Edd Byrnes (aka KOOKIE) from 77 Sunset Strip is cool cool cool, daddy-o! Here seen teaching the Parisian kids how to swing.
Download kookieswings-vid.wmv [8mb]
Kookie tunes:
More:
77 Sunset Strip info
Hepcat slang
Online Jukebox: Little Steven's Underground Garage > Show 69 > Happy Birthday Kookie! (Playlist here)
I've blogged about these guys before... but now I've found a great videoclip! The Tokyo Rockabilly Club dances every Sunday in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park. Sadly, they seem to be a dying breed. Hope they will still be around when I can afford to visit Tokyo one day.
Related/ Rockabilly Links:
by Steven Siewert
Guitar Wolf is playing at the Knitting Factory, Hollywood MARCH 15, 2005! We have to go. One day we’ll also have to play the Drinking Game (Special Feature of Wild Zero DVD).
The romance is twistedly charming. A young rockabilly falls in love with a … OK, no spoilers :-D Two zombies pledge undying love to one another. The heroes (Guitar Wolf & Co.) have superpowers fuelled by their faith in ROCK N ROLL!!!!
Teds/Rockabillies - The early Teds were 50's working-class British youth. According to Hebdige, the Ted subculture resurfaced in the 70's in antagonism to the Punk Movement. The late 60's-70's also spawned motorcycle gangs (greasers) with rocker sensibilities...
Neo-Mod- Not to be confused with the original mods of the late 50's. The neo-mod subculture happened in the late 70's-80's - the release of Quadrophenia, the movie being a part of this (Also The Jam etc). America had its own version of Mod culture - which had no associations with working-class culture, or 'soul' music...which was more about the Carnaby-Street 'Swinging Sixties' idea (Austin Powers etc)
2-Tone - somewhere between the Mods and the Skins... a ska-sound, a record label and a fashion with The Specials at its head.
Skinheads - The original Skins were into Jamaican Ska and Rocksteady and came after the Mods in the late 60's. Musically, they were more aligned with West Indian community in Britain. In the 80's came a whiter version of Ska exemplified by bands like Madness. Skinhead culture itself was also white and 'racist' (eg Romper Stomper) with Neo-Nazi leanings.
