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Bruce Douglas Foxton (born 1 September 1955) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Foxton's music career spans more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as bassist and backing vocalist of mod revival band the Jam.
Jul 11, 2023 · By 1980, Bruce Foxton was a devout Fender Precision man. “I switched over from Rickenbacker around the time of All Mod Cons [The Jam’s third album],” explains Foxton. “And I was using a Marshall 100-watt head and two 4x12s, but obviously I didn’t use both of them in the studio, because there was no need. My sound was usually a ...
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Mar 7, 2023 · Here’s how it works. Bruce Foxton: “We once butchered some Rickenbackers, putting in P-Bass pickups to make it sound like a Precision. But all it did was screw up a lovely guitar”. He’s the sharp-suited mod who partnered Paul Weller in The Jam and penned the best basslines in punk.
Perhaps Bruce’s most notable work "Smithers-Jones", the story of the city executive who soon finds he has been chewed up & spat out, is just as pertinent today as it was in 1979 when he wrote it for the Setting Sons LP. After The Jam split in 1982, Foxton pursued a solo career. He had a hit with the single "Freak" and collaborated with other ...
Aug 6, 2020 · Bruce Foxton (The Jam) By Tom Semioli. Legend! Icon! With his patented plectrum prowess as purveyed on a Rickenbacker, and later a Fender Precision, the oft airborne Bruce Foxton was the key to The Jam’s overwhelming power and cohesion as a musical unit.
The band was named after the Jam's sixth and final studio album (1982), and plays material by that group. In 2006, former Jam member Bruce Foxton performed on stage with the Gift, and later joined the band permanently as bassist; at this point the group changed its name to From the Jam.
