What Are You Listening to Right Now?

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[QUOTE=Moejoe;454750]NoFx - Stickin' in My Eye and Seeing Double at the Triple Rock (I need some punk to get me moving today)

Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

Thank you Punk heads for that music, I was myself going through some Rob Zombie to keep me moving... Nothing feels better than jumping and screeming around!

Love the pink hair Moejoe!

[zelda_pinwheel]

The Skatalites featuring Don Drummond, grandfather of ska !



and the eternal classic, Guns of Navarone :



pick it up, pick it up...

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

The Skatalites featuring Don Drummond, grandfather of ska !



and the eternal classic, Guns of Navarone :



pick it up, pick it up...

Perfect! I was just trying to decide what to listen to while I'm editing, and you come and give me some classic Ska *Puts on his Ska compilation* *dons pork pie hat* *does the ska dance*

[zelda_pinwheel]

i love the ska dance. got any checkerboard suspenders to go with that hat ?

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i love the ska dance. got any checkerboard suspenders to go with that hat ?

Not anymore, alas. I went through a Ska/Mod phase when I was very young, I'm talking 10 or 11 here. I had the Ben Sherman shirts, the suspenders, a fishtail parka, the hat the whole thing (even had drainpipe trousers, and who I got them from I don't know). Oh man, they were some good times being the only Mod/Ska kid in the whole school

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Not anymore, alas. I went through a Ska/Mod phase when I was very young, I'm talking 10 or 11 here. I had the Ben Sherman shirts, the suspenders, a fishtail parka, the hat the whole thing (even had drainpipe trousers, and who I got them from I don't know). Oh man, they were some good times being the only Mod/Ska kid in the whole school

aw ! ska baby !! you must have been adorable ! i don't suppose you've got any photos ?

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

aw ! ska baby !! you must have been adorable ! i don't suppose you've got any photos ?

God no! I tend to avoid photographs at all costs, even when I was a kid (too shy and I always end up looking ridiculous on piccies). I think most of my piccies from when I was a kid are school ones.

I used to hang around with a load of older kids, like 16 and 17 and one of them had a scooter, and he was a proper Mod (think Quadrophenia in style). We used to go over to his house and listen to Bad Manners and Madness and all the old Ska stuff from Jamaica.

This was the one we listened to the most:

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

God no! I tend to avoid photographs at all costs, even when I was a kid (too shy and I always end up looking ridiculous on piccies). I think most of my piccies from when I was a kid are school ones.

heh, well, i can hardly cast stones, since i'm the same. it's okay though, i've got a pretty good image in my head.

I used to hang around with a load of older kids, like 16 and 17 and one of them had a scooter, and he was a proper Mod (think Quadrophenia in style). We used to go over to his house and listen to Bad Manners and Madness and all the old Ska stuff from Jamaica.

that's how much of my musical education happened too. although i didn't actually know any mods... i guess i must have stumbled into ska all on my own. i really got into it when i came across a ska band busking on a bridge. they were so great i asked them if they had any concerts planned. they did, that evening. i went, ended up going out with the bassist for about a month, and he took me around to every concert going on in the city and i met all the bands. followed them all for years after that. aaah, happy times...

This was the one we listened to the most:

excellent !

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

heh, well, i can hardly cast stones, since i'm the same. it's okay though, i've got a pretty good image in my head.


that's how much of my musical education happened too. although i didn't actually know any mods... i guess i must have stumbled into ska all on my own. i really got into it when i came across a ska band busking on a bridge. they were so great i asked them if they had any concerts planned. they did, that evening. i went, ended up going out with the bassist for about a month, and he took me around to every concert going on in the city and i met all the bands. followed them all for years after that. aaah, happy times...


excellent !

Imagine someone as bald as Buster Bloodvessel from Bad Manners, only with a goatee, who has been asked on many occasions if he is one of these nationalities

Iraqui, Iranian, French, Jewish, Russian, Turkish, Greek, Spanish...the list goes on

My sister's friends, when they see me, don't believe I'm actually related to her

The musical mix in my neighborhood, at least with my several sets of friends from around age 10 onwards, was very strange. I was in with the Mods, the Skinheads (not the evil ones), the Breakdancers at one point, later on the Punks, the Goths and the Metalheads. I calmed down around 25/26 though

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Imagine someone as bald as Buster Bloodvessel from Bad Manners, only with a goatee, who has been asked on many occasions if he is one of these nationalities

Iraqui, Iranian, French, Jewish, Russian, Turkish, Greek, Spanish...the list goes on

you look like all of those ??? how is that possible, for one man ?

My sister's friends, when they see me, don't believe I'm actually related to her

my sister's friends often ask if we're twins, which is really weird, because we really don't look that much alike. (so your sister just looks british, then ? )

The musical mix in my neighborhood, at least with my several sets of friends from around age 10 onwards, was very strange. I was in with the Mods, the Skinheads (not the evil ones), the Breakdancers at one point, later on the Punks, the Goths and the Metalheads. I calmed down around 25/26 though

you gotta love a man with such eclectic taste in music.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

you look like all of those ??? how is that possible, for one man ?


my sister's friends often ask if we're twins, which is really weird, because we really don't look that much alike. (so your sister just looks british, then ? )


you gotta love a man with such eclectic taste in music.

It's possible, believe me and it has its upsides and downsides. Upside: the local Kebab shop still think I'm Turkish and give me a discount Downside: I was attacked several times after the 7/11 tube bombings (eggs thrown at me, punched) and was regularly searched by armed officers at Liverpool Lime Street station going to work

My sister is quite British, although the tanning beds don't...well, the less said about that the better (Only kidding, I love her and she knows that )

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

It's possible, believe me and it has its upsides and downsides. Upside: the local Kebab shop still think I'm Turkish and give me a discount Downside: I was attacked several times after the 7/11 tube bombings (eggs thrown at me, punched) and was regularly searched by armed officers at Liverpool Lime Street station going to work

holy crap. that is horrifying. i'm sorry. the world is still a pretty farked up place a lot of the time, isn't it ?

My sister is quite British, although the tanning beds don't...well, the less said about that the better (Only kidding, I love her and she knows that )

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

holy crap. that is horrifying. i'm sorry. the world is still a pretty farked up place a lot of the time, isn't it ?

Nah, don't worry about it, I didn't Getting jumped or beaten up is pretty much par for the course where I hail from. Race is just an excuse for some of these idiots, if it wasn't race it would be the clothes you had on (I won't tell you about how many times I've been threatened on my way back from a club or the pub with broken bottles and knives or the friends I've seen hospitalised).

Piece of advice, if you're ever in England (especially smaller towns) avoid the pubs and clubs Friday and Saturday nights. It's like the Wild West

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Nah, don't worry about it, I didn't Getting jumped or beaten up is pretty much par for the course where I hail from. Race is just an excuse for some of these idiots, if it wasn't race it would be the clothes you had on (I won't tell you about how many times I've been threatened on my way back from a club or the pub with broken bottles and knives or the friends I've seen hospitalised).

Piece of advice, if you're ever in England (especially smaller towns) avoid the pubs and clubs Friday and Saturday nights. It's like the Wild West

wow. okay. i've got a friend who's seen his share of fights (including in london pubs, when he was visiting) but at the time he was a hard core punk rocker and i guess that was more or less inevitable sometimes. i'm quite the delicate flower, i've never been in a fight and wouldn't know what to do if i ever saw one (except panic, maybe, or run away, or something. i really don't know what i'd do). i've lived in some relatively bad neighborhoods (and near some *really* bad ones), and i used to routinely cross the entire city on foot alone at 4 in the morning after a concert, but i've actually been stunningly lucky. at worst i've been hassled verbally, but just typical macho guy stuff whenever any woman crosses their field of vision.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

wow. okay. i've got a friend who's seen his share of fights (including in london pubs, when he was visiting) but at the time he was a hard core punk rocker and i guess that was more or less inevitable sometimes. i'm quite the delicate flower, i've never been in a fight and wouldn't know what to do if i ever saw one (except panic, maybe, or run away, or something. i really don't know what i'd do). i've lived in some relatively bad neighborhoods (and near some *really* bad ones), and i used to routinely cross the entire city on foot alone at 4 in the morning after a concert, but i've actually been stunningly lucky. at worst i've been hassled verbally, but just typical macho guy stuff whenever any woman crosses their field of vision.

I'm not a fighter either, I'm almost virging on pacifist most of the time. I got my fare share of bloody noses and bust lips at Punk gigs, but it was all in good fun, and sometimes because my dog-chain came loose and hit me in the face