@Mark fleming Was lucky enough to see Bruce play bass with SLF in NY nearly 20 years ago. I just recently learned the bassline for "In the Crowd" and can't stop playing it. Bruce is right: good tunes stand the test of time.
What a gentleman.Pure honest bloke What more can one ask of any musical person who remains humble after seeing it all.Money cant buy me love on the big scales of things
@@kronossonork6994 you forget he wrote all the songs and has had a successful career for five decades ... Weller clearly was the reason the jam succeeded
I played a 1963 B&W Rickenbacher bass because Bruce did. Because if that I became good friends with Darren Hill from Red Rockers because he too played a b&w Rickenbacher!
@@4th_Lensman_of_the_apocalypse well think of it this way if you ask someone who their favourite bass player is they might tell you Geddy Lee or Lemmy or Flea etc but I’ve never heard anyone say Bruce Foxton or maybe I’m talking to the wrong people 😂
The jam were the most important band of my youth. Its great that bruce is still flying the flag from the jam, seen em loads of times, fuckin brilliant. Its the closest we will see to the jam again. I dont care if people think its a glorified tribute band. Their legacy will always live on.
@@colingeddes2172 and,they are mates again! They like to give the media some stick!They are brothers.They know how much their fans,I hate that term,love them.Timeless tunes.😀❤
@@happyjack1598 good that bruce and paul r mates again. But it saddens us die hard jam fans that rick has been a scapegoat for 38 years, with paul not speaking to him in all that time.
Foxton seems like a great guy and is a great bassist but sadly he never grew past the jam.. he’s forever trapped wearing the same haircut and living in the past while Weller moved on ..... weirdly he goes on stage with a jam cover band trying to recreate something that ended 40 years ago
I mean if it's his thing, if he enjoys it and makes people happy there's nothing wrong about that. Nothing mod about staying stuck in the past either, but nothing wrong at all. I actually respect people who understand they're no Bowie, Weller or Herbie Hancock and accept to keep doing their job without thinking of themselves as masters of shapeshifting.
@@jorjicostava6657 I basically agree but it is rather sad regardless... especially when the jam were about youth and the times .... not about old men trying to relive their glory days
@@e.m.b2834 I'm not sure he's trying to relive his glory days or something. I think it's more like "Ok, I was in that GREAT band in the late seventies, we did some brilliant stuff that's still beloved today and I'll try to keep giving good memories to people". I mean I'm not sure that From the Jam makes a shitload of money, playing smaller festivals and that, and I like to think the man is smart enough not to pretend he's at the forefront of British music at present times. All this to say that I respect making honest, enjoyable shows almost as much as putting out new music if you have the creativity to do so. What I don't respect are artists who are delusional about their skills and who inflict awful shows to their public.
One of the great bassists, right here.
@Mark fleming Was lucky enough to see Bruce play bass with SLF in NY nearly 20 years ago. I just recently learned the bassline for "In the Crowd" and can't stop playing it. Bruce is right: good tunes stand the test of time.
He got me off guitar and onto bass 42 years ago ,,,,and still playing thanks Bruce
Fckn legend. The jam wouldn’t be what it is without him
Bruce always rocking the Bowie Ziggy cut!
A great talent who is a fine, well-grounded human being to boot!..
What a gentleman.Pure honest bloke What more can one ask of any musical person who remains humble after seeing it all.Money cant buy me love on the big scales of things
Up there with great bass players
Lovely guy
Delighted they are back friends
1 3rd of the holy trinity
Seen bruce many times live and met him a couple of times. Great musician, great guy. Still 1 of my heroes.
Hellish trinity good musicians tho
Bruce and Rick were the backbone of The Jam..
They were only a 3 piece!!!!
Absolutely. Paul Weller left a brilliant band to form s crap band.
But Weller wrote most of the great songs.
@@kronossonork6994 you forget he wrote all the songs and has had a successful career for five decades ... Weller clearly was the reason the jam succeeded
@@e.m.b2834no he never smithers Jones
I never saw The Jam as punk. I just saw them playing against the huge punk movement of the 70's
But he was also a member of stiff little fingers
It was all about attitude.
Legends
I played a 1963 B&W Rickenbacher bass because Bruce did. Because if that I became good friends with Darren Hill from Red Rockers because he too played a b&w Rickenbacher!
What a talent ! Superb !
Legend ❤
I Like Bruce Foxton he my favourite bass player
Cool dude.
brilliant
Honestly I think Bruce is underrated
and your qualification/experience to make such an observation is?
@@4th_Lensman_of_the_apocalypse well think of it this way if you ask someone who their favourite bass player is they might tell you Geddy Lee or Lemmy or Flea etc but I’ve never heard anyone say Bruce Foxton or maybe I’m talking to the wrong people 😂
@@jack0609 Im not sure he’s underrated just not done anything in anything that great since the, The Jam split
@@4th_Lensman_of_the_apocalypse fair comment I hear a lot about Paul Rick not so much Bruce I hear a tiny bit about
I must have misread the leader... I was excited to learn about Bruce's breakfast... I bet he's a muesli and espresso kinda guy
I went to school with bruce nephew
Best band ever!
From a distance he looks a bit like Barry Manilow. Looks good for his age !
PURE FANTABULOUS
The jam were the most important band of my youth. Its great that bruce is still flying the flag from the jam, seen em loads of times, fuckin brilliant. Its the closest we will see to the jam again. I dont care if people think its a glorified tribute band. Their legacy will always live on.
@@colingeddes2172 and,they are mates again! They like to give the media some stick!They are brothers.They know how much their fans,I hate that term,love them.Timeless tunes.😀❤
@@happyjack1598 good that bruce and paul r mates again. But it saddens us die hard jam fans that rick has been a scapegoat for 38 years, with paul not speaking to him in all that time.
i kno his nephew neil foxton i went school with him years go not seen neil in years
I grew up with them as Punks then they or it evolved in to New Wave along with The Mod revival 76-84 ish
Sounds exactly like paul whitehouse
He has not changed a bit
Nothing sadder then that.. forever trapped in 1982
Pledge music went bankrupt in 2019 after failing to make a sh!t ton of payouts! 😱
Foxton seems like a great guy and is a great bassist but sadly he never grew past the jam.. he’s forever trapped wearing the same haircut and living in the past while Weller moved on ..... weirdly he goes on stage with a jam cover band trying to recreate something that ended 40 years ago
I mean if it's his thing, if he enjoys it and makes people happy there's nothing wrong about that. Nothing mod about staying stuck in the past either, but nothing wrong at all. I actually respect people who understand they're no Bowie, Weller or Herbie Hancock and accept to keep doing their job without thinking of themselves as masters of shapeshifting.
@@jorjicostava6657 I basically agree but it is rather sad regardless... especially when the jam were about youth and the times .... not about old men trying to relive their glory days
@@e.m.b2834 I'm not sure he's trying to relive his glory days or something. I think it's more like "Ok, I was in that GREAT band in the late seventies, we did some brilliant stuff that's still beloved today and I'll try to keep giving good memories to people". I mean I'm not sure that From the Jam makes a shitload of money, playing smaller festivals and that, and I like to think the man is smart enough not to pretend he's at the forefront of British music at present times. All this to say that I respect making honest, enjoyable shows almost as much as putting out new music if you have the creativity to do so. What I don't respect are artists who are delusional about their skills and who inflict awful shows to their public.
@@jorjicostava6657 he plays in a coverband of his own band .. enough said .. he needs to move on
@@e.m.b2834 that's your opinion mate I don't think he hurts anyone doing that