I've been watching a video called 'the kids are alright' - and the more I watch it - the more I think they were quite fucking amazing.I'd heard alot about Keith Moon but never really seen him - apart from being a really good drummer - he is quite likeably mad. Whadda you reckon? Teenage Wasteland,We Dont Get Fooled Again
Ha ha - I suppose someone had to make that joke - Its like when people say - have you heard of the band YES - ?
ejfawukawiufeiwu TKAA. 36 of their CDs. 5 movies. bunches of books and magazines. 3 shirts 1 concert 2 letters from Pete Townshend. 4 records. Nope, the Who are definitely not my favourite band!
Love em, always have done since I was very little and my dad used to play me their songs. Only seen them the once at Live 8, but I'd love to have been around to see them all play together in the 70's.
They did the sountrack to the film Quadrophenia about mods in 60's London. Lesley Ash is in it but minus the giant rubber lips, it goes without saying she was slightly more attractive back then! If you want a rock star "who" liked to trash guitars and hotel rooms then Pete Townsend wiz yir man. no offence to anyone with giant rubber lips by the way (but what the hell is going on)
I lived in Brighton for 10 years and the alleyway where he shags Leslie Ash is plastered with mod symbols targets etc . It's one hell of a film - the bit where they raid the chemists and chalky puts condoms on all his fingers always makes me laugh.Townsend seemed to be the writer of the group - it's quite weird how different Tommy is though to Quadrophenia.They are both cult classics though - .So was the mod movement just an English thing then,or what? - rock is pretty worldwide but what about the Northern Soul all nighters? Was that just in Manchester..?
I think mods were just in the uk I remember them having fights with rockers. I lived in a seaside town and my cousin was a rocker she hated mods with a passion with their scooters and parkas and such like . rockers at the time wore leather jackets, lots of them still wore wartime irvin flying jackets or black leather lots of genuine nazi stuff and they were pretty hard . I dont think you have anything like them today if you see someone on a harley or norton or triumph today they dont really make me that scared or make me think modern viking. maybe I move in the wrong circles
Aye - well in quadrophenia - those rockers are more like teddy boys with d.a's and white scarves - but I was part of the 'rock'/mod revival in the 80's - and it came back in the form of growing your hair as long as possible,making sure your leather looked like it'd been picked out of a dustbin and painting stuff on the back of it - led zep etc - a bit different to the originals - but in the midlands was hugely popular.similarily with the mods - they came back still wearing parka's but with a weird fashion for shaving their heads except for a fringe at the front.Some old live black and white footage of mods in the 60's shows em boppin around to northern soul in the nightclubs though.My old man always reckoned the teddy boys were really hard nutcases too - I suppose it's the gang mentality at work
I remember some old teddy boys around still in the late 60s I grew up in a fairground and I suppose it was the sorta place old teddy boys might go . yes I think they were kinda hard to some of them . thinking about it quadrophenia is supposed I think to be early sixties say 1964 ish isnt it, there was quite a change in between that period and the late 60s I was born in 1964 strangely I remember from about 1967 well I remember 1969 really really well . so if the fight scenes are supposed to be early sixties the rockers may have had shorter hair and been a bit more tidy .
wow - a fairground.. we had the fair come every year on the field by our house - was it that kind,or a static one by the sea? I always had this theory that there was a special gap at the back of the waltzer cars where all the loose change that you lose out of your pockets while spinning so fast ends up... did it ever amount to much,or was my theory wrong..
I worked on waltzers as well as a thing like waltzer cars on a sort of iron whip and we used to jump over this iron whip thing its hard to discribe but they had the same ride in the the film thatll be the day with david essex . looking back at it that was one of the most dangerous things Ive ever done well apart from holding little pieces of wood in my bare hands for some idiot to chainsaw them . anyway yes waltzer cars do collect money as you suggest and at the end of the season or when your doing maintence work you find money rings wallets as well as lots of rubbish . I really should do a thread about fairground accidents , generally It was a interesting place to grow up but that fairground which is owned by family friends is all set to be closed down . people just dont seem to go to it anymore and if they do they dont spend much money
