The Who, The Mods, And The Quadrophenia Connection - part 5 

I love that description of 'Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy' by the guy in this film - " for a 14/15 year old it was good and snotty" Love it ! Not too many albums described as 'Good And Snotty' over the years..

First Gig was The Jam at the old Bingley Hall in Birmingham I was 13 I still remember them opening with Strange Town It was the Gift tour so it was about 12 months before they split I think? Weller had started to expand their sound , I remember there was a Brass section and a keyboardist on some of the songs but nothing could match that raw aggression of the greatest 3 piece ever Well for me at least Wellers half shouted heavily accented vocals ( always hated vocalists who put on a fake singing voice) meant YOU could relate sing along without any inhibitions, he just sounded like you and me but from Woking, and suburban poetry and chunky amazingly aggressive but melodic Rickenbacker complemented to perfection with Foxton and Bucklers impeccably tight playing It was the perfect combination and I still consider it a honour to be able to say that was my first gig I actually got into the Who through the Jam and I remember clearly the Mod revival of 79 to 83 iT was undisputedly led by the Jam Got myself a pair of black bowling shoes with with a white stripe down the middle Bought them off the school Glue head for a quid , a big teddy boy actually They hurt a bit to wear for too long because the sole of them had a flat nail head that just stuck up enough to bother you but I remember wearing them to school just to piss off the Year Head as Trainers were banned but these garish monstrosities (in his eyes ) WERN`T trainers so it was a case of "what you gonna do about it Sir? Jeeze, that felt so rebellious and good to do! 🤣🤣🤣 I always remember , because I lived only 5 minutes from the school, he actually came round my house to see my parents after he caught me and 3 friends wagging off in the afternoon one day after lunch I always remember his face as he drove down the road in his car and we walked up it and all our eyes met , I`d never seen the miserable old fart so happy , catching all 4 of us at once I remember he was moaning his head off at my parents because he said I looked like a penguin in my Jam shoes Memories

Great film,great soundtrack,........great memories for so many people .

It's laughable listening to the individuals trying to minimize Weller and The Jam's influence in peoples' universal awareness of Mod culture.

These days, these days.... magical and my life commentary via incredible music!

Lot of memories brought on by the film,unless you lived in this 60s mod era,probs will not register what it was all about,still dizzy myself😵‍💫🤗✌️

I watched Quadraphenia in a cinema with four Mods in it (my brother, two mates and myself) and about 500 Rockers. Every time the mods got bashed the theatre erupted in cheers.

Stories about their own youth. It was 1969. Oi-Music and Punk-Rock-Return in 1979. Everything later is history long ago, too.

the chords were a top band very distinct songs like one more minute

I was "the only mod in Texas" when I was is high school. I told my punk rock pot smoking friends that they would be hippie aciddropping hippies that they would wind up in a film by whatshis name from Austin Dig it , right?

Fairly perceptive insights from some of those involved. But one of rock's most articulate skeptics (cynics?)-- Andy Partridge, sometime of XTC-- may have put it most succinctly: 'You've learnt no lessons/all that time so cheaply spent there's no youth culture/only masks they let you rent...' (Travels in Nihilon)

Equating anything 70's with Mod is just silly. The Jam and Paul Weller were awesome around the early albums (In the City, All Mod Cons) but nothing later. Also, there was only one true Mod group and that was The Small Faces (and perhaps The Action). Others were a commercial adaptation.

It's worth mentioning that Hewitt got the hump with Weller for not getting him free tickets for an awards ceremony, and after a thirty year friendship decided to sell him down the river and write a book about him. Nice fella.

Paul Weller is NO Modfather. ModBaby more like.