{"id":2034,"date":"2011-11-27T12:15:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T17:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2012-02-21T15:09:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T20:09:06","slug":"symarip-skinhead-moonstomp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=2034","title":{"rendered":"Symarip – Skinhead Moonstomp"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Symarip – Skinhead Moonstomp <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Greetings all.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

I should probably start by making it clear that the smooth, shiny head you found staring back at you when you pointed your browser at this page is in fact my own.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When my five year old asked me why I was bald, I told him I fell down and knocked it all loose.<\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is that I have divested myself of hair in a show of solidarity with my wife, who just completed chemotherapy and is at home, recuperating.<\/p>\n

It was easy for me. I just strolled into the discount barber shop (how can you possibly foul up cutting all of someone\u2019s hair?) and said \u201cBuzz me<\/em>.\u201d, which they did, much to my (7 year old) son\u2019s surprise (he thinks I\u2019m weird<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The biggest shock for me was not the \u2018style\u2019 itself, I dig the ease of short (or non-existant) hair, but that my scalp was suddenly exposed to the elements. I\u2019m already up where the air is thin, and it\u2019s cold. I fully expect to fall asleep on a park bench and wake up with a crown of frost on my dome.<\/p>\n

That said, as I was ruminating on things to be blogged, I was struck by inspirado, and remembered that I had something apropos sitting in cold storage, and what better time to drop a skinhead reggae anthem than when I should have suddenly been rendered thus.<\/p>\n

I first heard \u2018Skinhead Moonstomp\u2019 way back in the Two Tone era, when I picked up one of those \u201920 Reggae Classic\u2019 comps that Trojan put out to capitalize on how many of the ska and rock steady killers were then being repopularized by modern bands.<\/p>\n

Symarip,<\/strong> a group that also recorded as the Pyramids<\/strong> (dig the inversion), The Bees, the Seven Letters<\/strong> and later Zubaba<\/strong>, recorded for a variety of labels (including Blue Beat, Attack, Treasure Isle and Trojan) between 1967 and 1971.<\/p>\n

They laid down \u2018Skinhead Moonstomp\u2019 (itself basically a cover\/reworking of Derrick Morgan\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Moon Hop<\/a>\u2019) in 1969 (the version I have is an early-80\u2019s UK pressing) and it quickly became an anthem for the skinhead movement in its early days when it was multi-racial, and concerned mainly with music and style, before ultra-right wing politics found its way into things.<\/p>\n

The intro to the record is an homage to the opening to Sam and Dave\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018I Thank You\u2019 and it opens up into a hard-charging dance floor party.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a great, upbeat, good-timey record and a fitting send off to my locks.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it and I\u2019ll be back later in the week.<\/p>\n

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Symarip Listen\/Download – Symarip – Skinhead Moonstomp Greetings all. I should probably start by making it clear that the smooth, shiny head you found staring back at you when you pointed your browser at this page is in fact my own. When my five year old asked me why I was bald, I told him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,48,51,94],"tags":[166,95,172,164],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky16corners","category-reggae","category-reissues","category-stylish-coiffures","tag-funky16corners","tag-holy-shit-hes-bald","tag-reggae","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-wO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}