Modern Vespa

By late 1950's the original teddy boys were no more, broken up into various sub cultures, most fell by the wayside but two major groups remained and grew from the ruins of what was once the Teddy Boys to become the "Ton Up Boys" and the "Coffee Bar Cats"...
The "Ton Up Boys", were those teddies that had held the motorcycle and American Rock'n'Roll as their foundations and now wore leather, big boots and rode British machines to and from various road side cafés.
The "Coffee Bar Cats" aspired to a more Latin look, and their neo Italian style appreciated modern jazz, ventless thin lapelled box suit jackets and they chose Italian scooters as the superior mode of transport for such well dressed Cats...
It's not hard to figure how these late 50's early 60's sub culture's and indeed underground fashions grew into the Mods and Rockers of the mid 60's.
The Coffee Bar Cats felt they were the modern movement and the Ton Up Boys represented all that was gone and should remain buried in a pile of dirty bikes and dirty leathers. Hence as they grew and needed to encompass all their new members, they eventually termed themselves the Modernists and the Mods were born.

Oh its all clear to me now thanks~

and the mods were a bunch of pill popping, goodtime charlies that burned themselves out, drove their scooters off of cliffs, and got real jobs and lives!

Stefan--What's wrong with goodtime charlies? And popping pills was oh, so modern for the times...also, just how many scooters were driven off cliffs? --besides the one in Quadrophenia, of course--or is that the only source for your Mod learning?

No way! my Momma always said that Pills are from the Devil~

Momma told me not to come

isn't that where the concept for "mods" came from? pete townsend and roger daughtry sitting around in a rock'n roll induced coma of drugs and alcohol, going "oi! i got an idea. lets say we make a movie of these young lads on scooters and whatnot, it'll be a gas!"

now you're trying to tell me mods came before 1979?

whatever.

I know, I know--damn wikipedia came along and ruined my utopian idea of Sting being a bellboy--but the Who did give me the idea for taking as many blue pills as I could at once--too bad they were Viagra

She said "That ain't the way to have fun."

I thought Paul Weller was the first mod.

Not Ben Sherman?

it's good to lay your chin when you're tired ...

I never heard that term before.

teddy boy:

"Son!"


(Wow, are we dating ourselves or what?)

great tunes are timeless