Crazy Baldhead Sound System

Crazy Baldhead Sound System
Also known as	The Slackers
Origin	New York City, New York, USA
Genres	Reggae
Years active	1997 - Present
Associated acts	The Slackers King Django Victor Rice

Members	Jayson "Agent Jay" Nugent Victor Rice Eddie Ocampo Ara Babajian Victor Ruggiero Victor Axelrod aka Ticklah

Crazy Baldhead is a side project of The Slackers headed by Jayson "Agent Jay" Nugent. Crazy Baldhead plays an innovative style of music that mixed reggae, ska, dub, rock and dancehall. Members of the band include Eddie Ocampo, Victor Rice, Vic Ruggiero, Dave Hillyard and Glen Pine.

Since 1997, Nugent has been a staple in the New York City ska community and the band released their first album in 2004. The shifting collective also feature popular reggae artists such as Victor Rice, King Django, Rocker T and Buford O'Sullivan. In 2007, Nugent released Crazy Baldhead Has a Posse, which he produced over a 10-year period, featuring guest musicians in every song. Other bands That featured Nugent's guitar work in the 1990s includes: Agent 99, Stubborn All-Stars, Da Whole Thing and Version City Rockers.

In 2008, Crazy Baldhead released The Sound of '69, an album which reflects Agent Jay's take on rock music from 1969, covering influential bands such as the Beatles, James Brown, Johnny Cash, the Stooges and the Rolling Stones, just to mention a few. These re-Interpretations of pop hits from 1969 are played in the style of Jamaican music of the time - that is, the raw, funk-influenced early reggae championed by producers such as Lee "Scratch" Perry and Harry J.

The Slackers

Vic Ruggiero TJ Scanlon Dave Hillyard Glen Pine Marcus Geard Luis Zuluaga Jeremy Mush1 Mushlin

Studio albums	Better Late Than Never Redlight The Question Wasted Days The Slackers and Friends Close My Eyes An Afternoon in Dub Slackness (with Chris Murray) Peculiar The Boss Harmony Sessions Self Medication The Great Rocksteady Swindle The Radio

Cassettes and EPs	The Slackers Do the Ska with The Slackers The Slackers/Pulley Split International War Criminal

Live albums	Live at Ernesto's Upsettin' Ernesto's Slack in Japan

Compilations	Before There Were Slackers There Were... Big Tunes! Hits & Misses from 1996 to 2006

Associated acts	Stubborn All-Stars The Rocksteady Seven Crazy Baldhead Sound System SKAndalous All Stars

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