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The Weekender Era

1990s Los Angeles greasers (Hispanics and Anglos)

Long Beach *the Madman, a greaser from the early 2000s reminisces about the greaser scene in the Los Angeles area with the help of a short clip of the Wanderes, a Hispanic greaser gang from Orange county.

2019 A Greaser isn’t quite the same as a Rockabilly

Here’s a long introspection by *the Madman from Long Beach, south of Los Angeles, about the difference between being a greaser and rockabilly. The Madman graduated from high school in 2007 which means that he was born around 1979. @dawnofthethread2760 3 years ago Early to mid-90s there were “Rebels” in LA. No pomp’s just slicked […]

And they went off the rails … 0 – Why these articles?

Some word of explanation needs to be given for the series of articles ‘And they went of the rails …?’. Rock’n’roll of itself is – and should always – be inclusive, but that said Teds can be prickly as to what counts as rock’n’roll music and to what counts as rock’n’roll hairstyle and sartorial practice. […]

And they went off the rails … 6 – 1975 Confederate Rebels

The Confederate Rebel look for some teds never became dominant anywhere but seems to have started as something of a fun prank in 1975 when some 250 south London teds – after too much drink, no doubt – resurrected the Confederate States of America under their president Sunglasses Ron and promptly declared war on the […]

1983 London Hepcats on ‘The 6 o’clock Show’

Here is an unedited half-an-hour footage of a report by Paula Yates for LWT’s ‘The 6 o’clock Show’ on the rock’n’roll movement in London in 1983. We see the Cheeks nightclub in Deptford. Here’s an enticing piece of information by God-knows who *jlittlecarl uploaded as a YT comment about 2016 “There was another part of […]