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kryptyd I had to poke around to refresh my memory on the name a band which my brother (Hawk)'s friend Dougly mentioned in August, and I found this interview with them, and, reading it, I think I just came across a mention of Dougly...
(to set the scene: they're telling the reporter about how a German record label put one of their songs on a compilation CD.)
Peter: "The joke is that we never even got one CD from the label. We found out later that, by mistake, they had written Slovenia where Slovakia was supposed to be... The first time we got the compilation into our hands was from a friend of ours, an American who had bought it in Boston. He was a total ska fan, who liked our music so much that he tried to contact us by all possible means, and finally he came to Bratislava. He knew how to sing "Baba Ryba" word by word phonetically, although he didn`t understand the text at all (ha ha). Later we brought him along for a few concerts around Slovakia. Fans were taken a little aback by him, because he was one of those three hundred pound, hard-to-overlook guys..."
Pretty sure that'd be him, although I think he's slimmed down a bit, he couldn't have been much over 200 when he was here in August. :)
Also happy with what they had to say about Skinheads:
"Skinheads were completely normal young people from who came from working class families and loved football. Since they didn`t have a lot of money, they found their fun in clubs which belonged to immigrants. That`s where they came into contact with ska, which they later took on as their music. At that time, the first `black and white` ska bands began popping up. That combination of white and black music was represented by the checkerboard shirts of ska fans."
...
"Skinheads, and I mean those real ones, have nothing in common with fascism. They cannot be lumped together with fascists or some ultra-right group which stole its style of dress from the skinheads. As I mentioned, the original skinheads were working class people from working class families who often had to do hard physical work, and took no interest in politics. After their shift they just wanted to go for a beer, and were connected by their love for ska... They saw politics as something corrupt, not trusting either those leaning left or right. Everything was just about living it up. As the years passed, this movement began to become very strong in Britain, and this was noticed by some `right` politicians who wanted to catch this strong group of youngsters. Unfortunatly, many of them were influenced by what they had to say. In spite of this, still today there is in the world a strong basis of people who acknowledge the true philosophy of the skinheads. We are not the only ones who are troubled by the fact that the movement has become profaned. We would be quite glad if people finally recognized the difference between skinheads and fascists."
The band is Polemic, and here's a link for them.
http://www.polemic.sk/index.php
(Unfortunately there's now a band in the US with the same name, and also some company or other. Bleh.)
kryptyd I had to poke around to refresh my memory on the name a band which my brother (Hawk)'s friend Dougly mentioned in August, and I found this interview with them, and, reading it, I think I just came across a mention of Dougly...(to set the scene: they're telling the reporter about how a German record label put one of their songs on a compilation CD.)
Peter: "The joke is that we never even got one CD from the label. We found out later that, by mistake, they had written Slovenia where Slovakia was supposed to be... The first time we got the compilation into our hands was from a friend of ours, an American who had bought it in Boston. He was a total ska fan, who liked our music so much that he tried to contact us by all possible means, and finally he came to Bratislava. He knew how to sing "Baba Ryba" word by word phonetically, although he didn`t understand the text at all (ha ha). Later we brought him along for a few concerts around Slovakia. Fans were taken a little aback by him, because he was one of those three hundred pound, hard-to-overlook guys..."
Pretty sure that'd be him, although I think he's slimmed down a bit, he couldn't have been much over 200 when he was here in August. :)
Also happy with what they had to say about Skinheads:
"Skinheads were completely normal young people from who came from working class families and loved football. Since they didn`t have a lot of money, they found their fun in clubs which belonged to immigrants. That`s where they came into contact with ska, which they later took on as their music. At that time, the first `black and white` ska bands began popping up. That combination of white and black music was represented by the checkerboard shirts of ska fans."
...
"Skinheads, and I mean those real ones, have nothing in common with fascism. They cannot be lumped together with fascists or some ultra-right group which stole its style of dress from the skinheads. As I mentioned, the original skinheads were working class people from working class families who often had to do hard physical work, and took no interest in politics. After their shift they just wanted to go for a beer, and were connected by their love for ska... They saw politics as something corrupt, not trusting either those leaning left or right. Everything was just about living it up. As the years passed, this movement began to become very strong in Britain, and this was noticed by some `right` politicians who wanted to catch this strong group of youngsters. Unfortunatly, many of them were influenced by what they had to say. In spite of this, still today there is in the world a strong basis of people who acknowledge the true philosophy of the skinheads. We are not the only ones who are troubled by the fact that the movement has become profaned. We would be quite glad if people finally recognized the difference between skinheads and fascists."
The band is Polemic, and here's a link for them.
http://www.polemic.sk/index.php
(Unfortunately there's now a band in the US with the same name, and also some company or other. Bleh.)