Comments on: The Specials https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/ My WordPress Blog Mon, 26 May 2008 13:37:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: thedudewhisperer@yahoo.com https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1345 Mon, 26 May 2008 13:37:25 +0000 https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1345 the chess king.

]]> By: Family Brown. https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1346 Sun, 25 May 2008 19:30:52 +0000 https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1346 How fab, I would try and make sense of it all but I just want us all to sing…..” Dis tah ahwn ….is comin’ like a ghost town” one of my many favourite Specials Tunes.
Erm, if it’s not someone is glasses, it may be pretty front man, but there was there was a really cool feela who used to say ” too much fightin on de dance floor” in that song, and it would be him.
Sorry Splotchy, just overcome with the joy of the reunion,

]]> By: popcorn cynic https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1347 Sat, 24 May 2008 08:25:43 +0000 https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1347 Tempted to vote for Eraserhead hair (second from the right).

That said, stern guy in stripes is the obvious choice. He oozes leadership.

Clever blog theme, by the way. 🙂

]]> By: bloody awful poetry https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1348 Fri, 23 May 2008 03:53:54 +0000 https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1348 Mr Stripey-Front-and-Centre. Waay to obvious.
But if I may cast another vote, I’ll give it to the dude holding his hat up.

]]> By: Signorina Creativita https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1349 Thu, 22 May 2008 19:03:55 +0000 https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1349 Mr. Front & Center in the stripes-it’s a bit obvious.

]]> By: Jess Wundrun https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1350 Thu, 22 May 2008 15:50:35 +0000 https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1350 Say, when did Willem Dafoe have time to join a ska band? (He’s next to Chess King on left)

I’m going to say it’s the black guy in the back with the glasses on.

I am saying that because I want to see a black guy in charge.

]]> By: srawr42 https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1351 Wed, 21 May 2008 22:55:25 +0000 https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1351 The stripey boy in front, of course. =)

]]> By: Jared X https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1352 Wed, 21 May 2008 17:34:56 +0000 https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1352 After the ’80s. when I worked there, Chess King was considered nearly bankrupt.

Awesomeness is fickle.

]]> By: Splotchy https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1353 Wed, 21 May 2008 14:29:16 +0000 https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1353 Jared, what was Chess King considered in ’92? I’m just curious of its placement on the awesomeness scale after the 80’s were over (I was never cool enough to shop there, by the way).

]]> By: Jared X https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1354 Wed, 21 May 2008 13:45:55 +0000 https://wichone.isplotchy.com/2008/05/19/the-specials/#comment-1354 I worked at a Chess King, circa 1992. My wife threw away my last button-down from there last spring. Actually, it kind of walked itself to the garbage, saying “Dude, update.”

I think this photo of the Specials was taken in the ’80s, when the Chess King was the very essence of awesomeness. For being the very essence of awesomeness back in the day, Front-and-Center is in charge. The others are just trombone players and assorted other horn-blowers. This is a ska band after all, and what’s a ska band without a huge hat-wearing horn section?

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