I don’t think we needed to burn all our bridges, so it’s a real shame he took that view. Besides, that was – rather frighteningly – 22 years ago now. The Jam always had that great relationship with their fans. “Perhaps people wanted something a bit more salacious, but they weren’t going to get it.”. Posted in Drummers, Feature Stories, Update Tagged From The Jam, Rick Buckler, interview. It was more of a duet, although Steve and Paul wanted to make it into more of a band and have a full-time drummer.”, “Not really. “He helped a great deal, giving it shape and form and putting me in touch with various publishers, making that process fairly easy. The band split in 1982, it was a bit of a shock for Rick.And now he's revealing all in his new autobiography. “We’d only really just started and never did any shows. I couldn’t really see Bruce coming on board when I started, but then he found himself out of Stiff Little Fingers and eventually came on board full-time. In fact, Rick’s own taste in music was more heavy metal back then, but while they were in different years at secondary school, a shared love of music brought the band together. When I caught up with Rick earlier this week, It had been seven years since our last chat, backstage at Preston’s 53 Degrees after a memorable From The Jam performance in late 2007. What did he bring to the band? Do you still dabble in all that? “No, I don’t. There were so many great memories over the years, it must be difficult to pick out just a few. “Yes, Barratt Homes commissioned three oak sculptures, and some wit described them as Pole Weller, Stick Buckler and Spruce Foxton! Together I thought we might rule the world… Yes, I stole from them. “I like all of them though … but I would, wouldn’t I!”. I really started The Gift (the band’s name before Bruce joined) because I wanted to revisit The Jam songs. They started out as a rock ‘n’ roll covers band and ended up defining their own genre. It was a little bit of a sore point. There was no elitism, just a shared love of great and somewhat timeless music and a real down-to-earth approach. This Day in Music’s Guide to The Jam by Rick Buckler & Ian Snowball is available now, revised and republished from its original edition, linked here. “Looking back, we should have had the strength, probably of management, to say we’re going to stop, take a break, do our solo things or put our feet up on a beach for six months – just step away from it. Nicely put, Dave … and nice to see you mention Dr Feelgood and The Sha La La’s too. “It does attract a lot of people, and it amazes me whenever I drive past the mosque how devote they are, and that they still go in droves to that little tiny mosque, which is a fabulous looking building.”. “Nearly anybody interested in music or played an instrument would hang around in the music rooms at lunchtime, and I knew Steve and Paul because of that. Time for Truth – the Rick Buckler interview | writewyattuk Bruce and drummer Rick Buckler’s own version, Our Story, followed in 1993, put together by Alex Ogg. The band had been honing its craft in pub gigs for several years and, while full of punk energy, the power trio also knew its '60s chops--mod rock, soul and even psychedelia crept into its compositions. I started the drums on that one. I thought he did a great job, but he had to wear Moonie’s shoes. Right from the Jam days and no doubt long before that. Bruce was next to join, having been with local prog band Zita, Steve Brookes soon quitting as the seminal three-piece took shape, Rick honing his skills. LiveDaily Interview: Rick Buckler of From the Jam January 10, 2008 09:01 AM By John Dugan LiveDaily Contributor. Rick Buckler of The Jam being interview in a hotel in Tokyo, Japan, 14th June 1982. He was born on December 6, 1955 and his birthplace is England. Weller is amused that drummer Rick Buckler – with whom he never got on – has apparently left From the Jam, the Jam tribute band he formed with Foxton. THE JAM’s drummer Rick Buckler has revealed the truth behind the band’s break up and why Paul Weller won’t allow an reunion to happen, in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk. Where the houses were that I used to live, there’s now a Premier Inn or something.”. I’m guessing from that, even by then Woking was a different place to the town Rick knew when the band was coming together in the early ‘70s, and right up to when The Jam left to make it in London. “When me and Bruce got together again, we did reach out to Paul and ask why don’t you just come along and do a couple of numbers. And his response? Good to have him for that. Which was the case with this interview. Bruce Foxton:Interview; The former bassist with The Jam, Bruce Foxton recently reunited with Jam drummer Rick Buckler under a new moniker of From The Jam. For details of Rick’s forthcoming Q&A shows go to http://www.strangetown.net/q-and-a-tickets/4588154498. He speaks to us about The Jam’s history, playing their songs again after a twenty five absence and the coincidental meeting which brought him and Buckler back together It was good, Russell sounds more like Paul than Paul does these days. Seeing as the drummer in question is Rick Buckler out of The Jam, the first band I was ever seriously into as a schoolboy, I headed over to The Cheese and Grain in Frome to try and find out. Going Underground: Rick Buckler, down in the tube station, mid-afternoon (Photo: Tony Briggs). Silly, eh? “I’ll always remember how difficult it was as an unsigned band trying to get some work, not really knowing much about the mechanics of the music industry, live shows and so on. If you see the early stuff with Steve, Paul, and me, it’s very different. The two part documentary features an in depth interview with Paul Weller, and archive interviews with Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler. Rick was on fine form that evening, joking with me about our shared Surrey heritage and my subsequent move to Lancashire, struggling to make sense of this scribe’s regular visits to Woking Football Club, something he couldn’t quite get his head around. Skip navigation. Rick Buckler is best known as the drummer from ‘The Jam’, one of the UK’s best loved New Wave/Mod Revival bands of the late 70s early 80s, and their influence is still at large today. For that reason, I'm grabbing some of my pieces from that site and reposting here. Thanks for enabling a touch of catharsis : ). Cleaning up with Crissy Rock – from Liverpool to Peterlee, via Benidorm, Time for Truth – the Rick Buckler interview, http://www.strangetown.net/q-and-a-tickets/4588154498, Into 2016 … and 103,000 hits can’t be bad | writewyattuk, Now the time has come – back in touch with Bruce Foxton | writewyattuk, About the Young Idea – talking about The Jam with Nicky Weller | writewyattuk, Spirit of ’77 – All Around the World with Russell Hastings and From The Jam | writewyattuk, Getting by in time – back in touch with Rick Buckler | writewyattuk, Meeting Tim Keegan at Gate 2021 – the Departure Lounge interview, And Everything Changed – the William Doyle interview, Translating the Language of Love – the Boo Hewerdine interview, Looking beyond the lockdowns – the Provincials feature/interview, The Continuing Adventures of the Desperate Quartet – in conversation with Robert Lloyd, Celebrating Preston Pop Fest 2021 … and the (hopefully) imminent return of live music, The Rilly Groovy return of the Beautiful People – in conversation with Du Kane, Taking the Afrobeat message forward – in conversation with Femi and Made Kuti, Back in time with K÷ – in conversation with Peter Hook, Timeless cack-handed melodies – talking The La’s and Shack with Iain Templeton. Ian, being a big Jam fan, would point out “you’ve written about this twice,” so it’s good to have someone like Ian to track things. There was a girl called Sarah Jane, I used to manage her. SoundCloud. Unfortunately, nothing lasts forever, time flys by to quickly, memories last as long as we’re here. From a 48 year old Jam fan, who still has all the vinyl, and the CD`s in the car auto changer, that connection the band had with the fans WAS felt at this end too. Drummers, On the Beat: On The Beat with Dave Weckl: Talks Making the Singer Happy. “I know it sounds odd but I don’t think I would have taken it up as a career if I’d not had the opportunity to spend two or three months without having to earn any money, particularly at the age I started that.”. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Throughout the years, AMC has appreciated the generous corporate support of Marshall Amplification, Rotosound Strings, Pearl Drums, Guinness, Lonsdale, Forte Hotels, and British Midland Air. “One of the things we were well aware of was the fact that nearly everyone who was a Jam fan knows the general story, so I’m trying to convey an insight not just of being part of The Jam but being the drummer inside The Jam. “It was difficult at the time. The Jam remains a definitive band of the "Mod" and punk scenes. Rick Buckler The Jam, Time UK, The Gift, From The Jam. Claire Mahoney talks to The Jam’s Rick Buckler . Tight in delivery, ebullient in song, The Jam scored four number one hit singles, three of them [“Going Underground,” “Town Called Malice” and “Beat Surrender”] charting instantly. Rick Buckler is a famous Drummer. I don’t know if you remembered the factory nearby, Walker’s … “, “I think nearly everyone who lived in Woking did at one point! Rick`s always been honest. I think Gary Crowley said it was good to see two members of the band whose names weren’t Paul Weller! Paul wasn’t so much the first to snap, but the one who decided he wanted to take control of his life. LiveDaily Interview: Rick Buckler of From the Jam January 10, 2008 09:01 AM How do you collaborate with Ian Snowball and do you have any provisional projects planned? For more on Rick Buckler and From The Jam, go to www.fromthejam.net and www.waterstoneguitars.com. “Mmm. “It is what it is, and it’s very difficult for me to judge it.”. There have been insider accounts of the story of The Jam from various angles since Paul Weller called time on the band in late 1982. Honestly, I don’t want to bash Mr. Weller but… I did enjoy the following quotes: ‘I don’t know of his opinion, he seems to have hijacked things a bit [chuckles].’, ‘I think Gary Crowley said it was good to see two members of the band whose names weren’t Paul Weller!’, Smiling through me tea & toast Ooh, miaow. “Well … to put a quick answer on it, the fun was literally gone out of that for a couple of reasons which unless you’re actually in a band you wouldn’t understand. 2,711 likes. 26 February 2007 (released) 26 February 2007. I assume Our Story didn’t go far enough for you. “I did an event earlier this year involving authors who’ve done music-related books and did half an hour or so, and it worked really well. Bomber was Neil Harris, whose place in the band – so the story goes – went to Rick after he couldn’t commit to a particular live engagement. It does keep coming back to The Jam, so in one respect it is like Our Story. “Erm … yes. Interview: Rick Buckler – Andy Gray meets up with Rick Buckler, who explains how The Jam’s big hit before they were famous nearly ended in disaster. So when I got offered the chance to join Paul and Steve and play at the Youth Club, I jumped at it.”. After about 15 minutes people started to open up. People ask if I actually wrote the autobiography, and I did but the way we did it Snowy would ask questions and we’d record, so the book feels more like a conversation than a diary. Pingback: Into 2016 … and 103,000 hits can’t be bad | writewyattuk, Pingback: Now the time has come – back in touch with Bruce Foxton | writewyattuk, Pingback: About the Young Idea – talking about The Jam with Nicky Weller | writewyattuk, Pingback: Spirit of ’77 – All Around the World with Russell Hastings and From The Jam | writewyattuk, Pingback: Getting by in time – back in touch with Rick Buckler | writewyattuk. 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