... the other Black experience
Ska
Is anyone on Afro punk in to Ska or Ska core or Ska punk or 4th wave ska core?
Ive been into ska for so many years and i havent seen many other black kids in ska bands on the east coast especially in the south east. I used to play in a ska band in LA with All hispanic kids and one other black kid.
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Permalink Reply by LesYpersound on -
....i'm into ska, but mostly older stuff. i guess. have any links to your old band or newbands you're into?
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Permalink Reply by chexas chainsaw on -
well Im into Link 80, The Flaming Tsunamis, Buck-O-Nine,MU330,Mustard Plug, Against All Authority, Skankin' Pickle, The Suicide Machines,The Mighty Mighty, Hub City Stompers, and the community records bands and open hand records
i like older ska too the skatalites, the slackers, the upsetters and prince buster.
i love the really hardcore ska bands the most like Folly. its on my profile on here along with some ska bands
Openhandrecords.com has a bunch of new ska for free
Communityrecords.org had free music too
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Permalink Reply by RUBBA RODE on -
Im up on a few ska tunes....you're the shit if you can get a whole horn section..to show up and practice. mostly recently dug up some fish bone stuff from the 90's....i don't know of any bands around here who play ska (TX)suggest some bands to check out tho.
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Permalink Reply by Darkness Unlimited* on -
Ska mostly sucks. Why don't folks just listen to REAL Punk, instead? If i wanna hear something with saxiphones, i'll listen to Jazz.
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Permalink Reply by chexas chainsaw on
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dont get me started on how the punk scene influenced the ska scene and not the other way around. early punk bands listened to ska for inspiration if you knew anything about The Clash and all the English punk band from the 70's you would know about the jamaican exodus's effect on all areas of music in England. Furthermore not all ska is ska punk or ska core, there are bands who are traditionalists and revivalists who play Jamaican ska which is no where near punk.
Darkness Unlimited* said:Ska mostly sucks. Why don't folks just listen to REAL Punk, instead? If i wanna hear something with saxiphones, i'll listen to Jazz.
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Permalink Reply by chexas chainsaw on
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RUBBA RODE said:Im up on a few ska tunes....you're the shit if you can get a whole horn section..to show up and practice. mostly recently dug up some fish bone stuff from the 90's....i don't know of any bands around here who play ska (TX)suggest some bands to check out tho.
A band called Informant is from dallas tx they play trippy space rock and ska they are my buddies and the kick ass musically
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Permalink Reply by GodsavetheQueer on -
Ska is awesome. I have no idea about all those subgenres; i'm not good at labelling things. But I can appreciate anything with a horn section.
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Permalink Reply by Rosenda on -
Heavy ska head here from way back.
I'll tell you the one and best newer band, around for 20 years I think, is Hepcat. AWESOME music and great recordings too.
Amazing live. Funky as hell great live show and excellent musicians. If you were in LA I am sure you know them already. I still go to shows now and then. Some others I really liked were Skeletones, Mobtown, Mento Buru, The Specs, Dancehall Crashers, and some others after that I liked among the pseudo kinda ska with Latin and other music are El Gran Silencio and Panteon Rococo. That second one are so much better live onstage but their first 2 cds' are still pretty good to listen to, ChChain.
Do you still play the music with another band or some other style? I noticed there is a heavy Latino young following at every ska, rockabilly, and metal show I go too, and also at the northern soul clubs/shows Ive been too. Something about the funkiness and intensity of those styles of music I think appeals to my loving Brown folks out there. Hey hey.
After I saw Panteon Rococo live a couple years ago, I heard a couple other latin ska bands that were pretty good.
Skarnales, whom Christopher on here I think said is in Houston TX sometimes, and also Chencha Berrinches.
And there was a show on VD weekend (which unfortunately I could not afford to go to because I'd just gone to another great two shows the weekend before) that featured some other latin ska bands, one who is really good called Inspector.
I mainly on cd's listen to the old stuff. I have a lot of those Trojan Records Boxed sets and certain older artists like the Skatalites and Alton Ellis and Ken Boothe and Horace Andy. Well that goes from ska to reggae of course but I love all that SOOOOOO much and have for almost 30 years I guess. I have all the Hepcat cds except for the new stuff. Very good.
I really liked the early 80's ska bands Specials, Madness, Selecter, English Beat. SERIOUSLY excellent.
I heard ya D.Ultd. I like both punk and ska because I discovered ska right after punk. Because of punk really.
Rodney Bingenheimer's radio show KROQ were the FIRST out here to play punk and ska and reggae, old and new stuff.
And not to mention the later new wave and new romantic and harder stuff too. That dude and his show launched a lot of careers on up through No Doubt's days.
GO TO PANDORA.COM and select a ska station. SOOOO good. Select/create a Northern Soul station while you at it too.
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Permalink Reply by Rosenda on
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Well I didnt forget but I think Fishbone is so phenomenally talented and creative, it just got distracted from the early ska loud fast sound they had early on. Oh hell yeah.
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Permalink Reply by Geoff on -
Ska would be a lot of fun to write. Just wish I knew people who could play in a horn section...:'(
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Permalink Reply by Rosenda on
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Dude, I have not heard of that, but maybe Matthew on here or some other well connected person can ask the man himself.
Black Vampires. Now THAT sounds interesting. I also kinda forgot to mention a few punk/ska bands I actually like (I prefer the old school funky shit and the funkier 2nd wave and 3rd wave like Hepcat and the Skalars and others I mentioned before) and the best that come to mind are Rancid and the earlier Operation Ivy stuff. That was FUN.
Felipe said:I know you know whats up Rosenda. What is up with that new Angelo project anyways? I hear its called Black Vampires or something.
Rosenda said:Well I didnt forget but I think Fishbone is so phenomenally talented and creative, it just got distracted from the early ska loud fast sound they had early on. Oh hell yeah.
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