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Radioheading
Silver Member
United Kingdom
494 Posts |
 Posted - 01/25/2010 : 03:52:31
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Quadrophenia was just on and I hadnt seen it for a few years... Pretty decent film! It got me thinking... If it was the 60s, what'd YOU be? Or are there any real oldies out there who were around at the time?
I'm barely 21 but if I was born in the 60's I'd be a Mod for sure... Its what I was bought up listening too... Everything from The Small Faces to The Jam... Its all good!
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Ollie
Gold Member
United Kingdom
729 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2010 : 08:32:53
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| According to my parents, Rockers cared more about the music than the mods. However, I really dig Mod style and music so I would have to go with mod too |
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jackderringer
Silver Member
USA
153 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2010 : 09:15:40
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| i'd love to answer with "rocker" but the mods had way better music. |
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natthu
Gold Member
Australia
756 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2010 : 09:44:25
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| I'd probably be a Mod, but not a very cool one! I'd love one of those Vespa scooters with a ridiculous number of rearview mirrors... |
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zerksies
Double Platinum Member
USA
3406 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2010 : 13:18:58
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| we are all on a guitar forum, we are all geeks, so i think we are all mods |
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silvertone6120
Gold Member
USA
609 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2010 : 17:58:59
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"I'm a mocker..."
Hey, it worked for Ringo... |
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kulten
Gold Member
France
516 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2010 : 18:20:49
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I was born in 1973.
Let's imagine.
I would be a Mod, dressed like John Steed, listening to The Who, and softly decaying to the Psychedelic scene listening Barret's Pink Floyd. |
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jack
Platinum Member
USA
1418 Posts |
Posted - 01/26/2010 : 03:52:56
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quote:
Originally posted by silvertone6120
"I'm a mocker..."
Hey, it worked for Ringo...
I was gonna say I'm a rod, but that's better... |
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natthu
Gold Member
Australia
756 Posts |
Posted - 01/26/2010 : 08:52:13
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Originally posted by zerksies
we are all on a guitar forum, we are all geeks, so i think we are all mods
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Dr. Bob
Moderator
Australia
6593 Posts |
Posted - 01/26/2010 : 12:53:22
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If you're into Star Trek.
Does that possibly make you a SPOCK'er ...  |
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silvertone6120
Gold Member
USA
609 Posts |
Posted - 01/26/2010 : 15:15:27
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Sorry Dr. Bob...you triggered that... |
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Pedal Dan
Silver Member
USA
419 Posts |
Posted - 01/26/2010 : 17:11:10
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| I'm goin' Mod, 'cause I can't wait to see The Who at the Super Bowl! |
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2010 : 16:47:57
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Originally posted by Radioheading
Quadrophenia was just on and I hadnt seen it for a few years... Pretty decent film! It got me thinking... If it was the 60s, what'd YOU be? Or are there any real oldies out there who were around at the time?
I'm barely 21 but if I was born in the 60's I'd be a Mod for sure... Its what I was bought up listening too... Everything from The Small Faces to The Jam... Its all good!
Yep the Mods had some great bands who always seemed more rock to me than anything else especially The Who... when Quadrophenia came out i was growing up in the centre of Dublin,right in the heart of ther city and there was a big reassurgance of mod culture,dress,vespas.. the lot.on any saturday afternoon you could see different gangs hanging around at the top of Grafton St beside St Stephens Green Park and around the Dandelion market... there were skinheads/ska,mods,rockers,punks,folkies and the beginning of the New Romantics were starting and everything in between...saturday afternoon excursions to the Dandelion market to the buy some vinyls from the guys on the stalls could be a very risky affair......i remember one guy having to run for his life after buying a Gary Numan 45..i seem to recall it was 'Cars'...being seen with the wrong LP or the wrong sort of clothes could get you a good kicking....maybe why i still have a fondness for wearing good quality running shoes..never know when you might have to take to your toes......... |
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The_Doc
Gold Member
United Kingdom
509 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2010 : 19:45:29
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I was a bit too young for that scene when it was around (only by a couple of years though) but I'm sure I would have been a mod. I have to admit I was a young skinhead, which I think came out of the mod / ska style.
Sad as it is, I still remember the dress code for the well-honed skin at that time...
- 12 hole Docs (boots - ox-blood polish on the uppers, dark tan on the Airwear soles, leather laces or bright yellow laces � depended on your mood)
- cut off Levis (to show off the boots) or 'Stay Press' creased trousers
- Y - style braces of choice (red was my preference)
- red long socks (any display of shin flesh was a no no...)
- a Harrington jacket (a kind of reversible red & black checked / black bomber style jacket)
- Ben Sherman button down collar shirt � checked (black & white was my choice)
- football (soccer) scarf of choice (usually tied around your wrist)
- driving gloves (often only one worn � a throw back from the �Clockwork Orange� film � check out the similarities)
- a �Crombie� full length coat � for the more sophisticated skin! (usually worn with a fake paper handkerchief affair in the top pocket)
To this day I don�t know how I remember this lot � I guess it just was the fashion at the time and it stuck with me. How the hell did I go from that into a heavy rocking� Led Zep, Cream and Hendrix lovin� guitarist with long hair - I�ll never know!
What a wonderful time adolescence was!!
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Mr Arkadin
Bronze Member
United Kingdom
119 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2010 : 21:07:09
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Old enough to have been a Mod and a Rocker (but was never a New Romantic). OK this was a second wave in the UK around 1979 when Ska became big and i had the parka. But being from Birmingham meant exposure to Rock, Rock, Rock (it's a very Rock-orientated city), so long hair and leather jackets soon followed. Then a little dabble with punk. Then drainpipes and skinny ties of the New Wave.
Kids of today don't seem to have half as much fun - i mean jeans round their arse and hooded tops? Wow, hardly a style is it? |
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redundant
Silver Member
Turkey
247 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2010 : 11:33:01
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| Mod, without question |
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Would you be a Mod or a Rocker?
