u/Beautiful-Resort-831

Okay, what I'm about to say was more of a dream or something weird I imagined, but the idea is like, imagine a ska orchestra band. Okay, there's nothing weird about that. The thing is, they would literally play typical orchestral songs, you know, classical music and stuff, but with a ska twist. I've seen some bands out there do ska versions of classical songs, and I feel like putting an orchestra band to do it could be really interesting.

Technically, with a PC you can do it all yourself, or even with a power trio you could do sublime-style ska, but I feel that the minimum for a live band would be a voice and guitar, a drum kit, a bass, a keyboard and two horns. You could also do two guitars and one horn, but I prefer two horns.

República Fortuna would be the most mainstream ska band in my country, and I'd say they're good at combining that, and their drummer gives me lessons.

https://youtu.be/-PNJ2\_7nqEA?si=nLY0cyuVPnfZT90D

I'd love to see any of the still-active third-wave bands play with the Skatalites; it would be interesting to see that connection between the first and third waves.

His albums, from the second one to Money pa qué and Ecolecua, are really good.

https://youtu.be/gqicGqp\_EsE?si=T\_-p-buyo2kQeVM\_

Not exactly ska, but I feel like Los Pericos is kind of sad; it's not exactly bad, but after the change of vocalist, their music is very, I don't know, different.

This is more of a curious fact, but Mexico had a surf wave relatively close to the Mexican ska wave back then; artists from both genres often shared the stage.