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Hi Number Six -- thanks for your welcome, and your continued support for "the future is laidback".

I read your personal stuff and have just one query. . . if you're 28 and the Mods were a sixties phenomenon . . . ?

I remember them well, but I'm a grandad now. I was 14 in 1962 and just decided to educate myself by listening to the bass lines of pop music when -- the Beatles happened! Love or hate him, Paul McCartney revolutionised bass playing and bass lines generally.

Cheers! ~Recumbentman

Cheers Recumbentman - apologies for lateness of reply, I've just swapped jobs and haven't been on h2g2 for a while...

As for the mod thing, well, it was originally a sixties phenomenon but I'm just old enough to vaguely remember the revival of 1979 based around the Jam and the release of Quadrophenia... and I mean very vaguely, but just enough for it to be a mystery to me and for me to look further into as I grew up. I've always been more interested in the recent past than the actual present - far more understandable I reckon - and found more from those two eras to interest me musically and style-wise than what was going on at the time. So when there was another sort of modish revival in around 1994, I jumped on the back of the bandwagon with aplomb... until dullards like Oasis and Ocean Colour Scene joined it.

This last year I've been getting much more into Northern Soul and Motown.

Incidentally, the best thing about this job-swap is that I'm off shifts for three months, and back on to office hours - which means I can cycle to work!