I just wanted to address the music choice as alot of people comment on the fact the song is not a Ska track. So I know that the track I decided to put over the top of my video is a Soul track by James Brown and Skinheads listen to Ska but I just enjoy this song so I went with this. I may do an updated video with a Ska track over my video instead! I hope you enjoy my video regardless :)
I was a rudeboy in 71 in walthamstow e17 both black and white joined together it was the best time of my life I joined the army for ten years still remained a rudeboy always will be To THE YOUNGER GENERATION THANKYOU FOR CARRYING ON WHAT WE STARTED BE PROUD AND KEEP THE FAITH
This was the movement at it's roots! A unified working class outfit coming together in unity through tough times. An original outfit with original music and United.
I love the rude boy ska look...Jamaican boys brought it to England and the working class local boys adapted it and for that reason that’s why being a black guy I dress in rude boy attire. It’s the coolest look. It’s only through politics that such a classic and wonderful look ended up being associated with far right groups, but with all that said the rude boy and rude girl style is still a powerful look.
The 1st skinhead group in the whole world, was indeed born in the UK. But without the neo nazi ideology, as it is pictured today. Back in the mid 60's, that same 1st group of skinheads, composed by blacks, whites snd Asians, that mainly supported nationalism, did indeed dressed as you describe. Funny how things shift with the modern times.
In the 80s 90s there were various skinheads i think. Didn't the red flying jacket get worn by left wing skins , then the green were just good old oi skins , and black flying jackets leaned towards the right wing skins
TheRst2001 I only knew about what the black jackets represented but wasn’t really aware of the other colours but when you break it down it makes sense...still a great look regardless of your allegiance
I hear no Ska. They are dancing, in a very poor skinhead imitation, to James Brown. Wouldn't have been tolerated at an original skinhead do in the late '60's.
This is fucking ace, lovely to see When I was a kid growing up in the 70’s, you were taught to be racist. It was the rude boy revival of The Beat, Selector, Madness and especially The Specials that helped me unlearn all that hateful shite. And I am thankful to this day RIP Toots Hibbert
? I was a skinhead in 69 and had loads of jamaican m8s our music shop was in st pauls Bristol the heart of west indian life so all the racist stuff you learnt was from yourself nobody else
@@kenperry6379 Sorry I don’t think so Ken ? In the late 1970’s London football scene a lot of skinhead racist hate was on the rise as a 16 year old you get taught and caught up in it I’m not talking About the late 1960’s a different time, I finally saw through that shite ! my girlfriend was a black rude girl, great times my partner now is Indian and I have friends of many races I sure your not perfect, we are not born with hate it is taught. Cheers all the best.
@@kenperry6379 I grew up in a small town that was almost exclusively white. Racism at that time was the norm, it wasn’t learnt from myself. What an odd thing to say. But thanks for your condescension
You're dead right there,same with me on the n.s.scene nice to see younger ones k.t f. BUT it was better first time round,ain't no soul like the old sole.
True style. Shame I am too old now don't wanna end up being the middle aged guy at a Whitby northern soul meet so just enjoy seeing true style carried on by young guns like this on RU-vid great stuff they dress well and they look well so any critics need to get a grip.
Get a grip... this isn't the "True Style", it's a poor imitation - though you wouldn't know 'cos if you're middle aged now you were to young to be involved originally.
@@littleplot1060 No, wrong again.....there was no bags of glue with the originals and no 50p's either. That all came later when you might have been involved. Sorry if I touched a nerve.
I was at this event I was a rude boy back in the day being one of a few black people there I found the skinheads so friendly and chatted to some of them in that vid just don’t get how the racist element got a hold on a culture born from Jamaican style real skins aren’t racist, 🤜🏾🤛🏻
@@lindboknifeandtool Yeah, that's what happens when people are unified, the culture gets infiltrated and then subverted... Divide and conquer.. Look through this comment section for plenty of examples... IYKYK
@Ben Ivin did many 'dreads' come over in late '50s? .... I know Duke Vin had a Sound System in early 60s London - but i think most Rasta man lived in JA country & hills ??
he skinhead subculture comes from reggae and Jamaican music (ska, rocksteady). Skinheads mingled with the Jamaican “rude boys’” and “rude girls” (slang for disaffected Jamaican youth) who gathered in these venues and who contributed not only to their musical tastes but also to much of the apparel that would become standard for skinheads around the world. The skinhead was thus born of a fusion between white working class youth and Jamaican immigrants and their music.Given the importance of Jamaican culture to the skinhead tradition, boneheads are an affront to the genuine skinhead tradition. As Roddy Moreno of Cardiff skinhead band The Oppressed puts it, “If you’re a racist you can’t be a skinhead, because there’d be no skinheads without Jamaica”.Only a minority of angry and alienated youth were drawn to the right.
Being a skinhead was about 3 things 1. Trying to out-dress your mates 2. Having a row 3. Listening to black music Trying to out-flash everyone else at the party or the dancehall was essential. Anyone could crop their hair and pull on a pair of boots. That part of it for me went downhill in the early 1980s, the red-braces, 652-hole DMs, skin-tight Skrewdriver t-shirt brigade etc. That wasn't accentuating your working class pride, it was just trying to shock everyone
That's how they dance. Ask yourself, how would you dance to those dances? This is like a tradition handed down. My aunt taught me dances from the 1950s because I thought they were cool.
Hopscotch? To be fair, as an original skinhead and someone still involved in the Northern Soul scene, though I don't recognise her dance style I do find it attractive and far more appealing than the exaggerated imitation ska style that this clip is littered with. Good on her!
I certainly know what you mean. I was one that didn't get indoctrinated but boy did they try. That film This is England is so accurate about the way the NF worked. In those days NF and non political Skinheads were not in two camps, they hung all around together and the ones that were NF members were usually instructed by the party to bring the rest into the fold.
@@troylucas8563 Your experiences are not the same as others, you do know and understand that don't you? The NF was a very open movement in the 70s and into the 80s were I lived. As a young lad in my early teens I remember being lectured in a park by a man who spoke of the coming race wars caused by immigration. I was an impressionable lad as was my mates. I wasn't taken in though but some of my mates were and wanted to know more and started to attend meetings. One spreading bile becomes two, then four, then eight and so on. I don't know what the Skin movement is like today, I would like to think its followers who held far right views have mellowed a bit. I see you are a Skrewdriver fan. You therefore is everything I have written about in the above comments. You are indoctrinated.
I think the skinhead scene is like an interesting scene to follow im a gabber 100% , still this ska music is not so bad although the difference is 200% difference between gabber and skinhead music still like it the ska skinhead music , is this weird ?? i will never know .
That's because old skins are working taking care of our families and paying mortgages...these new generations live on the net sharing endless selfies & videos of themselves... Times have changed
