Mojo's right. What is "mod" is in the eye of the beholder. We can try as
hard as we like to "define" it -but it's indefinable, isn't it? To define is
to confine.
We can't "prescribe" what mod is, we can only "describe".
-Natasha
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><<that is where the Mod connection ends.>>
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>said Biff about Mover.
>
>** Well, I find Mod in itself hard to talk about nowadays. Those guys --
>'the MODS' -- were cool in the 60s for a few years; but they soon weren't
>Mods. I mean, when I was a Mod in '86, what now goes on downstairs at the
>Mousetrap would have been laughed at -- though then, and now, it is what I
>like the most! You know. Mods liking Psych is like talking about Teddy Boys
>liking The Beatles. Wasn't Mod dated by '64???!! Now I'm not being
>pedantic,
>but what with every Mod having a different outlook on what Mod is, isn't it
>hard to classify??
>
>The way Jack and Fran looked on Friday night looked very much how I looked
>in '88 when I was naievely classifying myself as a 'Hippy' -- Buff, Moby,
>Gene ... And as Sara, my lovely lady, said, they looked better for it. I
>look forward to seeing their new act -- they won't be mod, but so bully
>what? I think MOver on their Mod Lang Cd have an image still. I remember
>The
>Event hitting these shores in '90 (on record) and thinking man -- FUCK, how
>could a band attempt to work out The Birds from a video clip????? (Don't
>mention The Surrounds -- Ha ha!!).
>
>What is Mod now? The essence? Aren't the ex-mods who push forward, looking
>into new ideas, the very thing. Well, fuck me, I'm gonna play my guitar now
>with an ex-Nuthin and a member of Bronco Bullfrog and think we're nothin'
>but old fashioned.
>
>Mojo '00
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