Mods & Rockers

[Ashley 288]

Needs some names putting to those faces?

Friar is wearing Hells Angels colours?

Only names I recall and mostly nicknames are top row 4th from left( Titch? 5th Taffy, 6th Stuart Middle Roger Thornley (Thor) Friar me and at end Eric Hanaran knew most of other but forget names

[mgread1200 141]

i remember being at the dungeon on one of pete stringfellows nights when a whole load of rockers came down to sought out the mods. pete cooled the whole situation somehow and it all came to nothing. i became a pete stringfellow fan that night, i had good mates on both sides

mg

[Craig Strongman 13]

What, you mean the rockers actually got in, cos I thought that would've been almost impossible,

or did Mr S go outside to sort it?

I do remember one midweek night, immediately before Goose fair where some of the fair boys came down to cause aggro, I cant recall if they did though, but a mate who had worked on the fair for a while was singled out by the mini boys, and got a pasting before Pete Lemon stepped in.

Oh, MG, there are two threads relating to The Dungeon also in the 60's bit.

[mgread1200 141]

your memory is better than mine craig i dont remember them getting in, mr s didnt go outside to cool it would you

mg

[Craig Strongman 13]

Hi MG, thats the point I was making....did they get in? Cos I dont see how they could, thats what I meant, and yes, I certainly would have gone outside to them, if I was Pete!! I remember someone questioning his sexuality when he was dj'ing at The Dungeon once, and Petes reply was that if 6 girls would care to line up on stage, he would.....ahem.....you know what!!!

[mgread1200 141]

Hi MG, thats the point I was making....did they get in? Cos I dont see how they could, thats what I meant, and yes, I certainly would have gone outside to them, if I was Pete!! I remember someone questioning his sexuality when he was dj'ing at The Dungeon once, and Petes reply was that if 6 girls would care to line up on stage, he would.....ahem.....you know what!!!

hi craig, i didn,t hear that, dont think there is any question about his sexuality from what weve seen and heard on the media, but who knows?. maybe i,m being nieve but i cant remember another era when there was such a split over music and fashion. then again i was bringing a family up by the early seventies off the scene so to speak. were you down there when the dixie cups were on? never saw anything fall so flat as when they tried to rally support for the boys in vietnam.

mg

[Craig Strongman 13]

No I didnt go to that one, I remember a similar response from us regulars when Mick the owner tried to put on a band that was promoted as,"Not so much a band, more a way of life" or very similar, they were called This End, and were a pshychedelic outfit, needless to say, they got more than a few boos!

Once when I was going down the stairs, The Action were coming up, it made my day that i got so close to them! A similar thing happened with Amen Corner too. And dont get me started on how I shook Lee Dorsey, and Edwin Starrs hands! Odd to think now, that his widow has watched me perform recently at The Westgate Suites!"

[mgread1200 141]

No I didnt go to that one, I remember a similar response from us regulars when Mick the owner tried to put on a band that was promoted as,"Not so much a band, more a way of life" or very similar, they were called This End, and were a pshychedelic outfit, needless to say, they got more than a few boos!

Once when I was going down the stairs, The Action were coming up, it made my day that i got so close to them! A similar thing happened with Amen Corner too. And dont get me started on how I shook Lee Dorsey, and Edwin Starrs hands! Odd to think now, that his widow has watched me perform recently at The Westgate Suites!"

edwin starr was very freindly with his audiance, an old mates claim to fame was meeting him at the dungeon and being given his tie. cant remember which mate it was. lads i used to know down there rad snowdon, geoff seymour, pat scott, geoff blackett, jimmy ?. last time i saw jimmy he was flogging stuff from a suitcase outside the black boy. think rad snowdon did a bit of d jing in later years when it became the 8 till late. you a musician then craig.

mg

[Beefsteak 305]

I recall that strange glow when I shook Edwins hand too, I was lucky to get dragged on stage (With others) to sing backing vocals for him at Madisons once.

[Craig Strongman 13]

edwin starr was very freindly with his audiance, an old mates claim to fame was meeting him at the dungeon and being given his tie. cant remember which mate it was. lads i used to know down there rad snowdon, geoff seymour, pat scott, geoff blackett, jimmy ?. last time i saw jimmy he was flogging stuff from a suitcase outside the black boy. think rad snowdon did a bit of d jing in later years when it became the 8 till late. you a musician then craig.

mg

Hang on, i think I know Jimmy, and Geoff, I might be wrong but didnt they come from Sneinton? That bit may be wrong, but before I sterted going to The Dungeon, a mate, in fact the one beaten up by the mini boys, had a "club"well, it was basically a room that was linked to a Baptist church, and to get it, we had to go to church regularly.

Anyway, we opened it on Monday nights, swappd the light bulbs for coloured ones, and used an Elpico record player to blast out the sounds of the day, including soul and Motown. Im certain that some of the guys you mention used to come.

Did Jimmy have a bit of a...lets say, a different walk?

And no MG, not a musician, im a dj, and more than once ive had Jean Starr dancing to what I played! Although when I joined Radio Trent in 1980, they altered my real surname down to Strong, and, apart from here, thats what ive been known as since, unless I mention my proper one to link to my ice hockey playing dad.

[mgread1200 141]

could well have been them, geoff & jimmy were always together dont know where they lived though i only saw them at the dungeon. cant remember the walk but then again you remember how dark it was.

mg

[mgread1200 141]

any one remember the mod hangout above a pub on glasshouse st

[BAZZER 10]

any one remember the mod hangout above a pub on glasshouse st

The White Hart (I think it was) had a nupstairs room/bar in the 60's.

We saw Ambrose Slade there one night.

[Craig Strongman 13]

Not hard, but I wonder if everyone knows who Ambrose Slade are?

[mick2me 3,033]

Maybe it was Noddy Holder and crew?

[Ashley 288]

I think he was Gurney's brother

[Beefsteak 305]

Named after ????

[Fynger 841]

Mr Gurney ? !laughing!

[Beefsteak 305]

Ambrose Slade yer twit ..

[Fynger 841]

Close...... Owt to do wi Rice puddin ?

[Beefsteak 305]

Nah, Craig should know

[mgread1200 141]

The White Hart (I think it was) had a nupstairs room/bar in the 60's.

We saw Ambrose Slade there one night.

thats the place, thanks bazzer

[jan kononowicz 8]

Never ever throw me a challenge, see not so bad afterall, the women on here are a little nosy when it comes to whom they are talking too especially Caz. now you have come out I have others, see Link..

Use link to be take to see more Roadio Trent DJs of the past..Radio Presenters of the past for Radio Trent

!clapping! what happened to the thing under your nose..look like 60's porn star. not a mod haircut either,Used to get a lift to the Bung on the back of Ivan from Bulwell lambo SX 200.Both of us, had full length leather coats .I sat a full head higher than Ivan.quite windy.He was another butcher.see you in long eaton tonight. jan

[jan kononowicz 8]

your memory is better than mine craig i dont remember them getting in, mr s didnt go outside to cool it would you

mg

!clapping! I remember both nights when they happened .the fair lads came down on Rape night which was so called the weds night before Goose Fair..they had to get past Big Barry Price who worked the door,who happened to be a biker but a very big biker.I can remember when he lifted me up one handed.when he stood outside you had to squeeze past him to get in because the enterance was narrow.

[Ashley 288]

yes Baz was big, 6ft 6 and around 21 stone, sadly he died last year, once saw him pick one bloke up and hit another with him at Blackpool, Big Mick also 6'6" was also in the fight and a Blidith miner, he was little only about 6'4" ! Can just imagine when the geordies got back home "Whey Man, never go to nottingham for a fight, they're all giants!" (more so back then 1969ish)