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Ken,

I would say that The Who and The Kinks certainly turned out to be Rock bands, but they were most definetely Mods when they started out (check out their clobber at the time). Although in the case of The Who I think it's fair too say that they were more Mod when they performed as The Detours and The High Numbers, their manager at the time Kit Lambert (a prominenet Face at the time) probably exerting an influence over them to adopt Mod fashions etc.  As they matured musically they certainly left there Mod roots for Rock, no question there.

Other acts around at the time that Mods were into would include groups like The Small Faces and The Animals. In the case of The Small Faces, they took their name for Mod parlance at the time; 'Faces' being the trend setters with 'Tickets' being merely followers of the fashion.

Mods were definetley the classier dressers of the two factions.

At the time (in the early to mid 60's) Mods were into various styles of music, most notably Soul and Blues ( or was that just the pills?? lol). Rockers, although certainly being fans of Zep, Sabbath etc were, in the beggining anyway, into acts like Gene Vincent, Elvis and the like.

Like you say, Quadrophenia (a terrific film) gives a pretty good account of the rivalvry between the two factions.

A better way of clarifiying the two would be to say (imo at least) that Rockers were greasy, dirty and smelled. Whereas Mods were super cool, clean and didn't smell!!!! lol

Mod; clean living under difficult circumstances.

Craig.

Amy MacDonald.

Her album, This Is The Life, is a damned good one. Although it's more or less a strum along, not too many distinguished guitar parts, it's certainly worth a listen.

Craig.

Spotted this letter in Guitarist magazine....

Dear Abby, I think my wife is cheating on me. I'm a working musician and travel a lot, and recently strange things have been happening when I get home. Her mobile rings and she steps outside too answer it or she says ' I'll call you back later'.

Sometimes she goes out with friends and comes home late, getting dropped off around the corner! I once picked up the extension while she was on the phone and she got very angry.

A mate of mine plays guitar in a band. he told me that my wife and some guy have been to his gigs. He wanted to borrow my amp. Thats when I got the idea to find out what was really going on.  I said that he could use the amp but I wanted to hide behind it at the gig and see who she comes in with. He agreed.
Saturday night came and I slipped behind the half stack to get a good view of the crowd. I could feel the heat from the back of the amp. Crouching down behind my Marshall, I noticed one of the power stage valves wasn't glowing as brightly as the others.

Is this something I can fix myself, or do I need to take it to a technician?

Very concerned, Norwich.

lol

Craig.

An interesting subject this one. Personally I was kinda sceptical about the whole backmasking scenario until I stumbled upon this site,

http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm

One or two of the tracks are pretty neat, you can listen too them forwards then backwards. Theres only around a dozen songs, but its worth a peek too see what you think about it.

Craig.

I was never much of a fan of Pink Floyd up untill about 5 years ago. Sure, I liked one or two of their songs but could never really get into them in a big way.
Now, I've got almost all of their albums!

My favourites do tend to change from time to time, I love the psychedelic sound on some of the 'Piper' tracks but at the moment it wouldn't make my top three. They would be;

1.The Wall.
2.Wish You Were Here
3. Dark Side Of The Moon.

Craig.

Welcome to Chordie Zurf, all the way from sunny *cough* Scotland.

You'll find that most (if not all) of your questions, should you have any will be answered by fellow Chordians. And I'll stick my neck out and say you'll receive a wealth of helpfull info in all the replies.

Craig.

Tina Weymouth??

My fave has got to be ME playing the solo on Californication - RHCP. :L 

I'd agree with arkadys choice of Crossroads most days, other days I'd pick Badge or Strange Brew.

Craig.

Never quite made it too band name status, but The Damned were very nearly called; Mike Hunts Honourable Discharge. It's a good job Chrissie Hynde never got away with giving them their name!

Run the words together and you get the idea. :L

Peter and The Test Tube Babies.

Joy Division. Named after the prostitution wing of a concentration camp. 

Craig.

One of my favourite songwriters is Paul Weller. He has an uncanny knack of putting social commentary into words that speak volumes on whats going on around him(particularly ib his days with The Jam). 
Another one from the same mould is Jake Burns of SLF, listen too the lyrics on songs like Wasted Life or At The Edge. Pure genius imo.

Craig.