I was booking shows at ABC No Rio [an alternative community centre in Manhattan] in 1990 when I met Dan Sabater. At the time, he was a skinny anarcho-punk fresh out of high school and heavily involved with the political squatter scene on the Lower East Side. He was funny, charismatic, goofy and simultaneously deadly serious about his beliefs and told some scary tales of being chased in his Brooklyn neighborhood for looking ‘punk rock’; especially some encounters with the notorious Sunset Skins.
Imagine my surprise three years later when he pops up with a bald head, boots and braces, into boxing, soccer, reggae and all things related to being a traditional skinhead. I knew a lot of skins from growing up in the NYHC scene that came from different backgrounds but what made Dan stand out is him keeping his radical anarchist beliefs, combine them with socialist ideology inspired by European entities like the Redskins and start a group that synthesise these ideas, layering them onto a new skinhead identity.
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