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> Heather,
>
> Im not sure where you are located, but I know that in Northern Ca. Mod
> was a
> term in the 80s and 90s for anyone who I would call "new wave". Anyone
> who
> listened to the bauhaus and dressed in black with big hair looking like
> a
> member of the Cure was considered "a Mod". I dont know why, I just
> chalk it
> up to ignorance.
> Its kind of like how people term bands like Korn and limp biscuit as
> Hardcore, when Hardcore is a specific type of music and scene born on
> the
> East Coast 20 years ago that sounds nothing like that. Most people just
> dont
> know what theyre talking about, its not worth wasting your breathe to
> explain
> it to someone who will never understand.
>
> -Guardo
>
>
> I have a question for anyone. There is a couple that I work with that
> call
> themselves mods. They wear black t-shirts, black jeans, dye their hair
> black
> and look too dirty to be mods. They go to indie and garage rock shows.
> They
> do not look like any mods I have seen here in the States or in Europe.
> So a
> lot of the times when I see them I am wearing Fred Perry, and the guy
> makes
> fun of me for looking like a skinhead. I don't know what to say to him
> and I
> feel like getting out some literature on mods to show him that skins are
> not
> the only ones that are known to wear Fred Perry. Am I wrong? What should
> I
> say to him?
>
Have I wandered onto a "Dear Abby" website?
Those people are not Mods, period. What should you say to them? Why
would you want to talk to them?
Wearing a Fred doesn't make you a skin or a mod, it's just a shirt.
Jim Rhoads
http://www.jimrhoadsaction.com
http://www.rhoadsmusic.com
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