CanardDeChien 2 years ago 2
Hah, yep, classic late 70s/early 80s canned audience. Canned as in canned laughter, not out of it on special brew, although I could believe that too, looking at 'em. I doubt there was even an audience there when they filmed that slot for the show. At least things like this allowed kids to see and hear bands like the jam I guess. We didn't get much of them anywhere else.
G0IFI 2 years ago
O ok thanks I3lackman2, I appreciate that friend.
Ddog2k3 2 years ago
Jim Buckler?
BlackMonk66 2 years ago
the who absolutely murdered this song both in studio and live!!!
JahWorks420 2 years ago
is that a good thing?
RustySacks 2 years ago
great clip
backinnyc 2 years ago
Hello, do anyone know what year is this was air on TV? Thanks.
Ddog2k3 2 years ago
I mean its been 4 weeks but if you still want a guess, it was probably around 1980. This song was released on Setting Sons in 1979.
l3lackman2 2 years ago
What was Weller saying about the San Francisco audience? Something about them being more ****ed on drugs or something? lol
SmithersJones87 2 years ago
What ever the audience are are 'on' - I want some.
NunsAllowed 2 years ago
The Jam on American Bandstand. Amazing!
Is anything this cool happening these days?
rflowerday 2 years ago 2
Don't think so mate.
gbianezzi 2 years ago
"The Jam on American Bandstand. Amazing!"
Seconded. I never knew they even reached the level of popularity or exposure in the U.S. that they could appear on AB. It's pretty cool to witness.
xreddragonx 2 years ago
The best version(in my opinion) of this song is
at "A quick one"of the "The Who".
HCxGRILLOx 2 years ago
totally agree!!!!
that cover made me love the song
bonjovilvr3 2 years ago
love this song!
HerrTisch 2 years ago
The Best Version!
Usurped 3 years ago
LOL.. funny
gibbsisthebest 2 years ago
hahahahaha the 80s, hear people saying it is coming back. RUN FOR YOUR LIFES.
Great song tho, even if i personaly likes the original the most. :)
JoelPalsson 3 years ago
Which is better my left leg,right leg or my arm?
They're so different and nothing tops the Jam version for what it is.
Great if girly version by the Who but rocking drumming by the Moon.
'That's lovely' as the presenter said to the Jam.But it rocks and Weller sounds hard, stamping the Jam over it as Moon does with the Who.
Martha and the fantastic Vandellas original is almost otherwordly and of course wonderful and sublime.
3 very different,but for me, equally magic moments.
topofthekops 3 years ago 2
The album is called "Setting Sons" matey, there is no "the" just for your information
dainteefan 3 years ago
the who version of heatwave is far superior
loaxin 3 years ago
This was from American Bandstand in early 1980 when they were touring Setting Sons. This was recorded about two weeks before PiL's infamous appearance. Obviously lipped from the studio version, that is Mick Talbot playing piano. Also, heavily influenced by Motown, this version is actually closer to one done by The Who during the "A Quick One" time period
danmcc08 3 years ago
Aww man, I love the Spinners!
RustySacks 3 years ago
Anyway, shoes... Bruce is wearing Jam Shoes & Paul's sporting a pair of Badgers. My guess is that Rick is wearing Gibsons or Docs, more likely the latter!
Mod fashion what a delight to own, Fred Perry's were £8 each!
1MOD1 3 years ago
The Setting Sons is a brilliant album, this is a class cover too!
1MOD1 3 years ago 2
What year was this?
marcus8768 3 years ago
what year was this?
marcus8768 3 years ago
Holy shit indeed
Scribe66 3 years ago
holly shit
steveesp88 3 years ago
THE JAM sono una leggenda!!! Esplosivi!!!
Gervasiointesa 3 years ago 2
great footage from a jam fan who thought he had seen it all ! NICE POSTING
SteveWilks68 3 years ago
mick talbot played keys on this
TheModfather32 3 years ago
amazing band,but the crowd looks retarded!lol!
1357skater 3 years ago
would have liked to be a fly on the wall on this recording. His voice is the perfect balance between power and cool emotion. Can almost see him jumping up from the piano during the recording like jerry lee lewis and kicking the bench out from him.
cttxlv 3 years ago
paul's definitely the man, but bruce is a way more convincing lip-syncer ;)
superwesman 3 years ago 4
@superwesman
Paul Weller is undoubtedly a very good front man but don't under estimate Bruce Foxton, He is the Bollocks!!!
TheRapmeister 1 year ago 2
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oh god he cannot sing
steveygee1 3 years ago
weller is a legend
settingsons68 3 years ago
For a new band that Geoff Deane, former PR The Jam is raving about check out JUST FUZZ. Seen em live in London 3 times and they are awesome. They play Clapham Grand in October and I for one wont be missing it.
riveroflife777 3 years ago
Wow the audience in this vid havent got a clue. They look like they were watching Oliva Newton-John. Jam fans were raw in comparison. Fab band, really relevent to the times and still inspiring today.
4senuf 3 years ago
those crowd shots are too much
enossified 3 years ago
Weller doesn't look too keen on this interview. I guess I'd be a little dicey lip synching in that setting too. Dick Clark was such a Pro here. Thanks for the post.
edsugar 3 years ago
there jam shoes from shelleys in london
joydivision808 3 years ago
It's Sherry's by the way man.
mitchismod 3 years ago
er it's Shelleys actually - man. I know cos I had a pair.
jackd36 3 years ago
nah it is sherrys .... its in my scooter mag and iv been there .
razorninja 3 years ago
the jam has nothing to do with poncy fashion, mr clean and if i get the chance ill f x x c up your life, weller had more time for orwell than clothes bud listen to his words,usa got the see the british kids got the streets, in the street today and we are so satisfied, 1981 chelmsford essex england year of the riots, chelmsford was all nazi, i 13 and was going to stone the nazis of the multi storey, paul weller your a geezer, dont smoke in bed like steve marriot, you died young and stayed pretty
colutd1 3 years ago
Weller looks very cool in this. Anyone know what footwear he's wearing in this one?
Saw these guys on their final US tour...simply awesome. Got to meet & chit chat with Weller after the concert, very thoughtful fellow.
tommyluvstraci 3 years ago
paul is wearing badger shoes you can still buy them from england on the internet
sfm1967 3 years ago
lol lol lo what planet is that presenter on?!!!!!
katieb65 3 years ago
Why that's Dick Clark... the world's oldest teenager of course.
julietagteam 3 years ago
they are Jaqm shoes and you can get variations of them, but not the originals anymore - shame. Same with the gibsons.
jackd36 3 years ago
This ist definitely the best version of Heatwave ever. Only the deafs could thinf something else !
Auberon 3 years ago
i freaken love this version
lollynutz 3 years ago 3
toptally agree, so many classics by the Jam but I love this one too
costco5626 3 years ago
u might say the best music is not from the UK, but who chose to watch this great british band in the first place...?
boozerguy 3 years ago
I saw this when it first aired in Feb. or March of 1980. I was already obsessed with all things Jam! Remember being disappointed by the snotty , frankly dull interview. But I didn't care, Weller was my idol up 'til TSC, then I wised up fast! Right around this time Dick Clark had a "new wave" band on every week; it lasted a couple months- first the snotty Jam, then Madness kept pinching his ass, then the infamous PIL debacle; after that no more English bands (until the lame New Romantic stuff!)
mndandy 3 years ago
I kinda like what I saw at :35, tho...
NilezII 3 years ago 2
nice lip sync'n paul. Great band wot a fuckin shite program though
slugger81 3 years ago
this shows the motown influence that weller has always had it runs through the fuckin blood, he is a british legend that i would put in the same bracket as the beatles , who, and the stones.
gazzaq24 3 years ago
such a fan of weller n jam the video is hilarius! you can tell they really cant be fucked to talk to the host, weller was lookin at the croud half way through a song as if to say what the fuck!! the mod father rocks
liddz1 3 years ago
so were they mod, punk, post punk?
SHMUJEW 3 years ago
the jam covers the who covering martha and the vandellas...
nice though.
psychobollox 3 years ago
28 years on, The Jam is the only thing in this video that doesn't look dated.
The disparity is great in this video between The Jam and the American audience. They were way ahead of everybody, nd this clip only shows how retarded the pop music scene in the US in 1980 was.
RichV20 3 years ago
Great band!
m1s1green 3 years ago
omg great song,but i think the audience R on sumfin lol.i love da way paul looks out at the audience
1357skater 3 years ago
That audience is hilarious, they're all sitting there bopping along like they're from the brady bunch or something. And what's up with the host, it's like he was talking to a child!
xbehappy 3 years ago
Jesus!!. Nothing against Americans, I lived there for two years and enjoyed it very much. However that audience is totally embarrasing. Along with Dick, they just did not get it!!. At 1.10 Weller looks out of the audience and would love to know what he was thinking. One of the greatest ever song writers looking out at that!!. Great clip though ...
yeovil50 3 years ago
I'm American and I was embarrassed by THAT audience! I was only 12yrs old back then but if I remember correctly the AB audience were always obnoxious camera hogs.
joybeth41 2 years ago 3
THE JAM R LEGENDS
BRITISH & PROUD
The best music from the last 50 years correct me if i'm wrong has come from these isles.
BuryLadBen5 3 years ago
BuryladBen5 I am correcting you. you are wrong. For the past 100 years the best music has come from US, South America & Caribbean Isles, not British isles. W/o music from these shores there is no British music.
luvureally 3 years ago
I'm entitled to my opinion you prick! I love British music, no others. Anything that isn't British is shit to me.
BuryLadBen5 3 years ago
Well what you love was not created by the British. As I said w/o music from across the Atlantic all of your music would be shit.
luvureally 3 years ago
how exactly then.
luvureally 3 years ago
WOW..... You are so wrong, if anything the greatest music has come from our GREAT LAND, GREAT BRITAIN
bristolcityfc85 3 years ago
copycats.
luvureally 3 years ago 3
you're a burnin' pain.
redkola 3 years ago
no, thats your penicillin resistant dose of clap.
luvureally 3 years ago 2
Haha whenever this argument crops up about which side of the Atlantic is better, I like to ask the Yanks who give Jimi a chance.
DangerRifai 3 years ago
Exactly what i'm saying. Ungreatful bastards aswell. We're bailing them out in a fuckin war aswell. They say they did the same in World War Two. Bollocks because we didn't start the war, Germany did.
BuryLadBen5 3 years ago
A lot of people gave "Jimi a chance"...Little Richard, Ike and Tina Turner, The Isley Brothers, the good people at the Apollo Theater, a good many people in Greenwich Village...Chas Chandler didn't "discover" Jimi, just recongized his novelty in Britain as compared what it was considered in the US. Don't think this was hard to do after the very apparent success of "Northern Soul."
anguspallux 3 years ago 6
@anguspallux Northern Soul happened in the 70s after Jimi's fame and death
jackwilshiresfakeid 1 year ago
Not exactly...
Paxmanite 3 years ago
American Bandstand was notorious or having the bands lip synch..I'm sure Weller wasn't real happy with that. God that audience is soooooooooooo gay.
setzervalve 3 years ago
Why expect anyone outside of Britain to give a toss about geezer football fans obsessed w/how "hard" they are?! Americans gave TONS of support to British bands, whether they understood all the colloquialisms or not. I lived in England & Brits didn't always understand my lingo & cultural references. Who cares?! To blame Americans for the Jam's inability/unwillingness to break here is ignoring all the fine print. And don't forget Jam fans in the states were more loyal to TSC than were the Brits.
macikatica 3 years ago
brilliant clip ,weller was just too british for the american puplic "just a thin clear layer of Mr sheen looking back at me ",only a brit would know what he was on about, as with butterfly collectors,"by making the walking lame !!! clasic poetry!!!
slateberry 3 years ago
setting sons.....what a album !!
tadashiki 3 years ago
Look at that prick in the yellow shirt, He's probably never even heard of the Jam and he's jumping around like a douche bag just to get on T.V. I'm sure having to deal with 'ol Dick Clark and his stupid politically correct American Bandstand where the theme to the show was written by Barry Manilow (gezzus) was was a real treat for the lads. I'm american and I couldn't stand American Bandstand, it was so fake loaded with jackoffs in bad clothes and haircuts.
setzervalve 3 years ago
its called dancing.
Podesta16 3 years ago
I'm a big fan of Weller's music and have seen many interviews with him at different phases of his career. It's not Dick, it's Paul. He's a great songwriter but extremely "stroppy" as they say in England. For a guy who made being a "pop star" his childhood goal in life, he has a terrible habit of biting the hand that feeds. Politeness and respect (ie, minding your Ps and Qs) is VERY English. My personal hunch is that this is all tied up in some kind of inferiority complex masked in superiority.
macikatica 3 years ago
Great clip,but the audience need shooting!!
Weller is god.
strangetown22 3 years ago 2
I remember waking up & just happening to catch this on a late Saturday morning, def in the summer of 1980. For back in '79 I wouldn't have even known who they were. But by this time school was out for good & The Jam et al was all I wanted to know.
thewaymouth 3 years ago
What a painful interview! Dick doesn't seem to get it - at all. And what a painful tour that must've been for them. Going from what they were accustomed to in England to *that*....
mweymar 3 years ago 2
They sound like Us...Respect>
Thecomsofficial 3 years ago
some parts of the first song sound like "wake me up before you go go" from wham!
the part just before he sings Heatwave.
(needless to say this song is better)
Stuero 3 years ago
Funny enough, Dee C. Lee, one of the backing singers in Wham! was married to Paul Weller and sang in the Style Council with Paul. They had a son together.
macikatica 3 years ago
went to see them on the setting sons tour late 79 at newcastle city hall,awesome live band,all mod cons and this album were their peak though not commercially,sound effects etc had nowhere near the quality
boothfenn 4 years ago
love the way weller is not even tryin to mime...and foxton bein as excited as a yorkshire terrier
fhidoijm 4 years ago
What year was this?
tmo8466 4 years ago
gotta be early 1980....or late 79....when settin sons was released
fhidoijm 4 years ago
thats 2003
PneumaticMuffin 4 years ago
This is 1979. I saw this 29 years ago! This is the first time since then. This changed my taste in music as much as anything I can remember. I went out and bought All Mod Cons in the cut out section (that dates me) for $1.99. One of the greatest bands ever.
ecosmart123 4 years ago
brill
tom9205 4 years ago
this is so funny, they couldn't care less about the interview. love it
deskjohn 4 years ago
THE INRTERVEIW IS VERY FUNNY
dacritter 4 years ago
This is a cover of the Martha and the Vandellas song, the Who covered Martha's song.
DoctorNumber46 4 years ago 2
Try Martha Reeves first!
paultsmouth 4 years ago 7
Dick Clark is a tool.
amelinab 4 years ago
Paul Weller is a Genius!
chescos7 4 years ago
The Jam were on "Fridays" around this time, the ABC late-night TV show. I was there for the taping :) Have those same Jam Shoes Weller has on in this clip - black pair and a white pair!
Got my tickets to the From The Jam (Foxton & Buckler) LA shows in January as well - sorted!
RiotNrrrdUTube 4 years ago
Man they look out of place here! No wonder they didn't bother with the US - the states just wasn't ready for them!
theclubseen 4 years ago
Excellent!! Loved The Jam. The first album I ever bought was Setting Sons. It all looked a bit orchestrated? Perhaps thats why Paul looks pissed off? I dunno? Anyway, thanks for posting this. Up the Mods!
STEELE2211 4 years ago
I bet Weller hated every minute of this shit....a giant among Pygmies. I'm embarassed to be American when I watch this.
YZippy 4 years ago
I had heard weeks before the The Jam were going to be on AB. The time passed so slowly and the anticipation was unbearable. Yeah it was lip synced but alot of performances were in those days. Yeah he looks pissed off but carloop is right, he quite often did. The vast majority of the US never "got" mods, but it defined me then and still does today.
grxlr8 4 years ago
Dick Clark is an idiot. "why don't some people like you?" He obviously didn't know shit about the Jam or else he would have realized how intelligent they were. Two great songs, one great band, one dickhead emcee.
mxbehm 4 years ago
I was thrilled to find this. Dick didn't need to be a Jam expert. At least he had them on the show and didn't censor much back then. They weren't exactly selling a lot of records here so I think this is a positive thing. I used to watch AB all the time when I was a kid and EVERY band made it to this show - they don't have that any more - not on a Saturday morning. God, I'm actually defending Dick Clark..must stop! I love the answer about San Francisco and the "more drugs" comment!
carjaxxx 4 years ago
I understand what you mean- AB was a good way for bands to get "out there". I remember seeing X, laughing, and then being disappointed because they, like the Jam, had to lip synch. These were legitimate musicians that deserved to play live- and not be subjected to Dick's inane questioning. The AB idea was good, but should have changed to accommodate bands of this caliber, some 30 years into its life cycle.
mxbehm 4 years ago
Have you added in the footage of the crowd, looks like a bunch of over excited high school kids at prom, no wonder weller was so pissed off
pump1970 4 years ago
fuckin mike
read convention.
19richy65 4 years ago
promo shit.nevr undsertand mod culture!
19richy65 4 years ago
Cool, but lip-synced. On the album, it's Mick Talbott (soon to be of the Style Council) on keyboards.
nagmagnet 4 years ago
Saw them in D.C. in 1982......those were the days....
glhx2112 4 years ago
Paul sure seems pissed. Probably because he had to lip sink and promote a cover that the label wanted to push to as a hit (Heat Wave). Oh, and I'm sure bullshitting with Dick Clark didn't help.
DickieRude 4 years ago
He always looks like that
carloop 4 years ago
Great times too!
urssus101 4 years ago
Good days !
Scribe66 4 years ago
wow. I found these guys on accident, almost a year ago. Im so glad that i did. I love this band.
punkrockxzz 4 years ago
Holy Shit! The Jam on AB! As an American I apologize for us not seeing the genius of Weller and Co. at the time.
YZippy 4 years ago
Nice. Notice he says "that little bitch has got a hold on me" he might've been a bit nervous about slipping that in.
megaforcemedia 4 years ago
No, it was the 80's! lol
dyg66 4 years ago
Great clip of the best band in the f#@kin world ...pity about the audience, was it the muppet show ?? what a bunch of freaks
aceface1969 4 years ago
Ace footage, just shows that good tunes and good musicianship will last the test of time and travel too! Great groove!
misterpunk 5 years ago
Best british band of their time.
knucklehead1966 5 years ago
Look at the disco crowd cheering on the Jam, I think this is what inspired Nirvana's "smells like teen spirit". No, they didn't get it, and they still dont (except San Francisco, as Foxton pointed out), but they'll brag, "I was there!" Weller looks extremely nervous or coke-d up....I dont think he liked being there. I dont blame him.
campeau29 5 years ago
Dick Clark is such a bloody retard.
stevenordby 5 years ago
What a patronising, obnoxious "interviewer!"
BTW - Great to here from some American Jam fans on here.
No two ways about it, the Jam were ace!
wak4life 5 years ago
what a way to pay tribute to American R&B while playing AB. great clip!
usernamof13 5 years ago
So glad this one has been uploaded. Thanks mate.
junkyardmouse 5 years ago
i love the jam!! plus i grew up in u.s. all my life! whats not to get?? solid rhythm section, great hooks great lyrics!!!!
targetscooter88 5 years ago
Yeah the Americans didn't really get The Jam, i don't blame them though. An American audience couldn't familiarise with the majority of Jam lyrics where an English one could. Plus most English bands that have made it in America write lyrics that appeal to everyone. The Beatles or Stones for instance. The Jam where more focused and concentrated.
RupertBirkin 5 years ago
But The Jam (any many other English-speaking bands) were popular in non-English speaking countries. It wasn't all down to the lyrics.
davidgarside 4 years ago
Yes many other English were polular in Non English speaking countries as i have said in my first comment! But, whereas The Beatles, Rolling Stones where just as popular in other countries aswell as UK. The Jam where much more popular in UK than anywhere else. This is not saying that they didn't have alot of fans in countries abroad
RupertBirkin 4 years ago