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Ska

Stay Rude, Stay Rebel.

About Me


"Jamaican music...has always been the people's music. Their statements, their rhythms, their good times, their sufferation, their love songs" -Prince Buster
Born and raised on the island of Jamaica. Marching band horns playing jazz-form, R + B inspired sounds with a mento offbeat- from imported records on sound systems to musicians producing records locally. I like big speakers, solos, independence, trenchtown, and playing it 'ska...ska...ska' while people bow their heads and swing their arms.

My Interests

Skavoovie! Mashing up and licking back with the Ska Kings at the 1964 World's Fair in New York.

I'd like to meet:

We want the punks, the drunks the lay abouts the steady working joes. The white collars, the rednecks and our blue blooded bros. The jocks, the preps, the stoners, the homeless, and homeowners. Every loser, boozer, drug abuser, sharpie and Two-Toner.
Rude boys and girls, skins, mods, punks, thrashers...everybody's welcome in the 2Tone army! It’s all ages and it’s all good. Racists need not apply.

Music:

Skatalites, Wailers, Maytals, Reid's Trojan, Dodd's Studio One, Buster's Voice of the People, Top Deck, Desmond Dekker, Prince Buster, Laurel Aitken, Don Drommond, Tommy McCook, Roland Alphonso, Ernest Ranglin, Byron Lee, Specials, Selecter, Bad Manners, Hepcat, Slackers, Toasters, Eastern Standard Time

Movies:

This is Ska, The Harder They Come, Ska Explosion, Dance Craze, Rockers

Books:

This is Reggae Music by Lloyd Bradley
Solid Foundation: an Oral History of Reggae by David Katz
Wheels out of Gear by Dave Thompson

Heroes:

Brevett, McCook, Drummond, Alphonso, Mittoo, Knibb, Sterling, Haynes, Moore, Opel, Shaffer, Lee, Ranglin, Reid, Dodd, Buster, Morris, Aitken, Marley, Cole, Cliff, Small, Perry, Kong, Motta, Blackwell, Vere John, Hibbert, Dekker, Tanamo, Machuki

My Blog

Reggae Radio Rolecall!

If you know of ska and reggae radio shows in your area or in any place around the world, drop me a line! I'm working on a large directory of stations people can tune into to hear the ska and reggae so...
Posted by Ska on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:52:00 PST

Check out this event: VICTORIA'S 7TH ANNUAL SKA FEST

Hosted By: VICTORIA BC SKA SOCIETYWhen: Saturday Jul 15, 2006 at 7:00 PMWhere: Victoria Curling Club1952 Quadra StreetVictoria, V8P3M5CADescription:VICTORIA BC SKA SOCIETY Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Ska on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:13:00 PST