The Dirty Heads...who's heard of them?
I first heard of the Dirty Head's demo album thanks to the old Sublime Archive website way back in 2004. I found many bands there on the Sublime Archive back in the day, that I still listen to regularly. These include, Slightly Stoopid and Sublime obviously. That's also where I discovered bands like Pepper, Part One Tribe, Spoken Gun, Long Beach Dub All Stars, Bargain Music and Stick Figure to name just a few. They all had amazing bootleg albums on there. Then Universal Music Group served the archives with a subpoena requiring that they remove all Sublime audio from the site. The server ran in some form from 1998-2005. When Universal released the Sublime box , the archive was officially taken down.
I have followed the Dirty Heads as their career has progressed since. The following youtube video/song, is my favorite from the 2004 demo tape.
The Dirty Heads - Rub A Dub Style
In 2008, they finally made it big with their debut album, Any Port in a Storm. They are one of my favorite bands and have such a good sound. They refer to themselves as having a "sunny sound" and are a blend of reggae and hip hop. It's Surf Reggae in my opinion, I love them booming in the boat when I'm wakesurfing. They are a five-piece band from Huntington Beach, California consisting of:
Jared Watson AKA " Dirty J" (vocals), Dustin Bushnell AKA “Duddy B” (vocals/guitar), Jon Olazabal (percussion), Matt Ochoa (drums) and David Foral on bass.
My son @jpiper20 and I have seen them in concert four times that I can remember, and a few that I can't. Haha, one of these was in August of 2011. We went to a 3 day concert series, the 311 Pow Wow, and camped out onsite for two nights! It was held at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park which is a 500 acre park along the Suwannee River in northern Florida. Live Oak, Florida to be exact. During 3 days/nights of music, we saw a total of 20 bands! Music began on Thursday evening and ended late Saturday night.
Picture credit: Tommy Piper @ 311 Pow Wow
Anyways, the standout performance of the Festival was the Dirty Heads doing their hit, "Hip Hop Misfits". I just happened to have recorded it on video. I've shared it on the Dirty Heads Facebook page before and they loved it.
Enjoy the video I recorded and I recommend you see the Dirty Heads in concert soon if you haven't already.
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Picture Source: Instagram @dirtyheads / link: https://www.instagram.com/p/BK43-ZcDbpV/?taken-by=dirtyheads