The Rudiments

American ska punk band The Rudiments are an American ska punk band from the East Bay, California, United States. Biography Known originally as Los Rudiments the group came together in the early 1990s, getting their start playing such venues as Santa Clara's One Step Beyond club and Berkley's 924 Gilman Street. They were signed to Mike Park's Asian Man Records. They also worked with the Skankin Pickle's label, Dill Records, which also released albums by other ska/punk artists of the era, such as Less Than Jake, MU330, and Janitors Against Apartheid. They started out playing local shows and produced their first record, Psychoska. The band's most popular songs include "Wailing Paddle," "Trash," "Scapegoat," "Martians Don't Skank" and their cover of "Smoke 2 Joints." They had perfected the Swing Ska Punk sound culminating in the now infamous Great American music hall show with the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Soon after this peak, singer Scott Rehlaender, drummer Craig Mazzera and organist Pat Phelan left the group prompting Matt Powell and Brent Wilson to take a lead role. With the addition of Scott Pope, one of the Bays hardest hitting drummers at the time, the band recorded Bitch Bitch