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Apr 25, 2008 @ 20:20:23

pinko

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Apr 25, 2008 @ 20:21:08

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bad music? i don't know.

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Apr 25, 2008 @ 20:24:56

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Wikipedia:

"There are different theories about the origins of the word ska. Guitarist Ernest Ranglin said the offbeat guitar scratching style that he and other musicians played was described as "ska! ska! ska!"[citation needed] Some believe that bassist Cluet Johnson coined the term ska when explaining the ya-ya sound of the music.[citation needed] Johnson was known to greet his friends with the word skavoovie, perhaps imitating American hipsters of the era. Johnson and the Blues Blasters were Coxsone Dodd's house band in the 1950s and early 1960s before the rise of the The Skatalites."

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Apr 25, 2008 @ 20:26:26

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Apr 25, 2008 @ 20:46:37

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brief history of ska
link [www.youtube.com]

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Apr 25, 2008 @ 20:48:22

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jonnythan said:
Wikipedia:

"There are different theories about the origins of the word ska. Guitarist Ernest Ranglin said the offbeat guitar scratching style that he and other musicians played was described as "ska! ska! ska!"[citation needed] Some believe that bassist Cluet Johnson coined the term ska when explaining the ya-ya sound of the music.[citation needed] Johnson was known to greet his friends with the word skavoovie, perhaps imitating American hipsters of the era. Johnson and the Blues Blasters were Coxsone Dodd's house band in the 1950s and early 1960s before the rise of the The Skatalites."

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Apr 29, 2008 @ 14:25:18

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i think i actually heard the Ernest Ranglin theory before haha

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May 08, 2008 @ 21:12:19

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I think ( i heard from a friend ) its like punk but with like tubas, and wind and other string instruments

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Yesterday @ 21:24:28

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i think some people are missing the point here haha.
im talking about the word not the genre, i know what Ska is, it's my favourtie genre of music :P

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