The Jam Their Last Gig (33mins) Brighton Dec 11th 1982

[@boxingjerapah]

Best. Band. Of. All. Time. Cemented by the fact that they stopped when they did. 40 odd years later, their flame still burns, because they didn't milk it, sell out or fade away. They came, they saw, they conquered and then they left. The silence was deafening in 1983. Their flame will burn forever. Thank you to Paul, Bruce and Rick.

[@markeggins890]

Exactly. If they had ever reformed it would have gone against everything they stood for.

[@ni66o]

Love for them has stood the test of time. Still means as much 45 years on as it did then. Have passed it onto my 14 yo which will continue for another 50/60/70 years.

[@briantinker7290]

Proud I was there. Some people were really fed up..... recall Weller spitting "rick says thanks for the bottle" He'd certainly had enough by then. Very impressed you got a film, no phones of course. Great band. Great music. Great night. Thanks for putting this on

[@gabmod65]

Remember last gigs like yesterday..best band of my generation..or any other...they meant it..went out at the top..never see their likes again..god bless The Jam

[@TheWorldofGood79]

Forty years ago today. I was a 13 year old kid who would have loved to have been there.

[@WimCalis-sl6tm]

I saw thema 6 days earlier in Wembley Arena. Great send-off. Thanks for making this footage available. Wim Calis, Dendermonde, Belgium.

[@MrSellout69]

Thank you for posting this. 40 years later it’s still sad that this was the end of the best fucking band in the world.

[@Ras6200]

I was there! Brilliant but sad.

[@jamescorlett5272]

And Thanks for who ever posted this Nice One.

[@jonathansteadman7935]

When I went to 'About the Young Idea', a few years ago they had that stage set up exactly, when I saw it was taken right back to the Jam gigs I'd seen, absolutely evocative.

[@OtherMike5000]

What a voice.

[@vigilante4060]

Amo tanto eles

[@synchromystici5m]

Great version of Smithers-Jones! I know (obviously) everyone's more interested in the whole last gig thing, but still.

[@waynewalker8227]

I have my own version of this. I know it wasn't pretty but would have loved an official video for myself to treasure. The best band in the fucking world. X

[@JoeyArmstrong2800]

Lets think about it, shall we. Weller would have turned The Jam into something akin to The Style Council, so he clearly made the right call.

[@eyemoeba]

totally true. their output after funeral pyre was veering quickly away from their recognised sound, and the brass section joined them on tour in '82. the jam, sadly for those of us that only really got into them in 1980 (or later) had run its course, and because Weller pulled the plug before they got stale, they will forever be hailed as one of the great english bands.

[@JoeyArmstrong2800]

@@eyemoeba Your right. Thank God.

[@Ras6200]

@@eyemoeba Yes, quite different to the first concert I saw. I think Setting Sons. Usually went to Poole but got tickets also to the final gig and surprised that it was a bit of a different scene and full of mods. At least more than in Poole.

[@SadKenRockBottom]

29:50 I fumble for change.....I pull out the queen.........and I change my guitar.

[@ronball8327]

Wellers guitar change in tube station is just sheer class what a showman

[@johan55M]

Holy cow

[@nsw2037]

I'm in there somewhere...lost a shoe from all the jumping about !

[@lukegraber6627]

I was there too 15 years old had restricted viewing tickets we bought on the day but everyone pushed through the standing area doors so no restrictions 😂😂😂lol I remember something being thrown at Bruce a bottle lol also some wierd dancers before they come on lol lol best year of my life in Brighton three jam concerts and on the 21st December the kinks at the dome supported by nine below zero happy days xx

[@Ras6200]

You've a better memory than I have. I went to a The Jam concerts at Poole Arts Centre including the date on the last tour. Then when this date was added I decided to go to this one too. It didn't seem so hard t get tickets in those days or so expensive.

[@jamescorlett5272]

Bangin Tube Station 🇬🇧 .

[@stevecityrocker]

I think the fellow who introduces The Jam is Rick Gershon from Los Angeles.

[@Chad.Telecaster]

So many people would really really love to hear & see & be part of the Jam live experience again, Why not Paul? I saw you grinning like a proper fan boy at Macca's hammersmith xmas gig a few years ago. You also have a back catalogue that can bring joy. Please use it. Not for the money but for the time spent. x

[@jamescorlett5272]

If ya not fast you are last - I would have liked to have been a Gentleman of means - riding alongside Charlie at the Start of the 45 but it's just Tough Shit Both of us .

[@tyronerodgers]

Was this filmed by the Weller camp? Looks like this tape is a 2nd or 3rd generation copy. Sound is good but must be a better version picturewise somewhere.

[@alexanderwilliams3955]

I was convinced it was available as a home video years ago, but I'm not sure

[@markeggins890]

@@alexanderwilliams3955 That was Trans Global Express I think, but not this gig.

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

Forty-one years ago today

[@ISLWYN2007]

Thanks for the upload. Where did the time go?

[@jamescorlett5272]

Yeah mate - Were ,???? . We are the Mods time won't dare come near me .

[@jamescorlett5272]

They were going to Announce their departure on the Tube but leaves had gotten on the tracks - Fact ? .

[@plane7]

I have the complete concert on cd,thank god.

[@plane7]

@mrc121002 Yes but only in audio,not video.

[@jonbarlow4763]

Brass and Weller's thick mentality killed the best fucking band in all the world...

[@GlenHep]

+Jon Barlow yeah, that thick that Weller went on to do nothing... never heard of him since splitting The Jam.It was his career ... just like people have and want to move onto other things... Bruce & Rick didnt like the way he was going with his music and made that clear to him so he had no choice.

[@NickHarman]

I think Bruce and Rick just didn't want to wear towelling socks.

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

Wrong. Nothing "killed" this band off. Weller pulled the plug at the height of their success. Also explain "thick mentality"

[@newellgirl]

100% Agree.. Was a massive Jam fan. When I read Weller's decision in 1982 citing reasons like he didn't want to end up like The Rolling Stones ie: still playing old songs felt to me like it was a cop out..Weller was hung up on agesim & The Style Council who were about shallow elitism and smoking those poxy french Gitanes cigarettes. The Long Hot Summer ? I mean really Paul? punting on the River Cam in Cambridge with sweaters tied around your necks..what was that about? a Nick Heyward Haircut 100 fetish? .now in 2016 Weller regularly plays his "older" songs..did anyone ever tell him that human beings do age & there is nothing wrong with getting older.. always felt Bruce Foxton & Rick Buckler got the rough end of the deal..The Jam were a sum of 3 parts not just Paul Weller..anybody who ran off with a fmr member of the Merton Parkas & ended the Jam was thick!...

[@Anglovox]

Au contraire...If Weller was headed in that direction you effectively describe(and clearly he was), looking back, I preferred that he mediocre it up in The Style Council.....so The Jam could step away permanently as the undefeated, undisputed champion, which they did. I think THAT has something to do with why their entire music catalog NEVER gets old .....just a thought.

[@mukkaspec3333]

Rick !

[@ilikemusic76]

I'm not sure but I always believed that Paul announced the split up much later after the 82 Tour ended?

[@granto6738]

Was after the beatsurender tour I remember hearing it on swop shop 🤔

[@adjam7782]

I’ve always thought that Weller treated Bruce & Rick unfairly. He has often said that he knew that he’d had enough by the end of 81 and at the beginning 82 while they were recording The Gift album, and that it would be their last one together. So he should have told them then, not waited until October about his thoughts and wishes that he wanted to split at the end of the year. Two months notice isn’t very much for all they work they’d put in over the years.

[@antster1983]

@@adjam7782 Bruce and Rick were told that summer, so they had six months notice effectively - not two - then the official announcement to the public came on 30th October.

[@markclitheroe900]

​@@adjam7782 he told them in July 82

[@grandnotbrand]

I always though they announced it as the tour was coming to an end. This gig was announced at very short notice, within a week I think. They had already played The Brighton Centre earlier in the tour. I was 16 at the time and a huge fan. I remember queuing at the box office to get a ticket

[@jamescorlett5272]

After Funeral Weller seems not to give a toss about the sleeve covers or lost his taste lol yeah Great Band " Alf turn these fuckin lights off will ya " lol .

[@ant6695]

Could never understand why this or at least one of their Wembley gigs was never professionally filmed, afterall, they were about the biggest band in Britain at the time, all we are left with is some poorly shot video of Bingley Hall and a couple of other equally badly lit videos. I've seen videos of other bands filmed in the seventies, that were far superior quality to what was filmed of The Jam. It pisses me off!

[@markclitheroe900]

Because John Weller wouldnt pay for it. Not allowed to criticise him though...

[@marcus8768]

what the fuck was this recorded with? fucking hell this was 1982 even home cameras at that time had better quality that this, what a shame

[@Ras6200]

I'm not sure that home videos did have a better quality, lol! I was 20 and didn't know anyone who even took their camera with film in to a concert. Basically took as little in as you could.

[@beachkidboy]

Weller destroyed the band with his ego. Sorry I never got to see them play.

[@johnbarry1965]

That goddam awful last album was a pointer towards where Weller's songwriting was going, awful blue eyed soul. I'm glad they split when they did!!!

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

+John Barry Luckily you're possibly one of twenty people on this entire fucking planet who consider The Gift an "awful" album.

[@NickHarman]

+SoulStylistJukeBox 21

[@markandresen1]

Have to agree, John. After the woefully underrated 'Funeral Pyre' single, I went right off them. Always admire Weller, tho'...

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

Your comment makes little sense. Underrated implies not getting the acclaim it deserves. I suspect you meant to type "After the disappointing Funeral Pyre single, I went right off them"

[@markandresen1]

That's why I used the word 'underrated,' SoulStylistJukeBox. It didn't get the acclaim it deserved, whereas the following singles from 'The Gift' were never off the radio.

[@beachkidboy]

Once you introduce black-up singers, dancers are only a tour away.

[@strappaplank6017]

rubbish

[@garybryans5739]

Nearly as good as The Style Council