On Mar 6, 1:08 pm, JPG wrote:
On Mar 5, 8:45 pm, wrote:





On Mar 5, 8:20 pm, "Will Hand" wrote:

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On Mar 5, 5:31 pm, "Will Hand" wrote:
Mods, Teds, Rockers it's like watching an old black and white telly on
here
ATM :-)

FWIW I was a long-haired Status Quo fan in my youth. Had a fondness for
the
hippy culture but never became one and never really entered into glam
rock.
I was a rebel though, still am :-)

Will (born 1952)
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"Ron Button" wrote in message

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I was the Original mod !

RonB
"JPG" wrote in message

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Ron Button wrote:

To us Mods queing outside the Tottenham Royal ballroom in a our
bumfreezer
suits,

You mean Teds (Teddy Boys), surely? Mods were about in the 60s, my
teenage years.

Martin

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Well Will I'm the same age as you and unless you mean early Status Quo
-Pictures of Matchstick men and Ice in the Sun -then that would be
right for mods and rockers. Status Quo started as a Mod band all
suited with Francis Rossi sporting a mod hairdo and a mustache and
made LP's at 29s and sixpence. A few years later as the 70's started
bands like Status Quo started taking themselves far more seriously and
recorded Albums -as opposed to LP's - and usually concept Albums and
instead of performing shows they did Gigs ........man

The mod ran from about 64-69 usually until the rocker's caught them.
As for cold weather related stories well the Beatle and Ready Steady
Go always provoke fond memories of those cold sixties. I can clearly
remember on a cold early December Saturday afternoon in 1963, just
getting to my local record shop in Lordship Lane Dulwich in time
before they closed, to spend my saved pocket money to purchase 'With
the Beatles' . I can also clearly remember how bitter the wind was as
I stood and waited at what was then a very lonely bus stop, eager to
get home and play the record. However I was very disappointed when
upon trying to play the LP, the opening tracks on side one and two 'It
Won't Be Long Yeah yeah' and 'Roll Over Beethoven ' had the needle
jumping all over the place despite the fact I had a three penny bit
piece as a tracking weight adjuster. Suffice to say I did try half-a-
crown, which was a big old meaty coin, but still it wouldn't play. I
found out later there had been a massive production fault in the
pressings.

Second Beatle cold weather story was playing 'Rubber Soul on Christmas
day 1965 in my parent's back room, and boy was it cold. When playing -
the seemingly so adult in those days at the tender age of 13-
'Norwegian Wood' I can still remember smelling the pine from the
Christmas tree on the cold chill air as John Lennon crawled out and
slept in the bath. Oh er

So where was I? Ah yes: Will I can't believe you can only remember
Status Quo. Surely you were a Beatles or Stones boy?

More a Beatles than Stones. Favourite track was "Get Back" IIRC it was
recorded outside somewhere? It all sounds so dated now and now I prefer the
Stones and more modern stuff like the Verve (the drugs don't work etc). At
Uni Pink Floyd were right up there (just behind Quo of course).

We are a special generation Lawrence in that my children pinch my CDs, I
would never dream of listening to the music my father liked.

Will
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We are a special generation Lawrence in that my children pinch my CDs,
I

My daughters have long since walked off with my Queen CDs and now they
are putting some of Rainbow, Whitesnake and even King Crimson on to
their iPods. Next they will want "Selling England by the Pound" and
"The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway".

I could never imagine borrowing my parent's Dean Martin or Mantovani
albums - they considered Cliff Richard a spawn of the devil!

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That's was true for me too Martin but as I've grown older I've come to
love that stuff as well. Frank Sinatra singing 'I've got you under my
skin' live at the Sands with Count Basie leading a big band -
fantastic. Actually there's a line in that live version just as Basie
is going to let the band rip where Sinatra says as way of a warning

"Run for cover, run and hide". And boy it must have been something to
hear live such a big big band with impeccable timing let rip like
that.

You know I would puke at the sound of Tom Jones singing "Green green
grass of home and now I love it and get all sentimental especially
with Elvis's version. Now Elvis was lost on me as a kid but now I love
his output in his so called fat bloated stage when he could be giving
up to three live performances a day. Now I get a bit queasy instead
listening to Pink Floyd singing "Hey leave those kids alone" and think
what a load of pretentious bloated rubbish-mind you still a great
track though

I think the point that Will made was many of our generation wanted to
define ourselves and our youth with anything bar that the stuff our
parents would like, yet oddly enough there was only one hit chart and
limited radio so you had to listen to Ken Dodd singing' tears for
souvenirs' and the next track up would be say the Who and 'My
Generation'. Yet today all the charts are small and very defined
affairs with hardly any mixing of style but as Will pointed out
today's kids seem to happily listen to all sorts and don't feel
obliged to spurn the old stuff. I wonder if it's down to the age of
the computer and families not sharing occasions together as much as
they use to.




Ron Button: You have a lot to answer for :- )