Comments on: Coming Up With A Ska Wedding Mix… Not So Easy

By: zombie

zombie — Thu, 06 May 2010 04:17:59 +0000

tooo toooo cute!
perfect!
i stole alot of these fer my man! thanks a ton! and sorry nout the leaving the cd that would of been bomb if it was there!

By: xlizellx

xlizellx — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:47:47 +0000

wow — this is amazing. we are having this exact problem right now — i googled “ska first dance wedding” and up came this. thank you!!

By: hanlemon

hanlemon — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:05:13 +0000

Getting married on Sat and been looking for ska wedding stuff. Am the bride and REALLY wanted summat ska funky to prance down the aisle to but have been having all sorts of trouble finding something suitable. this is helping, ta :)

By: Shane Hartman

Shane Hartman — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:09:56 +0000

Hello there!!
That Jumpstarts cd is long outta print but if you hit me up on myspace, I can probably send you a burned copy. It’s my old band and I’m psyched to hear that we still get mentioned!
Shane
http://www.myspace/unodoseproductions
swangin2@yahoo.com

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:58:50 +0000

Hi, I found this post almost by accident, and noticed The Jumpstarts song above. Recently I re-organized my CD collection and discovered the actual CD for Just a Little Bit was gone. The jewel case with the cover and everything was still there but not the CD. I love that CD so much and am dying to find a another copy. Do you happen to have a copy?

By: masnick.com » Self Medication On The Way

masnick.com » Self Medication On The Way — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:51:43 +0000

[...] This version was recorded live on the radio when they were in Texas last year. Vic’s playing a baby grand piano rather than a keyboard or organ, so I’m guessing the album version will sound a bit different… but either way, I know that this song has been stuck in my head for a while, so I’m happy it’s the first song on the new album. I had a lot of fun doing my music post last month, so maybe I’ll try to do a review post once I get this album. In the meantime, take a listen… [...]

By: Mike Masnick

Mike Masnick — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:04:05 +0000

Ethan,

Thanks! Actually, my best man Dennis has also been a part-time DJ, and I was tempted to just have him DJ, but I figured he’d be busy enough with other stuff (which he was!). Of course, if I had him DJ, he would have just known what ska to play without me having the chance to put together this fun playlist…

By: Ethan Bauley

Ethan Bauley — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:38:57 +0000

Dude, HELL yeah!

Beautiful tunes…and totally wedding-riffic!

I can’t believe that business about the DJ. I’m getting married on the east coast this summer and I’m flying out a friend from L.A. who’s a DJ to make sure it’s copasetic ;-)

Truly amazing taste…bravo.

(And I make Jack Black’s character from High Fidelity look like the president of the Kenny G fan club)

Boring side note: I saw the Pietasters play in some random church basement in Fairfax VA in ~1991, which I remember being cool. I was only 11 or 12 years old but I remember thinking that I wanted to throw the drummer through a window and take over myself.

Finally, are you getting royalties from Chris Anderson or what???

Congratulations on getting married!

By: Mike Masnick

Mike Masnick — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:03:09 +0000

Heh. Perhaps… though, unlike JwJ I was actually able to score TSPO albums during the 90s. A friend of mine sent me a tape of one of their albums (the one with the terribly sung Sesame Street theme song on it) and I if you looked hard enough you could find some of their albums in American stores. Not sure why the “mythical beasts” of ska all involve Japan.

And, actually, a few years back got to see them live when they did their American tour. They put on a fantastic live show.

By: Joe W.

Joe W. — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:58:23 +0000

I’ll admit, I only sort of skimmed this post… but I always thought that the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra was the mythical best of ska in the 90s, though maybe that was a mistaken impression.