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In England, two-tone ska was completely enormous — however just for a short time. By the early ’80s, the nation had moved on to different sounds in pop music, and a lot of the two-tone bands broke up or moved on to play non-ska tunes. However on this vacuum, a band known as Potato 5 fashioned. This week on In Protection of Ska, the band’s 4 authentic members leap on the horn to speak in regards to the unlikely story of Potato 5. Pay attention above, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Potato 5 wasn’t precisely a two-tone band, per se. They have been, nevertheless, straight and profoundly influenced by The Skatalites. Throughout their authentic run (which led to 1989), they’d three completely different lead singers: Floyd Lloyd, Spider Johnson, and the legendary “godfather of ska” himself Laurel Aitken. Plus, they labored with Mad Professor early of their profession. The gang will get into all of this and extra!
Moreover, the In Protection of Ska crew and Potato 5 use the band’s story as a method to discover the burgeoning reinvention of conventional ska that might finally blossom within the years following their preliminary disbandment.
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