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1970s G1 Titled “ perfect greasers”
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dinomartino1
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Me London mid 80s titled "drunk in camden town tube station"
Mates wearing nomex USAF flight jacket and schott bomber jacket
Same night this one is titled "Brahms and Liszt at the kentish town workers club"
Aspiring ton up boy with mum 1979 or 80
I saved up from the age of 16 to get my first bike.
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dinomartino1
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In the UK they never stopped.
Nomex flight jackets [no idea why they where never my cup tea], schott bomber jackets [just about everybody I knew had one] and the odd A2 [eastman and aero] where popular wear for UK rockabilles in the 80s.
The guys in the pic look familiar I think they are actors
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stanier
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Great pics Mr Flynn. I remember the faces from the Camden pics. Crying shame that the Kentish Town Camden Workers club was allowed to be demolished. Loved that place and quite apart from the rockin' do's there it should have been listed, imho. Through one of those quirks of fate that life throws at you sometimes I met the local government mandarin that delivered the sell off and demolition of the workers club. In fact I had to work with him. I left.
Sorry to digress....
Sorry to digress....
Royalcrown32
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That is an early photo of The Paladins from San Diego. A great Rockabilly-Blues band. The third guy from the left looks like a young James Intveld.
busdrivermike
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As others mentioned it’s a group called the paladins, I don’t think the greaser looked
Ever truly went away, especially in the 70s/80s with happy days, Laverne & Shirley, American graffiti and other
Television and movies, and books like the outsiders , arguably it’s as, if not more iconic then the cowboy or western
Music, dating/sex ,hot rods rebellion it’s even fairly big in Japan.
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dinomartino1
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The best 1980s US rockabilly track [only in my opinion] from 1980 the blasters,, " marie marie" at the time not a whole from the states we knew about in London at the time except for robert gordon who started recording rockabilly in the late 70s and the paladins whose first first recording in 82. the stray cats where not as popular as you would think with UK rockabillies though they had their admirers
I was in London at the time so maybe other US bands I don\'t know much about.
Robert gordon so young
From the 1992 Go Cat Go -"Please Mama Please" recored at sun studios 1992
I was in London at the time so maybe other US bands I don\'t know much about.
Robert gordon so young
From the 1992 Go Cat Go -"Please Mama Please" recored at sun studios 1992
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Spitfireace
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Go Cat Go!
dinomartino1
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A long time ago, Jonesboro, Arkansas on a trip to visit Larry Donn in his hometown with a band called the playboys from London.
White bucks where very hard to get in england at the time, as you can see they where the first item on everybody's shopping list.
White bucks where very hard to get in england at the time, as you can see they where the first item on everybody's shopping list.
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dinomartino1
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Transition days between the ted/rocker look and rockabillies a mix of styles at first but quickly segmented, teds did not on the whole like rockabillies seeing themselves as the original torchbearers so to speak.
I hung and my up drape and creepers not long afterwards and got a mac curtis flat top or what they would say in the states a flat top with fenders popular in the early days not so later on.
Mac curtis king records 1956
A few years later now a full blown rockabilly.
Think these where taken at silks in shepards bush,1980s
Not rockabilly but one of my favourite bands in the early 80s, the stargazers from 1982.
I hung and my up drape and creepers not long afterwards and got a mac curtis flat top or what they would say in the states a flat top with fenders popular in the early days not so later on.
A few years later now a full blown rockabilly.
Think these where taken at silks in shepards bush,1980s
Not rockabilly but one of my favourite bands in the early 80s, the stargazers from 1982.
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Spitfireace
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Them were the days man. I graduated high school in 1979 so it's like familiar stuff for me!
Carl
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The pics of the Stargazers brought some memories flooding back !!!
Spitfireace
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Spitfireace
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psycho who?
Like what band?
Like what band?
