Skankin’ Pickle

**Core Shot** · 07-19-2021, 09:12 AM

Ska meets punk

Friend turned me on decades ago.

Then Saw them at a skatepark in my hometown while visiting mom a long while ago. So random.

**bodywhomper** · 07-20-2021, 09:56 PM

I love skankin pickle. They were the gateway for me to a lot of “third wave” ska (ska meets punk), and the earlier waves. Punk/Ska clubs in SoCal were usually all ages and a cheaper place to go a few nights a week to dance and go crazy to live music.

Thx for posting and the memories!

**MontuckyFried** · 07-21-2021, 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by bodywhomper

Punk/Ska clubs in SoCal were usually all ages and a cheaper place to go a few nights a week to dance and go crazy to live music.

Thx for posting and the memories!

Ah, yes. Same here. Early/mid-90s twas a GREAT time to grow up. I used to love going to live shows on a school night, skanking my ass off, moshing like an idiot, etc. Sigh... good times. Some nostalgic moments just can't be replicated, and the punk/ska scene of our youths is one of them.

Thanks for reminding me of Skankin' Pickle, CS!!! Man, that brings back some memories.

**smartyiak** · 07-21-2021, 07:40 AM

While I like them, I am a HUDGE fan of The Suicide Machines.

**evasive_MT** · 07-21-2021, 09:55 AM

I learned about them from a friend of mine who grew up in Long Beach. He was friends with a few of them. I have a CD somewhere.

**Woodsy** · 07-21-2021, 11:55 AM

Skankin Pickle! Remember seeing them in Park City when home from College in the 90s.

Think they are from NorCal, and I say that as I was in College in Redlands and we used to be able to see insane good ska shows nearby at UCR Barn and local clubs. Voo Doo Glow Skulls, No Doubt ( they used to be a ska band, its true,) Skeletones, Sublime ( not really ska but on a lot of the same bills) Rocket from the Crypt, Hep Cat, Untouchables, and more I cant remember....

**Core Shot** · 07-21-2021, 12:33 PM

Wow. Woodsy you got some amazing bands live.

That Cali ska vibe is just as good as the original English bands.

**Core Shot** · 07-21-2021, 12:37 PM

There’s some irony in a Korean American turning Japanese

I actually prefer this to the original vapors version.
The horns are nice touch.

**Woodsy** · 07-21-2021, 12:40 PM

for energy to skank and mosh to for a 20-22 year old it was amazballs.

Hard to explain Gwen Stefani in 12 hole docs and a Notre Dame cheerleading outfit (ND, get it?!?) screaming ska songs while the horns blow and skinheads propose marriage while crowd surfing

made up for the skiing @ Big Bear, MT High & Snow Summit.

**Woodsy** · 07-21-2021, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by bodywhomper

I love skankin pickle. They were the gateway for me to a lot of “third wave” ska (ska meets punk), and the earlier waves. Punk/Ska clubs in SoCal were usually all ages and a cheaper place to go a few nights a week to dance and go crazy to live music.

Thx for posting and the memories!

I bet we were at some of the same shows.

I always thought Skeletones was going to bust big, but didnt. I did see them a few years later open for Fishbone @ the Double Diamond in Aspen.96, 97ish?!?

**bodywhomper** · 07-21-2021, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by Woodsy

I bet we were at some of the same shows.

I always thought Skeletones was going to bust big, but didnt. I did see them a few years later open for Fishbone @ the Double Diamond in Aspen.96, 97ish?!?

Possibly. i can’t remember all of the shows. Less than $5 to get in made it for simple decisions. The SHARPs always made it all interestingly edgy. I was in SD mostly and sometimes OC and Riverside County. I can’t remember all the shows. I had friends in the band The Shakerz, out in OC, and SD friends and I would drive to see them open for bigger bands. I’m fuzzy on shows seen in LA (I know it happened, but that’s it). I saw No Doubt a bunch, and Sublime and No Doubt sharing a billing was super fun. Dave Wakeling lived in SD in the 90’s, and I saw his band often.

**Woodsy** · 07-21-2021, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by bodywhomper

Sublime and No Doubt sharing a billing was super fun. Dave Wakeling lived in SD in the 90’s, and I saw his band often.

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This was a hot, dusty fun day

Wakeling was the old guy with the popped color polo

**bodywhomper** · 07-21-2021, 02:18 PM

That ^^ would have been SO much fun!

**JimmyCarter** · 07-22-2021, 02:33 PM

Nostalgia in here
Was partial to the bosstones for my ska punk/ ska core fix, but that led to Skankin Pickle, Mephiskapheles, Bim Skala Bim, voodoo glow skulls and a bunch of others , usually found on the latest “mashing up the nation” or other compilation cd at Newbury Comics.

**evasive_MT** · 07-22-2021, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by JimmyCarter

Nostalgia in here
Was partial to the bosstones for my ska punk/ ska core fix, but that led to Skankin Pickle, Mephiskapheles, Bim Skala Bim, voodoo glow skulls and a bunch of others , usually found on the latest “mashing up the nation” or other compilation cd at Newbury Comics.

I started buying Moon Ska compilations and went from there.

I was at a show (97?) where the Decipticonz asked if anyone could put them up for the night, so I volunteered my house. Turns out we had a mutual friend that I went to college with.

**JimmyCarter** · 07-22-2021, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by evasive_MT

I started buying Moon Ska compilations and went from there.

I was at a show (97?) where the Decipticonz asked if anyone could put them up for the night, so I volunteered my house. Turns out we had a mutual friend that I went to college with.

Moon! The Toasters!