TangerineToffee
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Try telling Jagger and Richards that lol
Yeah Jordan definitely a well used session man.
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Yeah Jordan definitely a well used session man.
4737carlin
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RIP Lee Scratch Perry, total legend, seen him a couple of times, last time he was still smoking gamga on stage
Just seen this elsewhere. Absolutely gutted. One of my all time favourites.RIP Lee Scratch Perry, total legend, seen him a couple of times, last time he was still smoking gamga on stage
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RIP Lee Scratch Perry, total legend, seen him a couple of times, last time he was still smoking gamga on stage
he had a fabulous innings.
this was my introduction to his work, still one of my favourite cd's:
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I think my neighbours will be hearing even more Lee Perry after today’s sad news. I have listened to him for over 50 years,a musical innovator,amazing producer and a genius(if slightly flawed?). RIP.
Pretty mad one even by his standards. Think it's a diss of Niney the Observer but who knows lol
If you can get past the heart wrenching first five minutes.
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nice reader anecdote on the guardian about him:
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i had the honour of working with Scratch for nine months in 1984. He had released the "History Mystery and Prophecy" album and had come to the UK to promote it.
I organised some live shows for him, Dingwalls and the London Lyceum and some up North including an appearance on The Tube.
I was in a daze throughout this experience as he had been my hero for the best part of a decade at that stage.
I always told people he was the 20th century Mozart.
Some of the productions he created, given the very limited range of the equipment he was using in Jamaica at the time, was astonishing. Those recordings have never dated.
Before that tour started he asked me what songs I thought he should perform. I suggested "People Funny Boy", a revolutionary recording he made that involved him taping the sound of a baby crying, that he then looped and slowed down to create a rhythm that was to become one of the corner stones of the reggae rhythm. Its a great song, "when you were down and out, I used to help you out".
Scratch frowned and shrugged, he couldn't remember the song. Imagine that. Its the equivalent of Dylan writing "Blowing in the Wind" and then forgetting that he wrote it.
I had the record, so I taped it for him then I got him a Sony Walkman and gave it to him. He went around London for a few weeks re-learning his song and he then worked up a version that he used in his live set. I am very proud I did that.
I lived in a flat in Kensal Rise at the time and sometimes after rehearsals, I'd drive Scratch to his favourite Jamaican soul food restaurant in Harrow Road, then we'd take our favourite dish back to mine, rice and peas, ackee and salt fish, all the good stuff he sang about in the song. My daughter was two years old at the time and she adored Scratch. He'd make her laugh. He'd chase her round our front room shouting, "woo woo. I am a train. I am a choo choo train". We all used to roll about laughing, those were happy special times.
People used to ask me how I coped with him, he had a reputation for being mad, having been rumoured to have burned down his studio Black Ark a few years earlier. He did smoke a lot of weed and also drank something called Thunderbird, which was a cheap fortified wine, but rough. None of this bothered me, I told people he was a [Poor language removed] cat.
Tonight I am very saddened by this news. He was the greatest record producer of all time and will probably never be matched. There are so many wonderful records to remember him by, that is one good thing, the legacy remains.
RIP Rainford Hugh Perry I am humbled to think I knew you.
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i had the honour of working with Scratch for nine months in 1984. He had released the "History Mystery and Prophecy" album and had come to the UK to promote it.
I organised some live shows for him, Dingwalls and the London Lyceum and some up North including an appearance on The Tube.
I was in a daze throughout this experience as he had been my hero for the best part of a decade at that stage.
I always told people he was the 20th century Mozart.
Some of the productions he created, given the very limited range of the equipment he was using in Jamaica at the time, was astonishing. Those recordings have never dated.
Before that tour started he asked me what songs I thought he should perform. I suggested "People Funny Boy", a revolutionary recording he made that involved him taping the sound of a baby crying, that he then looped and slowed down to create a rhythm that was to become one of the corner stones of the reggae rhythm. Its a great song, "when you were down and out, I used to help you out".
Scratch frowned and shrugged, he couldn't remember the song. Imagine that. Its the equivalent of Dylan writing "Blowing in the Wind" and then forgetting that he wrote it.
I had the record, so I taped it for him then I got him a Sony Walkman and gave it to him. He went around London for a few weeks re-learning his song and he then worked up a version that he used in his live set. I am very proud I did that.
I lived in a flat in Kensal Rise at the time and sometimes after rehearsals, I'd drive Scratch to his favourite Jamaican soul food restaurant in Harrow Road, then we'd take our favourite dish back to mine, rice and peas, ackee and salt fish, all the good stuff he sang about in the song. My daughter was two years old at the time and she adored Scratch. He'd make her laugh. He'd chase her round our front room shouting, "woo woo. I am a train. I am a choo choo train". We all used to roll about laughing, those were happy special times.
People used to ask me how I coped with him, he had a reputation for being mad, having been rumoured to have burned down his studio Black Ark a few years earlier. He did smoke a lot of weed and also drank something called Thunderbird, which was a cheap fortified wine, but rough. None of this bothered me, I told people he was a [Poor language removed] cat.
Tonight I am very saddened by this news. He was the greatest record producer of all time and will probably never be matched. There are so many wonderful records to remember him by, that is one good thing, the legacy remains.
RIP Rainford Hugh Perry I am humbled to think I knew you.
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RIP Lee Scratch Perry.
Saw him in Brum about 15 years ago on one of the craziest gigs I've ever been to.
Met him very briefly backstage (Or rather my mate had a bizarre exchange with him lol ) bit of a crazy story really. Turns out he was as mental as all the stories said he was.
Massive loss to the world of music.
Saw him in Brum about 15 years ago on one of the craziest gigs I've ever been to.
Met him very briefly backstage (Or rather my mate had a bizarre exchange with him lol ) bit of a crazy story really. Turns out he was as mental as all the stories said he was.
Massive loss to the world of music.
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