Organic development is what counts.  Back in 78, you found yourself a black Fred Perry top and a pair of Hush Puppies, a parka if you wanted to be taken really, really seriously, and, hey presto! you were a mod.  Because you'd heard Secret Affair or whoever, you were committed to seeing 'Quadrophenia', you'd played The Jam's Greatest Hits to death etc. etc.  I knew guys just like this: the Ace Faces of 79-80. 

And it was totally static. 

Thank heaven - in a way - 'mod' evolved into the mindless worship of Carnaby - mindless because the revivalists were incapable of catching that rather intriguing original spirit, before John Stephens grew massive.  They were just 'beach fighters', slugging it out with the greaser foe in the shopping centres of England on a lazy Saturday afternoon.  Where are they now?  What are they doing with themselves?  They've probably - that crowd - never heard of Hebdidge and Barnes.  They're probably listening to the Arctic Monkeys. 

The organically minded, however, will have evolved, and become pretty hip guys by now.

Yeah, but the whole thing is becoming over-intellectualised.  I'm sure Kingstonian said something on this subject: having sought the style out instead of growing up with it.  Wrong place, wrong time.

True!

Last edited by Prof Kelp (2009-07-31 10:11:33)

Loose-lipped & cool!