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Diary

My First Time: What It Was Like To Be In The Studio With The Braces In 1987

15 July 2010 Diary

Ska music today seems to be all about sound. Even new bands know exactly what effects they want and which equipment to use. They plug their Telecasters into their Twin Reverbs, hook up their Jazz Basses and make no mistakes. Producers like Vic Ruggiero and Victor Rice offer their services globally and set standards in [...]

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6 Special Posts From The First 6 Months At Joescholes.com

4 May 2010 Diary

You know what day it is today? The 4th of May 2010. It has been 6 months exactly since I published the first post on joescholes.com.

I have been thinking about preparing a jubilee post for today. Never came along to starting it. Not much time is left now. So let’s cut it short: I am [...]

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Should All Ska Music Be Free? Two Sides Of The Same Coin

13 April 2010 Diary

Here is something I am undecided about: “What to make of free Ska music offers on the Web?” That’s why I asked two experts on the subject for their opinions: a label owner and a blogger. As you can imagine they have views very different from one another. But there is evidence that both love [...]

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Ska – Rocksteady – Early Reggae: Which Online Radio Stations have it?

30 March 2010 Diary

Could you please help me out again? It’s easy to spend tons of time uploading your songs to all those music websites. Just to make sure that as many people as possible have the chance to hear it, provided that they are interested. You may start with myspace and Soundcloud, but where do you end? [...]

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What now, joescholes.com?

24 March 2010 Diary

What happened in the last weeks after the end of the Alpha Boys? Just to give you a quick update: More changes are there to report. I had to move my office, too. Not to another town, and not even to another part of Cologne. But still a move with a change in communication [...]

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Alpha Boys Are Dead

10 March 2010 Diary

When I started this blog it was supposed to be about writing songs for a new album, “hopefully by the Alpha Boys feat. Joe Scholes”. This hope is gone now. On Saturday, 27th of February 2010, the name Alpha Boys feat. Joe Scholes was buried. What happened? I will get into that later.
First here is [...]

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My personal 30th Ska Anniversary

10 February 2010 Diary

The “30th Anniversary Tour“ by The Specials has been going on for quite a while now. “But what about my own 30-year-jubilee with Ska?”

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How To Start Writing Songs For An Album: Introducing MMM

26 January 2010 Diary

I’ve been talking about it for quite some time. Now the day has come to really do it.
No one said it was easy
I am going to reveal my first steps writing songs for the next album by the Alpha Boys. Not that anyone has asked, but I want to make sure you are informed about [...]

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Doing The Ska – A Song Worth Recording For The Next Alphaboys Album?

15 January 2010 Diary

As I have mentioned earlier, there are four unreleased songs that could become part of the next album by the Alphaboys feat. Joe Scholes. After presenting Ballerina Valerie, Perfect and My Love Is Real here is the last one on the list: “Doing The Ska”.

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The Song “My Love Is Real”: Is it really Ska’s Antichrist?

12 January 2010 Diary

After publishing the blog entry on the song “Perfect” I visited an online forum called songwriterforums.com and posted the lyrics to “Perfect” there. First of all I was interested to hear praise on the lyrics. Secondly I planned to create awareness for joescholes.com. At the moment I have two feedback mails with “constructive” criticism. One [...]

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