2003 The Songs of Lee Scratch Perry and Bob Marley
01 Ranking Roger - Small Axe - Royal Festival Hall 2003
02 Ranking Roger - Duppy Conqueror - Royal Festival Hall 2003
03 Ranking Roger - Sun Is Shining - Royal Festival Hall 2003
04 Cleveland Watkiss - Crazy Baldhead - Royal Festival Hall 2003
05 Cleveland Watkiss - Trenchtown Rock - Royal Festival Hall 2003
06 Michael Rose - Kaya - Royal Festival Hall 2003
07 Michael Rose - Soul Rebel - Royal Festival Hall 2003
08 Michael Rose - Natural Mystic Get Up, Stand Up - Royal Festival Hall 2003
09 Aisha - Dreamland - Royal Festival Hall 2003
10 Brinsley Forde And Aisha - Keep On Moving - Royal Festival Hall 2003
11 Brinsley Forde And Aisha - Lively Up Yourself - Royal Festival Hall 2003
and, speaking of the beloved dead: 30 years ago serge gainsbourg died
yep ... the one with "je t'aime ... mois non plus" /sigh
ever listened to "l'histoire de melodie nelson"? experiencing these wonderful 30 minutes you'll understand, "je t'aime" is beautiful, but .... hmmm ... he made better stuff and "melodie" to me is on top of that
serge gainsbourg, that's ths little jew with a mighty nose who first had brigitte bardot and then jane birkin in bed.
he's also the one who covered the french national anthem, "marseillaise" with sly & robbie as roots reggae ...
Following harsh and anti-semitic criticism in right-wing newspaper Le Figaro by Charles de Gaulle biographer Michel Droit, his song earned him death threats from right-wing veteran soldiers of the Algerian War of Independence, who were opposed to their national anthem being arranged in reggae style. In 1979, a show had to be cancelled, because an angry mob of French Army parachutists came to demonstrate in the audience. Alone onstage, Gainsbourg raised his fist and answered: "The true meaning of our national anthem is revolutionary" and sang ita capellawith the audience. The soldiers joined them, a scene enjoyed by millions as French TV news broadcast it, creating more publicity
this is a scene that always touched me deep inside and drives me to tears everytime i recall it. while the rest of the musicians hides backstage, this little jew with his big nose hit the stage, alone with his guitar and makes the haters in the audience singing with him the "marseillaise"
When I first met with "Snoid Studios" in the midth 70ies our friendship was founded on a common passion for Max Romeo & The Upsetter "War ina Babylon". He was then deeply into Reggae, had a big collection of LPs and singles he had purchased in Zürich, where a good Reggae Store was placed.
At that time I was engaged in taping everything that could be found in my friends' record collections and so this funny wall of tapes arised from that - including a Reggae part I'm just busy ripping by now. I'm on R 19 (of 36)
Gil Bailey (January 1936 – 13 April 2020) was a pioneering Caribbean radio broadcaster, known as the “Godfather of Caribbean Radio” or "Godfather of Reggae Radio" Bailey died on 13 April 2020 from COVID-19
Career
Bailey was born in the Airy Castle village in Jamaica's St. Thomas Parish in 1936. In 1957, at the age of 21, he moved to London, where he gained employment as MC at Count Suckle's Cue Club. In 1967 Bailey relocated to New York where he married Pat Bailey.[1] Pat and Gil started broadcasting in 1969,[2] leasing time on WHBI in Newark.
From The Archives: A Gil Bailey Show 1982 (TapeRip)
Long story short: almost 20 years ago i realized a dreadlocked friend of my eldest daughter didn't really knew about Reggae-Culture - so I've burned a series of CDs for him with kind of "my understanding" of what Reggae means to me, musically.. So this doesn't yells out loud "This is Reggae", it's more of what I've learned to love since I've heard my first reggae album (it was "War ina Babylon" by Max Romeo, played by an old hippie in the south of France late 70ies). Turned out that a guy (aka "Snoid Studios") also loved reggae and could provide a wide collection of ie. singles and rare LPs.
The rest is history, we became friends for now over 40 years amd Reggae always took his place all over these years for us. Soon it turned out Reggae being a major influence in what was heard in the early 80ies in the so called Hinterwald scene, everyoine had LPs in his collection. I was in heaven as the guy who visits you and takes your LPs with him to make a tape of them ;)
My tape collection mid 80ies
So I felt being a bit "sophisticated"enough tp give Bennie (aka JAH Beany) an impression. Of what I love. Early live Bob Marley, Lee Perry, Sly & Robbie, Sata & Roots.He liked it and maybe you'll enjoy it as well ...
The Major has some strange habits. Like recording Gideon Coe and Marc Reilley on BBC as WAV, cutting all the live stuff, coding the tracks to .FLAC and .MP3 and storing them well sorted in his archives at the "Hermetic Garage". A very strange habit, yep, but there has always to be the one crazy guy doing this strange work so you can profit from it in downloading the results here.
As the Major loves Reggae Music since a mystic moment in the year 1975 at the town, where Nostradamus once lived (Salon de Provence in the South of France, where as we know "all the ladies love to dance") when an old french hippieplayed this "War ina Babylon" longplayer while juggling virtual crepes ... so lets start with a nice collection of roots music from the Beep
‘Roots, Rock, Reggae’ ‘War/No More Trouble’ ‘Get Up, Stand Up’ ‘Top Rankin’’ ‘We And Dem’ ‘Rastaman Vibration’ ‘Coming In From The Cold’ ‘One Love’ ‘Exodus’ ‘Redemption Song’ ‘Small Axe’ ‘Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)’
------------- No one can see the tears rolling over my face while he did that.
When Aswad played the Rockpalast recording at the Studio-B of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk nowbody expected them to become pop stars in the future, yet. At this time they still were part of the London punky reggae party, which Lee Perry initialized with a Bob Marley song, on which the 18 year old Drummie Zeb did the drumming. Aswad, as well as Steel Pulse and Matumbi, joined the coalition of British underdogs against the upcoming Thatcherism and played together with punk bands in the line-up of the Rock Against Racism campaign in universities, youth centers and clubs throughout the island. The Rockpalast concert shows the Band in an early stage, as they only already released two of their about 30 albums: influenced by punk, raw and untamed, years before they rose to be one of the most important reggae bands from Great Britain next to Steel Pulse (source)
