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Skankin’ Pickle was a San Francisco based ska punk sextet during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Formed in 1989, they released several LPs, mostly on their own record label, Dill Records. Members included vocalist/saxophonist Mike “Bruce Lee” Park, guitarist Lynette Knackstedt, bassist Ian Miller, bassist Mike Mattingly, trombonists Lars Nylander and Gerry Lundquist, and drummer Chuck Phelps. Their music includes metal, dub, swing, and New Wave elements.

The band was unique in that all of the members had sung lead vocals on at least one recording and the songwriting responsibilities were distributed throughout, though Mike Park was generally regarded as the front man.

Skankin’ Pickle’s lyrics range from silly, in songs such as “Fakin’ Jamaican” and “Asian Man”, to sociopolitical, in songs like “Racist World” and “Ice Cube, Korea Wants a Word With You”. As a band, Skankin’ Pickle promoted racial equality in the tradition of two-tone ska bands, such as The Specials, in late 1970s England.

Following their breakup in 1996, Knackstedt and Nylander started another skacore band called 78 RPMs. Mike Park released an album and toured with The Bruce Lee Band, a side project consisting of Park and members of Less Than Jake. Later, Park started a short-lived, all-Asian ska band called The Chinkees. Lundquist went on to play trombone for Mu330.

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gwiz210 wrote:
20 days ago

Haha these guys are far from emo. Very cool underrated ska band.

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kusinknase wrote:
last month

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Gatitabonita321 wrote:
last month

EMO BAND!!!!!????!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!

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mr_nool wrote:
September 2009

Saw these guys two times in Chico, CA in -95. Really good live (or maybe it was just me being young and enthustiastic). It's a great nostalgia hearing them now, though. I'M IN LOVE WITH A GIRL NAMED SPIKE!

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shazan wrote:
August 2009

BEST EMO BAND EVER

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quigley54 wrote:
June 2009

i don't like ska, but this is the best band name EVER.

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tr_lovepunk wrote:
April 2009

This was the first band i listened to where i knew it was called SKA. This was back in 1995 when i was still an impressionable youth... ahh, the good ol' daze!

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Elturtle wrote:
April 2009

i admit it..............im a fakin jamaican

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john2tone wrote:
March 2009

my skankin' pickle is an awesome pickle

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area27shop wrote:
March 2009

lagunya mantep bangetlah

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Cyberzombie wrote:
March 2009

Skankin' Pickle is the band I've seen live the most times ever. I saw them at least 8 times in college. Very cool band.

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sm0th3rl0v3 wrote:
February 2009

SKANKIN PICKLES ARE THE BEST KINDA PICKLES

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NicholasNizib wrote:
January 2009

Vote for the new picture!

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SugarrCookiie wrote:
January 2009

Does anyone know how old these guys were when they created the band?

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boywithshoes wrote:
January 2009

Littlestnerd biggestpothead.

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littlestnerd wrote:
December 2008

i still hit that. I think she's doing some coke off some random guys junk right about now...... ahhh... marijuana... they call it the gateway drug... :D

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littlestnerd wrote:
December 2008

ohh skankin' pickle... like karate dancing... that makes sense....but then again.... so does shankin'

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littlestnerd wrote:
December 2008

i downloaded a pack of ska acopule years ago with a track by these people. I liked it. Then I had a gf who turned to an ex nicknamed pickle.... now I cant help but lol and say "yes I did" when I read shankin' Pickle

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de-C-man wrote:
October 2008

een skankende augurk ja? topper

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hyperboreann wrote:
September 2008

Catch a fish, fly a kite, protest nuclear reactors

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