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Post by parvardigar on Mar 21, 2011 14:14:27 GMT
maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Queenstown+Road,+Wandsworth&aq=0&sll=17.983529,-76.791717&sspn=0.001776,0.003422&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Queenstown+Rd,+Wandsworth,+Greater+London,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.472684,-0.148503&spn=0,0.003422&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.472588,-0.148543&panoid=UfW0C7EjxNyfn-ZDn9iLXQ&cbp=12,10.35,,1,4.44 let me know if the link doesnt work
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Post by Ineedanewname on Mar 21, 2011 17:23:12 GMT
A: The clue is in the Q. ;D
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Post by teessidetone on Mar 21, 2011 18:58:38 GMT
whats this all about?
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Post by whoareyou on Mar 21, 2011 19:25:12 GMT
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Post by Tom on Mar 21, 2011 19:39:50 GMT
I'm not quite sure what the intention of this topic is, but there is a picture of that scene in the Quadrophenia booklet: here. |
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Post by quadboy555 on Mar 21, 2011 20:39:17 GMT
I'm not quite sure what the intention of this topic is, but there is a picture of that scene in the Quadrophenia booklet: here. but what is strange/wrong with "this" picture? |
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Post by Ineedanewname on Mar 22, 2011 0:05:56 GMT
Maybe the question should be asking what's wrong with the album picture?
Clearly there's something very odd going on with the perspective, the power station and gas cylinder seeming to have been dragged toward the foreground.
I've long wondered if that image was actually a composite. Even Jimmy has a bit of a superimposed look about him, the scooter almost appears to be flying rather than gripping the road.
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Post by parvardigar on Mar 22, 2011 8:21:48 GMT
There isnt a question, just a topic for discussion.
i've wondered the same things about the perspective, but not until i found myself on that road one day, and tried to find the actual spot the photo was taken. I do confess to actually counting the lamposts and chimneys. But i cant work it out..
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Post by quadboy555 on Mar 22, 2011 19:33:49 GMT
Maybe the question should be asking what's wrong with the album picture? Clearly there's something very odd going on with the perspective, the power station and gas cylinder seeming to have been dragged toward the foreground. I've long wondered if that image was actually a composite. Even Jimmy has a bit of a superimposed look about him, the scooter almost appears to be flying rather than gripping the road. exactly! Jimmy looks superimposed,and he probably was as it was compulsory by this time [1973] to wear a crash helmet in England,but not in 1964/65,whenever Quad was set. even the makers of the Quad film had to get permission from whoever to allow the mods/rockers ride around on scooters/motorbikes. so that picture probably is fake. |
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Post by sheffjim on Mar 22, 2011 20:25:07 GMT
Maybe the question should be asking what's wrong with the album picture? Clearly there's something very odd going on with the perspective, the power station and gas cylinder seeming to have been dragged toward the foreground. I've long wondered if that image was actually a composite. Even Jimmy has a bit of a superimposed look about him, the scooter almost appears to be flying rather than gripping the road. exactly! Jimmy looks superimposed,and he probably was as it was compulsory by this time [1973] to wear a crash helmet in England,but not in 1964/65,whenever Quad was set. even the makers of the Quad film had to get permission from whoever to allow the mods/rockers ride around on scooters/motorbikes. so that picture probably is fake. On the commentary on the Quad DVD, Franc Roddam intimates that he 'bunged' the police to allow them to ride without helmets. |
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Post by parvardigar on Mar 23, 2011 9:27:36 GMT
And yet no-one thought anyone would notice the other mods in the booklet wearing flared trousers!
And then they spent millions on the film, but even the front-of-shot police cars were 70s models.
but anyway..
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Post by Yellow Printer on Mar 23, 2011 22:14:42 GMT
Yeah the Quad film looks more like The Sweeney than mid 60s England. SHUT IT YOU SLAG!!
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Post by parvardigar on Mar 24, 2011 8:38:12 GMT
Its that 70s south london feeling. i get that same feeling reading the Quad booklet as i do watching the Sweeney..and whenever i go past battersea power station..
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Post by Ineedanewname on Mar 24, 2011 17:00:45 GMT
Its that 70s south london feeling. i get that same feeling reading the Quad booklet as i do watching the Sweeney..and whenever i go past battersea power station.. When I was researching the Quadrophenia locations in Battersea I came across a website featuring a load of black and white photos of the area taken during the same period as those in the album booklet. In comparison to the image those pictures presented, the Quadrophenia photos are, believe it or not, something of a "Disneyfied" version of Battersea's back-streets. That's how run down it was in parts. Sections of it were still derelict from Second World War bomb-damage. Other bits were so decayed they looked more like a Dickensian slum than 'modern' London. I've always thought an overlooked part of the reason of why The Who managed to maintain a connection with the disenfranchised London youth of the mid-1970's Punk era was down to them basing themselves in Battersea during the early-1970s. Their contemporaries had become tax-exiles in sunny foreign climates, or moved to oversized mansions in the leafy English countryside. But even though The Who themselves enjoyed aspects of that same privileged lifestyle, they very visibly set themselves up with Ramport studios in the heart of one of the most battered, bruised and deprived areas of the city. On the edge of a Council estate. It's difficult for a globally successful Rock band to get more in touch with the English working class than that. |
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Post by parvardigar on Mar 24, 2011 17:56:09 GMT
Oh, that is a top post, lemmy! Abso-bloody-lutely. Excellent observations. You are validating my existence - seriously!
But can you just explain the "disney" bit please?
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Post by Ineedanewname on Mar 24, 2011 18:50:20 GMT
Well, maybe "Disneyfied" was a little too extreme choice of word.
Basically, even though Battersea of 1973 comes across as a rundown place in the Quadrophenia booklet, the other photos I saw really communicated a generalised air of inherent squalor lacking in the Quad pics.
I'll have to see if I can find the website again so you can see the difference for yourself.
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Post by parvardigar on Mar 24, 2011 18:58:33 GMT
Ooh, that'd be nice!
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Post by whoareyou on Mar 26, 2011 21:15:37 GMT
Its still the same with Pete and Rog now. Both still own their family homes from their childhoods. And Pete living only a stones throwaway and Rog still sometimes living in his.
Thats the main things iv always loved about the who. Their connections with fans and their 'seemingly' normal lifestyles. Theyve never really left their roots
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Post by cyclopsfpv1965 on Dec 11, 2021 14:58:58 GMT
Maybe the question should be asking what's wrong with the album picture? Clearly there's something very odd going on with the perspective, the power station and gas cylinder seeming to have been dragged toward the foreground. I've long wondered if that image was actually a composite. Even Jimmy has a bit of a superimposed look about him, the scooter almost appears to be flying rather than gripping the road. |
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Post by cyclopsfpv1965 on Dec 11, 2021 15:05:33 GMT
You can't see Battersea power station from the Angle that photo was taken especially close up like it is.so it must of been photo shopped also that Gas tower would be in Battersea park at that Angle.
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