1 week later I'm 8,000 days
006

made debut at Toasters' show sixth month June 16, 1999 with some of the more hard-to-get interviews so far. Delivering big names from three waves and four decades of ska music in 64 compact pages + vinyl bumpersticker guaranteed not to crack or crumble in Rochester weather. You can't get that anywhere else. Perhaps they made the cover price more delectable & reasonable among cheap ska people, not to mention roadside vandals. Praised by many a band and fan. Cover art here had a serious turn and then took a lighter tone with the second run; photo by F.S. McCarthy, caricature by Brian J. Robbins. Kress was now at Oswego finishing his degree and interviewed Pilfers & Spring Heeled Jack for old times sake w/ help from Alex Wegner & John Huber. E* was refueling big ol jet airliners and delivered some Blackouts Geneseo, Scofflaws Fredonia and Pilfers Cortland photos. Over a year since the last, it turned out better than expected and was worth the time, featuring 60+ music/ 40 print reviews (not that numbers are important). A semi-complete Mark Foggo discography plus little articles about early USA compilations. Lost Buffalo NY interviews with Reel Big Fish by Thom Nicolette and Rancid's Brett Reed unfortunately never made the cut or the following issue/ see below.

Music is often about keeping records; without an attention to detail we are nothing. On 4/9 Matt Austin turns 20 and Pietasters' 'Bitter' is in Never Been Kissed starring Drew Barrymore. This electronic anthology site was compiled late 28 April 1999 as a last minute senior final for an independent study course on history & new media. Its basic HTML was updated once mid-January 2000. In mid-January 2002 things were added, a bunch of scan retouch done for galleries. Since then, it's been up & down and probably won't be changed too often. Maybe as a home for archived content when we can? Timeline reconstructed mostly from memory but did consult the wall & paper trail a few times. Reading and writing liner notes in detail – shout it from the Windows 98.

I hadn't seen either Dan or "the Pietaster" in over a year 'til that surreal 21+ and not-ska-crowd Bug Jar show. Delivered uncle Buck a copy and he mentioned some funny sad but true last laughs about the Abby clash of #3, plus news of a large embezzelment scandal just broke at the world's top ska label - But this man's got 99 lives. (Among classic drunken rambling about the marketing of satin flight jackets etc.)

5 years + 1 day after mag was named, midwestern favorites Johnny Socko played in Mishawaka, IN at a diy space called Hoi Polloi but we missed it 6-18-99. Venue closed soon after & Carla sent us a shirt. Wood$tock burns as Napster starts up, establishing itself the largest tape trading community in history. This was last issue assembled at the old 14534 apartment and since we moved again, its phantom address changed [to Professionals' box] likely for the last time. Now its 1-3-3-4-7 almost every day.

Back in the city limits, Fritz's ska TV show is in full gear and with it the help of a weekly mention. We get about 95% crank calls or people who want nineties dancehall – "I'd love a Babycham" she exclaimed. Matt K phones up almost every episode and when in London, he went to Gaz Rockin' Blues & used Mayall's mobile to call mom & dad back at the hotel! Respect to Jeff from R.U.S.H., the local skinhead firm 1989, and Incosi for telling us to keep it copasetic.

Earlier, Skank on This organized 9 local fans to pool funds together for a roadtrip en masse from R.I.T. campus to the annual (and final) Penn State skafest in an Econoline cos Tiffany Transport won't rent to students – Feb '99 event is sponsored by Jeremy Meyers' Freefall ska zine/ Jumpstart Records. Next came the organization of a flour city showcase of 16 April compiled an all-local lineup at Token Joe's (Fat Tsao, Motives, Blackouts & 5Head) with the help of swanky Chris Seaver. Years earlier this had been the landmark Scorgies; nearby where the original Specials played Rochester during their only U.S. tour, February 1980!

I went to the Hoi Polloi website.
That's some success you've had.

– D. Gitlin,
The Motives, Y2K













Last Minute
Mere days before issue 006 got duplicated, we receive a Skalatones postcard from Ken of Thug Head 'zine and Auburn Correctional. I wonder if he knew their claim to fame is the track "Mr. Probation Officer"? We later find out the warden won't let you read contraband stuff like HP! in the can, so he never saw a finished zine – yet managed to get enclosed girlie pics? You figure it out. Another issue again to wreak havoc on local radio with more scathing FM quality control vitriol courtesy Mr. Fritz. yikes!
Aitken & Rice

R.I.P. Skatastrophe The national all-ska magazine based in Florida expires after eight massive & impressive issues. Like HP, it was started Fall '95 as an outgrowth of editor/ publisher Jamie Bogner's work as a Rhodes College dj. Don't argue.

Some area bands featured here broke up after this came out, but some didn't like the Motives and Geneseo's Blackouts. Aquinas evermore! Oct 19 the TV crew guest hosts Shannon Dunham's WITR Ska on My Radio show with 2 hours exclusively upstate ska. On this date he pulls out the lost HP2 addressed to Little Davie, shoved behind a metal filing cabinet 3 years and tragically never made it to him. Magazine has a few creases but in good condition – no tears, been kept flat for years. Pietasters in Syracuse plus AP Mag ran the large feature 'Too Much Too Soon: the 2 Tone Ska Story' by Chris Nickson. Nov 21 ska tv hosts what would become its first annual Skanksgiving fest at Water St with Spider Nick & Maddogs + 5 upstate acts. A pipe burst and the apartment got soaked. Fast forward a year and headliner is the Slackers!

Maude Flanders killed by flying tshirt 2-13-00: "I'm really sorry to hear that. We just lost our drummer to a Pentecostal ska band. Uh, I know it's not the same but." Considering Mexican Cession Jurassic Park & Douglas Leader's DLO NAVY parody tees, PLAYSKA® logos get screenprinted as promotion for cable access. wayne's world party time excellent. I get a real job, meet Marty K, we go to lunch at the honky tonk rib joint where he encourages me to check out a cool dino band mural painted over the stage – to which I can volunteer superb CNY illustrator Elliot Mattice is artist.

c'mon Mr. Krinkle tell me why
Beantown veterans Bim Skala Bim do a muni mula foil cover concept for their 8th album, 2000's Krinkle, inna similar reprographic style to HP1 face. Allstonians! Pressure Cooker hits Empire Brewing twice in as many months. Execution on the third of May, Metallica & Dr. Dre bring litigation against Napster 5/3. Rudy Boesch, (Survivor) born in Rochester gets his own "Rudy" action figure. Thursday Night Stomp 8/10/00.

Randomly came across Rude Tales comics wherein a shady bicycle-pedalling Noah W. chronicles his side of a run-in with sister JoAnn at SUNY Albany years prior – she handed him a flyer for #5, so he mentions it in print. An especially long-winded ska timeline written for her ethnomusicology class soon gets turned into trifold brochure. A domestic first-class stamp costs 34 cents, but we all knew not for long.

Retail distro of ska music changed drastically but a few copies of the mag were carried in stores in Roc -Syr -Buf, NYC, Montreal PQ, Lund Sweden and Eindhoven Holland for the die hards. You could ask for copies at Olivers Syracuse/ Sound Garden Geneseo/ Bop Shop Records, Fantastic, Ultrasonic Rochester and Home of the Hits Buffalo; sold on a consignment basis. Compared to a larger run like 40,000 there weren't that many made.


its minor legacy to be continued

I know i've got my number six somewhere and I've had my sticker on my sax case for years – now it's been moved to my car "dance, music, printed, SKA" amazing!

::smo::, Bursting Mosquitos

Do the Creep promoganda for your fat ride or any billboard you choose. Obey giant blink blink blink, but way too much concept.
So you see, it’s kind of hard to teach someone punk rock at 23 years old. Either you’ve already learned it, or you’re not about it. If you played in funk bands, jazz bands or fusion bands while the punk thing was going on, you missed it.

Know what I mean, it’s not like “well now I’m going to teach you how to be a little sloppy at this spot”, and so you’ll never have a band that sounds like The Specials, because they were a punk band that played ska.

Lord Sluggo Ruggiero,
The Slackers

Laurel
FOGGO!
Local sounds

The Blackouts (GEN/ROC)

Fat Tsao (Brighton HS)

The Motives (AQ)

Dinkus Nine (BUF)

NUMBER CRUNCH: 16 leaves = 64 pages half-size. Initial press run 200. Since we got a better income shortly after finishing this paste up, made up 2 additional sets of 100 and the masthead changed. Met a punkrock Staples copy clerk Jen S. who really liked Pilfers, but was unable to find their CD anywhere. Upon quality-assured pickup we left her to keep track of our $5 used Chawalaleng. Better her than us, never really liked 'em anyway. As much as they ran in the opposite direction those guys could never really escape the ska scene; it was their destiny. In the midnight hour, I say the best thing is listening to old Wilson Pickett tapes and mentally having Coolie's chat fill in the gaps.

Even made more there before they went all super ethical copyright law enforcers. Wazmo Nariz forced to go Kinkos where you must understandably sign off with photo ID, they keep it for their lawyer as release from liability and overhead much higher. There were quantities of this beta version around long afterward, but they're mostly gone now.

– no. 6 TRIVIA –

Hope the chip shop isn't closed
'cause their pies are very nice...

Cover burst "Free sticker inside!" was hand cut and composited from a .99 packet of Lays® crisps 1999

1976 Cadillac Deville
Thom's 2 lost REEL BIG FISH sessions + photos from 12.2.98
< SOMEBODY SAY E*BAY 2K?

(on drums, the late Dave Karcich Spring Heeled Jack / Pilfers / Cenzo / Avoid One Thing. 1974-2002)
10 JUL 99 – J.P. Indelicato proclaims HP! a cult collectable for years to come. Polyethylene bags & stuff.



REVIEWS

Bim Skala Bim – The One That Got Away (Beatville)
The Butlers – Time Tunnel (Heatwave Blacklabel)
Byron Lee & The Dragonaires – Space Fever (Kingston Gold/Eclipse)
Choking Victim – No Gods, No Managers (Hellcat)
Deals Gone Bad – Large And In Charge (Jump Up)
Dr. Ring Ding & The Senior Allstars – Ram Di Dance (Moon / Grover)
Eastern Standard Time – Second Hand (Beatville)
The Ethiopians – Engine 54: Let’s Ska And Rock Steady (Jamaican Gold)

Exit 23 – Saratoga Ska (Demo)
Floyd Lloyd – Tear It Up: The Ska Album (Tuff Gong International)
Gangster Fun – Pure Sound, Pure Hogwash, Pure Amphetamines (Jump Up) – by Adam Little
David Hillyard & The Rocksteady 7 – Playtime (Hellcat)
Home Grown – Act Your Age (Outpost)
Johnny Socko – Full Trucker Effect (Asian Man) - by Adam Little
The Hotknives – The Way Things Are (Unicorn 1988 /Grover 1995)
Judge Dread – The Early Years (Dojo UK Ltd.)
Dion Knibb & The Agitators – Driving Me Mad (DVS Media)
Let’s Go Bowling – Freeway Lanes (Asian Man Records)
Maroon Town – High And Dry (House Of Ska)
Tommy McCook & Friends – Authentic Ska Sound Of Tommy McCook (Moon)
Mr. Review – One Way Ticket To Skaville: The Essential (Moon)
New York Ska Jazz Ensemble – Get This! (Moon)
Ngobo Ngobo – Rude Fruit (Heatwave Blacklabel)
The Pietasters – Strapped Live! (Moon)
Mark Foggo & The Secret Meeting – Speeding My Life Away (Skanky ‘Lil)
Mark Foggo – A State Of Mind (Skanky ‘Lil)
Mark Foggo’s Skasters – Ska Pig (Skanky ‘Lil)
Mark Foggo’s Skasters – Captain Skarlet (Skanky ‘Lil)
Mark Foggo’s Skasters – Couldn’t Play Ska (Skanky ‘Lil)
Mark Foggo – Haircut (Skanky ‘Lil)
Mark Foggo’s Skasters - Lucky To Be Alive - In Venlo Holland (Universe)
Mark Foggo’s Skasters – St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (Skanky ‘Lil)
Radio Active – Skarussel (Leech)
Rancid – Life Won’t Wait (Hellcat)
The Scofflaws – Record Of Convictions (Moon)
The Selecter featuring Pauline Black – Prime Cuts #2 (Blue Moon/Magnum)
Skabba The Hut – 7 song demo
Skastafarians – Drink More Courage (Trenchmouth)
The Slackers – The Question (Hellcat)
The Toasters – Don’t Let The Bastards Grind You Down (Moon)
Undercover S.K.A. – The Things Men Do (Slimstyle)
Various Artists – Dynamite Ska Volume 2 (Kingston Gold/Eclipse)
Various Artists – The Fifteen Commandments Of Ska (Skank/Dojo/Snapper)
Various Artists – Hey Brother Can You Spare Some Ska (Vegas)
Various Artists – 100% British Ska: Unsung Heroes of 2Tone Era (Captain Mod)
Various Artists – Moonshot: A Moon Records Compendium (Moon)
Various Artists – Love And Affection (Moon)
Various Artists – Musical Feast: Mrs. Pottinger’s HighNote & Gayfeet Label (Heartbeat)
Various Artists – Ska Crazy! (Emporio 2CD)
Various Artists – Ska Island (Island)
Various Artists – Skampler (Tudor Rock)
Various Artists – Skank: Ska For Ska’s Sake (Skank/Dojo/Snapper)
Various Artists – Skankin’ Round The World Volume 1 (Dojo Ltd. / Unicorn)
Various Artists – Stay Sharp III (Colour Songs Discos)
Various – Ska Skank Down Under, Vol. 1 Aussie Ska 1980-90 (Sound System)
Various Artists – New York Beat: Hit & Run (Moon Records 1988)
Various Artists – Mashin’ Up The Nation, Volumes 1 & 2 (DVS Media 1988)
Various Artists – New York Beat 2: Breaking & Entering (Moon Records 1998)
Various Artists – Mashin’ Up The Nation, Volumes 3 & 4 (DVS Media 1998)
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The Acadian #3
The Acadian #4
The Acadian #5
Angst #18
Anti-Racist Action News (1/98)
Anti-Racist Action News (12/98)
Black & White #7
Black & White #8
The Boston Brass Digest #1
Bombshell Magazine #1
Cosmic Haystack #6
Doh! Zine #4
Easy Life #8
Everything Off-Beat Skazine (Dec ’98)
Finding My Way #1
Flipside #114
Flying Harold Records News (Aug ’98)
A Message To You #13
Moon Skazette (April/May ’98)
Moon Skazette (Aug/Sept 98)
My Little Ska Zine #8
One Step Beyond #3
One Step Beyond #4
The People’s Ska Annual #5 (Summer ’98)
Revolving Door (9/98)
Revolving Door (3/99)
Rhubarb Pie Retro Magazine #5
Rude International #1
Rude International #3
Soundviews #50 (June 98)
Skadrophenia #3 (1997)
Ska-Tastrophe #6
Ska-Tastrophe #7
Ska-Tastrophe #8
So Fuckin’ What? #2
So Fuckin’ What? #4
So Fuckin’ What? #5
Something For Nothing #41
Two Left Feet #6
Under The Volcano #46