Marc has lived and breathed ska since discovering The Specials' debut album in 1979, making him a great skandidate (sorry) to put out a book on ska, but it's not just Marc doing the talking. The book was written by Marc Wasserman, bassist of Bigger Thomas, the ska band who formed in the late '80s in New Brunswick, NJ and regularly gigged with bands like The Toasters and Bim Skala Bim, as well as non-ska acts like De La Soul, KRS-One, Burning Spear, Yellowman, and Vision, and were featured on the 1990 NYC Ska Live compilation alongside The Toasters, The Scofflaws, Skadanks, NY Citizens, and more. The great documentary Pick It Up! - Ska in the '90s came out in 2019, Aaron Carnes' great new book In Defense of Ska just came out earlier this month, and there's been a surge of fantastic new ska bands, and there's now another anticipated ska book on the horizon: Ska Boom! An American Ska & Reggae Oral History, due July 4 via DiWulf Publishing House ( pre-order). No release date has been set yet but know that Dave is hard at work, and we will not let him rest until he is done! After meeting with him, seeing and hearing his vision for the work, and knowing how well he tells a story, it became very important to us to partner up with him and get this thing out. We are incredibly excited to work with Dave. After four decades of a quintessentially New Jersey existence, there is a wealth of material from which to cull an entertaining adventure. This is a band that has played an amazing number of shows and have shared the stage with legends and lunatics alike. This is Dave’s first book, and even though there is a lot of humor involved in these stories, above all it is a history of one of the most beloved bands of any scene and their adventures touring throughout the 1980s. As of this date, we find the author about halfway through the writing and uncovering a treasure trove of old photos, tour diaries, letters, thrashy ephemera, pork roll debates, and probably more than a few confessions. In true DiWulf tradition we bring you yet another fine entry into the subcultural history books.ĭiWulf has signed on to publish Dave’s history of his life in Adrenalin O.D. It’ll also be one of the funniest books you’ve ever read.
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It is with great excitement that we herald the coming of this magnificent tome, a book for the ages that is chock full of war and tour and stories, hanging out at Misfits’ practices stories, heavy metal vomit stories, and some great punk rock history. is the title, the affable, charming, and extremely huggable Dave Scott is the author, and DiWulf is the publisher…what could go wrong? If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Walla Walla: The Wacky Hi-Jinx of Adrenalin O.D. Through it all, Danny’s indomitable sense of humor and likeability make it a fun read about one of the most bizarre moments in music history. The expanded version of Don’t Ever Punch a Rock Star will have some all-new hate mail that’s been collected in the years since the proliferation of social media. It’s off the hook!”įilled with uproariously funny anecdotes, Danny will add some new photos to the book to go along with new retrospective musings on how his life has changed since he knocked out the Lucifer of Lodi (Spoiler alert: when asked, Danny responded, “About 30 pounds and a newfound love for Golden Girls…). I’ve put a lot of time into this and added even more humor. There were more funny stories I should have elaborated on, and after it was released, I was like, Oh well, too late. “The first version is like that demo tape that you and your band always wanted to go back and rerecord. “I always wanted to make some changes, explains Danny. And now, DiWulf Publishing House has signed on to publish a new, 10th anniversary expanded edition of Danny’s hysterical tome, Don’t Ever Punch a Rock Star. But here’s the thing: Danny’s got a great sense of humor and used it to turn the entire episode into a hilarious book.
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