{"product_id":"eddie-piller-presents-more-of-the-mod-revival-limited-edition-transparent-blue-and-red-vinyl-2lp","title":"Eddie Piller Presents More of The Mod Revival: Limited Edition Transparent Blue and Red Vinyl 2LP { vinyl }","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1979 as a 15 year old Eddie Piller was perfectly placed to be at the epicentre of the Mod revival An inquisitive passion\nfor music, a family connection to Mod royalty The Small Faces, and an attitude that saw him travelling his home city, then\nthe country and then the world to take in the sounds that were emerging In the years since, Piller has been a legendary\nfigure within the music industry setting up and continuing to own the ground breaking Acid Jazz label, signing multi\nplatinum artists such as Jamiroquai and The Brand New Heavies collaborating on compilations with Martin Freeman and as\nan award winning broadcaster even setting up his own Totally Wired Radio station In The Mod Revival he looks back at the\nmovement that set him on his way\u003c\/p\u003e\n•\n\u003cp\u003eMod is a sixties youth movement original built on sharp clothes, American soul music and nights on the town, that has never\nreally died The originals added young British groups to their likes and then moved on, but their influence echoed on\nthrough the 1970 s in Northern Soul clubs, and in the sixties influenced bands of the pub rock era When punk arrived, it was\nsupposed to sweep away the past, but instead the Sex Pistols were covering the Small Faces The Clash brought in Mod DJ\nGuy Stevens to produce London’s Calling, The Buzzcocks sounded closer to the Hollies than The Ramones and in The Jam’s\nPaul Weller there was a musical and sartorial nod to the past of The Who, The Beatles and pop art arrows\u003c\/p\u003e\n•\n\u003cp\u003eWeller had spent the 1970 s becoming obsessed by mod and saw punk as having a similar youthful energy to the era he had\nmissed by being born a decade too late For others Weller’s style proved an inspiration, and as the Jam broke through in late\n1978 they saw a wave of bands follow in their wake, and they themselves influenced others to form their own groups But\nthere were other things In bleak late 70 s Britain the glorious optimism of the 1960 s looked bright and shiny, and as it was\nonly a decade or so in the past, it was easy to pick up original records, clothes and books for pennies, and as you bought\nthese you met other like minded souls who did the same For those a little too young for punk, it was a community of gigs,\nscooters, clothes, bands and records, and for many it developed on through\u003c\/p\u003e\n•\n\u003cp\u003eEddie never stopped being a mod and has a unique perspective having now lived through four decades of being intimately\ninvolved in the music that has emerged from the mod scene In this part two double vinyl edition (Part 1 and its CD\nequivalent reached 14 in the UK compilations charts) Ed guides us through some of his favourite music from the scene He\nguides us through a plethora of bands whose influences include The Who, The Kinks and the Jam, to sixties soul and R\u0026amp;B,\nthose with an eye on psychedelia The records have a vitality and a certain stylish swagger to them, that marks them out as\nmod In the deluxe booklet, Piller has written a 5000 word note describing what it meant to him and has granted access to\nhis own scrapbooks from his many years of gig going from which pages and memorabilia are reproduced\u003c\/p\u003e\n•\n\u003cp\u003eEddie Piller’s Mod Revival is a personal appraisal from the founder of The Modcast on what the mod explosion of the late\n70 s and 80 s means to him\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Various Artists","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57432254447947,"sku":"DEMREC922","price":4.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/6169\/9915\/files\/SharedImage-120290.png?v=1779704640","url":"https:\/\/vinylvintage.shop\/products\/eddie-piller-presents-more-of-the-mod-revival-limited-edition-transparent-blue-and-red-vinyl-2lp","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}