The days you could see a top band, paying a couple of quid on the door at Friars, Aylesbury and not have to book through Ticketmaster for £300 at some huge stadium.
I remember so well going to Shelleys shoe shop and buying those exact same shoes. Man I was the ducks nuts in my three button suit. 45ish years later and my mum says its all still in the loft.
I don't think I started watching OGWT regularly until the following year when Anne Nightingale used to present it (she genuinely liked this kind of music & it showed through her presenting, unlike Bob Harris). I watched a programme called 'Revolver' which aired on ITV later in the year. It was presented by Peter Cook & was live in front of an audience in Birmingham. Heady days & nothing like that now.
I never particularly rated Weller, but I must say my opinion changed a few years ago at Petworth Park in Sussex, where Brian Ferry was booked to play an evening show. That ponce pulled out at the last minute with a 'sore throat' (apparently he was famous for doing that- the promotors had to agree to pay him whether he showed up or not, so half the time he never showed up if he was having a few at The Welldiggers Arms-he lives at Petworth, and got his fee anyway) Paul Weller stepped in at the last minute and gave a blinding performance, playing all the Jam hits and his later stuff and coming back for three encores I was well impressed he'd do that, and chucked anything with Ferry on it in the bin......
I've seen Paul Weller live just once but I have to say it was the best gig I've been to.. he played long after he needed to, everything from his early days to Style Council and his solo stuff, epic performance, a really lovely night.
They were brilliant live. I saw them three times. Paul Weller got me in through the stage door entrance at Bradford St George’s Hall. Patrick Fitzgerald was on the stage at the time singing safety pin stuck in my heart for you. I think the Dickies were second support group. Must have been 1978
@@danielsjeff / they had Shane magowans nipple erectors on another tour and he did a magnificent version of Rolf Harris’ “sunrise” which my mate Ricky said must have been about speed.
I just got a recommendation so obviously UA-cam thought I'd like them. I'd never heard of them, sounds like late 1970's or early 1980's. I'll have to check it out. Anything Live At The Old Grey Whistle Test is great. Check out The Tubes White Punks On Dope live Old Grey Whistle Test. It's really out of control. 😊
Love the contrast between Whispering Bob's intros and summaries and the balls-to-the-wall energy coming off the stage. Hands down the best band of their era. Was beyond gutted when they split up.
I was lucky enough to see them just after this on tour at Birmingham odeon may 1978 and I was lucky enough to be at there last concert at Bingley hall Birmingham 1982 , I never managed to get a ticket for the Brighton concert there final live performance that was not part of the final tour but it was just after Bingley 1982
I remember seeing them at Zhivagos in Glasgow - tiny club near St Enoch Square - just when In The City came out. Crowd was probably 100 max. I was there! Awesome!!!
What is most significant about this performance is the movement. People don’t understand how heavy Rykerbuilt guitars are. They weigh at least the equivalent of a wheelbarrow
Some great clips from OGWT to catch up with now. There were so many gigs to go to in Edinburgh at that time (and pre video recorders), you had to miss out!
If this doesn't prove to people why The Jam are one of the best bands Britain ever produced then you really do not understand high intensity Rock n Roll at its absolute best.
Interesting that PW announces that Billy Hunt is going to be a new single: presumably intended as one side of a the double ‘a’ side along with A-Bomb in Wardour Street. A very obviously Kinks inspired song which eventually got replaced by the real thing in David Watts.
No, true.. someone may correct me, but maybe he was referring to Billy Hunt. Pretty sure that was due to be the next single, but it ended up being David Watts. S
Bruce Foxton is one of the Bassist greats , I say this assomeone who has played rhythm guitar for money and can tell you that playing bass and even rudimentary singing is really hard.
Stunning track. The Jam were definitely punks as far as I was concerned, certainly for two albums and a bunch of great singles. Then they changed, like all great groups do if they want to mean anything other than dumb nostalgia.
How did you uprez and deinterlace this video it looks incredible!? Thanks for posting!!! I used to have to convince my parents to let me stay up to watch old grey whistle test, it was usually on really late like 11pm or Midnight!
As hard as he tried to look down his nose and appear relevant, the new breed were actually _grateful_ for Bob Harris providing a counterpoint. It helped kickstart a revolution...most pertinently the fantastic short set on OGWT by New York Dolls which showed him up for the square he really was and remains to this day.
Granted, that was 1973 but it was ahead of its time and Harris was both clueless and terrified. Whistle Test changed its name accordingly after he left. Viva Annie Nightingale, RiP.
I was born along time ago but the jam refreshed my belief in English music
A brilliant example of foxtons voice complimenting wellers . And of course the best band in the fuc!ing world 👌🏼😎💪have it !!!!
Totally agree
Bruce Foxton could make elastic bands around a tissue box sound good! What a bassist!
Absolutely, Wellers songs were brilliant but Bruces bass!!
And that Bob is how its done.. cheers
What a bassist Bruce was
He still is. Sadly, his songwriting never got anywhere close to Weller's.
Saw him with SLF a few years ago
Here in a nutshell is my youth, Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton & Rick Buckler. God,, those were the days.....
Part of UK punk scene in 77/78
The days you could see a top band, paying a couple of quid on the door at Friars, Aylesbury and not have to book through Ticketmaster for £300 at some huge stadium.
I was lucky to be born in 1963, they were a great band..❤
I'm 60 from Hammersmith and see the Jam( plus more or less every band in our years) several times!!👍👍🎵🎵❤️
Ha me too on the day Kennedy was planted. Saw the jam live. Plus the Dammned. Joy Division etc etc. There was a club in Liverpool called Eric's
Music was much better when my parents were kids. I love this band and all the music today sux.
😂 provocative ))
Check out Spangled.
Truth, seeing the Jam live many times makes being 61 wortwhile. No band has had the fire and energy like them.
You can't compare this to Ed Sheeran, surely?
@pipster1891 Ed who?
Saw this go out live, was lucky enough to see them in their pomp...SUPERB!!!
I remember so well going to Shelleys shoe shop and buying those exact same shoes. Man I was the ducks nuts in my three button suit. 45ish years later and my mum says its all still in the loft.
It'll be worth a pound note now bro...dig them 1s and 2s out
Lovely memory, thanks for sharing it. Got to hear them in Seattle in 1980??? Thank you England for your music!
I got married in those shoes in 84 😂
Had a few pairs. Even bought some reverse white ones direct from Carnaby Street.
Ahhh, Shelley’s!! I bought a pair of Chelsea boots in there. That was a couple of years ago now!!
Killer tone on Weller's guitar
It take balls to play as a three-piece live with Rickenbackers into cranked Marshalls, play a bum note there's nowhere to hide.
They're tight as!
NO fear then
They were great musicians
Legends enough said 😊
I remember staying up later than normal to watch this in 1978 one of the few TV programs that would play Mod/Punk music
I don't think I started watching OGWT regularly until the following year when Anne Nightingale used to present it (she genuinely liked this kind of music & it showed through her presenting, unlike Bob Harris). I watched a programme called 'Revolver' which aired on ITV later in the year. It was presented by Peter Cook & was live in front of an audience in Birmingham. Heady days & nothing like that now.
I never particularly rated Weller, but I must say my opinion changed a few years ago at Petworth Park in Sussex, where Brian Ferry was booked to play an evening show. That ponce pulled out at the last minute with a 'sore throat' (apparently he was famous for doing that- the promotors had to agree to pay him whether he showed up or not, so half the time he never showed up if he was having a few at The Welldiggers Arms-he lives at Petworth, and got his fee anyway)
Paul Weller stepped in at the last minute and gave a blinding performance, playing all the Jam hits and his later stuff and coming back for three encores I was well impressed he'd do that, and chucked anything with Ferry on it in the bin......
I've seen Paul Weller live just once but I have to say it was the best gig I've been to.. he played long after he needed to, everything from his early days to Style Council and his solo stuff, epic performance, a really lovely night.
The Jam got me addicted to the sound of a Rickenbaker played through a Marshall and a Vox AC-30 and I’ve never looked back! Thanks Paul!
Such a massive part of my youth, saw them so many times, still have most ticket stubs!
The second verse with the bit about foreman Bob always cracks me up. "Don't even stop for a cough!"
They were so young....and so was I. My favourite band.
Everybody was young once, except Jacob Rees-Mogg.
I saw them three years after this show in 1981, in Toronto, Canada, flew there from Winnipeg..time well spent.
They were brilliant live. I saw them three times. Paul Weller got me in through the stage door entrance at Bradford St George’s Hall. Patrick Fitzgerald was on the stage at the time singing safety pin stuck in my heart for you. I think the Dickies were second support group. Must have been 1978
What a fab line up.
@@danielsjeff / they had Shane magowans nipple erectors on another tour and he did a magnificent version of Rolf Harris’ “sunrise” which my mate Ricky said must have been about speed.
I adored them as a kid , heart broken when they split, what was going on in Wellers head. !!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder as well. Completely passed on The Style Council.
My friend introduced me to Them Jam and ever since I've been a fan of Paul Welker 😊
I just got a recommendation so obviously UA-cam thought I'd like them. I'd never heard of them, sounds like late 1970's or early 1980's. I'll have to check it out. Anything Live At The Old Grey Whistle Test is great. Check out The Tubes White Punks On Dope live Old Grey Whistle Test. It's really out of control. 😊
God this takes me back, raw Jam.
For pure energy and the sheer exuberance of youth, this cannot be beaten or bettered - liked and subscribed; thanks for uploading.
Cool how it goes from 'whispering' Bob Harris into the Jam
Love the contrast between Whispering Bob's intros and summaries and the balls-to-the-wall energy coming off the stage. Hands down the best band of their era. Was beyond gutted when they split up.
Those were the days, though my males were not into new wave/punk.
Unbelievable footage. So good ❤
A Bomb in Wardour St is the ultimate angry frustrated riff.... love it
I was lucky enough to see them just after this on tour at Birmingham odeon may 1978 and I was lucky enough to be at there last concert at Bingley hall Birmingham 1982 , I never managed to get a ticket for the Brighton concert there final live performance that was not part of the final tour but it was just after Bingley 1982
Some of the Bingley hall tunes are live on Dig the new breed..
Get well soon, Bruce.
Here's a lifelong fan wishing you a speedy recovery, mush.
🇬🇧 A Brit in Ireland 🇮🇪
Brits in Ireland caused a lot of problems.
@@pipster1891 And?
Mod n punk classic group
Clucking bell, that is good.
The best fkn band in the world
John weller
Paul
So so tight 🙂
I thought so too! Really amazingly together band. Incredible sound for just 3 musicians.
the trousers?
Wow! That is powerful stuff!!!
Brilliant, thanks for upping :)
Mindboggling!
Kick out the style
Bring back
The Jam
This just explodes onto your screen. Bob Harris looks very nervous 😂
He was known for being initially unfamiliar with, and rather unfriendly towards, punk and new wave bands. But I think he grew to respect them.
I remember seeing them at Zhivagos in Glasgow - tiny club near St Enoch Square - just when In The City came out. Crowd was probably 100 max. I was there! Awesome!!!
Perfection
This recording was 2 and a half months before my 18th birthday. What a FANTASTIC petfomance on “old grey whistle test “ AWESOME…
Poor old Bob didn’t know what to say!
He did like the Jam and Paul Weller.
@@jayrox40yeah I know
@@jayrox40yeah I know
Bruce Foxton comes from the John Entwistle school of muscular bass rocking. Which is, as we can all hear, a great thing.
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And a wonderful bit of “live” from 7:15 to finish off.
In a cold BBC studio without an audience, the band turned in a really powerful performance.
Billy Hunt is rhyming slang for you showing that flag
@@Battismore-Blue Which shows the level of your right-wing culture. Thanks for confirming.
@@Battismore-Blue weller supports Palestine. get out of here fascist
What is most significant about this performance is the movement. People don’t understand how heavy Rykerbuilt guitars are. They weigh at least the equivalent of a wheelbarrow
Unreal!
Some great clips from OGWT to catch up with now. There were so many gigs to go to in Edinburgh at that time (and pre video recorders), you had to miss out!
saw them at the rainbow in 81,43 years later I still remember lyrics from some of their songs... those were the days,still miss my Li 150 : )
You gotta love those rickenbachers!!✊🇨🇦
If this doesn't prove to people why The Jam are one of the best bands Britain ever produced then you really do not understand high intensity Rock n Roll at its absolute best.
Incredible confidence , foxton deserves more recognition despite the sour grapes
They look so young!
foxton looks 35
i remember when we first met we never used to go to portland cds only
The beautiful noise!
awesome🎉
Interesting that PW announces that Billy Hunt is going to be a new single: presumably intended as one side of a the double ‘a’ side along with A-Bomb in Wardour Street. A very obviously Kinks inspired song which eventually got replaced by the real thing in David Watts.
Amazing!
Weller, the best songwriter, the best haircut and someone who’s stayed real. A legend.
That barnet.
no twas woking
@@LdevArt Lol.
They were awesome
The bass sounds like a guitar, sharp and pointed like Lemmy's one..
3:13 In The Street Today wasn't released as a new single.
No, true.. someone may correct me, but maybe he was referring to Billy Hunt. Pretty sure that was due to be the next single, but it ended up being David Watts.
S
Bruce turned his mic up to 11. Caahnt!
Easily my favorite band of the late 70s - early 80s!
My mid/late teens in 3 songs !!!
Oofty must be old I remember this from original showing 😂
A bomb was them at their peak!
Bruce Foxton is one of the Bassist greats , I say this assomeone who has played rhythm guitar for money and can tell you that playing bass and even rudimentary singing is really hard.
What a band...high octane fight music
This was the Jam fitted with a 5 speed gearbox.
Back, better, faster, harder, cooler and cleverer .
I remember buying the single A bomb in Wardour Street maybe because I saw this TV appearance.
Stunning track. The Jam were definitely punks as far as I was concerned, certainly for two albums and a bunch of great singles. Then they changed, like all great groups do if they want to mean anything other than dumb nostalgia.
@@dee_seejay But I still do not like anything that Weller did after The Jam
@@FedericoDLP
Do you like the final studio album?
@@dee_seejay I did not listen to the whole album
Bruce's bass tone on the first track is not a million miles away from Lemmy's.
Both Rickenbackers. Expensive guitars for professional players only.
My new Rickenbacker 330 in Jetglo (black) in 1980 cost me £350.
Standards the jam best song ever
They were a great band.
How did you uprez and deinterlace this video it looks incredible!? Thanks for posting!!! I used to have to convince my parents to let me stay up to watch old grey whistle test, it was usually on really late like 11pm or Midnight!
Yeah. Staying at my Gran's house, I was allowed to stay up late to watch it. My Mum and Dad, not so much.
they was defo going places in 78
Wow
Wicked band
Pure post-punk/garage rock/new-wave but defo never a “mod” band till he went solo
Whispering Bob so out of his comfort zone
He actually liked the Jam and Paul Weller and a few other new wave bands like Blondie.
@@jayrox40 He dismissed punk....
@@milsub59 The Jam weren't Punk, Weller just used punk as an incentive
@@jonhadley-zx2iu I know....I am 65, so I was there. I was making the point, he , and his like treated Punk with contempt.
@@milsub59 I think that Weller was inspired by Punk & im particular The Sex Pistols & The Clash
Kick ass, fuck your shit music. Love it
I was a Setting sons Fan
Go Paul!!!!!
On it👊
Recorded just 2 days before Paul Weller 20th birthday!
Whispering Bob totally underwhelmed. He was never a fan of the 'new wave'. If it wasn't Steely Dan or the Eagles, forget it.
I spoke to him a while back and he did like The Jam and Paul Weller, he was also a big fan of Blondie.
As hard as he tried to look down his nose and appear relevant, the new breed were actually _grateful_ for Bob Harris providing a counterpoint. It helped kickstart a revolution...most pertinently the fantastic short set on OGWT by New York Dolls which showed him up for the square he really was and remains to this day.
Granted, that was 1973 but it was ahead of its time and Harris was both clueless and terrified. Whistle Test changed its name accordingly after he left. Viva Annie Nightingale, RiP.
Play it what u found
Weller. Angry all the time. Saw them at marquee and Wembley arena. 3 piece excellence. Still shivers me timbers , thick as thieves. Lawd av mercy
Foreman Bob!
Back then I didn’t think about it but now it seems very weird to see young men playing punk music whilst dressed as mods
So TWANG!!
Nice to the Jam wearing white flares in tribute to Bob Harris & let's not forget wearing the white flare mid 1978 was Wellers idea
Flares?
Mint
Mod for it
We are the mods...
Was In the Street today a single?
No, it's a track on their 1977 album 'This Is the Modern World'.
🎉❤