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[covskin]

Great hair, great shirt, great attitude.

 

[Reggae Mike]

Great hair, great shirt, great attitude.

That's a great guitar riff in the beginning.

 

[Reggae Mike]

 

[covskin]

Haha, I actually know why, and it's not what you might think after listening to that nonsense.

 

[covskin]

I also liked to listen to a bit of Soulboy alongside the 4 Skins, a skinhead does need some time off...




Meanwhile it was definitely over for 2Tone by 1982 and nobody had any interest in any of that 1969 stuff. The only retro thing I was aware of was Northern Soul.

 

[Reggae Mike]

Haha, I actually know why, and it's not what you might think after listening to that nonsense.

I don't understand. Not the song but the post

 

[covskin]

The song is about something that happened to him, only it didn't happen that way.

 

[Reggae Mike]

The song is about something that happened to him, only it didn't happen that way.

Are you sayin he tried to instigate and then tried to complain it was a political issue?

 

[covskin]

Are you sayin he tried to instigate and then tried to complain it was a political issue?

It didn't involve skinheads or nazis and it wasn't a racist attack, apart from that the song is completely accurate...

 

[Reggae Mike]

It didn't involve skinheads or nazis and it wasn't a racist attack, apart from that the song is completely accurate...

Interesting. It's one of my fave beats by those guys. I really feel no way about nazis really, what do I care what someone wants to call themselves. I used to live in Portland Oregon in the late 90s and seen it all. Anti Fascist or Fascist is the same to me. I just leave it alone unless someone gets in my face, which has never happened.

 

[Reggae Mike]

I also liked to listen to a bit of Soulboy alongside the 4 Skins, a skinhead does need some time off...




Meanwhile it was definitely over for 2Tone by 1982 and nobody had any interest in any of that 1969 stuff. The only retro thing I was aware of was Northern Soul.

Funny, this is what the gangsters in So Cal would boogie to back in the days.

 

[covskin]

Funny, this is what the gangsters in So Cal would boogie to back in the days.

I believe black American artists had wider success in the UK than they did in the USA where the charts were more segregated.

 

[Reggae Mike]

I believe black American artists had wider success in the UK than they did in the USA where the charts were more segregated.

That seems accurate, the rec company's in America were pushing alota folk, country, and easy listening at that time.

 

[Reggae Mike]

I just seen this pic of Michelle Obama from her youth. I don't know the year.

 

[yorkshire pud]

I believe black American artists had wider success in the UK than they did in the USA where the charts were more segregated.

There's some truth in that although I'm not sure if It was entirely due to segregation, the British Blues Invasion of the 1960s had been inspired and fuelled by old American Blues records from decades earlier.

Jimi Hendrix had to come here to be successful (he played my town in Yorkshire in '67 just before he made it big)

Later on in the 1970s Northern Soul nights (mostly around the North West) played obscure imported soul records and made the artists reasonably famous in some Northern UK Cities

In the 80's we embraced Chicago House Music (thanks to members of Joy Division) and 70s funk and made it into something entirely different (fuelled by Ecstasy of course)

We currently have an offshoot of Rap music in the UK called "Drill" which I know nothing about as I'm way too old 🤐

What goes around comes around 🙂