>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.
To add some repeated input, at least from my Dad's perspective, they didn't
call themselves mods either - 'faces' then 'heads' as he and his mates got
more into psychedelia (one of the young kids around - Chris Seivy -
eventually literally became a 'head' - Frank Sidebottom!), which might not
classify as great music in trad mod books these days, but just saying yeah,
there wasn't much thought as to whether what they were doing or listening to
was mod or not, just as most teenagers aren't intensely analysing the
subculture they're in, but living it (I blame the 80s NME for introducing
all that - cult studies analysis of things as they happen, too much
self-awareness of scenes). Of course there's the flipside of that - in 'A
Day In The Life' that London DJ (Geoff Dexter?) practically getting beaten
up for playing Donovan to an audience who still wanted soul - plus ca change
and all that.
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