Appitude, Mod started in the late 50's with Jazz as you said. There was great stuff happening in Jamaica early sixties and this fed through to England. The skinhead movement was good back then, but now they are associated with the National Front. Skinheads against the people who made the music! Fuck that! Listen to Symarip for the Moonstomp, or Desmond Dekker for good skinhead/mod music. Don't become like symond with his nazi "dustbin of the world" rant.
@Aptitude she told me recently when she was 16 she was hitch-hiking home from london, after the jazz clubs, and a truck driver picked her and a friend up and made them swear to get a lift home every week from him as he feared for their safety, britain was alot safer back then, she had no qualms about hitch hiking 30 miles at 4am aged 16 in perfect mod gear, guess its why i became a skinhead in the late 70's. i loved her stories, she would spend an entire weeks wages having new shoes made :)
@Aptitude according to my mother, who is 67 and was there, it was all about jazz, trad jazz and modern jazz, the mods were mod jazz fans, hence the term mod, later on they picked up alot of other american musical influences, like RnB etc, and then in the 60's created bands like the who, stones,kinks, small faces etc. america was looked at as cool and cutting edge back then, a bit like rap fans now, europe was still battered from war,in the 60's the uk ruled again musically
@Aptitude mate, no offence but my mum WAS a mod in the 1950's i grew up listening to her stories of going to mod clubs in the 50's soho, modern jazz, her boyfriend was a real sharp dresser as he had been in the RAF and was very smartly dressed, had their clothes hand made in the latest mod styles, i was born in 65, my elder sister 62, and she was a mod before that. have you ever heard of ronnie scotts club in soho where the mod jazz fans and music was played. the fashion grew from there
Mod (from modernist) is a subculture that originated in London, England in the late 1950s and peaked in the early-to-mid 1960s.Significant elements of the mod subculture include: fashion (often tailor-made suits); pop music, including African American soul, Jamaican ska, and British beat music and R&B; and Italian motor scooters.
@Aptitude the mods of the 60's were the more commonly known version, but the who etc were all teenagers of the 50's. my mum was a mod that listened to modern jazz, which is where the term mod came from, they had their own clothes made and designed around the jazz clubs of soho, by the 60's and the whole mod scene became nationwide, but it was born long before that
At 4.20 the group shown are neither 'mods' or 'rockers' but beatniks. Proto hippies a few years ahead of their time, with genuinely long hair. Interesting footage thanks for posting
@xtreemd I'm not the expert, but I saw that two Mods were stabbed by Rockers at one point. I would guess that everyone got their fair share and no one was keeping score. But one thing is for sure, Rockers could runn Mods down and get away, due to their superior wheels!
Just like today most of the violence was instigated by a small number within a given group, if you study these shots you can see that most of the crowd are not that badly behaved, it's pockets of sporadic violent flares by a small number that looked larger than what they really were because they blended with the crowd deliberately, most are just following and inciting rather than actually participating.
@proff180 I remember as a kid in California, older kids in leather jackets, acting mean. Saw the last of it in about 65, when girls would rarely fight on a Friday night at the cinema, outside. It fell off by 1966, with the Hippy thing happening right there. But being a Mod in California was just about clothes. I wore a vest and corduoroys and thought I was a Mod. But I liked MCs. Also, we had the Surfer or "Hard" categories by 1964. Everyone became Hippies, sort of... to some degree...
my mum was an original mod from the 1950's they were into modern jazz, the 60's battles between the rockers, was a later generation. the mods were fashion, but the skinheads came from the mods who were the more violent edge, and the posh mods went into being hippies. whatever happened to british youth culture
@crackerHero Sorry, not really. Rockers were and still are into the "Beat" sound, The Shadows, etc., which is not metal, and into trad Rock like Gene Vincent, Eddy Cochran, Elvis, Rockabilly in general. Some sort of mesh up is going on now, it seems. The Who were really the first punks, which were the flagship band of Mods, along with The Yardbirds, and bands that were termed Mersey Beat, etc. Rockers wore the old pompador with grease, and Mods were neat and clean, but rowdy.
What some ignorant cunts forget to realise is that all these 5 minute fashions of today most of the ideas spurned direct from the mod fashion, the drainpipe jeans, the converses, the fred perry polos, brogues pork pie hats, its all from Mod so shut the fuck up and just accept the fact that we rule the world. Mods Mods Mods Mods
i'm just callin it like it is..way popular shoe before mods...way popular shoe after mods..drainpipe jeans too..porkpie hats too..i can give credit where due..but can't allow credit to be falsely thrown out
Period details long forgotten such as the rocker girls' cowboy hats are all fascinating but particularly interesting is the group at 4:15 who appear to be neither mods or rockers but beatniks (sort of proto-hippies). Thnx for posting.
Hahahaha those beatnik kids just look like homeless junkies. I've also noticed kids in this video who don't appear to be in any subculture, just average British 1960's school kids.
Love those little mod girls that were interviewed! Priceless!
jannyrcobs 1 month ago
WE ARE THE MODS!, WE ARE THE MODS!, WE ARE,WE ARE, WE ARE THE MODS!
crash2cute 1 month ago
the dying days of the 'rockers', move over modernism is here, kick out the austere times from the war.
paulthepill 8 months ago
@paulthepill "move over modernism is here" *chuckles*
sclapione 1 month ago
Appitude, Mod started in the late 50's with Jazz as you said. There was great stuff happening in Jamaica early sixties and this fed through to England. The skinhead movement was good back then, but now they are associated with the National Front. Skinheads against the people who made the music! Fuck that! Listen to Symarip for the Moonstomp, or Desmond Dekker for good skinhead/mod music. Don't become like symond with his nazi "dustbin of the world" rant.
Go Scooterboy!!! It's clean, not racist
sillyduffers 10 months ago
@Aptitude she told me recently when she was 16 she was hitch-hiking home from london, after the jazz clubs, and a truck driver picked her and a friend up and made them swear to get a lift home every week from him as he feared for their safety, britain was alot safer back then, she had no qualms about hitch hiking 30 miles at 4am aged 16 in perfect mod gear, guess its why i became a skinhead in the late 70's. i loved her stories, she would spend an entire weeks wages having new shoes made :)
symond 10 months ago
@Aptitude according to my mother, who is 67 and was there, it was all about jazz, trad jazz and modern jazz, the mods were mod jazz fans, hence the term mod, later on they picked up alot of other american musical influences, like RnB etc, and then in the 60's created bands like the who, stones,kinks, small faces etc. america was looked at as cool and cutting edge back then, a bit like rap fans now, europe was still battered from war,in the 60's the uk ruled again musically
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@Aptitude she's about 67, i have some pictures of her somewhere of her around that time, but i am sure americans know all about mods haha
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@Aptitude mate, no offence but my mum WAS a mod in the 1950's i grew up listening to her stories of going to mod clubs in the 50's soho, modern jazz, her boyfriend was a real sharp dresser as he had been in the RAF and was very smartly dressed, had their clothes hand made in the latest mod styles, i was born in 65, my elder sister 62, and she was a mod before that. have you ever heard of ronnie scotts club in soho where the mod jazz fans and music was played. the fashion grew from there
symond 10 months ago
Mod (from modernist) is a subculture that originated in London, England in the late 1950s and peaked in the early-to-mid 1960s.Significant elements of the mod subculture include: fashion (often tailor-made suits); pop music, including African American soul, Jamaican ska, and British beat music and R&B; and Italian motor scooters.
symond 10 months ago
@Aptitude the mods of the 60's were the more commonly known version, but the who etc were all teenagers of the 50's. my mum was a mod that listened to modern jazz, which is where the term mod came from, they had their own clothes made and designed around the jazz clubs of soho, by the 60's and the whole mod scene became nationwide, but it was born long before that
symond 10 months ago
poor kids dressing like they're rich, mods - pete doherty
lolmathlol 11 months ago
So the rockers were more into rock n roll while the Mods were into Ska, R&B, and whatnot, right?
degree7 11 months ago
@degree7 right
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tonawaldschmidtnmd 1 year ago
Bunch of Cunts !
WildmanBorneo 1 year ago
At 4.20 the group shown are neither 'mods' or 'rockers' but beatniks. Proto hippies a few years ahead of their time, with genuinely long hair. Interesting footage thanks for posting
pme96 1 year ago 3
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pme96 1 year ago
man, look at how fucking cool the average guy dressed back then.
tiarnan17 1 year ago
Fascinating, thanks for posting
uncompromising34 1 year ago
Forgive me if I'm wrong but didn't the mods kick the shit out of the rockers??
xtreemd 1 year ago
@xtreemd I'm not the expert, but I saw that two Mods were stabbed by Rockers at one point. I would guess that everyone got their fair share and no one was keeping score. But one thing is for sure, Rockers could runn Mods down and get away, due to their superior wheels!
deaddoc 1 year ago
Give them a dose of National Service. Aden about that time was nice and hot!
cozener1 1 year ago
Just like today most of the violence was instigated by a small number within a given group, if you study these shots you can see that most of the crowd are not that badly behaved, it's pockets of sporadic violent flares by a small number that looked larger than what they really were because they blended with the crowd deliberately, most are just following and inciting rather than actually participating.
proff180 1 year ago
@proff180 I remember as a kid in California, older kids in leather jackets, acting mean. Saw the last of it in about 65, when girls would rarely fight on a Friday night at the cinema, outside. It fell off by 1966, with the Hippy thing happening right there. But being a Mod in California was just about clothes. I wore a vest and corduoroys and thought I was a Mod. But I liked MCs. Also, we had the Surfer or "Hard" categories by 1964. Everyone became Hippies, sort of... to some degree...
deaddoc 1 year ago
my mum was an original mod from the 1950's they were into modern jazz, the 60's battles between the rockers, was a later generation. the mods were fashion, but the skinheads came from the mods who were the more violent edge, and the posh mods went into being hippies. whatever happened to british youth culture
symond 1 year ago
In reality, Mods were sixties nerds.
dudleyfeebish 1 year ago 3
more like yuppies but not rich or preppies, rockers were like metalheads or punks back then
crackerHero 1 year ago
@crackerHero Sorry, not really. Rockers were and still are into the "Beat" sound, The Shadows, etc., which is not metal, and into trad Rock like Gene Vincent, Eddy Cochran, Elvis, Rockabilly in general. Some sort of mesh up is going on now, it seems. The Who were really the first punks, which were the flagship band of Mods, along with The Yardbirds, and bands that were termed Mersey Beat, etc. Rockers wore the old pompador with grease, and Mods were neat and clean, but rowdy.
deaddoc 1 year ago
@crackerHero What the fuck are you on
sclapione 1 month ago
@dudleyfeebish Nah, they were the trad jazzers!
royayersrules 1 year ago
@dudleyfeebish that is just a nothing statement with no evidence to back it up
HelloTastyBand 11 months ago
@dudleyfeebish actually, it was the opposite...
supercalifregilestic 8 months ago
@dudleyfeebish Blasphemy. My mums friends were 60s mods and nothing like nerds.
sclapione 1 month ago
we are the mods !
DSilius 2 years ago
but the police were the hardest of all the fuckers like :D
Wraithtds 2 years ago
Rockers own mods suck hard
Wraithtds 2 years ago
words of wisdom
AltamontKiller 2 years ago
What some ignorant cunts forget to realise is that all these 5 minute fashions of today most of the ideas spurned direct from the mod fashion, the drainpipe jeans, the converses, the fred perry polos, brogues pork pie hats, its all from Mod so shut the fuck up and just accept the fact that we rule the world. Mods Mods Mods Mods
StirlingGeezer1 2 years ago
Propah! Love it! Oh yes! Get in there and tell it like it is!
smilerdrums 2 years ago
@StirlingGeezer1 i see..and kids didn't wear converse in the 50s eh? the more you know
slimwilson 2 years ago
Well yeah they were a popular shoe but I am talking about todays terms so don't try to make me out to be an idiot.
StirlingGeezer1 2 years ago
i'm just callin it like it is..way popular shoe before mods...way popular shoe after mods..drainpipe jeans too..porkpie hats too..i can give credit where due..but can't allow credit to be falsely thrown out
slimwilson 2 years ago
mods are gay and look like it rockers have style and are more badass lookin
AltamontKiller 2 years ago
How the fuck would you know or even begin to prove that Mods were gay You fucking idiot.
StirlingGeezer1 2 years ago
who cares? mods suck punks also hate you guys
AltamontKiller 2 years ago
Lol you have no idea of fashion you soppy cunt
TrainToSkaville91 2 years ago
fashion? looks like we got a gay model that cares about clouths oh no!
AltamontKiller 2 years ago
Funny. They come done here a set light to deck chairs. Now they are all mums and dads and garndprents,
Yiipy Hi ho!
Hickey66 2 years ago
to this day i am still 100 percent obsessed with this stuff..
PHAEDRIDER 2 years ago
how right you are soulhoney.
pkp6dr9 2 years ago
What the f...k do you know mimsy66 ! Tosser !!
soulhoney56 2 years ago
the mods were petty weedy little fannys zipping about on scooters if you ask me!
xjaredx
mimsy66 2 years ago
You think so do you, could I suggest that you actually read up on this. You are wrong my friend
TV225TS1 2 years ago
I do't know the difference..What is the difference between mods and rockers? I know taht they listen to different music...i think.
aldrickbarber35 2 years ago
Zippy around kicking the shite out of Rockers according to my parents :)
Matt90Kelly 2 years ago
Period details long forgotten such as the rocker girls' cowboy hats are all fascinating but particularly interesting is the group at 4:15 who appear to be neither mods or rockers but beatniks (sort of proto-hippies). Thnx for posting.
sludgefingers 3 years ago
Hahahaha those beatnik kids just look like homeless junkies. I've also noticed kids in this video who don't appear to be in any subculture, just average British 1960's school kids.
Slig77 2 years ago
Mod 4 life!
akovia 3 years ago 2
its really a treat to see old footage like this from the 60s. Thank you whoever you are!!!
laurienivals 3 years ago