Stewart --

I think you answered your own question there -- within
the framework of The Jam, he would have met a lot of
resistance continuing in that direction.  Foxton and
Buckler pretty much hated him anyway, which solidified
post-breakup.

Mike Bennett
--- Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark Smith" <markmsmith@gmail.com>
> > 3 The Jam - Shopping
> >   (from the Direction, Reaction, Creation box and
> b-side to final
> > single Beat Surrender)
> > I've been rediscovering my love for The Jam
> recently, a band who 
> > were
> > really important to me when I was in my late
> teens. This helps show
> > why they were never truly just a punk band. Its
> jazzy tune, brass
> > arrangement and Rick Buckler on brushes show
> Weller heading further
> > away from the style of music that had typified The
> Jam.
> 
> Hugely underrated song, and one of my favorite
> things from the Jam's 
> final era.  (Although, as I've written before, I
> always find it ironic 
> that Paul Weller supposedly broke up the Jam to
> explore more varied 
> and different styles of music, and yet the Style
> Council's records 
> were basically late-period Jam plus a full-time
> keyboardist and a 
> better drummer.)


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