RAS-1 (Richard Arthur Smith) is a
musician
A musician is a person who composes, conducts, or performs music. According to the United States Employment Service, "musician" is a general term used to designate one who follows music as a profession. Musicians include songwriters who w ...
(guitarist/singer) who was in the band
Long Beach Shortbus
Long Beach Shortbus was an American reggae-influenced punk band from Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of ...
with former
Sublime bassist
Eric Wilson and
Willard "trey" Pangborn of
Falling Idols, along with drummer
Damien Ramirez. RAS-1 was also a member of
Long Beach Dub Allstars
The Long Beach Dub Allstars are an American dub/ ska/ rock band formed in 1997 and disbanded in 2002, but reformed 10 years later.
History Initial career (1997–2001)
Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh met in childhood (in 1979) and later started the ...
along with Eric Wilson and former Sublime drummer
Bud Gaugh.
Early life
Richard Arthur Smith is the son of singer Dora Gail Smith formerly of the all girl Long Beach jazz quartet Dream.
Early bands
As a teenager, RAS-1 was in a
psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a rock music Music genre, genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelia, psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music incorporated new electronic sound ...
band called The Griffin with his cousin J-sun, the current singer/poet of the band Stonewing.
Following this, he played guitar and sang with a
reggae
Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the ...
band called Jah Children, which played backyard parties in Long Beach and opened for
Sublime on occasion.
See also
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List of reggae artists
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Long Beach Dub All-Stars
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Long Beach Shortbus
Long Beach Shortbus was an American reggae-influenced punk band from Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of ...
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Guitarists from California
Long Beach Dub Allstars members
Long Beach Shortbus members