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Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

I saw Me, Mom and Morgentaler a few times when I lived in Canada's greatest city, Montreal. Great shows.

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

other live clubs in hongdae: soundholic and DGBD

cacheSurfer · Joined: 07 Dec 2003

osangrl · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Location: osan

Im from Kingston, are they from Kingston, Ontario? cool beans.

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

i saw me mom and morgentaler in '91, opening for fugazi. good times.

Ody · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: over here

down the hill from Ssamzie space on the right is a rock club called W.A.S.P.
they're open 3 or 4 times a week.

Universalis · Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Location: Seoul

Some Hongdae punks, about 10 of em, came into our cafe a few months back, scaring the heck out of my girlfriend with their tattoos, piercings, and gear. I was a bit surprised by her reaction, because my girlfriend also has a tattoo... I figured she would know better than to judge someone based on them having ink.

I was tmepted to play some Operation Ivy over our speakers, but we had other customers so I decided against it.

Brian

wo buxihuan hanguoren · Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Location: Suyuskis

I wonder about some of these Korean punks as I see more and more of them around Seoul these days.

Are they more into it for the music, or just for the image? Seems like it is mostly a fashion thing, just my 'impressions' and 'observations'.

And what's up with that that Korean punk dude in HongDae that has the makeup on that gives him the black eye look? My advice to him?

If he wants to look grim and frostbitten and true KVLT, he should take his cues from Immortal, and not Raggedy Ann:

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Hah, I wish I was registered on this board back when this thread was started. The picture in the OP was taken by me on January 24, 2004, at Skunk Hell's opening show. I got christ all for having it printed in Vice. The guy in the picture is the bassist from Couch.

newteacher · Joined: 31 May 2007

Are there any good spots for live music in Busan? Anything like punk, ska, or garage would be cool. There's a bit of an old fashioned garage scene in Japan I imagine with bands like the 5,6,7,8's, the Cougars, and thee out mods, any Japanese rock bands ever come down in this area for shows?

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

DannyOKC · Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Location: Busan

All this discussion of ska and nobody has bothered to break it down.

Here's the deal, bands like the Specials and Madness are 2Tone, which was the 2nd wave of ska, and almost entirely Brittish. Madness actually had very little ska-related music.

Bands like Operation Ivy and Against All Authority are ska-punk. They have almost nothing to do with ska, aside from that "dink-dink-dink" guitar mentioned earlier.

There are a lot of newer bands, worldwide, that play traditional-style ska, to a varying degree. The most popular and one of the best is the Slackers. Chris Murray and Hepcat are also really good.

But if you want to hear some original ska, which is Jamaican and from around 1962-1966, download the Trojan Ska and Trojan Ska II box sets. Anyone that claims that ska is goofy, annoying or too happy has obviously never heard real ska.

If you like 60s soul, forget ska. Just download the Trojan Rocksteady box set.

And if you think you don't like reggae, it's probably because you've only heard roots reggae, stuff like mid-70s Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. Rasta-Ganja-Chant-Down-Babylon stuff. Not all reggae is like that.

Download the Trojan Revivie box set, Trojan Skinhead Reggae box set, or Skinhead Revolt.

I only recommend these box sets because I know they're easier to find and because you can't really give names with Jamaican music, since so many artists have recorded across so many genres and have a ton of terrible stuff.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

DannyOKC · Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Location: Busan

I did catch the Slackers. Great show, they I preferred them before they had Agent Jay, and when they had Q-Maxx (even though I never liked him, which I'm not really sure how that works).

I saw Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra at the Dadaepo International Music Festival in Busan a couple of weeks ago. I think that band you mentioned played as well, but I missed them.

There was a band playing in the crowd, all acoustic, with harmonica, acoustic bass, acoustic guitar, percussion, vocals, and two accordions. They were great. There's a picture of them on my FlickR:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannypeters/

I do like some ska-punk, but not much. OpIvy is great. Common Rider. And AAA.

But most...eh. It's terrible.