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John Brown's Body
Style: Roots reggae-dub-ska
First show: 1995 in Jamaica.
Releases:
-- "This Day" full length CD on Shanachie Records in 2000. Has sold over 8,500 copies to date.
-- "Among Them" full length CD on Shanachie Records in 1998. Has sold 6,000 copies to date.
-- "All Time" CD (SR) on I-Town Records in 1996. Has sold 4,000 copies to date.
Notes: Core members of this band were originally in the Tribulations.
Website: www.johnbrownsbody.com
Last update: 11/03

Endive
see: Syracuse bands

Chester
Style: Ska-rock-reggae
Influences: Reel Big Fish, Mad Caddies, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Less than Jake
First show: Sat, March 18, 2006 at Castaways
Notes: All members are currently in high school
Booking: contact@chesterlives.com
Websites: www.myspace.com/moreska and www.chesterlives.com and www.purevolume.com/chesterny
Last update: 9/06

inactive bands

The Portside Pirates

Style: Ska-rock
First show: ???
Notes: Based at Cornell University
Booking: booking@portsidepirates.com
Website: www.portsidepirates.com
Last update: 9/05

The Uplifters

Style: Roots reggae and dub, with ska influences
First show:
Notes: Features former members from The Dominant Seven and Agent 000.
Contact: Dave
Last update: 9/00

Double Irie

Style: Roots reggae
First show:
Notes:
Contact: band email
Last update: 5/01

Agent Double O Zero
(1999-2002)

Style: Third wave ska mixed with reggae/ska and swing
Notable bookings: Stroke 9, The Pilfers, Scofflaws, Bim Skala Bim, Skavoovie & the Epitones, The Skoidats, The Gadjits, Jiker, The Allstonians.
Notes: All Cornell students, after they all graduated, they tried to base the band out of NYC for a short time before they broke up.
Website: www.ithaska.com/adoz/
Contact: Jon at jvl4@cornell.edu
Last update: 7/03

The Dominant 7 (1998?-1999)
Style: Ska-jazz with breezy mixed vocals
Last show: May 1999 at Slopefest on the Cornell campus.
Releases:
-- "Is there ever a time not to question?" 12 song CD (SR) in April 1999.
-- "Skarmageddon 4: Armageddeon Time!" comp CD w/ song "A While" on Moon Ska Records in April 1999.
Notes: Cornell students known for smooth original arrangements and a very attractive female flute player.
Contact: Dave (guitar).

Concrete Gibsons (1993-1997)
Style: Ska-jazz
Last show: 4/97 at the Haunt
Notable bookings: Issac Green & the Skalars and many more
Achievements: They wrote a complete ska opera for a senior class project and performed it on the Ithaca College campus on 2/15/97.
Releases:
-- S/T cassette tape.
-- Bootleg tape of their 10/10/95 show at the Haunt in Ithaca.
Notes: Ithaca College music students playing very odd original ska-jazz from sheet music at shows, mostly at the Haunt in Ithaca.

Twice on Sundays (1994?-1995?)
Style: Ska-rock
Last show: ???
Notable bookings: The Scofflaws, Too Hectic
Notes: Cornell University students playing ska, mostly on campus, the history of this band is mostly unknown. Presumably the name is based on Prince Buster’s notoriously sexist "Ten Commandments" song from 1967.

The Tribulations (1986-1993)
Style: Reggae
Last show: 1993
Achievements: In 1992, they won the Yamaha Soundcheck Competition, beating out 4,000 other bands that enter. They are flown to Japan to compete internationally and placed 2nd out of 24 bands worldwide.
Releases:
-- "Daddy Good Pieces" live CD in 1993.
-- "The Gate" full length CD in 1992. Ends up selling 2,000 copies.
-- 45 single "City" in 1987
Notes: Core members of this band went on to form John Brown's Body.
Last update: 11/03

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