No sir---I'm the proud owner of a black bomber dec'd with a plethora o patches and pins including skanking pickle.---band did suck--but how can you not like "fakin jamacin?" I saw them at Skappleton when I was like 17 along with Mustard Plug, the Toasters, the Pacers, Smitty, and a whole bunch o other ska bands that no longer exist. (well the toaster do, but good luck finding a ska show these days.)

Here I am decked out in my nerdy outcast garb

I'm old enough to like Nada Surf (well the last few albums they put out anyway).

Toasters! Good stuff, also saw Hepcat (diggem) and Toots and the Maytals. But, then again I was more gutterpunk than ******** two-tone kick stepper. Subhumans and all that lot...Operation Ivy, original Bad Religion, Sham 69, the 4Skins, etc...

I liked the brawls ;)

you are somewhat dorky--this is highly predictive that you are
good attorney. But you are not dorky enough that you have
crossed over into the inhuman attorney quality.

song sucks. boy is cute.

No, it was in MN...

It was crazy. The seniors kept kegs in the cars....

I have a feeling that TIP is a beautiful (and artistic) grown-ass woman. Far from a teenybopper. At least late 20's?



But she ain't sayin'. I respect that.

This is my first year that I'm officially older than each and every one of the parents of my students. Two of them were students at the middle school when I was a teacher there. Last year, we had a kindergartener at the school who's mom had actually been a student of mine.

The funny thing is that I actually feel younger at 46 than I did at 36.

I was on my second enlistment in the Air Force when the drinking age was still 18.

Pics Mr C...pics...

D'oh!

There's nothing like a good ska show you make you feel young. The best show I ever saw was Voodoo Glow Skulls, Link 80 and MU330. They had been on tour for a while so they decided to switch things up by changing bands after every song. They got really fast at it after a few rounds and played like that for three hours.

I was in Bangkok for one night a few months ago and happened to see a poster for a band called Teddy Ska that was playing that night. I went to it not knowing what to expect, not even knowing if it was actually a ska band (they have odd names for things when they translate them into english). It ended up being a large club filled with 500 thai kids drinking whiskey and dancing their asses off to one of the best ska bands I've heard in a long time. I saw only two other westerners there. totally awesome.

Unfortunately, being a teacher means I can't have a mohawk anymore. Well, the real reason is that my hair died when I was 24, but I'll blame it on teaching instead.

OK. In order of appearance, 1981, 1987 and 2003

:lol: ah, the boots and braces days.

Best show I saw was when I was 16 in high school at the Rave in Milwaukee. It was 6 ska bands for 6 bucks on June 6. The Bosstones, Pietasters, Toasters, and a bunch of smaller midwest ska bands. The cool part was it was before ska got really big and I got to skank with Dickey Barrett for most of the Toasters' set.

I didn't have the mohawk, but I had the whole rudeboy black and white suit, porkpie hat and checkered sunglasses thing going for me.

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High and low point of my concert history:

When I was in high school, the Clash played at Clark University (Worcester, MA). A friend who lived near by talked me into going. That was pretty cool.
A year or two later, as a freshman at UMass, U2 played in Bowker Auditorium (a small hall there). A friend tried to talk me into going. I didn't. That was a mistake.

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Rock Racing's Mario Cipollini is already proving that he was worth whatever money Michael Ball has agreed to pay him. Even at 40 years old, the Lion King landed a hotly contested third place finish at today's Tour of California Stage 2 finish in Sacramento but not while riding an official team DeRosa.

In fact, 'Cipo' is using virtually none of the team's officially sponsored gear. His bike is fitted with Shimano Dura-Ace instead of Campagnolo Record, Lightweight Standard wheels rather than the official Cole Products hoops, and he even uses Specialized tubular tires instead of the officially supplied Challenge rubber. In place of a Stella Azzurra stem is a carbon fiber Bontrager Race XXX Lite model (painted black on one bike) and Cipollini head is protected by a Specialized helmet, not a LAS.

But what of the frame itself? Cipo's frame bears no resemblance to anything in the DeRosa stable and is decorated only with large 'Cipollini' badging on the main triangle. Even JFK conspiracy theorists would be impressed with the amount of speculation that has circulated around exactly what the make and model is. We confirmed today that it's not a DeRosa of any sort, but contrary to popular belief, it isn't a Specialized or Max Lelli model, either.

Cipollini's aluminum frame does apparently use a handful of tubing and dropouts similar to what he used on his old Specialized E5 bike but it isn't welded in a Specialized factory. According to our sources, his frame was built by Simone Carlesso of Bassano del Grappa, Italy, the same person who built his bikes when Cipollini rode for the big 'S'.

In fact, it seems that Cipollini's choice of machine has little, if anything, to do with a dislike of Rock Racing's official equipment but rather a desire to stick with something familiar. The flamboyant Italian sprinter may still be fast but at this stage in his career he's not terribly interested in getting accustomed to something totally new. Seeing as how he is Mario Cipollini after all, apparently even Michael Ball can't tell him what to do.


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I turn 41 in May. Here's me cresting Mt. Diablo last October.

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And here's another of me with my son Lucas from a couple years ago:

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the toasters are playing here friday...

LL Cool J is playing here friday...




...must be "old school friday".

KRS-One is in town soon here.

Ska? By that you must mean bands like Bad Manners, The Specials, The English Beat, and the Selector, right?

Not true. Mustard Plug just played here about a month or two ago. I missed that one, but I just saw the RX Bandits with the English Beat on sunday. Pretty decent show. RBF and LTJ played summerfest last summer, too, if you're into that sort of thing. For the record, I like Nada Surf too.

(By the way, I just turned 27 last week. Not sure if that qualifies me to play in the 'old' thread, but I couldn't pass on the ska convo)