Oi! Oi! Oy!
Yes, I know, it’s incredibly un-PC of me, but when I was a kid I used to roll with a fistfull of skinheads. Not neo-Nazis or white power skins or anything like that, obviously. Generally they were SHARPies (skinheads against racial prejudice) and RASHes (red and anarchist skinheads), and they went around beating up racist skinheads or just got drunk and went to punk and ska shows. Anyhow, being rather familiar with skinhead culture, of course one can’t escape exposure to some of the neo-Nazi elements, one of which, of course, is the music.
One of the most popular of all neo-Nazi skinhead bands is a group called Skrewdriver, a metal band fronted by the racist stooge Ian Stuart, whose lyrics demonized blacks and Jews and anyone not of “pure Aryan blood” (like anyone’s a pure Aryan these days anyway).
What’s the relevance of all this? One of our readers just fowarded me a link to Jewdriver, a Skrewdriver spoof-band, which parodies their classic songs and reworks them with Jewish-nationlist lyrics.
Jewdriver was first conceived at a secret location in Oakland, California (circa 1994) when Ian Stuartstein and a fellow named Jay Oniskinwitz were sharing a bottle of Cherry Manischewitz (our official drink), something infected our brains that night and thought wouldn’t a Jewish Skinhead band be a great idea?!”
A brilliant idea, really. ROTFL doesn’t begin to describe the sheer joy… (c/o Davidissimo)
