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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Saturday, March 26, 2022

Mods v. Rockers


from Wikipedia:
Mods and rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the early/mid 1960s to early 1970s. Media coverage of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youth, and the two groups became widely perceived as violent, unruly troublemakers.

The rocker subculture was centred on motorcycling, and their appearance reflected that. Rockers generally wore protective clothing such as black leather jackets and motorcycle boots (although they sometimes wore brothel creeper shoes). The style was heavily influenced by Marlon Brando in The Wild One.[1] The common rocker hairstyle was a pompadour, while their music genre of choice was 1950s rock and roll, played by artists including Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, and Bo Diddley.[2]

The mod subculture was centred on fashion and music, and many mods rode scooters. Mods wore suits and other cleancut outfits, and listened to 1960s music genres such as soul, rhythm and blues, ska, beat music, and British blues-rooted bands like The Yardbirds, the Small Faces, and The Who, who wrote an evocative portrait of the cultures with their 1973 album Quadrophenia.[3]

5 comments:

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

I'm certainly glad we've progressed to a full cornucopia of reasons to whip someone's ass other than just having too many mirrors on their Vespa.

Joe Conservative said...

So, you're a Putin fan after all. :)

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Well, he did get Europe more enthusiastic about their NATO obligations than Trump did :P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Biden should pull out and make them even MORE enthusiastic.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Nah. Biden needs to resolve long standing border disputes with Canada. Those bastards built a lighthouse on an island off the coast of Maine that belongs to us and we should roll tanks into Ontario until they pay back rent.