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Any Mods and rockers out there care to show the others there way of life?

I'll start....

Modernism - A way of life

The music, fashions, scooter in that order.

If you've not seen this movie then it's a good place to start your journey into the life of a Mod even if it's only the tip of the ice-berg. Enjoy

CCC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHXoqBhqChk

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Bout 10 years ago on Samui in Lamai beach there is/was? a bar named the Quadraphenia Bar with an old mod who had dedicated his whole bar to the movie.

Music playing from the sixties.

Pictures all over and a scooter hire shop next door.

Lot of scoot boy's and Mods coming over on holiday.

Down the road was the Two Tone bar with a suedehead and his mini suede head eurasian son playing ska.

Be good to hear from any rockers out there or MC groups who are similarly engrossed in their culture.

Or are the rockers a culture? Or just bikers?

Regards

CCC

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I can see this thread being as one sided as the battle of Brighton when the Mods kicked the Rockers rears out of town.

Talking of threads here's some cool Mod threads(clothes) The hipsters and cool cats would save their pennies to be the smartest and coolest in town wearing only the finest bespoke suits.

Enjoy

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mod+pics&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:%7Breferrer:source?%7D&rlz=1I7SUNA_enGB245&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=H1LHUaXeAuPR0QX35IGwDg&ved=0CC8QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=709

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I can see this thread being as one sided as the battle of Brighton when the Mods kicked the Rockers rears out of town.

Talking of threads here's some cool Mod threads(clothes) The hipsters and cool cats would save their pennies to be the smartest and coolest in town wearing only the finest bespoke suits.

Enjoy

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mod+pics&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:%7Breferrer:source?%7D&rlz=1I7SUNA_enGB245&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=H1LHUaXeAuPR0QX35IGwDg&ved=0CC8QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=709

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There were a few stalls on Leeds market that used to sell off-cuts from the woollen mills. £10 for 3 yards of midnight blue two tone mohair and £25 to have it made up by a little private tailor and for the equivalent of 5 weeks wages I'd got a suit that would have cost 300 quid in Savile Row biggrin.png

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I can see this thread being as one sided as the battle of Brighton when the Mods kicked the Rockers rears out of town.

Talking of threads here's some cool Mod threads(clothes) The hipsters and cool cats would save their pennies to be the smartest and coolest in town wearing only the finest bespoke suits.

Enjoy

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mod+pics&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:%7Breferrer:source?%7D&rlz=1I7SUNA_enGB245&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=H1LHUaXeAuPR0QX35IGwDg&ved=0CC8QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=709

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There were a few stalls on Leeds market that used to sell off-cuts from the woollen mills. £10 for 3 yards of midnight blue two tone mohair and £25 to have it made up by a little private tailor and for the equivalent of 5 weeks wages I'd got a suit that would have cost 300 quid in Savile Row biggrin.png

Funnily enough i had a midnight blue 3 button suit made for not much more than that in Bangkok last year.

My first tailored suit was a bespoke Mohair 3 button, ticket pocket, 5" side vents, step bottom hipsters for £200 in 1987- one months wages.

The same suit made now would be just under a grand.

My Bangkok tailor has all my measurements/style and whenever i want a new suit i email him the color and hey presto.

£100 and 2 weeks later it arrives.

CCC

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Still kicking back in Brighton 2012

2 min clip of the rally, enjoy...

CCC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhU1-hg7PCE

I'm far too old to buy a Lambretta...

Still kicking back in Brighton 2012

2 min clip of the rally, enjoy...

CCC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhU1-hg7PCE

I'm far too old to buy a Lambretta...
I'm to old to push them to the garage when they break down!

Stick with a Vespa!

CCC

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I can see this thread being as one sided as the battle of Brighton when the Mods kicked the Rockers rears out of town.

Talking of threads here's some cool Mod threads(clothes) The hipsters and cool cats would save their pennies to be the smartest and coolest in town wearing only the finest bespoke suits.

Enjoy

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mod+pics&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:%7Breferrer:source?%7D&rlz=1I7SUNA_enGB245&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=H1LHUaXeAuPR0QX35IGwDg&ved=0CC8QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=709

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I have often wondered where the influence come for mod fashion in the UK I remember reading a article about the Beatles before they where really famous and it went on to describe there clothes ,Tab collar's Cuban heal boots etc now I had never really took much notice of them if fact the photo in the article was the first time I had seen them now here is the strange thing I was wearing a tab collar and had Cuban heals boots on at the time.

Of course now we know the Beatles history they went to Hamburg as rockers and come back completely different thanks to Stu Sutcliff.'s girlfriend Astrid Kirchher so the question is how did I know who did I see at the time my main hobby was going around London to see different bands I seen them all in small venues Flamingo .The Marquee. 100 Club, Cooks ferry Inn, etc etc I have never worked this one out.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnDbWqe_kQ

The Who are more RnB influenced than Soul imho whereas the Rocker style music was more Teddy Boyish/Rock n Roll/Rockabilli.

Would have loved to see the Who live at the Marquee back in the day.

CCC

I saw The Who, at that well known gig at the Uni in Leeds, I was nine years old at the time, my sister was twenty, we went on the train.

I shouldn't have been old enough to go, but back in 1970, attitudes where a little more forgiving.

I do remember big sis hiding me under her trench coat at one point though.

Memories like that last, not only do they last, they get amplified as time goes on, Keith Moon who is/was the greatest drummer of all time (Cozy Powell is just too predicable and on beat)

The Who.

Best band of the modern age, mods or rockers.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnDbWqe_kQ

The Who are more RnB influenced than Soul imho whereas the Rocker style music was more Teddy Boyish/Rock n Roll/Rockabilli.

Would have loved to see the Who live at the Marquee back in the day.

CCC

I saw The Who, at that well known gig at the Uni in Leeds, I was nine years old at the time, my sister was twenty, we went on the train.

I shouldn't have been old enough to go, but back in 1970, attitudes where a little more forgiving.

I do remember big sis hiding me under her trench coat at one point though.

Memories like that last, not only do they last, they get amplified as time goes on, Keith Moon who is/was the greatest drummer of all time (Cozy Powell is just too predicable and on beat)

The Who.

Best band of the modern age, mods or rockers.

The Who still have it and still going strong, saw them live last month in the U.K! Did you see the Pinball Wizard and scooter ride out at the Olympic closing ceremony? If not here's the link...enjoy.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu0iMyNRc9E

CCC

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnDbWqe_kQ

The Who are more RnB influenced than Soul imho whereas the Rocker style music was more Teddy Boyish/Rock n Roll/Rockabilli.

Would have loved to see the Who live at the Marquee back in the day.

CCC

I saw The Who, at that well known gig at the Uni in Leeds, I was nine years old at the time, my sister was twenty, we went on the train.

I shouldn't have been old enough to go, but back in 1970, attitudes where a little more forgiving.

I do remember big sis hiding me under her trench coat at one point though.

Memories like that last, not only do they last, they get amplified as time goes on, Keith Moon who is/was the greatest drummer of all time (Cozy Powell is just too predicable and on beat)

The Who.

Best band of the modern age, mods or rockers.

The Who still have it and still going strong, saw them live last month in the U.K! Did you see the Pinball Wizard and scooter ride out at the Olympic closing ceremony? If not here's the link...enjoy.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu0iMyNRc9E

CCC

To be honest, no, there isn't a single mod or rocker in that clip.... but is a very fine display.

Of what, I am undecided, so probably best to just leave it there.

When I was a kid, I had some very old parents, they had practically given up on having a son, and then I arrived, can you imagine what that was like..... some of their influences and then some others.

It was absolutely bloody marvellous.

Add to it, two sisters who were entering their teens at the start of the 60's, by the time I was five years old,The Beatles, Jimi, Hamilton Bohanon, Glenn Miller, Peggy Lee, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Ms Franklin, The Stones, The Doors, Manfred Mann, and many more were already a not major, but a significant part of my life (good grief, I sound like a DJ)

Then came the 80's ..... This decade was quite possibly the most significant but also the most inane with regards to modern (as if 30 years ago could be considered as modern) music.

To be continued.........................

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnDbWqe_kQ

The Who are more RnB influenced than Soul imho whereas the Rocker style music was more Teddy Boyish/Rock n Roll/Rockabilli.

Would have loved to see the Who live at the Marquee back in the day.

CCC

I saw The Who, at that well known gig at the Uni in Leeds, I was nine years old at the time, my sister was twenty, we went on the train.

I shouldn't have been old enough to go, but back in 1970, attitudes where a little more forgiving.

I do remember big sis hiding me under her trench coat at one point though.

Memories like that last, not only do they last, they get amplified as time goes on, Keith Moon who is/was the greatest drummer of all time (Cozy Powell is just too predicable and on beat)

The Who.

Best band of the modern age, mods or rockers.

The Who still have it and still going strong, saw them live last month in the U.K! Did you see the Pinball Wizard and scooter ride out at the Olympic closing ceremony? If not here's the link...enjoy.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu0iMyNRc9E

CCC

To be honest, no, there isn't a single mod or rocker in that clip.... but is a very fine display.

Of what, I am undecided, so probably best to just leave it there.

When I was a kid, I had some very old parents, they had practically given up on having a son, and then I arrived, can you imagine what that was like..... some of their influences and then some others.

It was absolutely bloody marvellous.

Add to it, two sisters who were entering their teens at the start of the 60's, by the time I was five years old,The Beatles, Jimi, Hamilton Bohanon, Glenn Miller, Peggy Lee, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Ms Franklin, The Stones, The Doors, Manfred Mann, and many more were already a not major, but a significant part of my life (good grief, I sound like a DJ)

Then came the 80's ..... This decade was quite possibly the most significant but also the most inane with regards to modern (as if 30 years ago could be considered as modern) music.

To be continued.........................

True enough, most where extras just for show.

The owners of the scooters where Mods.

A lot of people interpret the Modernist culture differently.

Imho

It started with the early sixties Mods in London and Manchester and spread with popular demand, by the time of the Brighton and Margate riots most of the original Mods and initial stylists had moved on.

Then there was the second generation Mods of the eighties with influences of the Jam, Style Council,two tone &79 revival music which was more Punk than Mod and eventually created a rift in the scene dividing it. The "revialist" Mods died out but the true hardcore that enjoyed rare sixties RnB, Soul and Ska thrived and still do to this day.

The past decade has seen your indie type Mods younger Mods appear on the scene with influences such as Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, paul Weller.

Great to hear other Mods views on the history of the scene.

Regards

CCC

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