It's still around. http://www.fitzlive.com/ Katrina & Dan Martin 71'bus "Homer" http://web.mac.com/danandkatrinamartin/ http://ical.mac.com/danandkatrinamartin/Volks32Shows On Tuesday, January 29, 2008, at 09:25AM, "ATX BUS" <atx_bus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Did you ever go to Fitzgeralds? When I lived in Houston, I must have been >there once a week to hear somebody play. Good punk and ska. Is that place >still open or has the building fallen down? > >----- Original Message ---- >From: Shelby Shook <sloweyefasthand@xxxxxxxxx> >To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:10:07 AM >Subject: [tcb] Re: Bulligras: Proposed Campfire Topic > > >HAHA very nice. Spell checker bombed that sentence. Man I remember when Ska >was the "big thing" for kids in my highschool in my freshman year. I even had >a Ska band for a while complete with a horn section. > > > >On Jan 29, 2008 9:03 AM, Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >Yes, but Duncan doesn't know the definition of ska, he's just babbling. He >might as well have said "ooh ee ooh a a, ting tang, wallawalla bing bang" >which in some South American languages means, "bring me my bong and change the >water". > > > > >Which is definately off topic. We must be firm. > > > >(my spell checker blew up with that one) > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: ATX BUS > >To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > >Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:54 AM > >Subject: [tcb] Re: Bulligras: Proposed Campfire Topic > > > > > > >Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was a >precursor to rocksteady and reggae.[1] > > >Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and >rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bass line, accented guitar >or piano rhythms on the offbeat, and in some cases, jazz-like horn riffs. In >the early 1960s, ska was the dominant musical genre of Jamaica, and it was >also popular with British mods. Many skinheads, in various decades, have also >enjoyed ska (along with reggae, rocksteady and other genres).[2][3][4][5] >Music historians typically divide the history of ska into three periods: the >original Jamaican ska scene of the 1960s, the 2 Tone ska revival that started >in England in the late 1970s, and the third wave ska movement, which started >in the 1980s. > > > > >----- Original Message ---- >From: j duncan <whocanduncan@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 11:44:36 PM >Subject: [tcb] Re: Bulligras: Proposed Campfire Topic > > >Did I say, "Brou ha ha?" I meant I ya who ska. > > >Whoska? Youska. We all ska. > >WTF? >_________________________________________________________________ >Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! >http://biggestloser.msn.com/ > > > > > > > > >Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > > > > > > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.15/1249 - Release Date: 1/29/2008 >9:51 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ >Looking for last minute shopping deals? >Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. >http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping