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04-13-06 | 02:05 PM

#176

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Originally Posted by ieatrats

I don't even like reggae, though I do like the old ska and rocksteady.

I just like pictures of King Stitt.

Is that a pic with Chad Kasem? (on the right)

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04-13-06 | 02:06 PM

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sashae

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I have nothing historical to add, but Lee 'Scratch' Perry is THE F'IN MAN.

Proper.

04-13-06 | 02:11 PM

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jim-bob

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Originally Posted by sashae

I have nothing historical to add, but Lee 'Scratch' Perry is THE F'IN MAN.

Proper.

"It was only four tracks on the machine, but I was picking up twenty from the extra terrestrial squad."

04-13-06 | 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by s_9

I think it might be urban legend that it was really hot one summer...Too damn hot to dance to ska music, so they slowed it down & it became Rocksteady, then eventually Reggae.

thats what i heard--it was like a summer of 4 weeks straight plus 100 or some crazxy thing and people were too tired to skank

04-13-06 | 04:03 PM

#180

ZachS

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Originally Posted by mattsimbols

where's desmond dekker at in all this?

he's left out of the history books almost completely - but a couple of them have stories about an "unnamed famous singer" who set up toots hibbert and got him sent to jail for a year for ganja possession so that he would be unable to tour the UK, and another "unnamed singer" who robs stores in the uk at gunpoint while he's there.

i honestly don't know whether there's a connection between these stories and the fact that he is mostly ignored despite his importance as an artist, but it seems pretty suspicious to me.