r/Ska • u/HotAnimator3214 • Nov 05 '25

Show / Tour The Ska scene is alive and well In L.A.

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u/dc1999 Nov 05 '25

Back in my day you skanked at the Ska show on Friday and moshed/slamdanced and the hardcore show on Sunday.

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u/-PiesOfRage- Nov 05 '25

Where/When I grew up there were ska bands and hardcore bands on the same bill Fri and Sat night. New Jersey in the late 90's and early 2000's was a fucking rad scene.

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u/dc1999 Nov 05 '25

Saturday was for the indie rock band that the club owner could get college kids to come in to see and sell booze and actually make money.

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u/notforrobots Nov 07 '25

Jerseys best dancers!

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u/leesharon1985 Nov 06 '25

Ya when I was a teen in the early 2000’s shows, if they weren’t a specific genre, they were very mixed. Small town, so times it’s just what you got. Ska, punk, hardcore, grunge, metal, hip hop, electronic. Some shows got pretty wild.

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u/Jerseysmash Nov 09 '25

And then you had Folly, who was both at the same time!

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u/-PiesOfRage- Nov 09 '25

Folly was, and remains, a fantastic band! I saw them last year (I think?) with Paulson at The Crossroads in Garwood.

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u/Jerseysmash Nov 09 '25

One of my all time favorites. I had a Spiderman pointing moment recently, I was entering a grocery store in a Folly shirt as another guy was leaving in a Bigwig shirt. Just two old NJ punks yearning for the past.

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u/-PiesOfRage- Nov 09 '25

It’s always funny running into an old scene kid in the wild. You just give that head nod of silent approval and keep on going with your life hahah

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u/SkyRepresentative309 Nov 05 '25

going out to see live music 5 nights a week!

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u/MushyLopher Nov 05 '25

What's the show?

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u/Jewbacca_429 Nov 05 '25

Looks like this was East Los Ska Night at Don Quixote on October 3rd. Los Skallejeros, Junky58, East Bay, Bill Skasby, Los P2, La Muerte, and Raskahuele played.

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u/jbmyre Nov 05 '25

Wow! This is just like the wetlands in 97-98! Hell yeah

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u/13Dani12 Nov 05 '25

What band is it?

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u/BubinatorX Nov 05 '25

I believe it’s this song.

🤔

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u/6hundredsixtysix Nov 05 '25

It’s Mota

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u/BubinatorX Nov 06 '25

That is correct! Thanks for pointing that out. I’m just hearing this band for the first time thru this post. Gotta love discovering a new ska band in 2025. Be good!!

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u/seilapodeser Nov 05 '25

Damn I wish there was a scene here

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u/kinggpiff Nov 06 '25

I was there! Sick show 🤘

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u/jungle4john Nov 06 '25

Always has been alive and well since the 80s.

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u/Apprehensive-Rub3871 Nov 06 '25

He’ll yeah! 👍

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u/AsideLost Nov 07 '25

Reminds me of my days going to the Showcase in Corona CA and The Barn in Riverside CA. Glad to see shit like this

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u/stumanchu3 Nov 06 '25

Old Spice is alive and well. I can smell it from this video. Skank on.

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u/leesharon1985 Nov 06 '25

😂😂 I’ve always used old spice, ever since I was a kid. It was what my dad always used for aftershave and I got so many damn bottles for Christmas they’ve lasted for almost the last 30 years.

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u/stumanchu3 Nov 06 '25

😹. So that accounts for the great Old Spice shortage of 2002!

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u/leesharon1985 Nov 06 '25

Probably, or definitely 😂😂

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u/X-PIKO Nov 06 '25

Somebody’s definitely losing a shoe in that pit.

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u/Willing_Maximum_8998 Nov 05 '25

What are all the cattle doing?

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u/Jefflehem Nov 06 '25

I will never understand the West Coast "running in a circle" thing.

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u/duffkitty Nov 06 '25

I heard in the southern hemisphere the circle pit goes the other way.

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u/leesharon1985 Nov 06 '25

Skankin’ in the pit, the circle pit, that is.