Chords for Bruce Foxton - Sunday Live With Adam Boulton

When Paul Weller called time on the jam 25 years ago, I'm told grown men wept. _
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Some people might say my life is in a lot _ _ of trouble_
I was directed, I didn't want to stop.
[B] The band was known for its [D] distinctly English flavour and [B] mod image
and had 18 [D#m] straight top 40 [G] singles, including Going Underground
and A [B] Town Called Malice.
And thanks to [D#m] two of the original band [B] members, they're back on tour.
[D#m] But before [E] I speak to the jam bassist, [F#] Bruce Toxton,
[B] have a look at this.
I'm _ _ [D#m] _ _ [A] _ from _ _ the west, west, west, west, west.
I'm [Dm] from the west, west, west, west, west.
I got a double and a shit full of light.
Head on to one, two, from Sherwood.
_ _ _ That was From The Jam performing [G] now, about to go on tour _ again.
[A] Bruce Toxton in the jam now in From The Jam.
What's the [Em] difference?
Well, sadly, Paul's not with us. _ _
He decided that _ _ that was then and he's moved on.
But we've got two new guys in,
Russell Hastings on lead vocal and Dave Moore on guitar and keyboards.
Apart from that, nothing really. _
We're playing the songs with as much [A] conviction now as we did [D] all those years ago.
If you said, I want to come back, would you have [E] him back?
Well, we'd have to discuss that.
Now we've got Russell in, I'm not sure that Russell would be too keen
on _ moving [E] to one side.
But we've said all along, if Paul wanted to join or come back in
for [Dm] a few shows, it would be [G] fantastic.
And [E] obviously he wrote [A] a lot of the music, you wrote some of it.
And if people go, they get it all, do they?
Yeah, they get all the singles, all the hits and a lot of the album [Dm] tracks.
There's such a wealth of jam material to [F#] choose from
that it's difficult to [Bm] set down to an hour and a half.
I was interested to see that.
That [A] was actually, I think, a Kinks track, David Watts.
Yes, that's right.
And you do go back to your roots as well, or _ _ your antecedents?
Well, yeah, we [D] cover the entire catalogue and our influences, certainly.
[E] _ _ Because you _ had, [A] like the Kinks, a kind of love of England, if you like.
_ Coming [A] out of the punk era, they were all, [Dm] God save the Queen,
it's a fascist regime, and you actually saw some nice things about England. _
[B] Well, yeah, _ _ _ we obviously were around the same time as New Wave Punk.
_ The press, the media want to pigeonhole you, etc.
But I think we were deemed at the time the black sheep of the punk movement.
But we did have a lot in common with the Pistols, in a lot of respects.
Because I read [F#] that you endorsed the [D#] Conservatives in 1979.
[D#m] _
_ Well, [D#] having just met David_ _ _
[E] He's a fan, is he?
He is, yeah.
He was one of the eaten rifles.
_ [B] _ _ I think that was more from Paul's point of view.
It was a wind-up at the time.
Yeah, so you wouldn't necessarily endorse [D#m] the Conservatives now?
Not [G#] necessarily.
Now David's [F#] left the building, I'm safely saying that.
_ [B] We've also got, _ coming out [E] now as well, a book [F#] of photographs called [B] The Unseen.
_ _ What's that all about?
Yeah, it's a friend of ours, a [F#] guy called Twink, [B] his nickname.
He spent a lot of time on the road with the Jam.
He was a friend [Bm] of Rick's, and in [Am] turn became a [A] friend of Paul's and mine.
And he just travelled on the tour bus for [G] almost the entire career [E]
of the Jam.
So he's got a lot of, hence the title, The Unseen photos.
[B] He's got a lot of more [D#] interesting shots that normal [A#] people wouldn't see.
How many of them would have been best left [B] unseen?
_ Well, that's volume two, I think.
Oh, right.
Well, he's still [D#m] blackmailing you.
I'll [E] bring this one up.
Exactly.
[F#] I mean, [Bm] you did have a very_
you [D#m] still have a very clean-cut image.
[B] _ Yeah, [F#] I mean, again, _ _ [B] that's what we're into.
And a [E] very important part is the music, [F#] obviously, first and [B] foremost.
But the image is just, almost just as important.
And 25 [C#] years ago, as we were saying there,
what does it feel like [C#m] to go on stage?
[E] It's great.
I mean, it's great we're playing with Rick again after 25 [D#] years.
_ _ [C#m] It proves, [G#] sadly, as we said earlier, without [D#m] Paul being there,
that it's the [B] music, first and foremost, [C#] that the public want to hear again.
And this [Fm] is the closest we're going to get to seeing the Jam.
[D#] Two-thirds of the band, but I have to say, [Fm] _ Russell and Dave on board.
And is this a [C#] once-only offer, [G#] or do you think if it goes well,
you'll carry on [C#] touring a bit?
We'll go as long as possible, I think.
_ I still think there's a lot to [B] offer.
I mean, we're going to be looking at new material next year.
[E] _ And where can we [F#] be seen?
Well, we start in the_
over in the UK,
we [F] start on the 21st of November in Ipswich,
and it goes right [D] the way through to the [F#] 21st of December.
We finish at Brighton Conference Centre.
But you can log [D#m] on_
Redland venue, Brighton Conference Centre.
[E] Well, yeah, I mean, you can log on anyway.
That was where your [C#] last_
It was, it's where the band split in 82.
So it'd be nice going back, you know, and having a time.
Bruce Foxen, thank you very much indeed.
Thank you.
We look forward to listening to more from the Jam.
Stay with us, lots coming up.
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