Weller and Foxton rocking Ricks on the In The City single sleeve
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Chris Vinnicombe, Fri 7 Aug 2009, 3:05 pm BST
Owing a huge debt to Pete Townshend both sonically and aesthetically, the young Weller made the bite and snarl of a Rickenbacker 330's bridge pickup through a driven AC30 a signature of The Jam's sound.
Why a Rickenbacker? "The first attraction was the look, because I liked Pete Townshend on the early Who stuff. When I got an advance from the record company I went out and bought as many Rickenbackers as I could."