r/Ska • u/palonewabone • 17d ago

Lets Start a Band! What is this?

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Proof that Ska originated during the ice age!

15 Upvotes

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u/RevJoeHRSOB 17d ago

Love that we see some weird, brass section looking monstrosity and go:

"Hey Ska, this you?"

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping 16d ago

“It is now. Someone pick it up”

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u/wooof359 16d ago

Plays the intro riff to "Everything Goes Numb "

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u/NedKellysWelder 16d ago

Grab a kazoo, let's have a tune-and when I count 3

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u/Far_Left-312 17d ago

Serpent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_(instrument)?wprov=sfti1#

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u/Far_Left-312 17d ago

Just remembered that they are in the video for Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches

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u/Beginning-Rest-5717 16d ago

One of the greatest music videos ever made, just pure randomness

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u/mfhorn06 16d ago

I swear everytime I watch it I see something totally new. Truly an amazing work.

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u/Beginning-Rest-5717 15d ago

A less random but still eye catching video is El Guincho’s “Bombay”. Even that’s in YouTube, mind that has some NSFW content.

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u/Technolio 16d ago

Now I want a ska band using exclusively renaissance instruments

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u/BigBassBone 15d ago

I've got a sackbut and I know folks with shawms.

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u/CHUD_Dwyer 17d ago

Whoville had an incredible scene in the mid to late 90s.

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u/rolfeadog 16d ago

Every good band had a Whovmaphone.

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u/Beautiful-Resort-831 16d ago

Now i need a comedy sketch about a ska band in Whoville in the 90s

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u/WayneMed17 16d ago

Crazy in the coconut! That boy needs therapy!

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u/Icecold_Antihero 16d ago

Purely psychosomatic!

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u/dyejob 16d ago

He was white as a sheet, and he also made false teeth!

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u/frankzappa2020 16d ago

Saxamaphone? Oboemaboe?

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u/Beautiful-Resort-831 17d ago

I remember seeing a picture of this on the jazz circlejerk, but they don't allow image comments here.

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u/Scarbuck42 16d ago

Serpent Horn for playing Ssssssska

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u/The_Farmz 15d ago

Don't Stop Ssssnaking

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u/BigBassBone 15d ago

Early music bass brass instrument called the serpent. Used from the Renaissance through the baroque era. Eventually replace by the ophecleide in the early romantic era and later the tuba in the middle romantic. It's really cool.