BTW, a lot of the San Francisco acid-jazz scenesters (Gerry V,
On-the-One'ers, the 330 Ritch Street crew, and others) were scooter riding &
racing, Paul Weller worshiping mods whose musical tastes grew to give rise
to SF's a-j scene. At Mr Fives ('91-'92 club that first mixed jazz &
hip-hop, premiering Charlie Hunter, Alphabet Soup, et al), four of the five
of us were former mods who just loved great soulful music.
Back to the thread, my favorite 'ska' song is Friday Night, Saturday Morning
by the Specials.....
creighton
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From: Keith Willis/TA Staff/Internal/Tax Analysts/US on Mon, Apr 22, 1996
11:44 AM
Subject: Re: ska ska ska ska ska ska
To: Cole Creighton; acid-jazz
Wow, this thread is still going? I haven't heard this much talk about ska in
ages. BTW, I saw the Skatalites on Saturday and as always they smoked.
However, I was said to hear that Tommy McCook is apparently recovering from
something in a hospital so he wasn't there.
>I was in living in Tokyo in the early 80s and started listening to ska
>there--the British groups--but who were the "rudies & mods"? I must have
>missed that. What music defined them?
Mod was an English movement from the mid sixties that has been revived a
number
of times. They are the ones that the movie Quadrophenia was about; parkas,
suits, scooters, pills, soul et al. ( I would go into a history but does
anyone
really want to hear that again?) Incidently, the Giles guy from the Acid
Jazz
label was quite the mod in his day. He ran his own label called Countdown
and
put out a fanzine who's name escapes me. I have an old interview with him in
a
mod magazine called In the Crowd from around 1986 if anyone is interested I
could probably post it.