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Yeah, the Fad are really good, and Jeff is friends with the group, so you can expect something special on tour.

[url]http://www.myspace.com/thefad[/url]

In fact, every band on BTMI and ASOB's top 8 friends on myspace is a great band.

Goodbye Cool World!

Jeff - God.

I found the "4-track adventures of venice shoreline chris" by Chris Murray in the station today. Very tasty.

so on august 6th me and three friends just bought the tickets to see reel big fish with streetlight manifesto. I have heard some from both but this is my first ska concert. What should I expect or anyone else going to the same tour as me?

[QUOTE=thunderzstruck]so on august 6th me and three friends just bought the tickets to see reel big fish with streetlight manifesto. I have heard some from both but this is my first ska concert. What should I expect or anyone else going to the same tour as me?[/QUOTE]

I'm also seeing RBF and Streetlight on August 6th. Are you by any chance attending the show in Omaha?

I'm seeing them on august 8th.

I've seen a few ska bands play, but only at warped, this'll be the first actual ska concert persay. From what I saw at warped... It's pretty much just like a punk concert but with less moshing and more actual dancing/skanking.

no, its the one in minneapolis, minnesota at the quest club
it says omaha is on the 4th..

[QUOTE=thunderzstruck]so on august 6th me and three friends just bought the tickets to see reel big fish with streetlight manifesto. I have heard some from both but this is my first ska concert. What should I expect or anyone else going to the same tour as me?[/QUOTE]

I would probably expect this show to be pretty packed, since it's Reel Big Fish and Streetlight Manifesto. Also I'd expect lots of people skanking so I hope you know how.

I saw Les Claypool at Bonnaroo and one song he played was Madness - One Step Beyond. It was awesome.

[QUOTE=thunderzstruck]so on august 6th me and three friends just bought the tickets to see reel big fish with streetlight manifesto. I have heard some from both but this is my first ska concert. What should I expect or anyone else going to the same tour as me?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I'm going on the 29th(July).

Should be a kick-*** concert. Expect that. lol

I recently joined a ska band. I'm a guitarist in it. What do I do on stage? I've never been i a non-metal band before so I dont really know what the difference is when it comes to stage presence. any advice would be greatly apprectiated, Thanks

Ty

[QUOTE=slit_21]I recently joined a ska band. I'm a guitarist in it. What do I do on stage? I've never been i a non-metal band before so I dont really know what the difference is when it comes to stage presence. any advice would be greatly apprectiated, Thanks

Ty[/QUOTE]

Play your songs.:p

I planned on that lol. To put on a good show what should I do?

act like a goof. less than jake puts on great live shows and they just run around and shoot toilet-paper out of leaf blowers.

Yeah, I would advise you not to do that because Less Than Jake sucks, so...

-Well LTJ sucks now at least

-Streetlight Manifesto and RBF concert... If I were you I would listen to their stuff(SM only has 1 album) as much as you can before the concert because the best songs at concerts are the ones you know. Unless you are a huge fan and then the new songs are the best hopefully. Be ready to dance for 3 hours and be blown away by how much fun it is. Ska concerts usually will bring a wide variety of people, especially with Streetlight as one of the bands.

-Being in a ska band doesnt mean you do anything special on stage really. If your music is happy you can be goofy with your guitar strumming. If your music is more punkish you can throw in your hardcore/metal moves. Usually just fit in with your music but either way it comes down to the songs and how you approach the crowd with your chatting. Here is a video of Reel Big Fish playing The Fire on a show. Aaron Barrett is a top notch guitar player for the 3rd wave. He has a good style. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYVp9w4bzl0[/url]

yeah i have been downloading a lot of reel big fish and have been listening to everything goes numb almost non stop lately (i love that album)

ska has been ostrisized for the past 5 for some reason. :(

This thread only gets love in bursts.

LOVE COMES IN SPURTS (Oh no, it hurts).

Rx Bandits come out with new stuff this fall...exciting....they are very good. Im bored :(

I'm gonna go see RX Bandits live on Monday in New Haven. I can't cause a buddy of mine told me they're show in Long Island was amazing. What makes it better is I get guest listed at Toad's Place so free concert. \m/

yeah ive heard they were very good live also

[QUOTE=Catchthe22]Rx Bandits come out with new stuff this fall...exciting....they are very good. Im bored :([/QUOTE]

Actually, it either came out a few days ago or will come out in a few days.

I saw them on Monday and they were ridiculous. I wasn't too impressed with the new album the first few times I listened to it, but the songs came off really well live. I was drenched with sweat on the 5 block walk back.

They only play a few songs off of progress, so if that's all you know it's going to be mostly new music. The rest of the set was split between The Resignation and the new album.

If they're playing with Men Women and Children, there might be an awesome druming display.

after reading the site again it says that they are selling it on tour and on the website (i dont see it) but that it will be in stores in the fall.

[QUOTE=Kithkin]Fishbone – They sometimes play ska. Usually they play so many genres that you can’t define what they are. Very talented and diverse. They've drifted from ska since their earlier stuff into more experimental and varied stuff, but its all very good. You can watch a video for their cover of sublime’s date rape on their myspace assuming it works on your computer… [/QUOTE]
that video was pretty cool. Does anyone have anymore info on the humble actress in the video?

My friend has a Fishbone hat. He stapled a box to it and made it into a tv. Here's said contraption:
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/skaskaskaska/housewarming/Picture030.jpg[/url]

That's a little odd.

Does anyone know where i can find a download of hopskotch - farse? Apparantly a really good song but it barely exists on the internet! Even a reliable site to listen to it would be great. Hope you guys can help you seem to know the ska scene pretty well

[QUOTE=Kithkin]If they're playing with Men Women and Children, there might be an awesome druming display.[/QUOTE]
I saw them this past Monday night and the show was really flipping sweet. Men Women and Children were surprisingly good live (although I don't really enjoy the stuff I downloaded) and RX Bandits were amazing. The Drum display was crazy and went on forever. The show I went to was the last one they were all doing on the tour and it seemed like they didn't want it to end.

I saw Streetlight manifesto last night, hollly ****. amazing. i remember thinking, they sound exactly the same as recorded, maybe even better, which is guess is rare.
and Reel big Fish needs to relize no one likes their new album, and should stop playing it. Everytime they played a new song, everyone just started chanting BEER. it was great.

[QUOTE=Joey]Does anyone know where i can find a download of hopskotch - farse? Apparantly a really good song but it barely exists on the internet! Even a reliable site to listen to it would be great. Hope you guys can help you seem to know the ska scene pretty well[/QUOTE]

How about you wait a while you might not have to relive the old days anymore

Hey PaintJessGreen, I reckon their new album ain't all that bad. I mean, Cheer Up! was just dire, things could only get better. It's reminiscent of older stuff in places. If anyone near me had chanted Beer at any point during the show, I would've punched them. Hard.

[QUOTE=Kithkin]They only play a few songs off of progress, so if that's all you know it's going to be mostly new music. The rest of the set was split between The Resignation and the new album.
[/QUOTE]
Don't they play anything from Half between here and there? That's the only one I got and I actually like it a lot. The other Rx Bandits I've heard from other albums didn't seem as ska.

RXBANDITS: Progress has ska on it. Resignation is a lot of progressive rock except the song Overcome is ska/reggae. But if you like progressive/alternative I would really recommend getting that album.

REELBIGFISH: I would enjoy hearing some songs off their newest album. The Fire, Say Goodbye, and for some reason I think Revolution would be a fun clap along song. And yes Cheer Up isnt very good.

STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO: Ive heard the new songs were good. Can I get another confirmation on this PaintJessGreen?

Oh so eeefffin good.

Sonic Boom Six's new album is so good.

Streetlight Manifesto's new songs were pretty good. They played two of them when I saw them last week. Great show.

Wow, i haven't been here in ages... I tend to forget about forums i've joined... So anyway here goes...

[QUOTE=Joey]Does anyone know where i can find a download of hopskotch - farse? Apparantly a really good song but it barely exists on the internet! Even a reliable site to listen to it would be great. Hope you guys can help you seem to know the ska scene pretty well[/QUOTE]

I'm sure you know that Farse has broken up... If you go to their website at [url]http://www.farse.co.uk/[/url] you can download about half of the music in their music section (include Hopskotch)...

[QUOTE=PaintJessGreen]I saw Streetlight manifesto last night, hollly ****. amazing. i remember thinking, they sound exactly the same as recorded, maybe even better, which is guess is rare.
and Reel big Fish needs to relize no one likes their new album, and should stop playing it. Everytime they played a new song, everyone just started chanting BEER. it was great.[/QUOTE]

Streetlight is a live band which means they either sound the same or better live than on cd... Its hard for me to believe that RBF needs to realize that nobody likes their new album cause it hadn't been released yet... Even so it just them playing their old songs live, with a few exceptions... I'd like to go off and rant about why i'm dissapointed in what you said about RBF but i'll save it for another day or just not say anything...

I saw the same show (i think) with Transition, WWB, Streetlight, RBF, and MxPx... Heres how it went down for me, not that you care...

This show show ties for the best show i've ever been too... The bands didn't follow the schedual and played at different times than the sign said, but it was for the best... My night went as followed...

Before the show while i was waiting in line i met Aaron Barrett which was really cool...

When i got inside i met Aaron Abraham who is one of the coolest people i've met...

WWB was supposed to open (which i didn't understand) but Transition ended up opening... I didn't really like them but one of my old friends from the last school i went to, was touring with them and played guitar for them on the last song... Transition played for 30 long boring minutes...

WWB come on next and things got crazy... The split the club in half (i think its called the wall of death but i'm not sure), everyone that came for a ska show was on one side and everyone that came for a punk show was on the other side and there was a gap in the middle... When the started their next song both sides just ran into each other and it was sweet... WWB played for 30 minutes (although the second band was supposed to play 40)...

Streetlight came up after WWB and played like 3 long songs... I knew 1 of them (they tied two songs together into one song) and had never heard the other two... It wasn't that crazy cause everyone was singing along instead of dancing/ moshing and i was honestly a little dissapointed... Streetlight played for 30 minutes (the third band had 45 minutes to play but Streetlight didn't use all all 45)...

Reel Big Fish played next and were the obvious favorite of everyone... I don't think i've ever had as good of a time at a concert than when RBF were playing... My friend and I tore the place up with some people... People were skanking everywhere and well i can't really explain how amazing it was... The only problem was that everyone was drenched with sweat after like the first song so it got slippery but it was still amazing... Several people passed out/ fainted after RBF played which sorta scary but they got better fast... RBF instead of playing 1 hr played for 2 hrs... It was crazy...

MxPx played last and weren't that good... About half of the people left after RBF so it was sorta empty... My friend and I had some fun moshing around when you couldn't really mosh to the songs... The only reason why i said this show tied for the best ever is cause MxPx was a huge let down... MxPx only played for like an hour or so, but they took requests and played some of their older better stuff...

After the first two MxPx songs my friend left and i had some fun with some people i met there... I also chilled with Delano Bonner for a song which was pretty cool...

Hey Kithkin when did SBS release a new album?