DISQUS

Why doesn't this site allow capital letters, it looks like we have no keyboard skills, lol?

Yeah, I saw Charlie and Jims site, they must have lost all the pics they have of me!!! lmao. I tried to email you but the link doesn't work at the top.

If you want you can take whatever you like for the glasgowmods myspace, or if you want originals mail me at the addy I provided here. There are some of me and also some of the sitehill glory boys, see what you want and help yourself mate.

http://www.myspace.com/glasgowmods

I know who you are Stevie, lol, I remember meeting you more times that just halloween, lol. Where you drunk mate?

Hopefully I'll be back at Friday Street soon.

I married a sitehill glory boy, lol

Love the site. I have some pics you could have, if I work out how to load them up. I never see me anywhere. The video on you tube was great too.

If I can't load them here, get in touch, I'll mail you them.

April

where did Rab repost, it seems to be nowhere to be found. A lot of posts are disappearing on here lately from all different people. Is there some sort of site glitch at play? Maybe admin could look into it.

The Melting Pot at Zico on the 5th April has to be one of the best nights Ive been to so far. The bands were brilliant. First up were modus with their own flavour of music and everyone was all dancing away to their tunes, really great set. Next up were the Underground Jam. Now my old memory told me I didn't really like the Jam much back in the day but they did it so well that I was singing along and dancing to all the old Jam classics. I now know I did actually like a lot of the old Jam stuff.

The guys were fantastic and the sound was impeccable, Ross evenbelted out an amazing rendition of My Generation, which was extremely well received. Close your eyes and you were at a Jam gig.

After the bands there was a fantastic mix of music from beat and soul to ska, we all had a great time and the Melting Pot guys came up trumps again with another special night.

I know Charlie took a few pics there of us and the band members, will they be going up here?

lol, have to add a bit agin, sorry. The Dave Clark Five were inducted this year, which is brill for them, they deserved it, now they were a good mod band.

lol, yeah I know they were in the band too, it was Kenney Jones that brought Stewart onboard. I'll see if I can find the link again. Charlie must have been muddled when he told me you two were trying to help the Small Faces in their bid to get into the hall of fame.

Rod Stewart, on his own, was inducted in 1994. I'll try and find the link again on my bulletin board but it was a while ago and will take me some time to go through it. There was one for the Ronettes too. Problem is, these bands don't get a second look as there's the "it's not rock and roll mentality"

I'll do what I can.

Oh dear, don't mean to flood but Pinky, if you go to mods reunited you see a list of posts, one of which is called Members Photo's, meant to add that. I think you will see them there, right on the first page if you use the link here.

OOps sorry about that pinky, I get the sites a little muddled sometimes as I've been a member for all of them for a while and all the site owners are linked.

Talk about muddled, on the front page of the site I noticed there was an appeal to sign a petition to get the faces onto the rock and roll hall of fame. I'm wondering if you mean The Small Faces, I signed the petition with everyone else a while back on myspace. The Faces was a group formed in 1969 and the front man was Rod Stewart, although ex band member Ronnie Lane was in the Faces.

Just thought I would tip you off so you could change it,just hope Steve Marriots daughters didn't see it yet, lol

In the mickey oates pic, the guy at the back on the far right is Snod (Alan Sloan) his brother is Billy Sloan the DJ, he was from springburn, I think. Rocognised jeff Black in there too, at the back left in white jumper. So many faces I know in that pic, brings it all back. I'm sad every time I look at Johnny Wallace and Peter Docherty (both sighthill glory boys), I wish they were still here. :(

If I'm not mistaken, with my old eyes, lol, my ex Mick Prior is the second from the right at the front. Like I said, it's hard to see.

Pinky, the mods reunited is The Scottish Mod Scene forum, like Jimmy said, the link is on the list on the right under the heading links

I think, perhaps Mikey is busy at the moment running Friday Street and also admin on the Scottish Mod Scene Forum with Craig Wilson from the Melting Pot. The guys work really hard to promote and run events for the mods in Glasgow and I doubt that leaves them a lot of free time to pop into other forums. I doubt very much if they are ignoring anyone, maybe they just want to give you space to do your own thing, while they do theirs.

Robert, it was great to see you again on Friday, sorry I didn't get a lot of chance to catch up with you. First time I haven't been the taxi for a while and I had a bit much to drink, lol.I remember a lot of people you've mentioned and those were great times.

The only reasin it isn't the same just now is because we aren't all around, get all the gang down there and it'll be just like old times.

Hopefully see you again soon, oh and you're looking well.

Janny, good to see you found this place

jeese, I must be a right old bugger as I remember her, lol. My mum and aunties loved her and dusty among others.

I remember Div, hope you remember me too Div, see ya if you ever come to one of the nights

Jim don't you dare tire yourself out before the weekend, we have a lot of catching up o do and I'm expecting late night laughs and catch ups. I have even decided to clean out the room you'll be using so feel honoured young man, lol.

To explain, poor Jim is staying with me for the weekend and he has to share a room with all the stock for the shop, lmao, oh and the moggy who attacks feet, don't tell him please.

I missed the Modus gig cos someone didn't remind me :( lol. They are playing in Zico's on the 5th April, backing band for The Underground Jam rumours abounded this gig was cancelled but it is going ahead as planned and has been confirmed by The Melting Pot. There were some last minute hitches with negotiation with the club involved and this has been sorted out.

sivanpunk

I would agree that it's great to get information from us lot that have been there but would urge you to do as much research as you can from other places too. You can't just go by what other people say as this is our personal opinion and experiences are different for all mods. I would urge you to continue with your own research into these areas, perhaps get the views of others too.

The main thing is to form your own opinion and start basing your style on your own findings and opinions, this is what makes us individuals.

The number one rule (for me) about being a mod, is to not just follow the crowd. Mods were leaders in fashion, not followers, so strike out on your own and learn all you can and your own style will follow that.

Please keep in touch and let us know how you're doing, welcome to the fold.

Robert, I remember you from back then, I also recognised the name once I knew the surname. I think I can even see my ex in the pics with the cranhill and sighthill mods pics. I married Mick Prior of the Sighthill Glory Boys, sad but true but it's ok we're divorced now, lol. Had two kids with him.

Thanks for letting us see these pics, good memories for me.

Oh and I think I've seen you in Friday Street before but didn't know you, could be wrong though.

NG we never had any probolems in that street in the late seventies and we had the scooters lining the street. It must have changed after I left.

There are a few stories of where the tag 'numbers' came from. Another theory is from the wearing of t-shirts with numbers on them. Jordana Robinson does quite a good descriptive on mods and where it all began, I can't quote it here out of respect for her request to not copy her work but you could search on the net for her.

I suppose we will all just have to go by our own experiences and the stories we've been told I don't see a reason for disagreement or contradiction here.

I checked a little into this and came up with this from the bbc.co.uk site which kinda confirms two layers of mod, at least.

"From being a scattering of ultra hip subterranean club dwellers, Mod had quickly evolved to take on a definitive culture and structure of its own. At the top, there were the Aces, still on the cutting edge, still setting the pace, still listening to the hippest tunes. The individuals may have changed, but the attitude had not. It was perfectly possible, while grooving to obscure ska tracks in some Shepherd's Bush basement club, to bump into David Bailey, Twiggy and Mary Quant in the same evening.

The next strata were the instantly recognisable and much maligned ‘Tickets’ or ‘Numbers’. They were first noticed in East London, when gangs of arrogant, strutting kids began to descend upon dancehalls and nightclubs, causing inevitable confrontation. Their look generally followed where the Aces lead, although with a more working class flavour. The shapeless army surplus Parka coat became iconic as well as practical. It protected the wearers’ expensive weekend suits from the vagaries of the London climate, and was also kept the cold out while weaving among the traffic on the regulation scooter. These scooters – predominantly Italian Vespa and Lambretta models – were spectacular. Bedecked with peacock fans of wing mirrors, and decorated with numerous headlights, crash bars, whip aerials, white wall tyres and high backed seats, they were possibly the coolest thing ever to hit the tarmac."

I would say that everyone should do their own research to make sure they get an accurate account as we all seem to disagree on some areas.

For some reason some posts don't show up in here. I answered you sivan but I will also post the answer on the glasgowmods myspace blog in case it doesn't come through here, not sure what happened there but it isn't showing.

Sorry, should have added. Politics, now this is a personal thing now and it was personal then. Some people are political and some are not. I'm not sure what you are meaning when you refer to 'politics' though. Please enlighten on what you mean, are we talking about the politics or the worlds economy or some other type of politics?