I know mods became skinheads, got into the northern soul scene or became hippies when they realised the limitations of speed. What did the rockers become by the end of the sixties? My mind’s eye has the image of rockers either joining outlaw motorcycle clubs, becoming Teddy Boys, getting into the leather subculture or becoming hippies. Am I right?
@bobfisheruk6 ай бұрын
I was a young Rocker in 1964 and went to Brighton (not on Mayday though) I went with friends, 3 of us were Rockers and the other 4 were Mods, We all managed a day in Brighton without fighting each other. Good times.
@dubes55948 ай бұрын
I'm told I was born in 1964 in the US. I've been messing around with British bikes since I was 17. now got a 1951 Thunderbird almost ready for the road by springtime. I'd find them dirt cheap in the 1980s but those days are over!
@southerner45669 ай бұрын
5:11 , That 's the roughest hand poked tattoo I've ever seen . I wonder what it looks like now .
@angelamary949310 ай бұрын
We wadnt al bad
@eddylloyd741310 ай бұрын
Good bikes back then.
@SUPERCJJOHNS8710 ай бұрын
3.20 seeing that poor lad getting beat up seeing his face I felt really sorry for him 😢 as I've grown up i hate seeing people get out numbered and set upon by cowards
@SUPERCJJOHNS8710 ай бұрын
I know i was well past the times being born in ,87 ive still always been fascinated by the culture of the Times I watched qudraphenia about 10 years ago and I loved it. Being a brit I prefer British made films I still learn something new all the time about people and the way of life.
@tagomago217810 ай бұрын
Lulu seems to have become more appealing here, than when she was a youngster
@forevermotoring10 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for posting this! We link to it in the shownotes for the Ace Cafe podcast with Mark Wilsmore.
@bossman190511 ай бұрын
I enjoyed being a mod in 1983
@philippacrowe84994 ай бұрын
@bossman1905 same and my Vespa SS!!
@bossman19054 ай бұрын
@philippacrowe8499 what part of the country did you come from ?
@philippacrowe84994 ай бұрын
@@bossman1905 Australia mate
@BVBemofan11 ай бұрын
Funny they called them gangs back then. Now they are considered subcultures. The media is cancer.
@helpmehelp300911 ай бұрын
Once some idiot tries to make money out of a trend its finished.
@eoinmurphy21011 ай бұрын
idiots
@alisaeed-ht9sq11 ай бұрын
Narcissists.
@scottcates11 ай бұрын
Fighting with Rockers boosted Mod reputation.
@graylad Жыл бұрын
You got the wrong person narrating this bit mate. She sounds like someone narrating an African safari, "and over here we have a full-on skinhead doing a mating ritual trying to attract a mate" (brought to you by mutual if Omaha's Wild Kingdom, now back to you Marlin Perkins)... Posh ain't know noffin' about us working class Londoners. LoL.
@waynegrunert7791 Жыл бұрын
Another divide and conquer government prank
@simontemplar1 Жыл бұрын
I was young, I was fresh faced, I dressed snazzy, in the blink of an eye it disappeared...............live your young lives fast and furious my friends and worry about the consequences later!
@cubicinches18 Жыл бұрын
"Tuning for Speed" The Bible written by Phil Irving
@alfajuj Жыл бұрын
OMG, if I were a kid in that era, how could I not be a rocker??? I'd still like to take a sledge hammer to a Lambretta!!!
@vantatilfly Жыл бұрын
No one was in to hip hop back then. How come hip hop never ride bikes today?
@annaelisavettavonnedozza9607 Жыл бұрын
Ahhh this was what that scene was in “Brighton Rock”
@johnbehaylo6704 Жыл бұрын
Mods led to English slang for cigarettes.
@truthmonger5791 Жыл бұрын
If is wasn't for The Who's "Quadrophenia" A lot of Americans would have never known about the Mods & Rockers,
@terryturn4691 Жыл бұрын
The red devils mc sorted them out
@speedtwin5t Жыл бұрын
I always imagined Rockers to be mechanics or construction workers for a living. Mods on the other hand worked as shop assistants in M&S or British Home stores
@geoffreycarson231111 ай бұрын
Lol g
@H.C.Q. Жыл бұрын
There are great things about all these subcultures- especially the clothes and the music. They all have powerful influence on the way I dress today.
@AntoniOrszykowski10 ай бұрын
Hope current "style" would influence my sons to go opposite way 😏
@3socksmorgan485 Жыл бұрын
Who were cooler, mods or rockers ?
@fusemalaysia840 Жыл бұрын
my childhoods... feels like closed to death while I'm stand at top of moving mopad...it not gonna work and don't do that...only God!...only God! ...can give us permission to do that stunts...yup...feels high like a Jericho statues at top of mountain, lucky for me I'm stop my habits early so I'm not end up like Indian Lary....amen.
@bubbleman1765 Жыл бұрын
The media LIE to suit there narative, fukin lying scum.
@ANTHONYBOOTH Жыл бұрын
I am a weird mixture of BOTH....
@Yakkymania2 жыл бұрын
Just a question, are mods and rockers like a British version of socs and greasers?
@3socksmorgan485 Жыл бұрын
Not really, both mods and rockers were young working class people, there was no rich poor divide, they just liked different styles of music and fashion
@henrysonnemann25972 жыл бұрын
Old Rockers never die,they only smell that way. Rock 'n' roll forever.👍🍺😎
@geoffreycarson231111 ай бұрын
Im 67 And Ive Owned My 56 T110 / TROPHY/BIRD EAST Coast Style !!! 😁I STILL Ride it g
@kopynd12 ай бұрын
they only fade away
@MILITARY12312 жыл бұрын
In Lancashire all bikers were mates. Most of the park and pub fights were between rockers from different local areas.
@ZootZinBootZ2 жыл бұрын
Twas a birth of counter culture.. it was finally fine to be seeking out individualities... Folk was turning electric , country was turning rock & The Who had Tommy .... tie together anne Margaret Tina Turner and Oliver Reed for the transition in celebriry guest appearance in sync with their own broader audience. Grunge in the early 90z resumes this process the wY heavy metal& Glam rock fell away where plastic punk ( no doubt averil levene) & emo styles floped out of the exploration. alternative music fumbled with savage garden nora jones and thank fukkccfully evolved into industrial trailing into electro , dance music , experimental designs that sound like arthouse blips & blops & herein is the cuban syndrom , Christian stadium Rock & blood of satan sneekers ... Hey mr tambourine man...
@xs650abear62 жыл бұрын
In 1964 in upstate NY it was the Hoods vs the Squeaks. The Hoods being the bikers and the Squeaks being clean cut. I was a Hood, still am today at age 75. Still ride motorcycles too.
@teleguy5699 Жыл бұрын
Growing up early 70's, here in the Massachusetts, us Hippies types were buds with the Greaser types. The greaser type loved their Budweisers (as did we), but us hippy types were into all kinds of psychedelic drugs too. If you were part of of the certain area of town (West End for me), we all got along. We were more into hippy type music and rock, and the Greasers were more into Zep and Alice Cooper and such.
@OldSkoolBiker6211 ай бұрын
@@teleguy5699I have been a Rocker/Biker since my teens.. I have as many hippie friends as I do biker mates.. In the 80's I even lived on the road with many Hippie traveller's/Convoy here In the UK.. I loved the music and the drugs.. we all grow up in the end so I stopped taking drugs but the rest remains. 🏍....... 🤟😎 🏴🇮🇪🇬🇧
@teleguy569911 ай бұрын
@@OldSkoolBiker62 Cool! Rock on my brother.
@chrishenniker5944Ай бұрын
@@OldSkoolBiker62I know some mods ended up becoming hippies once they realised the limitations of speed, but didn’t some rockers end up becoming hippies too? Also, didn’t some rockers end up getting into the leather scene?
@lgwappo2 жыл бұрын
I have a scooter & a motorcycle. Wonder how common that was in that era.
@3socksmorgan485 Жыл бұрын
You were lucky if you could afford both, most youngsters had their bikes and clothes on finance in the 60's
@aubitron2 жыл бұрын
You have to remember every Mod would've been a Rocker one/two years earlier. I can remember looking forward to reaching that magic age of 16 and getting a Triumph Bonneville or Norton Dominator but just like the Teddy Boys to Rockers the Mods were the next 'fashion 'move. Rockers weren't called Rockers until there were Mods, that was the distinction. The Rockers stayed behind, the Mods were the new phase, a new phase with 'STYLE' metaphorically printed on their Suits, their Parkas, their Scooters their Image. I loved my copper plated GS160.....but I look at a Triumph Bonneville today.....and wonder... could I have been a Mod on a Triumph? What a machine!
@brianperry Жыл бұрын
Rockers and/or Mod...you either like the Beatles or the Stones..scooters or motorcycles... dedicated Rocker hang out or Mod places. The picture of a friend and l at 3.29 in about 63/4 ... it was a hell of a time to have ones youth...what ever your affiliations ..
@geoffreycarson231111 ай бұрын
BANG ON g
@bossman19054 ай бұрын
It is great the way you have worded that
@anneshields20102 жыл бұрын
Great to see that the Mods and rockers are still around today but thankfully not having punch ups on a bank holiday weekend on a beach
@anneshields20102 жыл бұрын
My aunt was a Mod and she fell in love with a rocker they met on that weekend in Brighton but ended up staying away from the fights and later on they dated and eventually got married in 1970 and are still together today and they still go to Brighton where they met infact their just back from there
@teleguy5699 Жыл бұрын
Romeo and Juliet story. Or "West Side Story".
@beamboy07 Жыл бұрын
@@teleguy5699yeah
@DancairoOpera2 жыл бұрын
I was a mod back in the day but give me a choice now and I'd take the rockers bikes any day. Just not the 'style' or music :-D
@stigga16672 жыл бұрын
Scooters……For men who like to feel the wind on their vaginas ….. 😂
@robertwilkinson22322 жыл бұрын
Notice 10 mods against 1 rockeries on one no contest
@tinohifi94253 жыл бұрын
rockers merdosi...
@bameygerollheimer44193 жыл бұрын
und was ist daraus entstanden?? mehr oder weniger der amerikanische rocker und schopper scheisdreck !!!
@catpainblackudder013 жыл бұрын
1983 the back end of the Mod revival, I was a 13 year old Mod, fish tail, Fred Perry's , boating jackets, then that summer holiday my mate came back from Liverpool, all Tacchini, Fila and Adidas, we became casuals, football changed for us that year, never looked back, still got a bean can when I was 17...
@davegoldspink53543 жыл бұрын
😂🤣😂 Very different from when I first got my licence here in the early 80s here in Australia. 😂🤣😂 Can see why my dad got arrested so much in the late 50s Britain being a Biker.
@benmacdui93283 жыл бұрын
Pussies on bith sides.
@alanjones63593 жыл бұрын
Saw a rocker once on his back was written if you can read this the bitch fell off !