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Showing posts with label Trowsers. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 25, 2015
Monday, October 18, 2010
Trowsers - California's most forgotten about 80s ska band
I read recently that Donkey Show was California's first ska band and I thought "What the Fuck?"
http://skaspot.ning.com/forum/topics/ska-bands-lost-in-time-vol-1
Donkey Show was a good band but they were nowhere near being California's first ska band - let alone San Diego's first ska band.
I pretend to know everything but I don't really. As far as I know there were many bands in California since the mid seventies playing a ska/reggae sound on a song or two but I'm pretty sure that the first band to incorporate that sound into a full-time act was San Diego's Trowsers.
They started as early as 1979 under the name Ballistics. They even recorded their first song in Kingston, Jamaica.
I'm not going to lie to you and say that they were a great band. I have to admit that band-leader and vocalist Y Lee's voice is hard to get used to. (Imagine if Dicky Barrett was the main vocalist for the Donkey Show) - but their music will grow on you.
Their only "real" album was Drop 'Em from 1983
1 Come Dance
2 Teaser
3 Kraken Up
4 Inna Boy-O Style
5 Kraken Dub
6 Mondo Bondo
7 Burnin'
8 Housewife Terrorist
9 Grab It
10 Liberation
11 Rev Steppin'
"Mondo Bondo"
http://www.mediafire.com/?12gwnsf83sdvw6f
But they did release a second album in 1984 that was a collection of unreleased songs including their 8-track recordings from 1982 and 1983 as well as their first recording "Rolling with the Feeling" from 1979. It was called
Solitary Confinement
1 Solitary Confinement
2 Air Conditioning
3 Laff in My Face
4 Midnight Carouser
5 Rip Me Off
6 Authority
7 Isolation
8 Wrong Area Code
9 Rolling With the Feeling
10 Colonial Mentality
11 Bad Food
12 ISO Dub
"Rolling With the Feeling"
http://www.mediafire.com/?cpcace7876noa8u
http://skaspot.ning.com/forum/topics/ska-bands-lost-in-time-vol-1
Donkey Show was a good band but they were nowhere near being California's first ska band - let alone San Diego's first ska band.
I pretend to know everything but I don't really. As far as I know there were many bands in California since the mid seventies playing a ska/reggae sound on a song or two but I'm pretty sure that the first band to incorporate that sound into a full-time act was San Diego's Trowsers.
They started as early as 1979 under the name Ballistics. They even recorded their first song in Kingston, Jamaica.
I'm not going to lie to you and say that they were a great band. I have to admit that band-leader and vocalist Y Lee's voice is hard to get used to. (Imagine if Dicky Barrett was the main vocalist for the Donkey Show) - but their music will grow on you.
Their only "real" album was Drop 'Em from 1983
1 Come Dance
2 Teaser
3 Kraken Up
4 Inna Boy-O Style
5 Kraken Dub
6 Mondo Bondo
7 Burnin'
8 Housewife Terrorist
9 Grab It
10 Liberation
11 Rev Steppin'
"Mondo Bondo"
http://www.mediafire.com/?12gwnsf83sdvw6f
But they did release a second album in 1984 that was a collection of unreleased songs including their 8-track recordings from 1982 and 1983 as well as their first recording "Rolling with the Feeling" from 1979. It was called
Solitary Confinement
1 Solitary Confinement
2 Air Conditioning
3 Laff in My Face
4 Midnight Carouser
5 Rip Me Off
6 Authority
7 Isolation
8 Wrong Area Code
9 Rolling With the Feeling
10 Colonial Mentality
11 Bad Food
12 ISO Dub
"Rolling With the Feeling"
http://www.mediafire.com/?cpcace7876noa8u
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