Skankin' Foolz Unite!
Big thanks to Joe Strummer for “getting it” and Jesse Luscious for sending us this gift from the mists of KALX past. Check out this snippet from Joe’s interview on KALX in 1984:
Tune in to Jesse’s 13th Annual Strummer Show Weds Dec. 24 to hear more of the interview with DJ Bikini Babs (AKA Mindela Ruby, and celebrate the music of Joe Strummer and his bandmates in The Clash.
This halloween, Brittany Laubsch carved a brilliant jack-o-lantern rendition of Buster the Ska Doggie:
Our mascot, drawn by Jesse Michaels, first appeared on the cover of the Skankin’ Foolz Unite! CD:
Since then, he has become quite the worldly hound, sneaking out of Uptones headquarters and showing up in the darndest places.
Here is Buster getting ready for a footrace:
What’s your best Buster image? Send it in! We’ll make a photo album with the best entries, credit you on our site, and you’ll win skaliday prizes. You can Tweet it to us @Uptones or post it on our Facebook.
It’s official, Uptones star trombonist Jeanne Geiger can now add “Professor” to her impressive list of credits. Cal State Hayward recently recruited her to join their storied Music Department as Professor of Jazz Trombone. Jeanne got her Masters Degree in Music Composition as CSEB a few years back, and they must have really missed her because they asked her to come teach.
Jeanne has been playing with the Uptones since 2002, and she is also a member of the Bay Area’s awesome, Jazz Mafia. We congratulate Jeanne “Teeny Tiger” Geiger! To hear some of her playing on The Uptones latest, check out her trombone work on “TV Guns” on the “East Bay Orbits” CD.
Pelayo Llamas sent us some live photos from 1983!
