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The Long Beach Dub Allstars are a dub / ska / rock ___MASK75___ formed in 1997 and disbanded in 2002 , but reformed 10 years later . 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 word " reggae ," effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience . While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music , the term " reggae " more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues , especially the New Orleans ___MASK85___ & B practiced by Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint , and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady . Reggae usually relates news , social gossip , and political comment . Reggae spread into a commercialized jazz field , being known first as  Rudie Blues , then  Ska , later  Blue Beat , and  Rock Steady . It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat , and the offbeat rhythm section . The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rock steady ; from the latter , reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument . Eric John Wilson ( born February 21 , 1970 ) , is the former bass player for Sublime ( 1988 -- 1996 ) and also ___MASK53___ for Long Beach Dub Allstars ( 1997 -- 2002 ) . He was the ___MASK53___ for the ___MASK75___ Long Beach Shortbus which was composed of several members of Long Beach Dub Allstars and Sublime . Since 2009 , Wilson has been the ___MASK53___ for Sublime with Rome , a reunited version of Sublime with a new singer . Ska ( Jamaican ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae . Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues . It is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off - beat . Ska developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when ___MASK21___ Buster , Clement " Coxsone " Dodd , and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm & blues and then began recording their own songs . Some suggest ska dates to earlier times , however . In the early 1960s , ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods . Later it became popular with many skinheads . Long Beach Shortbus was a reggae - influenced punk ___MASK75___ from Long Beach , California . The ___MASK75___ consists of four regular members : RAS - 1 ( lead vocals and guitar ), Trey Pangborn ( guitar ), Eric Wilson ( bass guitar ) and Damion Ramirez ( drums ). Shortbus originated as a side project of RAS - 1 and Eric Wilson , eventually taking shape after the Long Beach Dub Allstars disbanded in 2002 . RAS - 1 ( Richard Arthur Smith ) is a ___MASK22___ ( guitarist / singer ) who was in the band Long Beach Shortbus 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 along with Eric Wilson and former Sublime drummer Bud Gaugh .