Cheers, Tim. I'm just honest and upfront about things - I'm a very open, 'straight up' kind of guy; if I don't know about something, I say so, rather than bullshitting just to save face. I'm quite happy to admit my ignorance on a particular subject. At least then people know that when I'm commenting about something I do know about, my views are based on genuine experience and knowledge, and not waffle for the sake of it.

Too many people are the other way, IMO!

Beechy,

April 1980, as far as that pic is concerned but it's a bit of a trademark. I think I was thinking of when the whammy bar went into his hand... some time in 1994 (is there a :yawn: smiley anywhere?!)
Cheers for the info, but like I said I wouldn't know. In either 1980 or 1994 I wasn't into The Who, but I'll certainly remember about them now!

I first got into The Who as a result of the Quadrophenia movie, released in 1979. It came at the start of the second mod revival, very contemporary with bands like The Jam around at the time. The album came out in '73.
Ah, I was never into the mod thing at all. I think that I may have seen Quadrophenia once but I really can't remember it. Undoubtedly it's a classic; I should watch it again sometime. You see, I was a biker or 'rocker' (well, I got my first motorbike in 1981) and hated the mod thing with a passion; probably why I wasn't into the music! There were guys at school with their (what I thought) silly looking Parker jackets with 'targets' on the back, which we (the 'rockers') put to good use in more ways than one - let's just say a few 'bull’s-eyes' were struck with some 'interesting' missiles .

Also, the girls at our school seemed to fancy 'rockers' more than mods maybe because of the leather jacket, tight 'drainpipe' jeans and Doc Marten boots thing (I had 18-hole Docs with green laces and a proper biker's jacket with Gong's 'Flying Teapot' on the back), so between the girly thing and not particularly liking the music there was no attraction in being a mod for me whatsoever.

The mods at our school tended to be spotty, geeky, guys with greasy hair and were not seen as 'cool' by us in any way - at least this was our mentality at the time. They had their silly little scooters ridiculously adorned with mirrors and were to us a joke. I used to love coming into school with my Yamaha RD50 'fizzy' with its 'racing bike' exhaust and which had been tuned to do a whopping 70mph! Well, it seemed fast then as bikes in those days were restricted to 30mph... All I'll say is that I was never short of female passengers on the back and places to go during the lunch break

Musically at that time I flitted between typical 'rocker' bands of the day such as Rush, AC/DC, Sabbath, UFO, Motorhead, etc, and 'new romantic'/electronic stuff such as I described earlier and the likes of Howard Jones, The Thomson Twins, Kajagoogoo, Blancmange, OMD, ABC - all sorts of shit. I'll even admit to liking Wham!, Michael Jackson and Duran Duran

So you can see how The Who didn't really fit into my world at the time, and they've not really come into my 'zone' much since.

Marco.