From: nethed (nethed_at_ninjatune.net)
Date: 2003-02-12 10:38:13
Brian
not sure who was dissing weller on the list, but last nite jazz fm late lounge
(ok middle of the road sure, but this show at least mixes it up)
played some Paul Weller... I was round @ the beginnings of Talkin
Loud workin with Gilles.
The Disciples were in the studio with weller all the time - he came
round my house cause my partner had the entire original blue note &
fantasy collection & weller was deeply into jazz, house, soul. I was
dragged kickin & screaming to a Jam gig in Oakland in the 70's, hated
them, and in the early 80's someone played me "The Long Hot Summer"
by The Style Council and I was hooked onto the entire uk "blue eyed"
soul scene which included everyone from Style Council, Dr.Robert and
the Blow Monkeys (who lived across the street from Madness studio and
around the corner from my house when I moved to London in 88 after
Bush sr entered the white house), Swing Out Sister (they were all
such talented session musicians), Simply Red (ok dis me, but Mick
Hucknell was/has been known to be a northern soul boy dj deeply into
dub), Brilliant (youths attempt via Beggars) and more than I can
remember but are all still cherished in my 80's collection.
The biggest risk Weller ever took was in 1991 when, after Polydor rejected his
house album, he appeared at the Royal Albert Hall and played an
amazing mix of house, soul, jazz, funk and failed to satiate the
aging mods who stood up angrily during the gig.....and were totally
ignored as the band played on. Mick Talbot later was the genius on
the road with Galliano..... and Weller was good mates with the
Disciples and formed a fast friendship with Carleen Anderson who then
did backing vocals on a few Weller tunes and at some gigs.
And I even stand by his recent decision to remove himself from the
political fray of taking any position about politics @ the mo.
wendy
At 7:41 pm -0800 7/2/03, BRIAN wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>A Also here this week, Paul Weller on the second gig of the Illumination
>tour. Was baffled by a note on the acid jazz list dismissing Weller as
>simply mod and questioning his a-jazz credibility. Absolutely, unforgivably
>ridiculous. The Style Council were at least as-IF NOT MORE-responsible for
>creating the archetype for the sound that became acid jazz as any other
>group in the years immediately preceding the birth of the sound. Why the
>hell do you think Mick Talbot went on to help form Galliano and mentor the
>Young Disciples? And Weller's songwriting has-albeit only at its best-come
>closer to offering an Anglo counterpart to Terry Callier, Jorge Ben or
>Marcos Valle than just about any other male vocalist/songwriter in recent
>years. Acid jazz owes plenty to the Style Council, and I think most people
>realize that. If they don't, they should go back and listen to the
>catalogue again (check Universal Japan's immaculate Café Blue Café Best
>comp). At any rate, I'm sadly too broke to catch it, but the word is that
>he's doing Style Council and Jam songs with a band for the first time since
>the originals.
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