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I have placed about four adds looking for a guitar play in the orange county area (CA) to join our Ska band and can't find a one!!!

Would you be interested? PLEASE let me know, everyone else is ready to go and we are meeting this sunday... We have vox, bass, drums, keys, sax, trumpet, trombone... need guitar!!!

can take different marketing strategies. Placing a few ads may not be enough. Try telling everybody you know or meet that you are looking for a guitarist. Make sure every other member of your band is doing the same thing. There's a lot of people who know guitar players. Contact all the nearby music stores and get to know the guitar instructors. Tell them the kind of music you are playing. The instructors may have a star pupil who may be perfect for your band. The instructors themselves may be interested as well. Each one of your band members should go and check out as many different bands as possible and listen to their guitarists. Between sets strike up a conversation with those guitarists who may be interested in your band. You might be surprised how many guitarists are not happy with their current bands or have time to play in another band. Also, those guiarists may know other guitarists that might be interested. Place very inespensive ads in your local classified newspapers (American Classifieds, Thrifty Nickel, etc.). Place the ad in the miscellaneous category, you'll see ads there selling anything and everything. Thousands of people read those newspapers cover to cover every week. You'll get a guitar player or two to respond, and they may know a guitar player. Contact musicians in your area on Bandmix who are NOT guitarists and tell them you need a guitarist, some of them may know one and would be glad to help out. Good luck...

Tell me about the difficulties and factors in finding band members [
1. Time to commit to a band.
2. Personality.
3. Creativty.
4. Level of commitment.
5. Sustance abuse issues.
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There was already a thread on this, and we all came up with about 25 things that stop bands cold.
Look around for it - you may have to go back a few pages . . . .

Yeah #2 was the use of SKA. lol

Scotty,
"No Doubt" you have visited planets where you were subjected to substandard variants of ska.This could account for your apparant distaste of the form.

Jazz Pipes,
It seems you already have a promising line up for the band.Good luck.

P.S......love those tu-tone shoes!

at the end goes , "One whiskey, One scotch and One beeer". lol

Seeing this topic is like passing a statute downtown that someone painted a fake nose and eyeglasses on. You see it every time you cruise by, and you still laugh at it.

Jazz-Pipes,

I like all types of music and I like a challenge. However a ska band, not my brand of vodka. I will admit I probably couldn't play it well.

I think that may be part of the problem. First finding some one to play ska and then finding some one who can actually play it well.

What to hell is ska?

I thought it was just skateboard punk rock.

But what is it? What are some groups so I can check it out.

Ska is where they do the Shla da be be boo bop bop Shloo bop bop and I am being serious.

The best example I can provide is from the movie the Blues Brothers when they are doing Minnie the Moocher.

Again this is a genre I know slightly more then nothing about.

I do believe Bryan Setzer does some ska as well. I thinks it's a big band jazz kind of thing.

LOL. You guys.

Ska came from Britain in the 80s. It mixed punk and reggae, basically. One of the quintessential Ska bands was again from the UK, and they were called "Madness". You may have heard some of their stuff on radio back in the day - like "Night in Cairo", "Our House", "Welcome to the House of Fun" and others.

Ah!!! When you said "Our House," Irminsul, it hit me who they were. Bleh... That song haunted me for many years when I was young, always heard it for some reason. Never again!

Lmao. Alright, so that is considered Ska, that is a strange genre.

Yeah it is. I was into that stuff briefly, when I was about your age. The checkered shoes, fedora hat, the whole thing. It was fun to dance to back then, but the thrill wore off quickly for me.

Yeah it is. I was into that stuff briefly, when I was about your age. The checkered shoes, fedora hat, the whole thing. It was fun to dance to back then, but the thrill wore off quickly for me.

Yeah, I was more into the whole suit look when I was younger, I still like it now, but I am more prone to dressing goth or just in trend. Those times were strange in the 80's. I liked Duran Duran, I liked the song "Man Eater" by Hall and Oates (I had to look that one up, did not know who sang it), and I like the song "Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring. I was more into that music when I was much younger, like 12 maybe earlier. I did not get into rock till about 14-15. Then I really started going metal about mid-last year.

It is so funny when someone can listen to the heaviest music or even the lightest, and then go to the other extreme. One minute it is Metallica, the next it is Duran Duran. By the way, best song by Duran Duran was "Ordinary World."

Peace out, GuitarAnatomy.