According to a well written history of ska in the U.S., It wasn't till 1981 that Hingley realized that he was going to be in New York for more than a short stay, so he began putting a band together. The New York City ska scene owes its birth to Englishman Rob 'Bucket' Hingley who had originally arrived in New York to temporarily manage sci-fi comic book shop, Forbidden Planet. It was at one of these shows that I was inspired to start my own band back across the Hudson River in New Jersey.Ī bit of history is necessary before I start profiling the bands individually. Those shows are among the best I have ever seen or been a part of. I attended a number of ska shows around New York City at the height of its popularity in 19 and I was often at Sunday ska matinees at CBGB's where many of the band's that were part of the scene played regularly. While I have previously written about the ska scene that developed in Los Angeles around The Untouchables and The Boxboys, I now plan to turn my focus to the scene and bands that captured my attention as a young ska fan and which later helped to nurture my own band in its early days. in the late 70's with The Fabulous Titans in San Francisco, Blue Riddim Band in Lawrence, Kansas and The Terrorists in New York, ska was non-existant. While reggae had established small footholds in the U.S. in the very early 80's, it wasn't yet the broad musical movement that would emerge in the late 80's and early 90's. While its true that 2-Tone influenced ska bands had started sprouting up all across the U.S. The advent of American ska in the early and mid 80's owes much of its early growth to two bands - The Untouchables in Los Angeles and The Toasters in New York.
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