Syracuse Ska Forum

wed nov 26th 2008
The Original Wailers
Westcott Theater
$20

no familyman this tour, but al anderson wyah and Jr..
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http://www.myspace.com/originalwailers

so what is the actual date? the title says 11/20, and the post says wed 11/26 which is really a monday......

woops

26th

now i have hear wyah has not been seen on this tour either so there just two real wailers
(the guitarists) and they were added later on in the band, so not sure how "Original" this really is... i'm not really excited about this show, but reggae comes to syracuse so infrequently
that as a long time cheerleader for reggae upstate i feel obliged. a

i didn't make it. did any of you go? if so, how was it?
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They can't call themselves the Wailers because that was already a group. They call themselves the Original Wailers because that wasn't. It doesn't mean they're original members of the Wailers.

to make it even more confusing bassy familyman is still out there playing
with his own version of the wailers.
they just appeared on the CMA's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHv7cBm9SdU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjaImNS_DSo

the singer in fams version is Elan
http://www.myspace.com/elansmusic

anyone know who the oswego band that opened was?
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Apparently, it was Dubtide.

Andy Chertow had seen this lineup at Turning Stone not too long ago and warned me they aren't very "original", but I didn't want to throw out any negativity before the show. Besides, when I last saw The Wailers at Planet 505, the vast majority of the crowd there clearly didn't care who was on stage -- it was just a good excuse to get stoned with friends at a club. And I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same deal with this show, honestly, which is why I had zero interest personally.

Danny prefers to get stoned in the privacy of his own home, thank you.