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TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA - june 16th
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| SKA-T User Info... | First North American tour ever in TSPO 19 year history Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra http://www.skapara.net/image/profile_photo.gif with guests.. Los Furios Wednesday, June 16 9:00 PM Commodore Ballroom VANCOUVER BC [img]http://groups.msn.com/isapi/fetch.dll?action=MyPhotos_GetPubPhoto&PhotoID=nGAAAAIUGyjd5qz4ws0dZ5DcIk5HkopUkJiAJ3VYsOutEOFuEuOs1MAAAAAAAAAAA[/img] - Fri, 28 May 2004 10:49am | ||
| ska-t User Info... | here's a site with songs you can listen to: http://www.mtv123.com/albumlist.php?Name=Yxmusic&ID=7&ArtID=1739# it's hard to put them in any ska-genre as they play old school ska as well as "third wav-ie" stuff as well as swing, jazz, soul etc.. 24 hours to ska skank in my bones are great ones - Tue, 1 Jun 2004 1:15am | ||
| ENIGMATICA ENTERTAINMENT User Info... | Highly recommended show to check out! - Tue, 1 Jun 2004 1:54am | ||
| Brett User Info... | We should get a Vic crew to head out there for the show. I'm going for sure, fuck work. - Tue, 1 Jun 2004 7:57am | ||
| ska-t User Info... | CiTR 101.9fm (VANCOUVER) is giving away tix to TSPO between 12-1:00 pm today (NOW) the number to win is 822-2487 listen here: http://www.citr.ca - Thu, 3 Jun 2004 7:23am | ||
| ska-t User Info... | I'll Also Be Giving Away TSPO tickets tomorrow on my show... SKA-T'S SCENE-IK DRIVE FRIDAYS 10AM-NOON!! CITR 101.9FM VANCOUVER HTTP://WWW.CITR.CA - Thu, 3 Jun 2004 7:24am | ||
| ska-t User Info... | I took this off the Toasters Board.. more here: http://toasters.org/TBomb/viewtopic.php?TopicID=5140 Re: TSPO Tonight in NYC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Damn, Chuck Wren was there? I would have enjoyed meeting him, I've been buying records from him for 12 years. Anyway... I thought it a very "through the looking glass" type of night, with Gaijin-A-Go-Go, an American band paying homage to the Japanese pop paying homage to American/English sugar girl-pop of the 60s. Then A Japanese band paying homage to Jamaican music (and getting even further through the looking glass with their version of "Ringo", a Jamaican attempt at the "far east" sound (Japanese band trying to sound like a Jamaican band trying to sound like an Asian band). All very syncretic. I'm hardly a TSPO fanatic (I'm more a Ska Flames type), but I figured I could shell out the $20 for their debut American performance. I will say this, I didn't always like the type of ska they played, but they played it very very well. I don't think I've seen any band that was so comfortable in all the different idioms of ska, from straight Skatalites covers, to Busters-esque fast stormers, to swing, to heavy guitar borderline ska-core, to mellow jazz, they did a bit of it all and sounded great throughout. Very energetic, a very full sound (hard not to with a 10 piece band). Well worth the $20, and at points in the show I thought they were better than Hepcat was the other week (which given the fact that Hepcat are a favorite of mine and TSPO aren't is really saying something). One thing they'll need to work on is the encore. I'm not sure what the story on that was - either they're not used to playing encores, or there are different protocols for it in Japan. The crowd clapped and whistled and cheered for at least four minutes (it felt like ten minutes. It was a really long time to be clapping!) before they came out and played one more song. Jon - Thu, 10 Jun 2004 9:38am | ||
| ska-t User Info... | here's some live footage http://www.snwmf.com/video/tokyoskavido.ram just a small taste of what is going to be a show that will go down in Vancouver's ska history books... - Sun, 13 Jun 2004 9:53am | ||
| ska-t User Info... | shameless.. here's another review of last weeks NY show... Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra was fucking fantastic. Holy shit! Words cannot describe it (not that that will stop me from trying). In the past year I�ve had two experiences that made the other 363 days kind of worth it. The first took place in Tokyo, the last was this show. This was right up there with the best sex and the best meals. So, fucking, good. It validated my belief in human beings. I learned to love again. Enemies joined hands. I solved pi. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As with most good things, this show came at the end of several bad things. The first was my day at work. I had one of those movie-bad days where I wanted nothing more than to go home and drink a bottle of Windex. Coworker and I not �on the same wavelength.� God is testing me and I�m failing miserably. F, Zero, Unsatisfactory. By 6pm I threw my report card in the garbage and met Mike and Thomas at S.O.B.s. down on Varick. (For those of you from out-of-town that stands for Sounds of Brazil, not the other thing.) A line was already forming, mostly Japanese girls. Some of them were hot but the weather, unfortunately, was hotter. New York summer in full effect. They kept us waiting for a while, like ninety minutes so we started talking to people. In front of us, Japanese girls from Yamaguchi, behind us, some white cats who�d driven down from Boston for the show. They were joined by a small crew from D.C., and for the umpteenth time I thought to myself Damn I�m glad I live in New York. These poor bastards had to put in five hours of wheel time to peep the gig whereas I put in five minutes of Nike and lost no petrol. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The bouncer was so big he looked like a fucking Transformer. Like if you stood a truck up on its ass. Huge. He also looked like Cedric the Entertainer�s older brother, making me wonder if he told you jokes while escorting you out of the club in a headlock. You left with laughs and a bruised neck. They finally let us in but we had to wait another goddamn hour! The three of us sat on the edge of the stage while a shockingly untalented DJ spun an awful, awful variant of house music. Then came the warm-up acts. First was a super-weird Japanese girl who played music out of a laptop and sang incomprehensible, bizarre lyrics with little connection to the music. She kept playing with one of those expanding plastic spheres on stage. All we kept saying was �Dude she�s all weird!� Then some people started laughing at her so I felt kinda bad. Who knows what kinda demons this girl has. I should probably date her. Next was some band called Gaijin-A-Go-Go. It was weird, the drummer looked exactly like Mikhail Gorbachev and it was, yep, Go-Go music. It wasn�t terrible and the one Japanese girl in the band was supercute, her personality too. All dancing around like the schoolkids in that one Snoopy cartoon. I couldn�t stop watching her. But after the third song (their set list, taped to the stage, listed ten) I squished my way to the bar at the back, to drink gin until my senses were addled. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After an eternity--we�d been waiting nearly four hours--Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra a/k/a SkaPara finally came on. Nine guys lining up on stage, dressed like old-school big-band cats, white tux jackets, black pants. It was everything I�d hoped for and more. These guys got up on stage and just fucking smashed it. They started right up, BLAM, and it was like you got shot with a ska gun. It was like the saxes, the trombone, the cornet were big-ass machine guns, lighting the crowd up, I said goddamn. The roar was instant. Everybody just jumping around like crazy. It was fucking hot, hot, hot. The music was so immersive, half the time my eyes weren�t even open anymore. When I did open �em I�d look around and see nothing but cute Japanese girls smiling, the whole room swinging around like the deck of a ship, the stage lights glinting off the brass, and those nine guys on stage tearing shit up. It was just ridiculous. We were standing just to the side of the stage, so close I almost got hit in the head twice with the wide-swinging trombone slide. (That would have been something.) Next to me, a girl with swaying long hair that encompassed my arm every other beat. It felt like I was in a magic car wash made out of Ska. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I was in Hong Kong a few years ago me and a buddy drank a shitload of absinthe (it�s legal there) and went into a club in Lan Kwai Fong a couple days before Christmas. Swirling lights, pumping music and you felt like you were in floating in a neon cloud made out of anesthesia and Radiohead. That�s the only thing I can remember that came close to this. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From my vantage point I could clearly see all the girls in front of the stage. There was a whole grip of hotties but I just remember this one standing in the middle. She was plain-looking and not jumping around like everyone else, but just staring up at the band wide-eyed with this huge, pure smile on her face. I�ll regret writing this later because it sounds so corny, but in that one moment she looked so beautiful to me. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In retrospect I wish I�d taken pictures, but while the show was going on the last thing I was thinking about was the camera. Plus I knew something like this simply couldn�t be captured on pixel, and I don�t need flicks anyway; the experience is burned in my brain in IMAX 3D Surround Sound. I need to be able to vividly access this memory to get through the slower, duller parts of life. It�s so hard for me to have fun, pure fun. This was pure fucking fun. - Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:55pm | ||
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