> All that behind me, the music will always be close to my heart.
> I haven't heard a good US band since The Untouchables or early
> Fishbone.  IMHO, all the bands are trying to copy 2-tone, without
. . . 
There was a good US ska band? I'll look for the mentioned groups. 
As I work (an occasional lapse), I recycle through my hundreds of tapes 
of stuff collected over the years. By coincidience, I just reached one 
with ska. It's the "Dance Craze-Best of British Ska...Live" comp with The 
Specials, The English Beat, Bad Manners, The Special A.K.A., The 
Selector, and The Body Snatchers. Check it out. (Same tape has Bob 
Marley's "Talkin' Blues"--blast from the past.)
bil
bdwyer@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu