Showed my grandson what me and his Nan were doing in the 60s.I worked at London bridge and most lunch times I used to jump on my GS silver Vespa and scooter up to Moorgate where she worked ,go to lunch for a hour with her then scooter back to work .Jeez I wold be gone 2 hours from work and nobody cared.Great days .Papers were full of jobs .Could pack a job in on a fri and start a new one on a Monday . What a time we had.
This is so great. Thank you. As a teenager growing up in Los Angeles, we had our own Mod revival, but the only access I had to the history of Mod culture were a couple of books (Richard Barnes' _Mods_, _Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock n Roll Style_), various books about the Who, and of course, the film _Quadrophenia_. TH-cam and the interwebs have filled in the gaps.
my wife is in hers late 60'sand growing up in East L.A. she loved the beatnik sound and were very close to her cousins friends. most of them ignited the Mod sound for L.A. bands like the premiers, midnighters, men of sound, they were all teenagers.
Notts mod in 1968, Ben sherman shirt, stay press trousers, Parka coat and cuban heel shoes. On my SX200 with a girl on the back. Wow they were great days. Sad to say just started drawing my pension, but I still gat 2 SX200's and an Li 150 in the shed.
I would have thought by that time the Mods were being pushed back with the next cult emerging ,"Skinheads" although i do know a lot of them were off shoot of some Mods but were more intimidating than Mods ever were ,especially the look that was adopted,
indy 56 By the time mod arrived in the East Midlands it would have been a very watered down cookie cutter version. Ben Sherman was a cheap alternative to the original Brooks Bros shirts the earlier mods wore. I grew up in the area, I know Notts and the surrounding cities and they are not very culturally enlightened places. Never have been.
current 2019 teen here...watching these videos bringing me odd nostalgia and longing to have lived in the 60s. maybe i was and i just reincarnated. i feel like i’m meant to be there.
I was a revivalist mod in the 70s but did at least grow up as a little 'un in London during the Swinging 60's and still remember hearing songs back then as a small boy. Great times.
I was 16 in 1967 , what a time the clothes the music. My Vidal Sassoon haircut , Mary Quant makeup. Long leather coat or blue Bri Nylon Mac , loafers 501 s
Some class vids Charlie mate!......memories flooding back!......Blackpool Mecca was always a trip worth going on....Bank holiday weekend , even though the Mecca was never an all-nighter , never the less we found places to hang out.....great to get together with Mods from other parts of the country......and yes.....Glaswegians also Charles .....were you ever there fella???......of course the weekend wouldn't have been complete without some errr communication lets call it.....with the bikers......but really in general they stayed out of the way.....grossly outnumbered , by cool people , just wanting to have fun with music dancing and "romance"......oh yeah and of course the "odd" chemical enhancement......halcyon days !
+redmanc68 gt 4 uncles who were Mods grew up on their ''adventures'' had 3 uncles who went EVERYWHERE only found out my auntie who left us a few years ago her best pal lives 3 doors from me has polaroids of them both on their scooters going to Blackpool and Great Yarmouth in 1963 to 1965 and at a few dances I know her daughter very well am hoping to see them in the next couple of weeks, would be brilliant to see them and persuade Connie to give me a few for a video, was very fond of my aunty Sandra, great woman, brilliant dancer.
The casual movement was different class in the 80s tbf perfect combination of dress sense and calculated violence and no 12 year old hangers on ,the only thing missing was the scoots
I was 1 year old. My mum used to shop Kings Road and Carnaby Street. My dad decorated Dudley Moores Apartment in Cheney Walk Chelsea. My dad was a brilliant decorator. I remember watching him decorate our house, such attention to detail.
I think 60's mods would make a great tv series show. As long as it was done correctly; mods style lingo music and shops. There is always good drama related to having to look be cool 24/7 as a teenager young adult.
Coventry town mod 1968,smart suit with long jacket, handkerchief in top pocket , leather soled brogues for dancing.dance all night, try to stay cool ,loved every moment
I was an original mod in the 60s it was a great time the fashion, the scooters, the music it was all out there I had a fantastic time but it was an era and as such should be left there, what is going on now has nothing to do with mods, going out buying a brand new scooter squeezing yourself into pretend mod clothing and going to a scooter rally does not mean mod, back in the day mods wore sharp suits had cool haircuts and met in cafés, today it seems to be overweight men and women in their 50s and 60s thinking they are 20, in my opinion it was a great time and as such should be left there where it belongs.
"Cool" is in here, yes! Tho I was thinking the early European wars and their outcome. The "Cool" effect also shows up more in England (are most of these folks British?)
Since grunge came in, slobs just wear anything 😴, even soiled arse wraps 👃💨🤮(underwear) and even used bog rolls 🚽🧻😝🐖!, yeah I remember the 60s and everyone who was anybody was very trendy and happy and the music was 🎶🎉was fab 😍!!
The Mods,and then Skinheads/Suedehesds were Britains 1st generation of Black/White youth Cultures centred around a combined music/image movement.to this day Jamaica and African America are the purveyors of an ever evolving urban dance music which which England produces its own influence which began in the 1960's.and a decade later in the 70's with punk and Techno in the 80's Rave culture in the 90's produced Junglist then uk garage dubstep and future bass Grime and Trap and Afrobeat
Says R.Dean Taylor haven't heard from you since your greatest hit "There's A Ghost In My House" 🤣🤣🤣✊ is your new record coming out as a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Stairchair To Heaven😂😂😂😂😂😂
@ would love to stay and chat but I have to pop out and get some green onions ….as for the stairlift.. well my generation needs all the help it can get ..😁
WHY OH WHY do people have to show / mention the Beach's & Rocker fight's..... BOTH WERE RARE OCCURRENCES. Both Mod's & Rocker's went to the same school's and were often friend's. I know I was BUT as only one of two Mod's in our village, I was more friendly with local Rocker's than the other Mod. I wish people who post these told us their age and if they LIVED during the period.... I'm 73.
Showed my grandson what me and his Nan were doing in the 60s.I worked at London bridge and most lunch times I used to jump on my GS silver Vespa and scooter up to Moorgate where she worked ,go to lunch for a hour with her then scooter back to work .Jeez I wold be gone 2 hours from work and nobody cared.Great days .Papers were full of jobs .Could pack a job in on a fri and start a new one on a Monday .
What a time we had.
This is so great. Thank you. As a teenager growing up in Los Angeles, we had our own Mod revival, but the only access I had to the history of Mod culture were a couple of books (Richard Barnes' _Mods_, _Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock n Roll Style_), various books about the Who, and of course, the film _Quadrophenia_. TH-cam and the interwebs have filled in the gaps.
Been to LA stopped in the Hollywood Roosevelt ,, fantastic place best wishes from Durham England
my wife is in hers late 60'sand growing up in East L.A. she loved the beatnik sound and were very close to her cousins friends. most of them ignited the Mod sound for L.A. bands like the premiers, midnighters, men of sound, they were all teenagers.
My goodness what a great blast from my childhood 🇬🇧 thanks for sharing such fine quality photography
Again thanks 😃
Yes it all comes flooding back---my young Mod teenage years from 63 to 66....and yes, now drawing a pension...but it was great to be young then ....:)
Have to keep coming back to this every so often . Takes me right back great days , great music , so smart and cool oooohhh to do it again
I was a 60s mod from Coventry. Had a red and white Lambretta SX150 which I rode all over England and Wales.
god i wish i was alive for this, 1000% mod
I know what you mean but just feel lucky I was around for the '79 revival, great times!
Wow!! Awesome video!! Once a mod, always a mod! It's in the blood, and the music is in the soul!🎶🎶👍👍🛵🛵🛵
Mods looked trendy, but rockers had testicles 🍑sweetie 😂
I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about
I still wear button down shirt collars to this day, i remember spending most of my wages on a pair of leather slip ons Dad went crazy Lol!
Notts mod in 1968, Ben sherman shirt, stay press trousers, Parka coat and cuban heel shoes. On my SX200 with a girl on the back. Wow they were great days. Sad to say just started drawing my pension, but I still gat 2 SX200's and an Li 150 in the shed.
I would have thought by that time the Mods were being pushed back with the next cult emerging ,"Skinheads" although i do know a lot of them were off shoot of some Mods but were more intimidating than Mods ever were ,especially the look that was adopted,
indy 56 By the time mod arrived in the East Midlands it would have been a very watered down cookie cutter version. Ben Sherman was a cheap alternative to the original Brooks Bros shirts the earlier mods wore. I grew up in the area, I know Notts and the surrounding cities and they are not very culturally enlightened places. Never have been.
current 2019 teen here...watching these videos bringing me odd nostalgia and longing to have lived in the 60s. maybe i was and i just reincarnated. i feel like i’m meant to be there.
No
I was a revivalist mod in the 70s but did at least grow up as a little 'un in London during the Swinging 60's and still remember hearing songs back then as a small boy. Great times.
I was 16 in 1967 , what a time the clothes the music. My Vidal Sassoon haircut , Mary Quant makeup. Long leather coat or blue Bri Nylon Mac , loafers 501 s
Mind-blowing to think that those lads and girls are now well into their 70s.
Perfect video, thanks! We are mods!
Some class vids Charlie mate!......memories flooding back!......Blackpool Mecca was always a trip worth going on....Bank holiday weekend , even though the Mecca was never an all-nighter , never the less we found places to hang out.....great to get together with Mods from other parts of the country......and yes.....Glaswegians also Charles .....were you ever there fella???......of course the weekend wouldn't have been complete without some errr communication lets call it.....with the bikers......but really in general they stayed out of the way.....grossly outnumbered , by cool people , just wanting to have fun with music dancing and "romance"......oh yeah and of course the "odd" chemical enhancement......halcyon days !
+redmanc68 gt 4 uncles who were Mods grew up on their ''adventures'' had 3 uncles who went EVERYWHERE only found out my auntie who left us a few years ago her best pal lives 3 doors from me has polaroids of them both on their scooters going to Blackpool and Great Yarmouth in 1963 to 1965 and at a few dances I know her daughter very well am hoping to see them in the next couple of weeks, would be brilliant to see them and persuade Connie to give me a few for a video, was very fond of my aunty Sandra, great woman, brilliant dancer.
60's had the best fashion by far, it was all downhill after that.
Agreed. Tight trousers, baby.
Insert Redletter Media Meme Here I thought that 70s was better..
@@MsKerryanne they had the wackiest weird hairstyles ever
Best fashion, music and scooters. Prettiest girls too.
The casual movement was different class in the 80s tbf perfect combination of dress sense and calculated violence and no 12 year old hangers on ,the only thing missing was the scoots
Two wheeled hair dryers are still pottering about. Built to last = Mod for life!
I can't believe we're drawing our pensions now! The 60's were the best time to grow up in. Loved those days.
Ann TwoShoes totally agree with you I bet you was a beautiful bird with legs to die for.👍🎼🎧🎹
Yeah, what happened to "Hope I die before I get old" ???? At 73 I still don't feel OLD or ready to die.
... we are the Mods! Still in 2021 and also in Germany!
Thanks Charles . Thanks for the videos by the way love looking at them great times great days what fun we had
Cool am having pure unadulterated fun making them, cheers shorelineboy, take care.
I was 1 year old. My mum used to shop Kings Road and Carnaby Street. My dad decorated Dudley Moores Apartment in Cheney Walk Chelsea. My dad was a brilliant decorator. I remember watching him decorate our house, such attention to detail.
I think 60's mods would make a great tv series show. As long as it was done correctly; mods style lingo music and shops. There is always good drama related to having to look be cool 24/7 as a teenager young adult.
What an era! I loved dressing up as a top mod, I was soooooo cool😂
Happy Days x
Can see how the rougher ones evolved into skinheads. Can see skinhead style in embryonic form in them.
Mods Edinburgh wow ktf man, just pure class music enjoy and be old school
Son of a mod as my dad says i was no stinking rocker grease ball Newcastle upon Tyne 🇬🇧
keep em coming mate
My mum & dad were Mods in the 60s very cool🇬🇧
Those guys are just too fucking cool mods knew how to pull it off
great post
they were cool days for sure and i had a lambretta lol
hey what's the songg, very cool
Just imagine instead of taking speed both Mods and Rockers could take a few speckled doves each we could call it we will hug them on the beaches lol
I love this song by alder ray I love to have anyone know if it's on a cd . Great vid by the way 😍
Not a helmet in sight !
It was a fashion statement
1:04 なんか一瞬サブリミナル効果っぽいのなかった？
Coventry town mod 1968,smart suit with long jacket, handkerchief in top pocket , leather soled brogues for dancing.dance all night, try to stay cool ,loved every moment
still alot going on in coventry..you should check it out
123123rog I loved your music but I was a rocker and we had far more superior bikes than you.👍🎼🎧🎹
123123rog 1968 rocker fast bikes. Even faster women!🎧🎼🎹
123123rog 1968 bet you were the only face in the crowd
I was an original mod in the 60s it was a great time the fashion, the scooters, the music it was all out there I had a fantastic time but it was an era and as such should be left there, what is going on now has nothing to do with mods, going out buying a brand new scooter squeezing yourself into pretend mod clothing and going to a scooter rally does not mean mod, back in the day mods wore sharp suits had cool haircuts and met in cafés, today it seems to be overweight men and women in their 50s and 60s thinking they are 20, in my opinion it was a great time and as such should be left there where it belongs.
"Cool" is in here, yes! Tho I was thinking the early European wars and their outcome. The "Cool" effect also shows up more in England (are most of these folks British?)
Since grunge came in, slobs just wear anything 😴, even soiled arse wraps 👃💨🤮(underwear) and even used bog rolls 🚽🧻😝🐖!, yeah I remember the 60s and everyone who was anybody was very trendy and happy and the music was 🎶🎉was fab 😍!!
O.M.G How did they ever handle all that power of there bikes?..
we don't do a ton we do COOL, lmao!!!!
My Lambretta SX 150 would do 60 that was plenty enough on those small wheels. You could get a 200cc scooter if you wanted to kill yourself.
Alder Ray, what a tune, soulful A F!!! ❤
Anyone know the tune being played ?
it's Alder Ray ''My Heart Is In Danger'' Barry,
The Mods,and then Skinheads/Suedehesds were Britains 1st generation of Black/White youth Cultures centred around a combined music/image movement.to this day Jamaica and African America are the purveyors of an ever evolving urban dance music which which England produces its own influence which began in the 1960's.and a decade later in the 70's with punk and Techno in the 80's Rave culture in the 90's produced Junglist then uk garage dubstep and future bass Grime and Trap and Afrobeat
How did we end up with flares and platforms and long hair
Once 73 hit for me personally all the great Brit cults died.
Kids really had somewhere to fit in then. Join a tribe be it mods, rockers, skins, teds... lasted until the late 70s punks, rudies but nothing since.
Batman wuz here.
I losing the plot who is this singing and what is the song it's great
Alder Ray -''My Heart Is In Danger'' shorelineboy
🤘
I was on the first 20 programs My nick name was gypo
Cadê o capacete?! hahaha
Would happily be dead now if i could of been 17/18 in 1964
We’re they actually known as ‘Mods’ back then or is a 70’s term?
yeah they were, the very early modernists called themselves continentalists
A dorky cool.
Mods today are really Suede Heads with the crombi coats and expensive shoes stay press pants ben sherman shirts and Harrington jackets
Mate mods came first late 50s everything you have mentioned were worn first by mods
lovely ladies at 2.17
Mods … cool ???…😂😂… not on them hairdryers ….😂
Says R.Dean Taylor haven't heard from you since your greatest hit "There's A Ghost In My House" 🤣🤣🤣✊ is your new record coming out as a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Stairchair To Heaven😂😂😂😂😂😂
@ would love to stay and chat but I have to pop out and get some green onions ….as for the stairlift.. well my generation needs all the help it can get ..😁
WHY OH WHY do people have to show / mention the Beach's & Rocker fight's..... BOTH WERE RARE OCCURRENCES. Both Mod's & Rocker's went to the same school's and were often friend's. I know I was BUT as only one of two Mod's in our village, I was more friendly with local Rocker's than the other Mod.
I wish people who post these told us their age and if they LIVED during the period.... I'm 73.