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    Mexican Mods Helped Reshape the Cartel-Ravaged City of Tijuana
    December 15, 2014
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    It's Saturday night at Moustache, a small bar in downtown Tijuana. Every month, mods from the local Baja crew throw the Tijuana a Go-Go party here, spinning James Brown, ? and the Mysterians, and the 13th Floor Elevators to a crowd of skinheads, suedeheads, rude boys, and Mexican mods. If it wasn't for the green-haired girls standing outside, drinking 40s out of brown paper bags, we could easily be in some London basement club 50 years ago.

    But this is a relatively recent sight. Not so long ago, Tijuana was the front line in a vicious inter-cartel turf war; close to 500 people ​were murdered here in the last three months of 2008 alone. And even if you weren't directly involved, you'd inevitably end up affected in some way: Kidnappings and public gun battles were a regular occurrence, and drug gangs would often hang their victims from bridges—or simply pile up their bodies in the streets—as a threat to their adversaries. Tijuana, a border city that's long relied on the US tourist trade, quickly became somewhere that no tourist would ever want to visit.

    However, while American college kids stopped coming down to Tijuana to get shitfaced on cheap tequila, locals and longtime nightlife regulars kept partying, opening bars and restaurants for themselves and their friends. Six years later, with the annual body count cut in half, it's these individuals who have helped to reshape Tijuana into the ​cultural landmark it is today. Among them were the city's mods, who carried on hosting club nights despite all the violence around them.

    "The mod scene in TJ is small, but being a Mexican mod isn't all that different from being a regular Mexican," says Tijuana a Go-Go DJ Astronauta Jackson. "We all like to get fine and dandy, shake our hips to the oldies but goodies and get wasted by the end of the night. It's all about the music mainly. If you want to pop on a Fred Perry and some shiny shoes, cool. It's all the same people getting together and listening to the music."



    Mods emerged in Cold War Britain as a response to the class struggles and expectations leveled at the UK youth of the time. They dressed in expensive Italian suits, dragged their Lambrettas around, discussed art and philosophy, took a bunch of speed at all-night underground parties, and beat the shit out of people for wearing leather jackets. Everything was good for those with a scooter and a Caesar cut. But as certain figures from the counterculture scene drove it into the mainstream, things began to fizzle, with young men and women of the 1970s tending to choose hairspray and swastika patches over braces and Chelsea boots.

    However, after the success of 1979's Quadrophenia, the subculture began to enjoy a renaissance. It was around this time that a small contingent of Mexican dandies adopted the culture for themselves, with Tijuana's new mods collecting records, throwing parties and riding their refurbished scooters through the city's potholed streets. More than 30 years later, that same lot are still around, only older and grayer (time has a tendency of doing that to you), and accompanied by their kids, who are into the mod scene, though may not completely identify with it.



    Some people join a subculture, then, after a month, will switch to another, then another," says Ricardo Jimenez, a 27-year-old suedehead and historian hanging out at Tijuana a Go-Go. "With the mods, that doesn't happen, because there are so few of them. It's not exclusive, though; if you're into the music, they always welcome you. It's all about coexisting and communing."

    Tijuana a Go-Go rages until near daybreak. The music plays on as a fight breaks out and a drunken kid is carried to the pavement by the bartenders. The mods keep dancing until it's time to go home. They'll be back a month later, and a month after that.



    Guy and Miriam Hernandez—who are 51 and 46, respectively—were part of the original Tijuana mod scene in the early-80s. Unlike most of their friends from the era, who got married, had kids and eventually stopped subscribing to the subculture's ethos, Guy and Miriam continued. They now live in a small house decked out in midcentury finds and even raised their kids mod, dressing them in vintage 60s clothes from the day they were born.

    While flipping through records at La Ciruela Electrica, a tiny Tijuana record shop named after 60s psych band the Electric Prunes, Guy, Miriam, and their sons Adam, 21, and Gael, 13, tell me that, for them, being mod isn't a fad; it's their entire way of life.

    "A lot of people get married and they change. I don't know why, but, you know, that's their thing," says Guy, who, along with Miriam, has been throwing 60s dance parties in Tijuana every month for the last six years. "We didn't change, because being mod is what we really like. When you do something you like, you do it for the rest of your life."



    "That's when it becomes a lifestyle. You start looking for the clothes and the records and it just becomes who you are," adds Miriam. "I don't know what's ever going to stop us from being mod or partying. Death? Other than that, I don't see us stopping. Now there's this younger generation who can say this was always their lifestyle. They can say, 'I was born mod.' If they want to change later, that's their choice."

    Adam and Gael don't seem to be in a rush to give up their mod heritage, though. Even though he's teased at school, Gael doesn't have an urge to dress like his schoolmates. "They dress kind of ugly," he says, refusing to take off his vintage shades because, as he says, they make him look " perrón," or "badass."

    While the Tijuana mod scene might be tiny, social media has allowed its members to connect with those with shared interests in other parts of Mexico and the US. The scenes in Mexico City, Monterrey, Puebla and Nuevo Leon are all going strong, and mods from Los Angeles have ridden down Tijuana to DJ at some of the 60s parties in town. They've created a network of torchbearers for the British subculture, spanning a range of nationalities, ages and sexes.

    "That's one of the advantages of the mod movement," laughs Guy. "Whether you're 20 or 40, you look good when you're a mod."

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    One to get you mods a rocking

    Pattaya Soul Club present Souled Out

    Souled Out – Night to be filmed by Inspire on Saturday 19th March 2016 from 8pm to late at Access Inn Pattaya

    Free flow wine – whilst stocks last (likely around 2 hours) & San Miguel

    Playing the very best of Northern / Motown / Soul

    Door open at 8pm, 400 Baht entry fee

    All proceeds to be donated to “Take Care Kids”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neverna View Post
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    Would love to, can not see it happening at the moment.

    Maybe someone else in CM can go and post up the pics..

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    1980s Mod Rally Cassettes – Tape 1 – 60s Soul, Northern Soul, 60s R&B & Mod Music

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    This post is one which I was eager to include within the memories and nostalgia section of this site. Partly because it is one which that I knew I would enjoy writing. However in addition, one which I wanted to share with like minded individuals and friends who have requested that I post the track listings from my 1980s Mod rally cassettes. Here is the story of how I was to reacquaint myself with what I term my “lost tapes”.

    1980s Mod Rally Cassettes

    I am one of those individuals who likes to keep momentoes from throughout my life. Reminders as well as possessions that capture moments and memories that span through nearly my five decades on this planet. A few years ago we made a conscious decision to visit our loft. With good intentions of sorting through a few of our storage boxes. So bearing the above in mind and I’m sure that some can relate to, it was one that was filled with trepidation! However it was a pleasant surprise when I was to stumble across two plastic crates. Furthermore, little was I to know what I would find inside them. These two crates had the contents of some of my memories from my old Mod days in the 1980s. Not only were there an abundance of flyers, tickets, posters, old scrapbooks, letters etc but also in addition, several Mod rally cassettes.




    Furthermore, on viewing the contents, they remained unspoilt throughout those twenty odd or so years in storage. From the day they had been neatly packed and placed in my parent’s loft before I left home, they had been stored in several lofts of homes throughout the last few decades of my life. Consequently these boxes had also been transported over seventy miles in that time too.
    I am perhaps what some people will describe as a hoarder. Maybe for keeping these collections. Some friends and family tell me that they are totally brutal when sorting through their personal possessions and only keep what they deem necessary. However, I am so glad that I chose to keep these boxes of memorabilia.
    One of the main reasons being is that these cassettes are not just any old tapes. Within every spool is the music that defines my memories of the Mod rallies, Mod allnighters and old friendships. Memories of places, times and people three decades on, that many of us continue to remember with fondness.
    I hope that by sharing this collection of 1960s Soul, early Mod music as well as some which is termed Northern Soul, in this and upcoming future posts will evoke many happy memories. Furthermore that it will bring a smile to your face, as it does for me. Music for me personally, is just as good as viewing old photos, because I find music is the next best thing to captivate those times of the photographs that were never taken.




    Below are the track listings from the first of my Mod rally cassettes ;
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    • The Showman – Our Love Will Grow
    • Lou Johnson – Magic Potion
    • Larry Williams & Johnny Watson – Too Late
    • Moses Smith – Girl Across The Street
    • Julian Covey & The Machine – Little Bit Hurt
    • Dean Parrish – Skate
    • Phil Upchurch Combo – You Can’t Sit Down Part 1
    • Darrow Fletcher – Infatuation
    • Roy Head & The Traits – Treat Her Right
    • James Brown – Love Don’t Love Nobody
    • The Enchantments – I’m In Love With Your Daughter
    • Robert Parker – Barefootin’
    • Little Stevie Wonder – Part Fingertips 1
    • Tony Clarke – Landslide
    • Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels – Breakout
    • Sandy Wynns – The Touch Of Venus
    • Small Faces – Grow Your Own
    • N. F. Porter – Keep On Keepin’ On
    • Ray Charles – I Don’t Need No Doctor
    • Harvey Scales & 7 Sounds – Get Down
    • Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames – El Bandido
    • Jimmy McGriff – Discotheque U.S.A.
    • The Carnaby – Jump And Dance
    • Phil Upchurch Combo – You Can’t Sit Down Part 2
    • Benny Spellman – Fortune Teller

    Updated 19th November 2017
    A special thanks to Rob Cox for creating this Mixcloud upload based on the above tape recordings from my first Mod Rally cassette tape.

    https://soulandmod.com/mod-rally-cassettes-tape-1/




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    Ahead of the bank holiday we are taking a look at ‘Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers’, written by Stanley Cohen and it is a piece of work highly respected by British criminologists. The book looks at the social and media reaction to the conflict between the Mods and Rockers in the 60’s. He wasn’t focused on what caused people to react, he was more interested in their actual reactions. This was something that, at the time, criminology wasn’t really looking at or discussing.
    Stanley Cohen a sociologist and criminologist from Johannesburg, South Africa was a Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics who passed away in 2013. He first came to London in 1963, just before the Mods and Rockers youth riots were taking place around England. In an interview with Vice, Cohen said, “I was working on my PHD in 64-65, when the original mods and rockers confrontations were happening at the seaside. I used to go down to Margate and places like that over bank holiday weekends, conduct interviews and fieldwork.”
    Mods and Rockers were two British youth subcultures in the mid 60’s and 70’s who just didn’t get on with each other. Rockers were old school with motorbikes and café racing, 1950’s rock and roll and leather jackets. Mods were the new kids on the block, snappy dressers, riding scooters and experimenting with amphetamines. Get them both together on bank holiday weekend on the beaches of southern England, stand back and watch it kick off. The constant goings on led them to being branded as ‘folk devils’. Cohen became interested in the conflict between these two groups, but more interested in the way that society and the media was reacting to them.
    In the book, he explains that if someone is acting in a way that is not typical to what society is used to, then the media tends to extremely overreact about it. He talks about how ironic this is, as the more the media cover this new behavior (in this case, the mods and rockers fighting), the more it becomes established. So rather than stopping it, which they were trying to do, they’ve actually helped it to grow. This constant media coverage puts this behavior into a box, making it easier for people to understand it. The media tends to give names to things and explain them, which then gives people an example that they can follow. So now they have an exact formula to copy from, whereas before they didn’t even know what to call it. In the end, instead of getting rid of it completely, the media helped to grow.
    Cohen explains that this fear that society and the media have is called ‘moral panic’. And the term ‘folk devils’ is the term for the groups that are causing this fear. Cohen is said to have coined the term ‘moral panic’, although this phrase can be traced back as far as 1830. He gives a more detailed definition of moral panic, saying that, “moral panics are expressions of disapproval, condemnation, or criticism, that arise every now and then to phenomenon, which could be defined as deviant.” In the rest of the book, he goes on to explain how crime is not a simple black and white concept where there are specific rules. But instead, social reaction determines the direction that crime follows.
    Overall, Cohen suggests that mods and rockers were actually created by the media’s reaction to them. Which means that society’s concern with subcultures only helps them become bigger and more iconic.







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