Former Jam bassist Bruce Foxton recently told the UK's New Musical Express he and his former bandmate in the Jam, Paul Weller, are on friendly terms again. This is big news. Even though the jam were a leading force in British pop (and punk) from 1977 to 1982, the supposedly spoke only a handful of times after the jam split up in late '82.

Foxton, who now plays with former Jam drummer Rick Buckler in the jam tribute band From the Jam, says a musical reunion is out of the question, though. But Foxton also said of Weller: "He has been very kind over the last few years - that's more important to me."

Maybe that's because Foxton and Buckler are keeping Weller's early songs before the public eye in concert after concert. Or maybe Weller is mellowing with age.

Or maybe not. Weller came off a successful solo tour last year, when he released the CD "22 Dreams" to critical and public acclaim. When Prefix spoke to him last fall, he said this about a Jam reunion: "I’ve got no interest whatsoever in any way shape or form of the whole nostalgia thing. I don’t understand it. I don’t know what it is people are trying to recapture. Because whatever it is, you can’t recapture it. It’s gone."