>
> Luca Conti wrote:
>
> > *Golly* is a derogatory term for a Black
person.
> > *Charver* is going to bed with
someone.
> > *Mods* and *Rockers* were two rival teenage
movements fron the early
> > Sixties. Mods used to ride Italian motor
scooters (*Vespa*). I'm
> > simplifying quite a lot, in this
case...
>
> And Miker, if you want to see the Mods and Rockers
in action against
each
> other big time, check out the movie version of The
Who's QUADROPHENIA.
>
> TL
>
Just some additional info: the mods & rockers went
through a pretty big revival in the 1980's, particularly the
mods. The rockers resurfaced as
"Teddy Boys", a later variant of rockers. The skinhead thing
originally grew out of the mods, who in the later sixties had
splintered into skins
& Carnaby Street types who discovered pot, flared
trousers & later the hippie thing. In my part of the
world in the eighties, the revived mod movement gave birth to
one tribe of (neo) skinheads while from the contemporary punk
scene a different tribe of skins emerged. (These guys were
pretty much identical to look at & were differentiated by
the music they listened to: the mod skins listened to ska
& reggae, the other lot punk & some heavy metal. Many
skins (& some kids from the other sub-cultures of the
'80's) were attracted to neo-Nazi groups, particularly the
National Front in the UK, which is where all these
sub-cultures originated. (The Australian versions went very
much like the UK prototypes. The neo-Nazi group here was the
National Alliance. The police surveillance tapes on a NA hang
out that incidentally recorded the murder of one of the NA
skins by his buds makes for hardboiled black comedy of the
sort Tarantino would kill for). Of course, since the 80's,
skinhead has become synonymous with neo-Nazi, not just in the
UK & Australia but the US & both Western Europe &
Eastern Europe as well.
(An ironic footnote: The Who, who's rock opera become movie,
QUADROPHENIA, was probably the greatest kick start to the mod
revival & the band idolised by the Jam, the band that
became the figurehead of the mod revival, were never a true
mod band but one of many British R'n'B bands of the day.
Their manager had seen many of these kids with a distinctive
look & decided to exploit the style. The mods of the 60's
listened to US black dance music, particularly Tamla Motown.
The big mod band of the day were the Small Faces, who tried
to emulate those sounds.)
Rene
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