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Zap Pow is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Cedric Brooks and The Wailers. Those roots explain a lot about how Zap Pow arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Viceroys, Junior Murvin, Dennis Brown, The Heptones and Freddie McKay, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Roots Radics, Beres Hammond, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Bob Marley & The Wailers, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Zap Pow, reaching back through Cedric Brooks and forward to Roots Radics. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Zap Pow is a Jamaican reggae band, founded by singer/bassist Michael Williams aka Mikey Zappow and guitarist Dwight Pinkney. Members also included singer Beres Hammond, trumpeter David Madden, saxman Glen DaCosta, and drummer Cornell Marshall. They originally existed from 1969 to 1979; they re-formed in 2016.
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Zap Pow connections
Zap Pow grew out of Cedric Brooks and The Wailers, shares an orbit with The Viceroys, Junior Murvin, Dennis Brown and The Heptones, went on to shape Roots Radics, Beres Hammond, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Bob Marley & The Wailers. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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