This is Arrow, and he sang Soca music. Soca is what happens when you give delinquent teenagers in Trinidad & Tobago electric guitars. The injection of electric guitars into a pre-existing culture parallels the introduction of Christ: syncretics emerge quickly. Give electric guitars to delinquent teenagers from Queens and you get The Ramones. Culture rules all.
Culture does not, however, explain why Arrow–a lifetime resident of the West Indian island of Montserrat–would be wearing a replica Phillies helmet. That’s one of those old school shit plastic ones, too, that affixed to your skull via a similarly-shit plastic adjustable strap. The strap was attached to the helmet via four prongs sticking out from the interior of the crown. This means that if someone WHAPPED you on the head real hard, your own hat would trapanate you. Quadruply, if the WHAP were in just the right spot. I don’t know if they still make this product.
i have one of those old Phillies helmets. from Veterans Stadium where I saw Steve Carlton pitch as well as watch my dad & uncle drink many beers. then the harrowing drive (seated on front seat arm rest) in my uncle’s T-Bird (67) back to Cherry Hill NJ. i can attest to the whappability.
Luther, I may have been at that game. I too had that helmet, from a game where I saw Steve Carlton. My Uncle didn’t make the game, but my dad may have had a beer or two.