Original Skinheads and Real Reggae

[tiggerNG6]

Can't we all just enjoy a great song without dragging politics into it? Please???

[E180tekno]

Les vrais skin ne sont pas des fashos erreur !! apprenez l'histoire la vrai

relisez les livres d'histoire si il faut !!!

[DeathMeridian]

Good to see that some people know where the Skinheads started in history. Thanks for the video.

[fickifickmaster]

fyi 1:45 is Nicky Crane, gay, white supremacist, just saying, not trolling

[MrCopland1]

I love this song! Racists can kill themselves. This is Reggae, it represents one love and one world united for peace. Racist skinheads are rassclot mudda blood pu##yhole lickers.

[checkthisout3344]

FUCK ALL THE BONEHEAD CUNTS! DEATH TO THE BONEHEAD CUNTS!

[HilikusProductions]

Why is Ewan McGregor in this video? thats a pic from trainspotting

[masterdodge2009]

I fell in love with a skinhead a looooong time ago (1970;s) ,,, its was the shaved head , polished boots and crombie jacket ( and don;t forget the braces ) that did it ,,, 1st impressions? mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i thought i'd like a bit of that  and the rest is history ha ha these songs take me back even now I'm a nanna, my little boy got braces ,,,, it;s the law ha ha

[bonsa100]

@masterdodge2009 Glad to see someone else remembers the 70s. Best time of my life. I still wear braces now, but because i am older they have a duty to hold my trousers up now, instead of just a fashion. lol

[callumdeano94]

wish i was born in the 50's instead of the 90's cant stick the chavs in my generation

[thewelandertube]

@aSkinHead du ju fan racist jävla bonehead ska e för sharps

[theMAXILOPEZpsycho]

Im a skinhead as a refuse to pay friggin 12 for a haircut...do it yourself!

[Jrhynie]

I know of racist skinheads but the vast majority have no extreme views.

Love music and love nice people. Colour of skin means nothing.

[vespatillidie]

i know the real skins were not racists but they were still such fearsome looking buggers ! having said that as a young mod in the early eighties revival we always got on really well with the local skins and as for your musical taste - magnificent !

[skinhead1O66]

great stuff

[chanctonbury63]

This was a time when skinheads were worth something. Not this neo Nazi trash we see today.

[abusedcunt]

@chanctonbury63

Lol what? That was in the 90s, most nazis actually dress in costumes at this time. All the skinheads I know are either apolitical or SHARP...

[MrHEILDEMFUHRER1]

@abusedcunt death sharps

[chanctonbury63]

@abusedcunt Im not just talking about the UK.

[MrPolishxD]

I'm nationalist, but even throught that I like traditional SH, roots of the culture.

[Sigtyr]

DAT ASS

[bradgotch]

Racist skin heads be gone! Leave it to the True ska skins!

[b0nez413]

i think its complete bullshit that people think racism/fascism as soon they hear the word skinhead...atleast thats how it is in the states

[huntinginfidels911]

pack of racist pricks every skinhead we see in ireland gets the same treatment they gave to poor unsuspecting black/ asian kids

[celticbryan]

Just be yourself and quit bitching about what other people do. Try do be our own best example.

[ChantalGOVEGAN]

BONEHEADS ARE NO SKINEADS! FUCK RACISM 

[softhausstudio]

@ChantalGOVEGAN skinheads aren't originaly racist.



[ChantalGOVEGAN]

@softhausstudio I know! :)

[punkjames2]

cool video,fuck those boneheads who hate everything thats different then themselfs!

[plaster011]

i stil go to ska/reggae events in london,a lot of people still dress in the original skinhead clothing(not the combat gear the fascist idiots wear) and let me tell you there are west indian,asian,and british attending these gigs,simply for the music and the style.

[champagne5high]

@plaster011 Rockinest best beat ever, keep the movement going with a rubberdub stylie ;-)

[CraigSpawton]

if you have a racist friend, it's time for your friendship to end.

[MegaElkoko]

SKIN HEAD OI! ...FOR LIVE !! saludos desde madrid (castia)

[ljoticss]

nigger lovers .!.

[irissaification]

@ljoticss cock

[fortieschic]

Grew up with this music..my dad had it all..i thought it was reggie..didnt realsise it was skinhead??.but i remeber one of his labums called skinhead moonstomp...i associated skinheads with punk music.. cos my bros were into punk and dressed skimhead??Mmm think i got it all mixed up when i was younger..only as i got older i realised what skinhead was ..love the look tho..even now its my favourite :)

[birdbh]

real skinheads are cool !

[tedphilo]

No thugs, no facists, just groovy people!!

[tedphilo]

58 and just bought a pair of 8 hole originals, never too late!!!!

[ambalgair]

@tedphilo Never too late. Stay True!

[doorsak12]

skvělé

[yupyupyupwahoo2u]

I knooooow. Kinda miss my line up of polished boots, braces, nice shirts, clean jeans, skin cut, crop top or a flat top depending on how I felt (Deeeeep breath)...... Veeeeeery clean n respectable

[ANITA48503]

they were the days! great music with great clothes. Oh to be 18 again.

[Ubo89]

2:33 Mark Renton?!?!

[shoguntes]

True reggae!

True skinhead style!!

[Monkeyspankerelite]

Yes I like Paki food, but hate hippie lentals



[jean5614]

There's a lot of confusion around this skinhead thing. The trend in mods was, when not wearing a suit, Ben Shermans, boots and jeans, but that was the end of the mods really and some morphed into skinheads. Sorry but the skinheads wern't the same. Yeah the mods listened to soul, motown, bluebeat, rocksteady,ska, the Witchdoctor Catford, Black Cat Woolwich etc 59 now, remember it very well

[gstr345]

plz explain the whole racist or non racost thing plz

[DannyBoyo68]

Best all-time Skinhead reggae song.

[withnailfin]

Clothes,music,birds.what to be a young skin again:(

[pharaohmatt]

I am an x London skinhead from the days. Have a Jamaican wife. Jamaica every year, where we still go to old time stomping music gigs. Then the nazi element took over.. Shame but life goes on.Funny cause if you see a guy now adays wearing high top doc;s Sherman's and shaved heads, they are usually gay men. Took over I guess. Who's next i wonder??? lol

Funny really cause I used to have to use a clipper..now at 51 I use a razor for what's left on top...A real skinhead fa tru.!

[mindful8paradox]

@ demrockinbones: Thanks for clearing up that Neo-Nazi doesn´t necessarily always go with skinhead.

[Gaudd]

Visited The Last Resort in 82 at the tender age of 16 and my first time time in London, and was quite amazed at what a bunch of dickhead, racist wankers polluted Petticoat Lane. Destroyed utterly my ideal of being a skinhead and I packed it it soon after, what a naive twat I was, thinking that it had to do with ska music and all that. 54-46.

[aeronegraff]

why do people think that all skinheads are racist that aint true

[demrockinbones]

@aeronegraff

Accidentally gave this a thumbs down :(

In the U.S., Neo-Nazi skinheads on to the Geraldo Riviera show a while back, talked about how they were skinheads and such, and started a riot. News spread, and boom.

Britain, I guess it was the Pakistani race riots. The skins split, some racist, some not racist, some anti-racist.

The idea that all skinheads are racist is a big misconception on the part of a media that doesn't care who it hurts, just so long as there is a story.

[aeronegraff]

@demrockinbones yeah

[manololecortez]

hey this is another cover by sublime

[chanctonbury63]

Tooooooooooooots Hibbert !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mrhitmanisback]

good old days

[malcolmcog]

Very confused, all these ex boot boys are professing peace and love, never bashed a pakki or a queer. I think I must have lived in an alterate universe in 1969.

[scurvydogfromhell]

@malcolmcog that's true, I'm young but i always thought most of this new skinhead breed is full of kids thinking that be a skinhead it's just be smart dressed, listening early reggae AND be in some way politically correct. Puffs. They're like skinheads in woodstock, or skinheads with dreads singing to beloved jah hahaha

[ReggaemanTruckin]

born in the late 50's

a young boy at the time of jamaican immigration in the 60's

a teenager in the 70's already introduced to jamaican culture, food and reggae music

served in the Army in the late 70's early 80's

was on the streets in the Birmingham riots in the 80's where traditional skinheads, jamaicans and asians were united black and white

traditional skinheads are NOT racists

Reggae Music and Jamaican people are part of skinhead culture, skinhead is a part of the working class people

[albamboo73]

@ReggaemanTruckin Thankyou for that, there are so many misconceptions about skins!

[Rsunited90]

@ReggaemanTruckin Fuck the blacks the real skinheads were the one who were in the NF and such

[Spatsibaa]

@Rsunited90 hahaha are you just trolling or stupid as fuck?

[MrCherubhair1]

@Rsunited90 Haha you're an idiot, the NF was just a bunch of poofs who wanted a fight GET FUCKED YOU BONEHEAD CUNT.

[NostalgicSolutions]

The thing I remember about those wonderful days is there was a lot of class, style and respect around whoever or whatever the fuck you were or wanted to be and the music and chics were awsome. Mental days and much missed.

[taxi2y28]

I remember some of these scenes very well indeed, and some of these photos were taken in my home town of Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 1:01 in the video, that load of Skins are walking down Southend high street towards the seafront. Frankly I think I preferred crowds of Skins walking the streets than the illegals, druggies and chavs that inhabit them now.

[northstand11]

Chelsea Skinheads!!

[sheakory1]

SKINHEAD liveit. a way of life.the more you hate me the better i feel, im a skinhead, loving reggae, doc martens, football and beer. if you dont like me, fuck off and leave me alone.you know fuck all. love to all skinheads,suedeheads and reggae loving bruvvas everywhere!!!!!

[LackOfSoulDisease]

Hey there people, I am a Metalhead, and have GREAT RESPECT AND ADMIRATION for the REAL skinhead culture, I've been defending it since I've known it. Also I love the skinhead "dresscode" and I sometimes think about adopting it...although I don't know if it will be contradictory with my great love and passion for metal music. Oh well I'll see :)

Anyway: Cheers to all the real skinheads out there!

[FernyBass007]

@LackOfSoulDisease where your thight black jeans, the boots, and put the braces (suspenders) and wearing black polo shirts, black-white!! i once was like this and people where surprise...they loved my style!!

[LackOfSoulDisease]

@FernyBass007 I will try that :p thanks !

[HaDDeSs1]

Real skinheads, jamaican and english from UK skinheads, listening ska, reggae and rocksteady.

ANTI-FASCIST FOREVER!

for the original skinheads

[dexskin88]

@HaDDeSs1 and what about paky bashing?ain't that racism even if they where black skinheads who where beating pakys?

[wot2wot2]

@HaDDeSs1 yes brother!

[Obergefreiter1]

@HaDDeSs1 So that makes you a RED then? Well you do say that your ANTI = socialist

[abusedcunt]

@HaDDeSs1 How is antifascist an original skinhead you retard? Non-political! That's the way to go. Don't mix the skinhead culture with politics.

[tnerual96]

@HaDDeSs1 fuck you anti fa ahahaha

[Darre555]

@HaDDeSs1 and Oi Punk ! :)

[xXxSamuraixXx90]

@HaDDeSs1 Am not Fascist am not communist !!! AM TRADICIONAL WORKING CLASS LIKE MY DAD WAS!!!

[maz3705]

@HaDDeSs1 70s scouse skin with ya mate KTF

[TheSkinchris]

Skinhead from GREECE

[TheSkinchris]

skinheads are not fascists or nazis....they are nationalists.they LOVE their country and they do anything to protect her from the imigrants and all this shit which coming in our countries.

[SpeedTriple59]

hathechewed..@...what the fuck you on boy glue still..??Teddy boys NF fuck me son,your a blast,cant understand why skins liked jamaican but hated the asian,all came across in boats at same time ...where did you get the Teds are NF from mate what you been reading..

[hathechewed]

teddy boys are NF, not Skins, Skins are multi, NF Skins are Teds with thier heads shaved

[banditz011]

conveniently forgetting "paki bashing" then ?

i was there too mate and skins were low rent bullies and thugs who went around in gangs because they were scared to go out alone and have the piss taken out off them.

[randomiskewl4]

@banditz011

Mate, i'm 15 and i don't walk round in gangs, i'm a skinhead, just like my dad before me, most of the lads in my family are or have been, if someone takes the piss, give it to em back or knock fuck out of em, cause 9/10, they're the pussy little twats who walk around in gangs thinking they're big. Being a skin aint about racism, skins you've seen are national fronts / neo nazis, who basically robbed our culture and the media took this and think's we're all racist cunts like them

[FingersPlainview]

@randomiskewl4 Well said man! REAL SKINHEAD FOREVER!

[Obergefreiter1]

@FingersPlainview Real skinheads? or Plastics?

[gnomecommoner]

54 46 was my #...now 64 45 is our #

[thatguy126]

honest question how did the original skinhead idealism morph into the neo-nazi hatred that is generally thought of today?

[arthurude1]

@thatguy126 lets say that the rise of punk music in UK and the National Front in late 70's produced some weird right-wing punk music which stole the skinhead identity with bands like Skrewdriver. the same happend to punk though however punk rock in general became more left-wing inspired but there were nazi punks in late 70's / early 80's. you can look it up.

at least thats what i think. i wasnt there.

[Obergefreiter1]

@arthurude1 There where skinheads in the NF in 1970 pal, the front stared in February 7, 1967 and with all the paki bashing that was going right from the begining of the subculture, Skinheads started to use the front as a their party for the white working class, FACT 28/88

[arthurude1]

@Obergefreiter1 i am aware of that however as far as i know the paki-bashing sentiment grow harder later during the 70s and that feeling wasn't that widespread in the begining of skinhead culture becouse it was a culture that revolved around the appreciation of immigrant afro-caribbean music.

[randomiskewl4]

@thatguy126 A load of cunts stole our clothes and shit, and made everyone think we're all nobs is how

[Alekslondon1983]

Its beginning And Shiit one not a proper skin music Rastas song

[malcolmcog]

Of course all skins back in 1969 and 1970 were paragons of multiculturalism, loved their fellow man, never got involved in rucks at football matches and never went out looking for hippies or gays or pakistanis to bash. They were just nice lads with crops and doc martens Eh ? . Most of the skins I knew were viscious thugs that would fight anyone. I never liked the pakki bashing side, it was cowardly but in 1970 there were many in Britain that hated pakistanis.

[CalumWhitham]

massive massive respect to the skins. just adopted the fashion, dont class myself as a skin as i wasnt there originally but the music and fashion is right.

[claraasta]

1969 a true skin i was there , oi oi still wear freds an dms SMASH RACISM !!!!!

[planetwaaagh]

Only started getting into this sort of music this past few years and I've spoken to a lot of great people since I did. I don't call myself a skin head as I don't think I've got the right to but I've started adopting some of the fashion. I'm glad I took the time to learn a bit more about who Skins really are and I got alot of respect for the scene. Stay cool!

[JURYJOHMZOMBIE]

i just realized one thing SKINHEADS ARE UNIVERSAL

[buckstoneboy]

BNP and there like hijacked the skin look and guillable kids to there bullshit cause..WANKERS THE LOT OF THEM...long live skinareggae ska rocksteady

[lilpunkrocker562]

Back when white laces stood for unity

[Obergefreiter1]

@lilpunkrocker562 No white laces was for the National Front and Red laces for the British movement !!!!!!!!!

[bastardluv]

It's impossible for any true skinhead who know the roots of it to be racist. They were the only white guys going to reggae clubs to see real reggae acts in the Jamaican neighborhoods. No middle to upper class Londoner thought it a respectable form of music or activity.

[chaz2wells]

from what i saw skinheads were never racists.....they used to dance in the same rooms for f*ck sake.......the whole thing was stolen and turned around by saddo's

[malcolmcog]

Racism ? Pakki bashing was what we did.

[3656sas]

@malcolmcog Sad Twat you will never be a true SKINHEAD, I was there not a racist and never will be !

[3656sas]

@malcolmcog Sad Twat you will never be a true SKINHEAD, I was there not a racist and never will be !

[Obergefreiter1]

@malcolmcog ding dong the lights are flashing were going

[THEcontinanza]

Why the fuck is there Nazi shit in the suggestions box!!!!!!

[AlfieEngland100]

I bet some racist black or arab made this myth of skinhead racism so they had a reason to beat them up

[mvann5566]

whats going on here?..i brought this when it came out,im white was not a skinhead,its a great sound.. skinheads being racist?..had a funny way of showing it getting down to black music...behave people and just enjoy the sound ffs.

[g4macdad]

They represent the Lollipop Guild! Munchikin-land LIVES!

[lukas3296]

real skinhead is NOT rasist and nazi :)) SKINHEAD 4EVER ! Oi! from Czech republic :))

[blitzfultime]

nice :) 1984 skins

[967marc]

s.h.a.r.p for life!

[drsweepify]

@967marc good to hear we still exist, thought i was the only... feels like when you look around this city i live in.

[967marc]

s.h.a.r.p for life

[MrDerweise]

2:33 Ewan Mcgreggor is not a skinhead! haha Trainspotting great film!

[SelassieRastaDude]

fucking nazi skum have ruined the skinhead culture, why would they ever be racist if they listened to the blackest music there is REGGAE!!!!!!!!!!!

[Monkeyspankerelite]

Skins will rule the world!

Take that fukin hippies!!!!

[drsweepify]

@Monkeyspankerelite you've just proven why us skins get a bad name.... who cares if you hippy, mod, rocker, black white....

[Obergefreiter1]

@Monkeyspankerelite so you can attack hippies but not pakis and other sub-humans ????

[hollandpunx123]

Oi

[BeatDemon08]

This is awesome! I want to move to England. I always have.

[teenytinydebzee]

i think at 2.21 thats me

[SOULXCHANGE]

vvvvv <w.youtube.com/watch?v=1BtITAL­lF-4&feature=autofb

[sinersistom]

SKINHEADS ANTIFASCIST IS SKINHEAD

NAZI IS BONEHEAD <- TRASH TRASH FUCK ALL NAZI

[Obergefreiter1]

@sinersistom typical yank term 4th gen london Skinhead racist and proud 28/88

[MontgomeryBarncaly]

God bless the british working class!... One day we'll get what we're owed!

[leeham987]

great song, seen them live a fe times. best atmosphere ever!!

[latititan]

How I would have loved to live during such era.

How all that was good is just fading.....fuck

[inkfink1]

fuck sharp fuck Nazi's fuck politics.

[WNightshade94]

I've just started to dress like a skin, got my MA-1, Doc Martens, a few Ben Sherman's, a Fred Perry, a crombie-style overcoat.. now I need a Harrington and hoping to get a few patches from camden soon:)

[GreatBritishSkinhead]

@WNightshade94

You can dress like a skin, that does not make you a Skin, i have been a skinhead all my life and i have seen my share of boot boys and posers.

Being a skinhead is a lifestyle not a clothe style, good look anyway, bring back the spirit of 69 and stay away from those right wing boneheads.

[psycho4334]

LIVE THE 69 SPIRIT JUST BE UNITED.

[doctorw2]

yes now this is real skinhead music and culture!

[KillerToastor]

and what if im not in workin class?

[northstand11]

Memories of my younger Chelsea Skinhead days!!!

Chelsea FC - Electric Ballroom - Last Resort - Madness - Prince Buster

[jfflwn7]

I was there in ,69. 17 Years old. The racism that many have mentioned is bollocks...The real racists were the people in suits...The people with wealth and power. Any twat can be a racist. Hippies. Bankers. Politicians...Etc.

Being a skin was ALWAYS about the music. Clothes. Having a great time. And women. In that order.

And, for me at least. It STILL is...

The only difference now, is I don,t need to keep my hair short anymore.....

Time has taken care of that for me.

Just enjoy. Fuck racism .

[FernyBass007]

@jfflwn7 as you said it, i grew up with this lifestyle, this music, this life, i remember it all, it was all about love, dancing till sunrise, until your mother got angry unless gave her company to go to mass (church service) and style, i rmeember it was clothes, and talking about pakistans, they were also skinheads, i remember i called the rascist bollocks or boneheads, i still dress the same, cut my hair the same, and i'm happy my grandkids and kids where raised good, greetings from new york

[brikel]

@FernyBass007 errm what you going on about, skinheads being all about love, do me a favour you idiot we used to spend every weekend trying to kick the shit out of each other, clueless american

[FernyBass007]

for your info brot, i'm using my grandsons account since he show me a couple of videos (and he's witnessing) as i remember, it was respected or if you didn't like the son of bitch of fucked him up, but i was cool, respected, didn't pay mind to that bullshit (as i remember) love reggae, married a cuban lady, and about the american, i been here over 38 years since 77, coming from brixton (Due to my passing of my grandfather) (cont.)

[FingersPlainview]

@jfflwn7 Fuckin' rights...I am 43 and am just starting to REALIZE my skinhead love...love of the music, the look, got my woman...I'm a proud original style skin! Fuck the boneheads who brought a bad name to this original lifestyle!

[WOOBOJQ]

@jfflwn7 spot on

[drsweepify]

@jfflwn7 well said my man.

[thecrikster]

@jfflwn7 What did you think of "This Is England"? What you say is the impression I got from that film. Except when *one* individual comes along and ruins the party. As is usually the case.

[cockneysontour]

@jfflwn7 Too right!!! It pisses me off when they link skinheads with racists. In '69 we were dancing with the blacks down the clubs!!! It was their music! All about the mates, music, clothes and the women. Spot on!! Thank God for YouTube!!

[PunkRune1]

@jfflwn7 greet time you had there! i already see it right in from my eyes!

[thanksbewell1]

@jfflwn7 saves us a fortune on haircuts now though. It seems that in times of austerity, the early 70's, remember those strikes and no electricity, the 80's no jobs. now here we are again and what a great time for the original skinhead ethos to ring out. short trousers co's we are skint again. bloody fred perrys need to come down in price and ben sherman needs to remember who kept his till ringing and sort his prices out but here we are. Good tunes, a bloody good laugh with our mates and a beer

[buckstoneboy]

@jfflwn7 well said sir

[plaster011]

great comment mate,i must be the same age,born and bred in london half my mates wer'e black we all wore the same clothes and all loved ska and reggae iggnorant people just don't know wot it was all about

[layorseniram]

@plaster011 ,your dead right mate !the ignorant bastards called us rascist's after reading their news of the worlds etc,we loved the music,the clothes and the clubs,what buggered it up was the re-emergence of the neo nazi's with their 20 eyelet DM's and Bleacher jeans in the 1980's,no sense and no style !

[bakedsushi]

@plasteer011 Being of the same age born in the USA I knew not the history until age 30. I think the movement could have done more to spread what it was all about when they had the chance. I was a hug fan of classic ska but was very confused as to how skinheads embraced it. Then again in my country skinheads had a whole other cause for which I did not support being Black. Good to know-spent alot of years avoiding clubs that featured it....grrr

[ray123ification]

@jfflwn7 Totally agree mate.

[MegaPeterod]

@jfflwn7 Great comment, mate

[pmo56]

@jfflwn7 my cousin was an original 69 skin i was too young 79 boy but yeah cherry red dms sta press and a nice ben and i love tunes !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bestwattman]

@jfflwn7 Bless.

[cmsobota]

@jfflwn7 Spot on, funny how time confuses what us real skins were about!!! Spending time in black clubs and enjoying the music,, My hair still short just cos its low maintenance!!!

[derbbus]

@jfflwn7

Shaved head looks aggresive.

Big boots for when you you are aggresive.

Spot an Asian gentleman; kick his head in.(Paki bashing).

Meet an homosexaul,as above.(Queer bashing).

No luck tonight lads, then the old fail safe;any poor sod out on his own.

They were barbarians, feral weak minded moroons who hung out in gangs and were pee poor on their own.

Sorry mate, you wasn't there.You must have been somewhere else.

[Demic53]

@derbbus

You obviously weren't there spouting rubbish like this.

As with all youth of all generations, ( except for the modern brainwashed culture), the idea was to rebel.

And in '69 we did rebel !!!!!

Race and gender had nothing to do with it.

It was all aimed at having a bloody good time

Take it from an old man who was there and don't listen to all this rubbish propoganda

[derbbus]

@Demic53

You've used the word "propaganda"; very interesting word given the context of some of the post's on this forum.

I can imagine a bunch of civil servants all sitting around a computer trying to change the skinhead culture of violence into something more passive.(Not a bad thing).

"Clothes Peg". Thats what they called anyone trying to look dandy. Worst name you could aquire in those days; but then you'd know that, having been one?(Me too)!

Of course it was about racism!

[SuzanziBalletHeels]

@Demic53 YES. :-D

[scurvydogfromhell]

@derbbus i'm a barbarian, a feral weak minded morooon rwharr

i'm the scum and you're just a twat