Hot 8 Brass Band - Skeet Skeet

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Hot 8 Brass Band, my favorite New Orleans band (and hence my favorite band?), put up an mp3 clip of the single from their record which FINALLY looks like it's coming out. There's also a few streaming live tunes.

It's weird to finally hear a studio recording of them, but it sounds hot!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah this is ill man. What's brass band music's relationship to Nola rap and bounce music? I mean does it ever cross over? What sections are these groups all from?

― scg, Friday, 10 September 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

It's all up in there together. You'll go into a club or a block party that's playing bounce and hip-hop, then the brass band will roll in for a set and everyone goes nuts, it's all the same.

Most of the brass bands in the city are from the Sixth Ward (see this comp, but Hot 8 and the Lil' Stooges (two of the younger bands, and my favorites right now) are from the 3rd ward, 9th ward, etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

too goofy.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 10 September 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The music or just the vocals?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont know - the tuba/pp crossover just makes me think novelty act.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

pp = pop

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

as a white guy, I've got no idea what "Skeet skeet" means. someone tell me.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 10 September 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess it's been a novelty act for 100 yrs now. I think it's bangin', but I've had that sound in my ear for the last few years.

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― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

skeet

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

damn funky.
i'm a sucker for that second line action.
dig the vocal harmonies too. kinda raw.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Saturday, 11 September 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

I am searching to source some incredible 2nd line footage featuring the Eureka Brass Band. None of the major libraries seem to recognize it...so I'm throwing it out to fans to help with the hunt...

― klthorson, Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:40 (sixteen years ago)

that band is super old, right? when is the footage from, and where did you see it?

― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:43 (sixteen years ago)

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