Pete Townshend

[Liv]

Mod or fraud!? From original Mods only please!!

[Aunt_Acid]

Why do you care about that? You listen to Green Day.

[Liv]

Well you see that would be because i'm studying mods and rockers for my A2 media thanks!Oh and i ahppen to like a wide range of music including The Who and not just Greenday.

[Aunt_Acid]

Psh. I'll bet Animals is your favorite Pink Floyd album too.

[Liv]

just guessing but i got a hunch that u may be a bit of a music snob. anyway if you've got nothing helpful to say for my project then dont bother

[Earth-Angel]

Not to be rude, but this is Music Discussion, not Project Help - all comments are relevent to the discussion

RW knows alot about the kind of music you are asking for information about, come on Chris, add something interesting

What is your project criteria? Perhaps consolidatnig all your other posts into one might bring the discussion out and make a little more sense? What are you studying, sounds like a cool class if it involves music discussion too!

[Liv]

its popular music and youth culture. mine is the mods and rockers. the criteria is to put out questions on message boards as it is secondary research. if you have names of any other message boards that would be useful or whatever please let me know. i mean i could email pete townshend himself but somehow i dont think hed reply!!

[Madeleine49128]

i think that mods are good. go mods. woo. they greatly influenced the development of music culture throughout the century

[Aunt_Acid]

So when you say Mod or Fraud, you want to know if he was really a mod, or just pretending?

[_jr_]

I might be able to help out here, if someone explained to me what a Mod is. Seriously.

[Aunt_Acid]

From what I understand, like an English hippie.

[_jr_]

Like Austin Powers?

[SoulGirl]

no, they weren't hippies. they were really posh and well dressed, used to wear shirts, blazers and tight trousers, that kind of thing. and they loved the who and other bands like that. and they had a huge rivalry going with the rockers, which led to some violence.

[Batman]

And they liked pills, you can't forget that part

[Liv]

thanks soulgirl thats right. they r def not hippies. nowt like it at all. www.modculture.com is the best to explain all in comparison to the rockers. basically it was a new decade but nothing had changed and they were bored as hell. they needed something new for their generation and so created their own music and culture. unlike the rockers who were still living back in the 50's with elvis and suchlike. the mods saw them as boring!!