Friendly message to Bloodeye, one of our newest members.....welcome but...

You just posted 47 tunes and a political agenda on a ska community site?

Talk about pushing your personal agenda........ Come on dude. give us a break. There are other forums for that stuff and by the way, this is a ska site not a rap, hip hop,,,,,,,,are you lost?

We welcome you to our community. We are a bunch of folks who just love all sorts of ska music. Focus please..............thanks, don't mean to be a jerk but posting 47 non ska tunes is kinda rude on a rude site if you know what I mean?

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Permalink Reply by Bloodeye on February 27, 2008 at 1:10am

Practise or is it practice makes perfect, Spin.

I played in bands from the last year of highskool (1986) till I went into a coma, in 1994 and it was the best times of my life. They were mostly ska and punk/HC bands, but it was so cool to get up there and have a go. Playing in front of people that you can see dancing and enjoying themselves if the biggest buzz in life. Much more so than drugs or sex... although, they're okay sometimes. Stay in skool, though. Get edjumacted, else you finish skool and find yer only option in life is the army. I hope el Prezidante Busch doesn't bring the draft back in over there.

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Permalink Reply by Spin on February 27, 2008 at 2:57am

yea yea stay in school stay off drugs
lol
im goin to college to do biology n shit
so little time for a ska band
i could never do military
el fuer calls on a draft and im in canada yesterday
im a lover not a fighter lol

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Permalink Reply by Rude City Riot on March 4, 2008 at 12:45am

Hey Bloodeye,

Is that you posting those cool ska trek posters and photos? If so, I wanted to say it really looks
like you all in that band had big fun and good gigs. When was that? did you say 20 yrs ago?

Twenty + years ago I was doing the same thing but up here in Canada with the Villains.
Where are all those other musicians today? Is a reunion in the making? The name is still good.

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Permalink Reply by Bloodeye on March 4, 2008 at 2:21am

Wa gwaan, Dan

Ska-Trek was my first proper ska-band, circa 1987-1989 and there was a very successful reunion gig in 1992. Being a college-aged band, the group pretty much went different ways after we were all thru with our studies.

Our trombonist/keyboard player has ended up over there in Santa Monica CA, but I think he's heading back to Oz to raise his kid, soon. I'd be very keen to start a new band with him again, but I doubt he'll be moving back to Canberra. He'll likely end up in Sydney.

As for the rest of the band, our drummer was living in New Jersey for a few years and was back here before 9/11 went down. One guitarist is in Melbourne along with the sax player. The other guitarist/keyboard/trumpet player is back here inna Crapitall. He's gotten married (I was his best man) and just bought a house. He's laying pretty low though. I have hardly seen him.

Myself, I'm itchin' to get a new band going but the local talent is pretty lame these days. They're either emo kids or goth/doom metalheads. Plus, I've just busted me bass strings, which doesn't help.

F-Troop was the first ska band I saw. They were a local bunch of skins n rudies that had been playing for about a year before Ska-Trek formed. I started playing for them when their bass-player went OS in 1988. We were using the Ska-Trek name before those German bastards.

The Skalatones were formed from the remnants of Ska-Trek and F-Troop. Sadly, most of that lot have become domesticated and aren't really interested in jamming/gigging anymore.

In 1989, F-Troop were asked to play the first Australian National Ska Fest ion Sydney. As I was playing bass for them, they asked for Ska-Trek to play a couple of songs before their set, headlining the second night of the fest. Ska-Trek also played support to one of F-Troops Sydney shows (before I had joined them).

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Permalink Reply by Rude City Riot on March 4, 2008 at 2:39am

very cool, the National Ska Fest must have been fun and a big deal for u at the time I bet.

So I am a little slow just now realizing that you are down under. I am on the West Coast of Canada.

I can relate much better with you on these ska related topics, All my previous ska band experiences were from 1980 - 1986 but looking at your band photos and how the guys were dressed, really reminds me of photos of us back in the day. As a ska bass player in several happening bands, I give you your ska props and apologize somewhat for my tone in some of our earlier communications - you do know ska and you do come from a position of valid experience.

All my great memories I have of that era of ska for me is how great the crowds and fans were. As I like to say, we were "Nearly Famous" ( a good ska band name if I ever heard one and I hope to use it in the future)
So now I need to know, what is the story with your coma? Don't share it if you don't want to, but if you do, go ahead.

Cheers,