One of my favourite songs is 'A Message to You, Rudy,' which was done by the Specials.
I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.
No Doubt is one of the groups that I think everybody listens to, man, and everybody loves Gwen Stefani.
If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.
Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.
Neville and I are big fans of ska. He's actually more into original, Jamaican, skinhead, two-tone ska from England, but I'm more into punk ska - Operation Ivy and stuff Rancid would do.
I was a huge Operation Ivy fan.
Bad Brains is one of my all-time favorite punk bands.
Ska is fine. Punk is fine. Putting those two together drove us crazy.
I listened to a lot of No Doubt stuff when I was in high school - or maybe it was middle school... I don't want to age myself too much!
I am a huge Sublime fan, and I think their music immediately puts you in SoCal when you listen to it.
I had a band called Infectious Grooves back in the Nineties. That music was really a mixture of styles, and we had some stuff that was punk rock, ska, but then we had a lot of funk in there.
I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.
I really like a lot of the old 2-tone ska. I definitely went through a phase where I was into The Specials and The Busters. But a lot of the ska revival - I never really have had an interest in that.
I was really into ska.
In high school, I listened to The Jam, stuff like that, a lot of English bands, really. And then I got into anarcho-punk bands that nobody had heard of.
We [No Doubt] were making music that was the opposite of grunge and what was popular on the radio, and we were fine with that. And for a garage band, we were massive! We were already successful in our own minds.
