Mods and Rockers 1960's

Some old footage of Mods and Rockers

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Mods
• Rockers
• Scooter

[pme96]

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

[dudleyfeebish]

In reality, Mods were sixties nerds.

[sclapione]

@paulthepill "move over modernism is here"  *chuckles*

[sclapione]

@dudleyfeebish Blasphemy. My mums friends were 60s mods and nothing like nerds.

[sclapione]

@crackerHero What the fuck are you on

[jannyrcobs]

Love those little mod girls that were interviewed! Priceless!

[crash2cute]

WE ARE THE MODS!, WE ARE THE MODS!, WE ARE,WE ARE, WE ARE THE MODS!

[paulthepill]

the dying days of the 'rockers', move over modernism is here, kick out the austere times from the war.

[supercalifregilestic]

@dudleyfeebish actually, it was the opposite...

[sillyduffers]

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

[symond]

@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]

@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