When The Jam lined used corrugated iron to create a 1979 classic

When The Jam lined used corrugated iron to create a 1979 classic

Some of the best art comes from strange places. It involves an artist reaching deep inside a well of thoughts and trying to find something shiny. Art, when being crafted at times, also requires an artist to go about unusual recording techniques. For The Jam, this meant surrounding Paul Weller’s guitar amplifier with 30 sheets of corrugated iron while they recorded their track, ‘The Eton Rifles’. By 1979, The Jam were practically everywhere in Br…