The Untouchables and the Los Angeles Mod Scene

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  • @jpx08
    @jpx08 16 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Man. I fucking miss those days!

  • @Bootboy7
    @Bootboy7 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Remember those days,riding my Lambretta and Vespa around the streets of So.Cal.
    BTW-their was violence and drugs.

  • @lambrettist2007
    @lambrettist2007 14 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's typical how the mainstream vanilla media covers any subculture. This was in the 80's and the scene in southern California was big with many mod bands like The Question, The Sidewalk Society, Manual Scan, The Event, etc. The Untouchables were the biggest band to come out of the mod / scooter scene in LA but they were of course a ska revival band that appealed to the mods at the time and was more accessible to the general public as ska bands were commercially successful.

  • @itsmep.b7064
    @itsmep.b7064 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    NICE CLIP,HAVEN'T SEEN THAT BEFORE.

  • @longdong9876
    @longdong9876 14 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I used to work with Kevin Long washing dishes, serving at UCLA's Mira Hershey Hall in about 1982. I remember one of their first performances was at the dorm and remember them playing the Monkees (I'm not your) Stepping Stone. Wonder where he is now.

  • @dougletv
    @dougletv 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    100 Faces Forever yall

  • @JacobDeadman
    @JacobDeadman 14 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    if this was the 60's theyd have a very difent attuitde towrds the mods.

  • @mikevalbuena635
    @mikevalbuena635 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool!

  • @TheManGadoosh
    @TheManGadoosh 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @TruthIrish Well said.

  • @james00021
    @james00021 14 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    There music sounds more like Ska than mod.

  • @sudaev
    @sudaev 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a strange thing to bring up (about covering a Jam song). I suppose, by the same logic, that British mods covering old soul or R&B tracks such as "Leaving Here" or British rockers covering some American rockabilly track are equally preposterous.

  • @Declan50
    @Declan50 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hmm....back when "mohawks" were actually a statement. Now they're risk-free.

  • @talktal
    @talktal 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the girl at 2:27 looks like terry hall in drag

  • @Page-Hendryx
    @Page-Hendryx 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Look how narrow Chuck Henry's pant legs are.

  • @JacobDeadman
    @JacobDeadman 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    im an American mod but i til retian a locve for punk rock ands have a bit of punk attitude. i juast gave up the punk fasion becuse its so commercialized and mainstream now.

  • @Page-Hendryx
    @Page-Hendryx 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    You've "always seen"? I don't know what you could've seen, there's so little material. I mean the actual early '80s CA revival, not some relatively recent film or a mockumentary.
    I don't see too much wrong with the other video you cited, but who knows the circumstances behind it - i.e., how/why it was made.
    At least give my slideshow a look, will you?

  • @Umskiddy
    @Umskiddy 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    northernmod1, I know it may be hard for you to comprehend, given your name, but if you looked into the true history of mod,you'll learn that it stemmed from London.This point is difficult to swallow for many but facts are facts.

  • @ModZeb1967
    @ModZeb1967 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh dear oh dear oh dear ..............the comments and the video reflect the US "Mod" scene. I rest my case m'lud.

  • @Umskiddy
    @Umskiddy 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    ONKlub,Ireally have to stick to comments.Search the other video 'American Mods Dancing' and you'll see what I mean. I've always seen American mods as the sort of, 'wax dummies' of mod.From a distance it looks familiar or real.But get close up... something... just... isn't...right! Again, check out American Mods Dancings and you'll see what I mean.

  • @Umskiddy
    @Umskiddy 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ONKlub, I KNOW what I've seen.American mods visit London regularly and,over the years, I have never come across one that looks 'real'.
    It's as thought they try to hard.A bit like the Japanese - they go out of their way to get the look and the attitude 'just right' to the extent that they look plastic, synthetic and false.I don't mean to be nasty - just a fact.This video (and the American Mods Dancing video) are truly horrendous.

  • @jupitersans
    @jupitersans 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    I used to do hella drugs with these guys!

  • @akoodee
    @akoodee 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lets get it straight. If not for American blues and Jazz, there no Mod movement, jamaican Ska would not exist. The Brits love American Blues, that's where the Mod movement of the 60's got it style.
    So to say, Untouchables are not Mod, Mod is about changing, Mod= Modern, powers, get a clue! Untouchables, Go MOD!!!

  • @Umskiddy
    @Umskiddy 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    'Mard'?? Americans have no idea.Mod is a London thing.

  • @talktal
    @talktal 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    god, mod girls were ugly in the 80s. i hate the swinging london approach the mod scene took in the 90s, but at least the girls are way cuter.

  • @talktal
    @talktal 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    nope. fashion would be more italy @smallframeted