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
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!!!
“My Boy Lollipop”
Get up in the morning slaving for bread sir
So that every mouth can be fed
Poor me, the Israelite Aah...
“Jamaican Ska”.. Been hearing some old reggae music on a BBC show called “Death in Paradise”, a mystery show set in the Caribbean.
Ska/Reggae heavily lifted from American/English music.
“Last Train to Skaville” really does have a similar horn arrangement to Johnny Cash’s “Ring of fire”; I think there are other examples, Desmond Dekker’s ‘007 (Shantytown)’ is very similar to another song, “Bristol Stomp” may be it.
“Guns of Navarone” and other songs are rather good pieces all the same.
A ping to you Rudy.
Has Tyrone Greene and His Reggae Band put out anymore songs? :>}
dislike them both
BOUT a interesting as hip hop and rap
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