>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>A new and interesting topic!: Who are we and why
>do we pay attention to this>damn list?
Great idea for a topic, lets talk about ourselves!!!
I'm considered "mod" by some people and "not a mod" by others - either way,
I just get on with being me first and let people put a name to what I do if
they want to.
I like 60's music/fashion/outlook/furniture/art etc but I also like current
stuff that's best described as post-modern(jazzy hip-hop sampling older
music, Ninja tune artists - I for one dont intend to sit around listenin to
The Small Faces/Who all day, much as I love them, I've moved on...)
Mostly at the moment Im into bluesy-jazz, dirty gritty sounding Delta blues,
Stan Getz Hot Club of France, Ike Quebec that sort of thing.
I wear suits to work, neat ones, better than my fat old bosses, and I know
this is because of my "mod" background - but I dont give a damn what anyone
else wears, when I talk to someone, I look into their face not their
wardrobe.
Skinny ties are a must when I wear a shirt(along with all the usual
tie-clips and cufflinks: big "Get Carter" chunks on my arm!) and I have
hundreds of them - loafers too (its not the price or the label, its the look
that I think about, I could be wearing a �200 suit, a Ben Sherman, some
Loak-alikes and a tie that cost me 50p - but you can bet that it's the
bloody tie people notice)
I had two scooters(sold one quickly, to buy a new saxophone!), but still
have my primavera in the garage, ready for when I need it.
Frankly I dont find the time to use it nowadays - Im busy working on my
fanzine most of the time, or doing musical stuff(Im not carrying a bloody
valuable sax on my shoulder, AND riding a scooter on Birmingham's kamikaze
roads!)
Born in 1965 - I've been to rallies on and off for about twenty odd years
now(got my head kicked in when I was fifteen at a REAL mods v. rockers
beachfight in Scotland) - but work and music prevents me from going up and
down the country (as is somehow expected of me, being a fanzine-writer...)so
I manage one or two national rallies a year(I cant go to the IOW for
personal reasons - but when I did, it was a blast).
Am I still "mod", do I have anything to prove, did the original
mods(groan...) worry about this sort of thing - or did they just get on and
have a good time, and listen to great music.
I wish I could sound like some old bloke prattling on about how good "mod"
was in the eighties, about how youngsters these days dont know shit, or
about what is and isn't "mod" - but I believe that it's MUCH better now than
it ever was(re-released albums on CD that you could only dream of in the
past, scooters in one form or another everywhere, knowing more than we ever
did, talking to people from all around the world...).
I enjoy the modslist - I dont read all of it, I haven't got time - I only
take what I need, and it's great getting insults from some bloke in a
Netcafe somewhere in America at 3.30 am)
Long live the list!
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