True, but there really isn't an exact date as to when it all came together
as a "movement". Teddy Boys were still big in '58, and "modernists" weren't
really a group, but a few individuals. Probably around '62 is when they
started to come together as a movement....y'know, like when Pete Meaden, the
real Wardour Street Mods like Steve Sparks were mods.
Jeff
http://www.dominoeffect.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jami Summers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mods List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 10:59 AM
Subject: Mods Date to the 50s...
> You all are a bunch of fucking wankers with no sense of history...
>
> The oldest known media mention of the word "modernist" was in Colin
> MacInnes' 1958 novel "Absolute Beginners".
>
> That was:
> - The year Paul Weller was born.
> - Six years before the Brighton riots.
> - 15 years before Quadrophenia the album.
> - 16 years before the Jam formed.
> - 21 years before Quadrophenia the movie.
> - 43 years before the-goddamned-days.
>
> Mod is for gray haired old farts not kids. How dare any of you call
yourself
> a mod! If you were one of the modernists that MacInnes referred to then
> you'd be just slightly younger than my grandparents.
>
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