Forum - Band Forum - I want to start a ska band

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Mad City Sax User	Posted: 2005-11-14 07:58 CET
Mad City Sax User	I'm a tenor player, and for the last couple of years I've been wanting to get a band started. Unfortunately, its fairly difficult to get enough people on board to actually form a ska band. Then, if a group of people are actually into the idea, there is the problem of actually getting all of us in the same room at the same time with our instruments. Even on the one occasion where I actually happened to find myself in a basement full of musicians, we had no idea where to go with it. That, and only 3 people showed up to the second practice. The problem for me has mainly been that no one is passionate enough to put forth the time and effort. My question is how I can convinve people to practice, and want to work at it enough so that we wouldn't completely suck. (I've seen underpracticed ska bands, and they're absolute torture to sit through). D.L.T.G.B.Y.D.
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Mad City Sax User	Posted: 2005-11-14 08:00 CET
Mad City Sax User	Actually how I meant to end that post was: D.L.T.B.G.Y.D.
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iocem User	Posted: 2005-11-19 17:17 CET
iocem User	why don't you for first time tell people to all know there share of a song that you will cover? then you practise till it sounds right and maybe if someone can write songs you try to play your own. Just find out how you want the song to be played and then guide the bandmembers how to play it. When you work with horns it's much more difficult than guitar or keyboard if you know what in mean. Anyone, someone musically must lead the band. Otherwise no one know's what to do know what i mean
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Mad City Sax User	Posted: 2005-11-22 07:23 CET
Mad City Sax User	Since my last post, I've managed to persuade a group of people to join me in the nobel endeavor of a ska band. The general consensus is to try our hand at a 2-tone style, starting with a cover of probably either The Specials or Mr. Review. Only problem is that some people may be coming from different artistic directions than others. Ah well, artistic direction doesn't matter when none of us have artistic talent. D.L.T.B.G.Y.D.
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Kevin User	Posted: 2005-11-22 23:04 CET
Kevin User	Thats good that you've found more people. Artistic conflict is fun. I am the band leader as I am the biggest ska kid in the band. Everyone is pretty good except that I get some occasional conflict with the bass player but whatever. I still have the power.
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Peter Bones User	Posted: 2005-11-23 00:23 CET
Peter Bones User	We just decided to start a ska band today. The idea has been going around for like two years though. All of us like ska too. So I hope that's a plus. All we need is a bass player and a trombone player. We plan on playing at our school talent show.
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iocem User	Posted: 2005-12-06 13:45 CET
iocem User	more that enough people play guitar, just aks some sloppy guitar player to play the bass, its no big deal
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Beerfish User	Posted: 2006-05-20 21:05 CET
Beerfish User	Ska bass can be incredibly hard to play, harder to create nice bouncy basslines.
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Faulk User	Posted: 2006-05-21 06:26 CET
Faulk User	I completely agree with Beerfish. Ska bass is insane compared to typical rock or pop. I would definitely go with an experienced bass player for a ska band.
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ollie User	Posted: 2006-05-23 20:13 CET
ollie User	i recently started a ska-punk band. we have a drummer, a bassist, a guitarist/vocalist and me on trumpet and backing vocals. there is a chance that we might be getting a trombone player which would be cool. The band is called JOHNY DONT GET NONE.
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ollie User	Posted: 2006-05-23 20:14 CET
ollie User	forgot to say check us out on : www.myspace.com/johnydontgetnone
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widby User	Posted: 2006-05-23 22:25 CET
widby User	or invest in a bari sax??
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skankin_toaster User	Posted: 2006-05-27 03:22 CET
skankin_toaster User	i might be playing Bari next year in the school's senior band ^_^, i unno, I have a thing with intruments that are big and hard to carry, my trombondes the most portable, and there's like a ton of them, so I dunno I've recently started a ska band myself, a month or so ago. We did our first show last night, although it was more a one song talent show than an actual show, we did a cover of Two Tone Army by the Toasters, but the bass was spazzing out and didnt work, cuz the band before us blew the amp or summin o.O technically difficulties for the lose
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TheBiggMastaC User	Posted: 2006-06-02 02:27 CET
TheBiggMastaC User	[quote="Mad City Sax" (I've seen underpracticed ska bands, and they're absolute torture to sit through). D.L.T.G.B.Y.D. [/quote] Haha, if you want underpracticed, check out my band. http://www.myspace.com/ohthosebottlerockets </shameless plug> I think we manage pretty well for maybe practicing a couple times a month. It's hard. I totally feel you. We have 8 members. If we don't have vox, bass, guit, drums and at least 2 of our horns there, the practice is 100% unproductive. Plan practices way in advance. Also, make them fun. Or else no one will want to go. Our trumpet player used to be the biggest cop out. Then he realized how much fun he has, and that being in a totally killer band gets you laid. Now he can't wait to practice! Best of luck to you, man. It's not easy. Christopher L. Martel I
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Krebs User	Posted: 2006-06-04 16:40 CET
Krebs User	with the guy talking about ska bass, i so completely agree. what we are going to do is have our awesome guitar player play bass on our ska songs and just someone else play the guitar and we'll keep it simple
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jesus User	Posted: 2006-06-08 13:21 CET
jesus User	ollie wrote: i recently started a ska-punk band. we have a drummer, a bassist, a guitarist/vocalist and me on trumpet and backing vocals. there is a chance that we might be getting a trombone player which would be cool. The band is called JOHNY DONT GET NONE. ya i no i hate when people just get a gay bass player u need a good bass, it make the band good ( bass solos are sweet to)
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RCT2head User	Posted: 2006-06-16 04:04 CET
RCT2head User	yeah... hey, check out the band i joined the other week ago http://www.myspace.com/thecouchjumpers We're called The Couch Jumpers... for right now the song The Godfather that's up there right now is definitely works in progress... in practice today, we made up a hornline to it that works and sounds pretty good... and as soon as we get a mixer, we'll have a couple finalized recordings up that should actually sound good... well... for a garage ska band... but our bassist, matt, can definitely play... he has a lil trouble with walkin bass, but otherwise that, he's a beast!
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Trumpet:	1232
Trombone:	338
Alto Sax:	238
Tenor Sax:	124
Baritone Sax:	18
Other horns:	7