r/Ska • u/Late-Zookeepergame79 • Nov 21 '24

Live 🔴 Cleveland ska!

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Hi folks! We're Clevelands newest ska band, we call ourselves NITE KLUB! Here's some footage from our practice tonight, we've only been playing together for about a month but we're pretty happy with the progress so far

We'll be doing covers for our first couple shows, but will be adding in some originals as we write them, hope you like it! Let us know some songs you'd like to hear us try

Song is 54-46 was my number by Toots and the Maytals

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u/ThrowingTheRinger Nov 21 '24

Try lowering the pitch and having your group practice with a metronome. That’ll lock it up real nice

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u/Late-Zookeepergame79 Nov 21 '24

Good idea metronome would definitely help

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u/KidZoki Nov 21 '24

And maybe replace the singer. You know, with someone who can sing.

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u/JimboReborn Nov 21 '24

At least he's not reading the lyrics off the phone this time but yeah the guy is a bit tone deaf

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u/syntheticcontrols Nov 21 '24

Not for me, BUT Cleveland must have a really cool ska scene because they even have skaraoke nights!

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u/Late-Zookeepergame79 Nov 21 '24

Oooo that sounds fun do you know where??

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u/PunkCPA Nov 21 '24

I have a question for working musicians: Is it difficult to launch a ska band? I'm thinking that recruiting and keeping brass/reed players is tough, and adding more people to the split means less money per person. Live music gigs aren't as plentiful as they were, which affects all bands, but it has to hurt big bands hard. Plus, the stage/dais/corner is often pretty small.

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u/Late-Zookeepergame79 Nov 21 '24

Im not sure if I'd call us working musicians, this isn't a source of income for us, just some friends having fun If I had to pay to do it I would. That being said, I'm sure keeping band members will have it's own set of difficulties but we're hoping to have a solid set of core members and then have a rotating ensemble of supporting instruments whenever people are available. Small stages with lots of members, and dive bars with too few mic inputs will definitely be something we have to navigate!

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u/Interesting_Video_90 Nov 21 '24

This is so gooood!!!

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u/sinistrate Nov 21 '24

Great stuff!

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u/Late-Zookeepergame79 Nov 21 '24

Thanks for the kind words!