Mod or rocker?

**MyLittleStudPony** · 04-07-09 00:03

I was quite gothy in the late 90s.

**AbjectBlitz** · 04-07-09 00:39

Without doubt a rocker.

Proper bikes
Maintaining them
The clothes
The hair style
Ton up
The Fonz influence

Not too bothered about the music tbh. Mum told me once my dad was a bit of a mod and wanted to have a scooter... oh the shame.

**MyLittleStudPony** · 04-07-09 00:45

There was a quite distinct whiff of 40 about the Fonz but he still made Richie Cunningham and Ralph and Potski and Jodie and the other kids go into the toilet with him, calling it "his office".

**murcan** · 04-07-09 05:50

Originally Posted by moth

Such honesty is very refreshing

Rumbled.

Originally Posted by DanDangerous

I'd have been a rocker. For the bikes rather than the music. My old man was neither - but he rode police bikes at the time and I think he probably identified with the rockers more.

Yeah my old man had a Morris Marina

when I was growing up as well. Fortunately he rolled it and wrote it off.

Unfortunately I was in it at the time.

You grew up in a Marina too!

Originally Posted by AbjectBlitz

Without doubt a rocker.

Proper bikes
Maintaining them
The clothes
The hair style
Ton up
The Fonz influence

Not too bothered about the music tbh. Mum told me once my dad was a bit of a mod and wanted to have a scooter... oh the shame.

You do know the Fonz was a TV charachter 20 years post rocker, right?

**longrider999** · 04-07-09 06:24

neither.im a big dog and i can run by myself.

**X81** · 04-07-09 07:53

Rocker. My old man was a rocker and built his own tritons, used to race a bit but mostly spanner on them so i've kind of ended up down the same road.

He used to go to the original Ace cafe all the time, i went a bit on the re-opening and last year i took my son there for the first time. 3 generations of my family to step foot inside the Ace cafe

it'll be a further 16 years before he makes a cock of himself there though to complete the family cycle.

For me it would be more about the bikes and speed than clothes or music. I remember my old man telling me a story about a friend of his. This bloke had bought his misses some leather trousers with studs down the legs, apparently all the rage in the mid 60's for rockers

anyway they come tearing up to a junction and this bloke has his misses on the back of the bike, as they get to the junction a load of Mods try to block their path so matey with the misses on the back drops a gear and nails it towards them in a game of chicken..................neither side backed down and he took out 4 of them sending his misses aswell as himself and his bike sliding down the road. those nice new leathers his misses had were now burning their way into her leg as the studs got red hot

That's what happens when you mix fashion and being a rocker i guess

**Scorchio** · 04-07-09 13:07

I would have to say image wise Rocker it would have to be cos I always like James Dean and the whole ducktail thing but it seems the Mod's social scene was where it was at. The Rockers look a bit "no life" types, sitting around on Friday night talking bikes while the Mods were out doing drugs and getting laid.

Even though I am one of the resident metrosexuals I have to say the Mods looked gay as fuck!! If you got beaten up by them you would probably die of embarrassment.

So I like the Rocker image but the Mod party scene seemed to be where it was at. Rocker Mon-Fri, Mod on Saturday night ?

**GiantPygmy** · 04-07-09 13:56

Rocker. In fact around Chester in the mid / late 70's when I was getting on 2 wheels there was a big Mod revival and there used to be dozens and dozens of "Cloud 9" mods converging on Chester on a Friday night. Scooter baiting was a popular sport

**Savio Du Funk** · 04-07-09 15:03

Neither. I'm actually quite proud to have been part of the dance music scene in the late 80s/90s though.

**ink ink** · 04-07-09 16:22

Originally Posted by Templar

Same as, although I did have a Vespa GS160 (Wow, I hear you say) - Add in Ben Sherman shirts, Stay press trousers, Loafers and a Crombie coat - Real cool in the day and meant we got the best burds

Your knowledge of clothing labels is impressive.

We could- and still can- handle the worst burds.

**Templar** · 04-07-09 16:35

Originally Posted by ink ink

Your knowledge of clothing labels is impressive.

We could- and still can- handle the worst burds.

Um, sometimes the worst burds are the best burds

**Jody** · 04-07-09 16:57

I'd have waited 10 years and been a punk!!

**icarus1859** · 04-07-09 17:27

Originally Posted by moth

He's a youngster, he doesn't remember the threat that skinheads were to society in the late 60s/early 70s. According to the News of the World at any rate.

...and they were into ska, rather than reggae. There was a delicious irony in a bunch of white working class racists grooving on black music.

He's still into ska and goes to see all these old bands, there is also a huge scooter-boys group down by where he lives, all bomber jackets, doc martins and birds with skinheads but funnny long fringes.

Obviously I'm too young to have been there in the beginning but according to all these old guys they all used to hang out with the black guys, listen to ska and reggae and there was absolutely no racism involved. In fact in Jamaica there is still a huge ska following and I've seen some amazing bands out there.

The racism and violence only came in once the monkeys and soccer hooligans picked up the trend. As is the case with everything, the Union Jack used to be a nice flag to hoist until the NF got hold of it.

**moth** · 04-07-09 17:33

Originally Posted by icarus1859

The racism and violence only came in once the monkeys and soccer hooligans picked up the trend.

I was there Iccy, skinheads were always a violent sub-group. Sorry, but that's how it was. Reactionary right-wing thinking working class* racist thugs who probably voted Labour because their parents did. They were the original soccer hooligans and bitter racists who reckoned that 'Enoch is right'

Mods (d)evolved into skins. It wasn't a pretty sight.

*that describes me too, lest you think I'm being my usual snobbish self

**icarus1859** · 04-07-09 17:39

Originally Posted by moth

I was there Iccy, skinheads were always a violent sub-group. Sorry, but that's how it was. Reactionary right-wing thinking working class* racist thugs who probably voted Labour because their parents did. They were the original soccer hooligans and bitter racists who reckoned that 'Enoch is right'

Mods (d)evolved into skins. It wasn't a pretty sight.

*that describes me too, lest you think I'm being my usual snobbish self

As I wasn't there I can't argue, but how come a lot of old film shows them in ska and reggae clubs with black people?

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