drunk you’re going to forget all your
favorite shit.” McWane continues.
It must be a punk rock thing, starting
bands and getting drunk. Well I guess one
could also say I it’s a hair band thing to
start a band and get drunk. The only
difference between Vince Neil and Dave
McWane of Big D and the Kids Table is
that McWane doesn’t have enough hair
spray to kill the entire ozone lying around,
not to mention band mates that have been
known to die of 10 minutes (Nikki Sixx)
or do they
favorite shit.” McWane continues.
It must be a punk rock thing, starting
bands and getting drunk. Well I guess one
could also say I it’s a hair band thing to
start a band and get drunk. The only
difference between Vince Neil and Dave
McWane of Big D and the Kids Table is
that McWane doesn’t have enough hair
spray to kill the entire ozone lying around,
not to mention band mates that have been
known to die of 10 minutes (Nikki Sixx)
or do they
have an excessive amount of heroin or
cocaine lying around. So I guess when
you get right down to it their really aren’t
that many similarities between Big D and
the Kids Table and Motley Crue.
After doing the long stretch of the
Warped Tour in 2005, like many punk
bands that are more than 7 years old the
Boston bred band Big D and the Kids
Table hit the studio with plans of making
a chilled out Reggae Dub record,
something that would have been a change
of pace from the Warped Tour schedule
that they had just came off from.
Completely out of left field One Side
Dummy called and asked Big D if they
were up for making a Ska record,
something that has accidentally become
Big D’s forte. Something that itself is an
accident as well. “We didn’t know that
was where we were going t be Ska, but I
think it was pretty obvious, we saw the
horns, we liked Operation Ivy, and we
liked The Suicide Machines.” So when
push came to shove the Horns got the
push to stay. “I just love having the horns
around; some people would die to have a
horn section.” Mcwane exclaims.“We’re
really into music, rather than some people
that are into being in a band, they think
that Motley Crue is so awesome they want
cocaine lying around. So I guess when
you get right down to it their really aren’t
that many similarities between Big D and
the Kids Table and Motley Crue.
After doing the long stretch of the
Warped Tour in 2005, like many punk
bands that are more than 7 years old the
Boston bred band Big D and the Kids
Table hit the studio with plans of making
a chilled out Reggae Dub record,
something that would have been a change
of pace from the Warped Tour schedule
that they had just came off from.
Completely out of left field One Side
Dummy called and asked Big D if they
were up for making a Ska record,
something that has accidentally become
Big D’s forte. Something that itself is an
accident as well. “We didn’t know that
was where we were going t be Ska, but I
think it was pretty obvious, we saw the
horns, we liked Operation Ivy, and we
liked The Suicide Machines.” So when
push came to shove the Horns got the
push to stay. “I just love having the horns
around; some people would die to have a
horn section.” Mcwane exclaims.“We’re
really into music, rather than some people
that are into being in a band, they think
that Motley Crue is so awesome they want
to do it instead of making music is so
awesome, I want to do it.” Mcwane
explains. If McWane wasn’t hear right now
talking to me, it is easy to imagine him with
the rest of the members of Big D, out in a
garage some place drinking beer playing
music, just like he was over a decade ago.
“When you’re young and drink you can only
find someone to buy you beer every once in a
while. So when we failed or when we scored
we played music, so basically we played
music every night.” McWane explains. “We
never started a band really; we just didn’t
want to do anything else.”
It all comes down to DIY; Big D has
been known to plaster 1000’s of flyers and
stickers at every show. In case you have
been living underneath a rock for the last I
don’t know forever that stands for do it
yourself, you can’t ever trust someone to do
it for you, you have to do it yourself. DIY, is
the main reason that SideOneDummy called
Big D, they needed to make a Ska record, “a
record that Ska needs” and they did. In the
process of being fans of the genre they have
become leaders of the genre, Strictly Rude
being a defined Ska record for years to come,
even if they hadn’t planned on it. When these
fine young bean town lads were first coming
up, The Bosstones had yet exploded, well
unless you were in Boston , “To Boston the
Bosstones were always an explosion.”
Mcwane says. The Dropkick Murphy’s were
just getting started. “I remember playing
shows with them [Dropkick Murphy’s] when
they first started, and being like they’re
alright.’ McWane recalls with a laugh. No
Doubt hadn’t made it yet either at this time.
You can tell McWane all day that they are one
of the founding fathers of Ska, and he’d
never take your word for it, modesty can be a
blessing and a curse, which one is hard to
say. “We were making a Reggae Dub record
when SideOne called us, it’s not like we’ll
scrap that record all together, and we’ll go
back to it when the time is right, but right
now we needed to make a Ska record.”
McWane comments. “ - [JLA]
awesome, I want to do it.” Mcwane
explains. If McWane wasn’t hear right now
talking to me, it is easy to imagine him with
the rest of the members of Big D, out in a
garage some place drinking beer playing
music, just like he was over a decade ago.
“When you’re young and drink you can only
find someone to buy you beer every once in a
while. So when we failed or when we scored
we played music, so basically we played
music every night.” McWane explains. “We
never started a band really; we just didn’t
want to do anything else.”
It all comes down to DIY; Big D has
been known to plaster 1000’s of flyers and
stickers at every show. In case you have
been living underneath a rock for the last I
don’t know forever that stands for do it
yourself, you can’t ever trust someone to do
it for you, you have to do it yourself. DIY, is
the main reason that SideOneDummy called
Big D, they needed to make a Ska record, “a
record that Ska needs” and they did. In the
process of being fans of the genre they have
become leaders of the genre, Strictly Rude
being a defined Ska record for years to come,
even if they hadn’t planned on it. When these
fine young bean town lads were first coming
up, The Bosstones had yet exploded, well
unless you were in Boston , “To Boston the
Bosstones were always an explosion.”
Mcwane says. The Dropkick Murphy’s were
just getting started. “I remember playing
shows with them [Dropkick Murphy’s] when
they first started, and being like they’re
alright.’ McWane recalls with a laugh. No
Doubt hadn’t made it yet either at this time.
You can tell McWane all day that they are one
of the founding fathers of Ska, and he’d
never take your word for it, modesty can be a
blessing and a curse, which one is hard to
say. “We were making a Reggae Dub record
when SideOne called us, it’s not like we’ll
scrap that record all together, and we’ll go
back to it when the time is right, but right
now we needed to make a Ska record.”
McWane comments. “ - [JLA]
