Posted on 08/15/2015 3:18:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Check out the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra,
they are jammin!
Their Guns of Navarone is awesome along with
Baby Elephant walk and others, would love to
see them here in the states.
Kind of a tautology.
It is like saying you cant have math(s) without arithmetic.
Obligatory post to this thread, because of my screen name.
I love ska, especially 2nd and 3rd Wave. Thanks for the post, Rudy.
Another old one to check out is The Ethiopians. Great band.
Interesting. In the 80s I used to explain Ska as a double-time Reggae.
I saw a documentary on Bob Marley where they were interviewing some of the early ska guys. One was asked how they came up with it, and he said, well, we just couldn’t play very well and the time was off, but it sounded good anyway, so we kept doing it.
Ska Ping
Yes!
In that vein, I read a (possibly apocryphal) story that one of the reasons for reggae’s popularity was that the rhythm of its music closely approximated the beating of the human heart.
Desmond Dekker was an awesome talent.
I was big into the huge ska explosion in Orange county CA during the late 90s - Aquabats, Save Ferris, No Doubt, Reel Big Fish - it came and went so quickly. Ska was so huge back then!
Onnnne Step Beeeeyooooooooooonnnd!!!
Speaking of which... When I was a grad student in math, preparing for exams, if I felt like listening to music, I could only get any kind of productive studying done while listening to classical or Rastafarian music. Anything else was too distracting. It was bizarre. I never listened to Rastafarian any other time. That stuff does something to your brain!
“My Boy Lollipop”
The musical cross between Duke Ellington and Jimi Hendrix.
One of the great musicians of the 20th century and probably didn't make a million dollars the whole time.
Ernest Ranglin is 83 years old and still playing.
Get up in the morning slaving for bread sir
So that every mouth can be fed
Poor me, the Israelite Aah...
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