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Two of the best concerts we’ve ever attended were put on by the phenomenal mod-punk band, The Jam<\/strong>.\u00a0 The first was in support of their fine album All Mod Cons<\/strong> in April 1979<\/strong> at UCLA’s Royce Hall <\/strong>(unfortunately for Royce Hall), at which the crowd got so riled up by the band’s musical antics (the photo above gives a flavor) that they ripped the Hall’s bolted theater seats out of the floor and threw them up on stage to make more room for thrashing.\u00a0 The phenomenal setlist for Royce Hall can be viewed HERE<\/a>.\u00a0 The second Jam concert was in 1982<\/strong> at Perkins Palace in Pasadena<\/strong> on the band’s last tour behind their album The Gift<\/strong> (you can read a mod-scooter anecdote about the show HERE<\/a>).\u00a0 We’ll write more later about The Jam.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the band broke up in December 1982.\u00a0 The upshot was that the end of The Jam resulted in the launching of Paul Weller’s <\/strong>band Style Council<\/strong> and his eventual solo career. \u00a0 While neither have moved us nearly as much as The Jam and its discography, Weller has borne up well over the years artistically.\u00a0 Proof of that can be seen from the videos below of Weller tonight on the Later with Jools Holland<\/strong> show.\u00a0 Weller and the boys (and girls) are out in support of his critically-lauded new album, Sonic Kicks<\/strong>. \u00a0 Check out his somewhat Springsteen-esque performances (but with added string section) below.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FJZIl7McOC8&feature=uploademail<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p4RSgciEcKk&feature=channel&list=UL<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two of the best concerts we’ve ever attended were put on by the phenomenal mod-punk band, The Jam.\u00a0 The first was in support of their fine album All Mod Cons in April 1979 at UCLA’s Royce Hall (unfortunately for Royce Hall), at which the crowd got so riled up by the band’s musical antics (the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}