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The only ska band that matters
12:01 pm on January 9th, 2008 by Dave SegalI have a very limited knowledge of contemporary music. Or maybe that’s not true. I have a very scattered knowledge of contemporary music. And the only sub-realm in which I have any particular expertise is ska. (First- and third-wave, and a little in-between.)
This is largely why The Colonel and I have developed such a solidarity. You see, he was a member of The Agents, who I’m pretty sure I saw play once when I was like 16. At Phantasmagoria, in Wheaton, Md. With Isaac Green and the Skalars. Or maybe it was Mephiskapheles.
Anyway, I tried and failed to deliver a Slackers album to him the other night. (It was, in fact, the very best Slackers album, and the very best 90’s ska album of all, The Question.) So on the chance he sees this tomorrow, here’s a taste of what he’s in store for:
(Not necessarily the best place to be divulged — but somewhere in the world there exists a resolution passed by the Providence City Council, designating the Slackers the Best Band Ever. And that makes it so.)
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January 9th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
the colonel was in the agents? as in, the agents that used to play the block parties down the street from cranston east when i was in ninth grade? how did i never realize that?