Originally Posted by All_Nite_Dinah

Kind of hard to describe how something sounds. As much as i hate the description think of your favorite reggae tune, take away background vocals, lighten up the bass, add more horns, turn up the guitar, take away some of the organ shuffle. Or just download a song any of the bands I mentioned. Alton Ellis's push would is a prime example as is anything by the skatalites.


Lesson two.

The second wave of ska happened mainly in the UK in the mid/late 70's into the mid 80s'. baisically all of these poor jamiacan kids went over to europe in search of work. Naturally they brough there music with them. As Jamican rude boys met up with there new comrads in the working class something happened. The rudeboy became influenced by the faster rythms of the British working class's new found love, punk. And the skinhead instantly took a likeing to ska. So a new form of ska with less emphasis on horns and stict melody was formed. Naturally it was a bit faster and some say more energetic than its predesecor traditional ska. This is also when the whole checkerboard thing took off. Europe had high racial tensions but the working class formed a sort of black and white racial unity. To display this the checkeboard look went crazy. That and the new record label called "2-tone" records was formed by The Specials jerry Dahmers. Hence the second "wave" of ska is refered to as the 2-tone movement. Some of the more famous better loved ska bands the really exemplfy the 2-tone sound are Bad manners, The Specials, Potato 5, Maroon town, The Selector, Judge dread, Volcanoes, and the ska dows.

O boy third wave ska is coming up what excitment.....