It's the summer of 1976 and you're an unknown trio of Mod-loving kids living about 50 miles out of London. How do you get your first gig in London? You take your cue from the manifesto Malcolm McLaren is spinning in the weekly music papers and get your own gig. So one hot Saturday morning The Jam set up on the pavement in front of a street market, ran an extension cord from the Rock On record ...
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I know it's probably not funny anymore. But this is my space. On the third floor of my house that is.Our house is 97 years old. I know it doesn't look old, it looks like a squat. Anyway your looking at my room. This is a fairly kid free zone. This is where I MOG, relax, drink beer, and play guitar with my buddies. With this heatwave it has become unbearably hot. As you probably can tell I am no...
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An absolute classic. How could I have missed the vid? Oh well, here it is kids.
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Before this excellent, classic song gets reembedded into the mass consciousness because of its use in the upcoming film Stranger than Fiction, featuring Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, and other glowing names (Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gylenhaal), please take the time to partake of this unadulterated version. The only meaning imbued here is that of late 70s Mods.No knock on the movie, the concept is...
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Perhaps one of the best songs of angst ever written. legend has it that Paul wrote the song in ten minutes after returning from a night out at the pub. I have followed Weller since the Setting Suns record and it's great to see him continue to make relevant music for over 30 years now. The string of Jam records from All Mod Cons to their finale the Gift has to be one of the most consistent strin...
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Yesterday after a day of doctor's appointments and medical procedures with my 15 year old, I saw that need to put some fun and lightness in her day. Lately, too many of these days have been all about white coats, needle pokes and toxic medecines that have made her hair fall out. So I bundled her up and took her to see the new Will Ferrell movie, Stranger Than Fiction. Better than any medecine, ...
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Driving home from Maine in the middle of the night a couple of weeks ago, with my boys asleep in the back, my wife half out of it, and the iPod plugged into my car stereo and set to SHUFFLE, The Jam's "That's Entertainment" came on. I had the volume down on the stereo so I wouldn't wake anyone, but I started to get annoyed that I couldn't follow the lyrics to this old favorite. I'm not married ...
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