Mod to Suedehead

[Bela Kun]

Ithe UK public were tricked into voting yes to the EEC in 1975 .

That's because they were too busy dancing to northern soul or dressing up like Bay City Rollers for football to pay close attention. Anyway, let's discuss Brexit only insofar as it affects monkey boots.

 

[The Saint]

I know, the possibility of WW3 will be higher if you really leave EU [/QUOTE]
I know , that is because we will lose the protection of the proposed European army. .

 

[Newton heath]

I know, the possibility of WW3 will be higher if you really leave EU

I know , that is because we will lose the protection of the proposed European army. .

 

[Newton heath]

I won’t be giving up my continental quilt on brexit day, but seriously the last pair of monkey boots I had crippled me ,

 

[covskin]

That's because they were too busy dancing to northern soul or dressing up like Bay City Rollers for football to pay close attention. Anyway, let's discuss Brexit only insofar as it affects monkey boots.

We must protect our domestic producers of monkey boots - said no politician ever

 

[Inkss]

Got rid of the yellow laces , went over the yellow stitching with boot oxblood polish and put some comfy insoles in the Blighters. .

Did the same

Wider waxed laces to accomodate my Flintstone feet

 

[Inkss]

I won’t be giving up my continental quilt on brexit day, but seriously the last pair of monkey boots I had crippled me ,

Mine took ages to break-in. They shaved the skin off my toe-knuckles (or whatever they're called) and the back of my ankles. They're comfy as can be now.
Don't know whether I'd go through that again though.

 

[DonkeyJacket1]

Monkey boots run a bit small, always size up if possible.

Still, they are cheap boots, can't say mine ever hurt but im used to wearing harsh footwear

 

[Bela Kun]

What were these guys wearing - anything a Brit might vaguely recognise as 'mod' in 1965/66?

They were an American band from a mid-sized town in the North-West.

 

[Botolph]

What were these guys wearing - anything a Brit might vaguely recognise as 'mod' in 1965/66?

They were an American band from a mid-sized town

And a GREAT band at that!

 

[The Saint]

And a GREAT band at that!

What they played is described as proto-punk by some but indeed a great band . .

 

[andyf]

And a GREAT band at that!

What band is it? I don’t recognise them.

 

[covskin]

They look like the sort of band you would find on an 80s Nuggets compilation.

 

[Natty Pinstripe]

Lenny Kaye's first "Nuggets" compilation was actually released in the USA in 1972 !

 

[Bela Kun]

It’s the Sonics. They predated most of those Nuggets bands by a year or two. And to my ears at least, they were less British Invasion influenced than those - more of a ‘straight from the source' R&B/Little Richard influence.

So I’m curious if their fashions were ‘Anglophile’ or mod-derived at all.