I think the "shock" wasn't so much the song, but more that The Jam was even
coming out of a convenience-store parking-lot speaker.  Trust me, when I am
usually filling-up I am being barraged with Christina Aguilera, Justin
Timberlake, Destiny's Child, et al and am wishing that my car had only a
2-gallon tank (LOL).

Somehow, someway, Paul Weller does not seem to have the same popularity in
Philadelphia as he has in other parts of the US.  He was due to play a show
in Philly last February, but the show was cancelled due to poor ticket
sales.  I was especially bummed as he is one of my top music heroes, and
having never seen him live, I was holding two tickets.  Argh.


----- Original Message -----
From: Jaimie Vernon <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: speaking of The Jam


> At Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:23:28 Kevin wrote:
>
> >Actually, *Town called malice* is perhaps the Jam's best
> >known song. Weller has also played it live often. I'd be
> >shocked if I heard *In the City* or *What Do I Get*
> >(Buzzcocks) or *Teenage Kicks* (Undertones) etc
>
> Town Called Malice charted so it makes sense....the others did not...so
> you'd have to have been surrounded by the influence of acts like The
> Buzzcocks or The Undertones to catch songs like this even on peoples mixed
> tapes or at parties. I was fortunate enough to be in a band with a
vocalist
> who got every new British import single during the late '70s and early
'80s.
> Going to rehearsals was amazing because we'd be treated to a lot of this
> stuff before Brampton's quirky CFNY even had the stuff on the air.
>
> CFNY was the quintessential land-based version of Radio Caroline here in
the
> Toronto region. They had a small yellow house in the suburbs that had a
> broadcast range of about 40 miles. It was run by a handful of frustrated
> commercial DJs who began playing anything and everything they
> wanted....often breaking wide-open British, American, and Canadian acts
who,
> to this day, still cannot get airplay (Plastic Bertrand, The Q-Tips,
> Rezillos, 999, Sham 69, Sex Pistols, The Specials). And ironically, they
> were the first to embrace RUSH.....the song "Spirit Of Radio" is about
that
> station. Now, sadly, CFNY is part of the corporate monster that they so
> defied in the early days....in fact, they're owned by the station that
they
> competed against -- Q107.
>
> I'm sure Mr. Segarini will have a few things to say about this....having
> gotten airplay on both stations...
>
> Jaimie Vernon,
> Bullseye
>
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