I remember when I first started playing ska in the local music scene. It was a bummer when I would bring a friend I wanted to expose the style to but wasn t in the fashion, he would start to get harassed or something. Nowadays it s great. You go to a show and see people who want to dress the old way standing right next to some kid who plays football and next to him is some kid with long hair who is standing next to someone wearing Birkenstocks and into the Grateful Dead. I think it s a great time for the style because people are so open-minded with this whole new alternative movement that people are open to everything from swing to ska to whatever.
People are just out to enjoy good music.
That s the bottom line. Reel Big Fish tacked that whole issue of sell out. They did it in a joking way, picking on themselves and the whole music industry in general. Their last album was called Turn Your Radio Off and they had a song called Sell Out. They re kind of laughing about the fact that some of the kids out there say that if you re on MTV, you re selling out.