This past week, a band I was in Thumper reunited to play a club called The Beachcomber in Wellfleet on Cape Cod. Formed in the early nineties at Tufts University in Boston, Thumper went on to release 4 albums and tour the United States and Canada. The band has been described as part of the Third Wave of Ska music but as you are about to hear ska was just one of an eclectic number of influences that included punk, hardcore, metal, and reggae.
We were misfits, irreverent, satirical, theatrical and mischievous. We deliberately tried to evade description, but above all we took our music very seriously. At times its virtuosic and at other times hard to listen to. In spite of ourselves we sold over 20,000 records and often played to audiences that numbered well into the hundreds.
Featuring:
Thumper
Holy Roller
Thumper
Burn Baby Burn
Thumper
All Fall Down
Thumper
Backstabber
