Meet Daniel Skeel

We were lucky to catch up with Daniel Skeel recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Daniel, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

Prior to being a Professional Musician, I used to skateboard, as a skateboarder it taught me to do something over and over again until you get it right, once you get it right the feeling you get was amazing. So I’ve taken that through all aspects of my life.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

so I am a Professional Musician with the band Jukebox Revolver, bad love, and Booyah!. so I am the Guitar Player and Vocalist for these bands. Now with these bands, I create the show with helping my bandmates. I book the show with help of my Bass player and my wife and try to put all visual aspects together to create not just an audio terrific show, but a visually terrific show as well.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

The biggest thing about becoming successful in the style of life is to get out of your head and play what people wanna hear. I personally would love to play songs by the killers Pink Floyd. Eric Clapton and other bands like that, but it’s not necessarily what will sell, so one must find a balance of music they like that also appeals to a wide range of audience. I have heard numerous times from much more qualified musicians who are on national touring bands, that if your heart‘s not there, no one will care And every time I’ve gotten too much into the what’s gonna sell to the point where my heart wasn’t there. The band started to fail so it’s finding that balance is one of the biggest things I had to learn. The next biggest skill would be having a strong work ethic. So work ethic being that you go home you spend time learning what you have to do. You sacrifice that time by investing in yourself. I have seen too many times where bands don’t and the music suffers. Everyone can sound great on a good night but how many can sound great on a bad night? You know is that a sign of skill or talent? No, that is a sign of someone that’s done enough hard work and knows their stuff so well then on a bad night most people can’t tell you’re having a bad night and if that’s a strong work ethic that allows you to get to that point the last skill you truly need is determination. You have to be determined to succeed. You have to be determined that above all else you will do whatever everyone says is impossible and that is making living playing music. Very few parents actually believe it’s possible for a few friends thing believe it’s possible very few family will ever believe it’s possible, but it is and it is through perseverance and determination where you sit down and decide this is what I’m gonna do. I don’t care what anyone says any find out ways to do it and if you have enough determination, you will succeed because that determination will go back into the strong work work ethic and it’ll make you start to treat your life is not just art but business.

Is there a particular challenge you are currently facing?

so the biggest obstacle we are overcoming right now is Covid, I know Covid was four years ago, but the world has changed and in the world of music it has changed significantly, so we have to figure out how to navigate this new world, as Jukebox Revolver we were variety band,we played any and every style of music that people would request we played music from the 1920s to today. No added bonus it made us better musicians but for that broad style used to work it no longer fits in today’s world so we learned by making a selection smaller, we can create a niche that seems to be working really well so currently we are rebranding to a new name and a new show called Booyah! And it will be a tribute to the music of 80s 90s and 2000s essentially the MTV years

Contact Info:

• Website: https://Jukeboxrevolver.net