Please please what does it matter if other people like other things
that suppossed mods are into or "mod" things are available.
Attitudes such as this are laughable, if you got confidence in what
you like and what you are it shouldn't make any difference
This is surely missing the point as its all about style and good
taste. It is is good that records are reissued , you can buy decent
new clothes at decent shops(charity/thrift shops are in the main
shite anyway). You ultimatly still need to make the deciscions
yourself.
Cheers
Dominic
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Bek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: I remember when scooters were ha'penny a dozen...
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 07:58:20 -0800
> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I *had* to reply to this, as strangely enough my friends and I were on the
> very same subject the other night..............and I have to commend Dan
> Geddes and Katrina Dixon for even bringing it up! It's a great ranting
> point.
>
> >It is MUCH easier to be a mod now than when I first got into
> >it around '82 or so. MANY more hard to find records have been re-issued on
> >compilations, hell, THOUSANDS of records of all types...beat, soul, psych whatever.
>
> I know a a young guy who does a "mod" radio show somewhere in the Midwest
> (I'm not going to say where) and while he's a good kid with decent taste, he
> e-mails me periodically to tell me of his music "finds" - and they are
> mostly reissues, or he "finds" someone who owns the recording and makes
> CD-R's of it! I'm no purist, and I understand it's the music that really
> matters, but I can't help but feel a little persnickety when it's something
> I spent loads of time, money, travel, and heartache trying to find years ago
> in its original state. eBay has also become an evil, if useful, tool for
> finding music, as I have done. I never gave its instant-gratification
> aesthetic a thought until my longtime record-collecting-veteran boyfriend
> pointed it out, with a healthy dose of cynicism too. The music we love is
> much more accessible now, but some of the 'thrill of the hunt' has been lost
> I suppose.
>
> >There is a network of scooter stores across the country now...(they were
> all closing
> >back then...) Vintage scooter parts are being re-made. You have the
> >internet (which we did not then) to meet and converse with people from
> everywhere, exchange ideas,
> >find out about shows, records, clothes, etc.
>
> Another relevant point. A short number of years ago in the U.S. it would
> have been UNHEARD of to have a scooter rally sponsored by the likes of Ben
> Sherman or a nearly-corporate scooter shop that actually had enough money to
> do so. I'm not knocking clubs that do this - in fact IMHO it's more than
> apropos - but things like this, combined with the proliferation of scooters
> in advertising, (I saw a GS with a Union Jack paint job parked in a shoe
> store at the Mall of America and woefully thought "soul is truly dead") is
> more than a little strange and rather sad.
>
> >Most of the time they get it wrong, but people have a vague idea what it is
> >now. TIME magazine did an article on the return of scooters and
> mod.....Even that super-lame brit-pop
> >thing prompted a renewed interest in the Small Faces which produced a bunch
> of really cool
> >books and that CD set.
>
> Banal and transparent as media's half-cocked interpretations are, I try to
> see the positive within; I'm GLAD they 'get it all wrong,' and just laugh
> when people direct Austin Powers references toward me, or try to mine
> information from me about the new Zombies/Small
> Faces/insert-Rhino-reissue-here box sets......because I am at peace with the
> fact they are so far off my mark, and hope it stays that way. Just let
> people believe what they're force-fed, and you can still bask in
> enigmaticism. (Is that a word?)
>
> >NEED I GO ON?......
> >It takes MUCH less work these days. And I seem to find lots more cool
> stuff than I did back then...
> >of course it costs more, but doesn't everything?
>
> Hear hear Dan! Everyone can be a Mod - it's finally on sale at Target!
>
> Miss Becky
>
>
> _____________________________________________________________
> Check out the new and improved Topica site!
> http://www.topica.com/t/13
>
_____________________________________________________________
Check out the new and improved Topica site!
http://www.topica.com/t/13
