In Defense of Ska Ep 204: Blammos (Arthur Leon Adams, Jimmy Boom)

As the end of 2024 draws closer, we wanted to bring on our good friends Blammos to talk about their new album, Sometimes I Wish You Were Dead, which was released on December 6th. The Blammos play power-pop but have a lot to talk about ska. 

We dig into The Phenomenauts, a band they both played in until recently. The Phenomenauts were a science fiction New Wave band (A band from outer space?) with no ska songs but played frequently we ska bands. We also talk about Jimmy Boom’s ska roots. He’s played in ska bands since back in the day, like Kongo Shock and Red Session. And he currently fills in on drums with The Slackers whenever Ara Babajian can’t make a tour. 

This episode has wild Gnarboots stories (including the time Adam and Aaron protested a Phenomenauts show in Santa Cruz), a Vic Ruggiero story where he got James Mercer to admit that The Shins are a ska band, and we learn why it took The Blammos a decade and a half to finish and release this record. 

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If you like our theme song, go download the EP Lives by Slow Gherkin. They wrote the opening and closing songs for our podcast. You can get both tunes from their Lives EP. Also, check out Dan P and the Bricks two LPs. They provided the mid-roll ad transition music. 

Support the In Defense host Aaron Carnes by purchasing a copy of his book, In Defense of Ska. The 2nd, expanded edition of In Defense of Ska will release in Oct 2024. 

Co-host Adam Davis has a band called Omnigone. Their latest record, Against The Rest released on March 31, 2023. 

The In Defense of Ska editor Chris Reeves runs a record label called Ska Punk International. They have new releases coming out all the time.

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