Your vocal phrasing has altered dramatically since The Jam days.ĭo you think that packing in smoking would ruin your vocal progress? I suppose its because I'm less self-conscious about what I'm doing now. I am enjoying my music better, and I'm getting a lot out of it. You seem to be having more fun with music than ever As I arrived, the elegantly tanned and slim Weller strode towards me with a brusque 'Awright, mate?' greeting. Our meeting at his West London office immediately preceded a session with Oasis, during which he returned Noel Gallagher's recent favours by contributing guitar and backing vocals to Champagne Supernova, a track from the forthcoming Oasis album. But, via a slew of re-addressed influences from his youth, Weller and his guitar are now virtually inseparable, and at 37 he is being hailed by some as his generations Clapton. He even gave up playing the instrument during his questionable Style Council days, the '80s era that he loves to hate. Until recently, Weller's guitar skills were largely overlooked by the masses - people were more interested in his lyrical abilities, political stance, fashion sense and angry young man posturing as The Jams frontman. As the albums first track proclaims, he is the very personification of The Changing man. And his back-to-basics ethics shown on 1993s Wild Wood have been taken even further on Stanley Road. Weller's organic approach to songwriting and performance comes as a real breath of fresh air. And Jools is a man who doesn't dish out praise for his fellow musicians too often. It was, he said, the best album he had heard in years. programme recently, host Jools Holland heaped much-deserved praise on the Woking wonders latest album, Stanley, Road.
Punked out with The Jam, funked out with The Style Council - but then he rediscovered the guitar, and produced two of this decade's finest albums so far The guitar is so highly regarded almost 60 years after its birth that not even Pete Townshend smashes them up anymore.Paul Weller's done it all.
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Rickenbacker 330s are flawlessly finished, playable works of art that still cost less than two grand that’s about a third of the lolly required for a restored 60s Lambretta SX200 mod scooter. No other guitar sounds like a 330 - although a sorted Fender Tele can get reasonably close - and nothing is quite so evocative of various eras of classic power pop from The Who to The Smiths. Why is the model still so popular? Well, history was made on these things. On occasion, Rickenbacker produce limited runs of the Rose Morris style guitars they flogged to Pete Townshend back in the day, the ones with the lower output “Toasters”. It’s essentially the same guitar that Weller played in The Jam days. The 330 is still in production today, in six and 12-string formats. The Guitars That Built Rock: The Fender Telecaster.The Story Behind The Song: Jools And Jim by Pete Townshend.The Guitars That Built Rock: The Gibson ES-335.His rare white 330 went to Noel Gallagher. He eventually gifted his Jetglo Going Underground 330, with its custom black pickguards and Gibson-style stop tailpiece, to bandmate and Ocean Colour Scene guitarist Steve Cradock. When The Jam split in 1982, Paul Weller hung up his 330s.
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