Back in the day!

[AceFace]

Me back in the day in Leeds, I can't remember the year, think it's 1979, I struggle to remember my own name these days what were you? Punk, New Wave ( Yuk) Rockers ( As if ) Skin Heads, or a Bay City Roller Fan

 

[silentsquirrel]

I hope there's an "or none of the above" option!!

 

[Robin]

I hope there's an "or none of the above" option!!

I do hope so!
I think my worst atrocity was ripping up the sides of my already flared jeans and letting in an insert of contrast material, with a strip round the bottom as well, to make them really flared. That would be when I first went to Uni in 1975. The following year, the trend went to narrow bottomed jeans, luckily I’d worn my flared pair out by then with near constant use.

 

[C&E Guy]

I wore a new pair of jeans riding my bike. The flares caught in the chain. Ripped them and got oil on them.

Oops!

 

[trophywench]

I never purchased a pair of jeans until I was 30+. One's mama and papa considered them to be manual working men's wear, end of story. Certainly couldn't wear them to work in an office and I didn't do any manual work except decorating and gardening, so just wore the oldest clothes that it didn't matter getting dirt, to do jobs like those.

I bought them to go to a barbecue we'd been invited to - the West Midlands Ski Club midsummer bash at my friend's farm, held in their barn. I quite liked wearing them!

 

[nonethewiser]

Always a rocker, heavy rock mainly in younger years, had long hair & rode motorbikes so also had the look of rocker at time.

 

[CliffH]

Me back in the day in Leeds, I can't remember the year, think it's 1979, I struggle to remember my own name these days what were you? Punk, New Wave ( Yuk) Rockers ( As if ) Skin Heads, or a Bay City Roller Fan View attachment 34446

"Bye Bye Baby, Baby Guidbye"

 

[AceFace]

"Bye Bye Baby, Baby Guidbye"

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Please No

 

[CliffH]

Please No

"We want The Rollers! We want The Rollers!"

 

[Drummer]

A bit blurry but that was me back in the 1970s. I rode a BSA 650cc A10, and I still have the white jeans with the gold inserts somewhere around the house. I don't think I'll ever get them on again though, even though the 28 inch waist was rather loose on me back then.

 

[AceFace]

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A bit blurry but that was me back in the 1970s. I rode a BSA 650cc A10, and I still have the white jeans with the gold inserts somewhere around the house. I don't think I'll ever get them on again though, even though the 28 inch waist was rather loose on me back then.

Oh no not another Rocker 😱 is there any mods on here

 

[Vonny]

Sorry, no mods here in the Mr and Mrs Vonny household. Strictly prog and hard rock from the late 60s onwards! Mr Vonny rode a Triumph ? but I never felt safe on motorbikes. Plus I don't know my kick start from my elbow!

 

[CliffH]

Oh no not another Rocker 😱 is there any mods on here

Well I grew up in the next road from two of The Merton Parkas

 

[Chris Hobson]

In 1979 I was riding an MZ motorbike, excellent bike but Eastern European bikes didn't have a lot of street cred. Music wise I always liked rock but I liked The Kinks, The Jam and The Who as well. I never really got scooters though.

 

[paultrose]

1979?.......18 years old....first job......little yamaha rs100 on L plates......musically i was all over the place....like now.....kate bush to black sabbath.....ian dury to soixsie and the banshees

Scary thing is i learnt to ride on a lambretta of unknown capacity at 14.....brother had aquired two knackered ones and made 1 good one.....i rode it round our big garden when he wasnt around lol

 

[CliffH]

In 1979 I was riding an MZ motorbike, excellent bike but Eastern European bikes didn't have a lot of street cred. Music wise I always liked rock but I liked The Kinks, The Jam and The Who as well. I never really got scooters though.

The Who were rockier than a rocky thing!

 

[chaoticcar]

Anybody remember The Four Pennies ?

 

[Drummer]

Oh no not another Rocker 😱 is there any mods on here

Rocker!! Plllleeeeasse - I was a hippy!!

Though I did some roadying and still have loads of the leather jackets they used to hand out to the crews.

They still do it apparently, but the last crew I came across was touring with 'In the night garden' - doesn't have quite the same cred as Hair or The Who.

 

[Quill]

I'm probably a bit young for this thread in a way, but my Dad was a Mod (that drove/roadied for 10cc and Boney M)
My mum was more 'Glam', I suppose, Bowie, T. Rex and all that.
A funny combo looking back

I'm a lifelong little grunger/metal head, or 'Mosher' I suppose, being a teen in the 90s.

 

[AceFace]

I'm probably a bit young for this thread in a way, but my Dad was a Mod (that drove/roadied for 10cc and Boney M)
My mum was more 'Glam', I suppose, Bowie, T. Rex and all that.
A funny combo looking back

I'm a lifelong little grunger/metal head, or 'Mosher' I suppose, being a teen in the 90s.

Your dad had great taste