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The Specials are reuniting for a tour — Brooklynian

The Specials are reuniting for a tour

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  • dailyheights
    dailyheights
    The video is low-budget incredible. Will keep an eye out for tour dates.

    I wish I hadn't learned so much about ska after knowing the Specials first. I wouldn't call the Specials a cover band, but some of their greatest moments were basically pulled directly from their ska heroes.
  • daver
    daver
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  • pitu
    pitu
    It must be in the water or something.
    We just watched the DVD of This Is England, so it was all ska all the time at my house this weekend.
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    Not sure what it would be like to go to one of these shows tho. A friend took me to a Dave Wakeling/English Beat revival show at S.O.B. and it was just lame.
    This album however is not lame.
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  • carnivore
    carnivore
    Yeah, sometimes it can be a total letdown to see how your heroes have fallen.

    I saw Lee Scratch Perry put on the worst show ever when he was way past his prime (still a while ago- at The Wetlands, for those of you who remember). My friend had the same experience with Desmond Dekker.
  • pitu
    pitu
    Carnivore wrote:
    I saw Lee Scratch Perry
    but omigod, those guinness ads...
  • rtraindweller
    rtraindweller
    Carnivore wrote: Yeah, sometimes it can be a total letdown to see how your heroes have fallen.

    I saw Lee Scratch Perry put on the worst show ever when he was way past his prime (still a while ago- at The Wetlands, for those of you who remember). My friend had the same experience with Desmond Dekker.
    oh wetlands, how i miss thee.
  • drano
    drano
    Swervedriver is also reuniting! See you in June at the Bowery Ballroom.
  • pitu
    pitu
    Drano wrote: Swervedriver is also reuniting! See you in June at the Bowery Ballroom.
    ewww, Mr Late 80s
    for a second there, I thought you were refering to Skrewdriver
    which was distressing since they were one of those creepy sh*thead racist Oi groups that grew out of the decidedly two tone anti-racist ska revival led by the Specials.
    wikipedia wrote: Skrewdriver was a punk rock band formed in Blackpool in 1976 by Ian Stuart Donaldson. They later changed into a skinhead band, and then became one of the first white power rock bands, playing a leading role in the far right Rock Against Communism movement.
  • drano
    drano
    I'll have you know I'm Mr. Early 90s.
  • pitu
    pitu
    Drano wrote: I'll have you know I'm Mr. Early 90s.
    :D
  • lydiabrunch
    lydiabrunch
    pitu wrote:
    for a second there, I thought you were refering to Skrewdriver
    which was distressing since they were one of those creepy sh*thead racist Oi groups that grew out of the decidedly two tone anti-racist ska revival led by the Specials.

    [quote=wikipedia]Skrewdriver was a punk rock band formed in Blackpool in 1976 by Ian Stuart Donaldson. They later changed into a skinhead band, and then became one of the first white power rock bands, playing a leading role in the far right Rock Against Communism movement.
    And just to *totally* derail this thread... Jewdriver! Featuring singer Ian Stuartstein!

    http://www.myspace.com/jewdriver

    http://www.forward.com/articles/jewish-punks-unite/
  • nomad
    nomad
    The Specials tour would be fab - if they do it well of course.

    If you hear any news on dates, please post 'em!
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