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Good - Love the Specials and hope you have a great weekend, long as you weren't playing S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y. by the Bay City Rollers, it's all good.

Cody B - I played a lot of the Specials and The Beat (English) down at Marty's.

you betcha ketut..the time I played there I once got a $5 dollar tip to play J.Geils...I'ma a ho' I'd play anything for money!

Have a fun one...I'm goin to this little fest...

. . . http://birchobirch.com/funfunfunfest/home.html

Hope you have a great weekend of computer-free breaktime!!! Cheers :O)

Cody love Ghost Town ... it always plays here alot 'round this time of year. I have The Specials on vinyl but the singles collection I bought from iTunes (felt like sacrilege!).

ketut My friend Cara-lee in fourth grade was nutso for Bay City Rollers. You have no idea how many times I had to endure that song. ;)

Mark Wow, another music fest? Looks like a fun one, have a great time. Do you plan on catching Evangelicals?

whoops, crossing wires here ... thanks, kat, you too.

I'm not familiar...but I will take your advice and seek them out...

tell us how the gig goes...on monday!

what's wrong with the Bay City Rollers?

S A T U R D A Y

NIGHT!

witness:

woah, bay city rollers sans plaid! have a good one.

Have a great weekend!

have fun!

Have fun at the Ponys. Great song selection. I love the Specials.

Any chance you were at the Skavovee Tour in Denver. I forget the venue but the line up was Skatalites, Special Beat, and Selector. It would have been 94ish? I might even be buthering the name of the tour and the line up but that is what I remeber. Hopefully you were there and can remember for me. :)

Have fun and shake it, sistah! :)

I'm in the middle of it myself, and, as post-holiday weekends go, it's been pretty good. Hope yours is rollin', too. And I can never get enough of the Specials (and FB3), Erin.

Thanks guys.

Whew ... Sunday night already? It has flown by. Mike, nope, never can get enough of the Specials! What kind of halloween trickery were you able to turn up?

Marigold - I did not see the Skavoovee tour here (unfortunately), however, I did happen to catch Special Beat at Red Rocks around that time. That show was probably hands-down one of the most energetic performances by any band I have ever seen live ... they were great, and so much fun.

As far as where "skavoovee" comes from, I found this tidbit for ya':

"When New Orleans-style R&B fell out of favor by 1960, Jamaican artists began recording their own version of it. The music of ska is known for the placement of the accented guitar and piano rhythms on the upbeats. The word "ska" may have onomatopoeic origins in a tradition of poetic or possibly even musical rhythms. Guitarist Ernest Ranglin said that "the offbeat guitar scratching that he and other musicians played was referred to as 'skat! skat! skat!'" Some believe that Cluet Johnson coined the term. Bassist Johnson and the Blues Blasters were Coxsone Dodd's house band in the 50s and earliest 60s before the rise of the mighty Skatalites. In explaining the 'ya-ya' sound of the music & rhythm being made, the word 'ska' popped out. This may be because he greeted all his friends as 'skavoovee', perhaps imitating American hipsters of the era. One other theory is that it was merely an abbreviation of the term "speed calypso", which is arguably a fairly accurate description of the music."

Here comes Monday... :)

I'd let you in on some of my Halloween hijinks, Erin, but I fear that anything I say or show would incriminate me. Wild nights, incognito. What's not to love?