There was always music in our lives and it started developing. Me, Joe Gittleman and our original guitarist Nate Albert were all friends around freshman year, eighth grade, around that era. Were you all just friends or did you know anyone particular in the band? I knew all the songs, I would go to every practice so I sort of got up there and jumped around and sang some backup vocals just so I could stay in the show and not get kicked out.
A club said you gotta be 21 or in the band so the guys were like “He’s in the band!” and they said well you gotta get up on stage now and I just kind of went with it. Short story is, I was a roadie, basically. Who's idea was it to add a dancer to the Bosstones? How did you end up in the band? We caught up with Carr to talk about going from a roadie to Bosstones' "dancing guy," the dangers of his job, and why the band is always so damn dressed up. Now, after 10 studio albums-their latest of which being 2011’s The Magic of Youth-Carr remains one of the only four original band members that are still with the Bosstones, 31 years later. He also serves as the band’s sort-of tour manager, booking hotels and taking on most of the other tour duties for the whopping 8-member band. "Skanking" his ass off as his full-time job since the band formed in 1983, and maybe throwing in a few backup vocals from time to time, Ben continues to dance around stage and flail his arms, even though the band only plays about 10 shows a year now. I even saw emo hopefuls (at the time) The Starting Line open for The Mighty Mighty Bosstones back in 2001, a pretty a-typical pairing.īut none of those other bands had a member quite like The Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ dancer, Ben Carr, a Bostonian who is also a former employee of Harmonix, the creators of Rock Band.
Bands like Rancid and NOFX who are key players in the scene, found a way to meld both styles into one. Punk and ska have always been intertwined-though ska has somewhat fallen out of favor these days.
Pretty much anyone who was an ardent follower of the punk rock scene in the 90s and early 2000s was at least something of a ska fan, catching bands like the Pietasters to Catch 22, to Big D And The Kids Table play at many of the popular punk festivals, including the Vans Warped Tour.
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