Hepcat
Hepcat is a term for jazz and beatnik subculture. See Hipster (1940s subculture)
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Hepcat (band)
Hepcat is a ska and reggae band formed in southern California in 1989. Their soulful harmonies and mellow rhythms were unlike those of contemporaries and more akin to musicians from the heyday of 1960s Jamaican ska, also referred to as the first wave.
Career
Hepcat's debut album, Out of Nowhere was released in 1993 on New York-based ska label Moon Records. Two years later, they followed it up with Scientific on BYO Records. In 1998, after signing with Epitaph Records subsidiary HellCat Records, they released Right on Time, scoring a modest hit with the swinging "No Worries" and scored a spot on the Vans Warped Tour. 2000 saw the release of Push n' Shove, their first album without founding members Raul Talavera and Alex Désert, although the latter appears as a guest vocalist on two tracks.
The band went on a short hiatus after 2000, then reunited in March 2003, bringing back members of the "Scientific" lineup, sans alto sax Raul Talavera.
In early 2004, a remastered version of Out of Nowhere was released with two additional bonus tracks—an early version of "Nigel" and "Club Meditation"—both of which appeared on their first single.
Hipster (1940s subculture)
Hipster or hepcat, as used in the 1940s, referred to aficionados of jazz, in particular bebop, which became popular in the early 1940s. The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: dress, slang, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty and relaxed sexual codes.
History
The words hep and hip are of uncertain origin, with numerous competing theories being proposed. In the early days of jazz, musicians were using the hep variant to describe anybody who was "in the know" about an emerging culture, mostly black, which revolved around jazz. They and their fans were known as hepcats. By the late 1930s, with the rise of swing, hip rose in popularity among jazz musicians, to replace hep. Clarinetist Artie Shaw described singer Bing Crosby as "the first hip white person born in the United States."
In 1939, the word hepster was used by Cab Calloway in the title of his Hepster's Dictionary, which defines hep cat as "a guy who knows all the answers, understands jive". In 1944, pianist Harry Gibson modified this to hipster in his short glossary "For Characters Who Don't Dig Jive Talk," published in 1944 with the album Boogie Woogie In Blue, featuring the self-titled hit "Handsome Harry the Hipster". The entry for hipsters defined them as "characters who like hot jazz."
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- Push ’n Shove released: 2000
- Right on Time released: 1998
- Scientific released: 1996
- Out of Nowhere released: 1994
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Earthquake And Fire
by: HepcatEarthquake and fire
This is the only place for a man like me
Earthquake and fire
May woman comes fe take me home
Earthquake and fire
She beneath me began to moan
Earthquake and fire...
We sunk it deep and she start to shake you say
What can I do, she's on fire
Oh my god, that girl's on fire
Go get the bucket and-a fill it with some sheet
This place is coming down, all around me
Earthquake and fire
This is the only place for a man like me
Earthquake and fire
My woman come-fe come-fe come-fe come-fe
Earthquake and fire
She beneath me began to moan
Earthquake and fire...
An angry mother and a father after me
When all I did was make the girls so happy
You're not complaining much, so why come after me
We move, we groove, she move
And all that kind of stuff,
A-yeah a-why a-go a-say a-hey a-ho
Earthquake and fire
Turn out the lights, let me finish it
Earthquake and fire
And when the musics done,
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