Reggae, Ska & Dancehall

This is a sample from the forthcoming USB release by the Slackers, 'Before There Was Hellcat.'

This is a rehearsal track.  It has the slackers playing a pretty cool tune that we never ended up recording in a studio.

This is from 1995 and we are rehearsing in the 3rd street rehearsal studio that Jeff Baker made famous as 'version city.'  





11.Valerie 1995

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The Rhythm Express        You’re Wondering Now       featuring Selena Evangeline    7Arts

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Every once and awhile you come across a classic song that sticks to the inner walls of the brain like sweet candy. Such is the case for Rueben “Andy” Anderson and Joanna “Joey” Dennis’s, “I’m Wondering Now,” released on the C and N - J.A Records in 1964 as the duo, Andy & Joey with backing from one time band members of the original Skatalites – Lloyd Knibbs, drums and Nerylynn Taitt, guitar.

The song caught our attention two years back when searching for great material for the Rhythm Express and pairing songs with our front line singers; Selena Evangeline, Gavin Hope and Stacey Kay. There’s a terrific, yet brief version from the V festival in 2009 with the Specials, who recorded the song on their debut, The Specials produced by Elvis Costello in 1979. It is said, the album was a” defining moment in the UK ska scene,” and guest, Amy Winehouse, who herself recorded and released as a single in 2007.

The “Queen of Ska” Doreen Shaffer teamed with the Skatalites in 1994 and recorded on the Grammy nominated side, Hi-Bop Ska. Shaffer fought the hard battle in a male dominated genre opening the way for singers Phyllis Dillon, Dawn Penn and Hortense Ellis.

The Rhythm Express is ever evolving. In keeping with 2015 and the band’s scheduled “one single” a month concept – “You’re Wondering Now” feels like the perfect May warm up to summer - the kind of song and performance that makes rolling down the windows and welcoming a warm transitional breeze, most desirable. It’s the ceaseless groove and three part harmonies, which lingers long after the song fades.

Selena Evangeline sings this, – the harmonies and lead vocal backed by the rhythm section – Everton “Pablo” Paul drums, Jesse “Dubmatix” King bass - Shane “Shaky J” Forrest guitar, and Bill King – arranger/keyboards, Christopher Butcher of the Heavyweights Brass Band – trombone – newcomer to the Express – Rebecca Hennessy, trumpet and Bobby Hsu, alto saxophone.

We’d also like to welcome singer Michael Dunston to the collective. In the coming weeks and months Michael will be featured on several classic sides with the band.

Writer(s): Lloyd Brivett, Lester Sterling, Johnny Moore, Thomas McCook, Don Drummond, Joey, Skatalites, Roland Alphonso, Lloyd Knibb, Andy, Jerome Haynes, Donat Roy, Jackie Mittoo.


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“Ironic Moronic Eugenics” EPx8 flows from DUB to FOLK to BLUES and ends with my new favorite psychedelic politics genre: Burlesque Punk ROCK 🤘
  
This song was inspired by a great @pbs "American Experience" #documentary (you can  watch on YouTube for free) about “The #eugenics Crusade” that happened in the early century—i.e. an American elitist propaganda campaign, which (literally) inspired some of the horrific WW2 fasc!st practices, prevented Anne Frank to be saved from the holocaust by emigrating to the U.S., and allowed multiple states of the so-called "land of the free" to let pseudo-scientific, elitist wannabe pundits (aka d!cks;) sterilize women, without consent, until the 1970s 🇺🇸

My highlight was learning the world #moron was actually invented by a prominent, pseudo-scientist top daddy of the #eugenics movement (named Goddard), to qualify functional "imbeciles", aka "idiots" deemed too “feeble-minded” (sic) to behave “morally” 🥸 Ahem.

And now, I just can’t get over the dire #IRONY of it all‼️  

☤☤☤

@bananasutra lyrics👇

[Verse 1]
They said, “oh Let’s fix the human race,
with White “heroes”, with higher grace…
Declared “Morons” lacked a moral core,
But guess who proved to live the lore?

Oh dear, watch out for fanatics
Their fear wrapped up in politics.
They called it smart, it’s moronic.
Feeble brain fart, basic dickshtick…

[short psychedelic banjo riff break]

[Chorus]
It’s so ironic, it’s comedic, 
The Eugenics gang gone moronic!
Their Holy mission turned demonic,
Ivory towers of neurotic.

Tragi-comic, psychedelic,
Their “cure” was just sociopathic.
Played with lives like flies, robotic,
Sick freaks with cold lies, so toxic.

[Verse 2]
Sold cheap charts as genetics,
No consent, just black magic,
Sterilized dooms made juridic,
Weaponized lies gone ballistic.

Played God with eugenic picks,
No soul, just fake arithmetic.
Bold narcissistic metrics,
Buried truth with broken ethics.

[Bridge – Psychedelic Shift]
Labeled dreamers as being “sick”
Named the poets “too erratic,”
Libeled light as “problematic,”
Told us shit so plain idiotic,

[Chorus]
It’s so ironic, it’s comedic, 
The Eugenics gang gone moronic!
Their Holy mission turned demonic,
Ivory towers of neurotic.

Tragi-comic, psychedelic,
Their “cure” was just sociopathic.
Played with lives like flies, robotic,
Sick freaks with cold lies, so toxic.

[Outro psychedelic 🥂]
So here’s to facts, historic, tragic,
Remembering Eugenic logic.
Elite’s egos sunk titanic,
Left a trail of psychopathic...

Fools confusion, “pure blood” of pricks, 
bad delusions, mad circus freaks, 
Same old story, ludicrous dicks, 
fake news glory, ominous, EEEEEkSS

—

#bananasutracabaret #aimusic #dubnation #morons (matter;)


[08] Ironic Moronic Eugenics • BLOWsutra Post-Punk Psychedelic Burles ROCK

Recorded at The Roxy Theatre (Los Angeles, CA) & The Belly Up Tavern (Solana Beach, CA) 

All Songs Written By The Aggrolites except Banana and Don't Let Me Down

The Aggrolites are: 

Jesse Wagner - Vocals/Lead Guitar 
Alex McKenzie - Drums 
Roger Rivas - Organ / Backing Vocals 
Jeff Roffredo - Bass / Backing Vocals 
Brian Dixon - Rythm Guitar / Backing Vocals 

Mixed By Michael Rozon at King Size Studios (Los Angeles, CA) 
Mastered by Gene Grimaldi at Oasis Mastering (Burbank, CA) 
Photography by Adam PW Smith www.adampwsmith.com 
Graphic Design & Layout by Roger Rivas

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