OHT
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Anyhow we were a damn sight cooler than yer average hoodie!
lol I guess this quote is part of your Mod side
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Anyhow we were a damn sight cooler than yer average hoodie!
lol I guess this quote is part of your Mod side
West Indian girls didn't seem to get out and about as much as their Anglo equivalent - maybe a cultural thing. We did have a couple of mixed-heritage girls in our crowd. They were sisters. One was utterly gorgeous and modeled. The other was tougher, adopted a more masculine look, and got the nickname 'Killer' because she could fight like hell. I got on really well with her. Apart from that I had one Jamaican girlfriend for a short while.
I'll take the gorgeous one, you can have the other one,lol
I had an occasional date with a particular skinhead girl who idolised guys on scooter (or in Bond Bugs - but that's another story!).
There's nothing to hear - she just had this ruddy fetish for Bond Bugs!
Hi. This is my first post. Get Smart 'invited' me on board. I was a skinhead c. 1968/69.
Hi. This is my first post. Get Smart 'invited' me on board. I was a skinhead c. 1968/69.
Mods were known for riding scooters but did that also cross over to skinhead? I don't think I've ever seen a pic of an Original skinhead with a scooter.
Up north we still called ourselves mods.
credit towards, detroidsoulThe real story goes back to my first job after leaving school, and my first experience at Blackpool Mecca. Downstairs in the ballroom, they had a resident group, the lead guitarist in the group worked for the same company as i did. He also, wrote articles for the New Musical Express. He was asked to do an article for an issue that was beeing sent to the USA. The subject was "you have got hells angels" "we have got these" meaning Mods. He asked me one day if i would be interested in getting some mates together, for a picture shoot. As he needed pics to go with his article. I agreed to this, and the pics were taken in a back alley, near North Pier, Blackpool. Weeks after the shoot, he came to me at work and said,that a record company had approached his paper to ask whether they could use one of the pics taken; for an Album Sleeve. The rest is history. Had i known the impact that the album has made, i would have asked for some financial reward. as it is, i havnt had a penny.
Chris Welch's article of course still categorised them/us as 'mods', but there were all kinds of names which were applied to us - skinheads, lemon heads, spike heads, peanuts, totters, and so on - some of which would have got you a knuckle sandwich if you had used them.
The folk in the front of the Skinhead Moonstomp LP still called 'emself mods.