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In 2002, a couple years after the Smiley Kids ended, Fraska along with his wife Misty on bass guitar, decided to start yet another project, The Scooterz, with some experimental songs he had previously recorded under the names Echo System and the Mad Haberdasher. The Scooterz was a new direction
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In the mid-1990s Fraska played in several different underground projects such as FOUR! Food Plaza, Jerk, Disgruntled Fish, The Messy Hairs, and Three Frisky Kids...FOUR! became his priority as they got busy and started touring more and more, playing shows with many bands such as
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musically experimenting with and mixing punk, new wave, ska, surf, industrial, and many other different genres. Fraska is working on some new projects as well as re-releasing older out-of-print Red Ear Records releases, including some rare and unreleased recordings.
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Fraska is a multi-instrumentalist who plays drums, keyboards, bass, and guitar. In 1991, when he was 16, Fraska founded his first official band,
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FOUR! ended in 1997 and Fraska started The Smiley Kids. After some touring the band recorded their first album,
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The Smiley Kids’s Biography – Discover music, concerts, stats, & pictures at
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/George-Fraska-Hosni/132437370154920?sk=info
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At West Lake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, CA
Monrovia
Liberia
El Paso
Texas
Punk rock
new wave
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