Post #93458 by TikiGardener on Sat, May 29, 2004 2:40 AM

On 2004-05-29 01:33, donhonyc wrote:
Apples and Oranges, Gardener...

The Who were Mod when Mod was Mod. The Jam were Mod revivalists. Don't get me wrong, they were an AWESOME band. My fave tunes off the top of my head are 'Down In the Tube Station'(live version), 'Set the House Ablaze' , 'This is the Modern World' , 'Town Called Malice' and many others. If Mod was never invented, The Jam would have been it's fathers. They were both ahead of and behind the times. The Who, The Move, (and maybe even in America, The Nazz) and others were the true Mods.

Indeed indeed indeed. Being a revivalist of the 70's, I posted this as a rather obscure tongue in cheek satire of the other this or that threads. But one that I was hoping would bring out the truly fun and high calibre responses it has so far.

But if you want to go one step farther for the fathers of Mod, we gotta go to James Brown, Motown, and all of the Bluesmen the English emulated, and adapted so well.

Can I change my vote to The Yardbirds?

But if anyone says Merton Parkas, theres gonna be blood.

TG