Monday, December 10, 2007



poring through this treasure trove of a reggae blog for trombone instrumentals (don't ask!) came across the story of record store owner/producer Joe Mansano whose "Brixton Cat" album (featuring the trombone of the great--and clearly still hale) Rico Rodriguez was one of the first to take advantage of the burgeoning skinhead market--I remember a couple of years after I got back to Canada in '72 being really shocked to read that the skins were getting all mixed up with racist politics--when loving reggae had been more important to them than their Doc Martens & Ben Shermans. If you liked reggae at Ayr Academy you were considered a skinhead even if you wore your hair down to the ground...