Dave the OAP
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So sad
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[Music] RIP Lee Perry
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Same here.
Funnily enough, I was talking about the Essential Music Festival just yesterday. That was a fantastic event, shame it ended.
Tom Bombadil
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Farewell you mad genius. How did you make it this far?
Ghost of Killer Reeves
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Dreadlocks in Moonlight
Ooh it’s a corner
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This is pure class.
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry RIP
Tony Towner's Fridge
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Loved his music and thought still frequently use his Worcestershire Sauce in my cooking.
TNBA
TTF
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WildWood
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If there was one person on this planet that was going to live forever, it would’ve been Rainford Hugh Perry (AKA Pipecock Jackson!)
I know it’s easy to say these things when someone passes away, but put simply - no Lee Perry = no reggae. Well, certainly not as we know it anyway.
Although his singles & albums dominate my collection, I never went to see him in person. Mainly because of what friends had told me about how hit & miss he is nowadays (a friend told me they saw him in a pub in Oxford, just him talking nonsense over a backing tape) but I always knew I’d regret not seeing him because there would come a time when he wouldn’t be around.
One of my favourite £$P stories is at one point he got so fed up with rastas following him around everywhere, he painted “I am a batty-man” all over his own car to get rid of them!!
Another one is that my mate was supporting him at Concorde2 one year. He was really nervous about meeting Lee Perry & didn’t know what to say to him. Just before he went on, it was just the two of them sat backstage, so my mate plucked up the courage to say something to him. As he looked up to start talking, Lee Perry had set alight to his own shoe!!
I will certainly be spinning a tune or two for The Upsetter this evening.
I know it’s easy to say these things when someone passes away, but put simply - no Lee Perry = no reggae. Well, certainly not as we know it anyway.
Although his singles & albums dominate my collection, I never went to see him in person. Mainly because of what friends had told me about how hit & miss he is nowadays (a friend told me they saw him in a pub in Oxford, just him talking nonsense over a backing tape) but I always knew I’d regret not seeing him because there would come a time when he wouldn’t be around.
One of my favourite £$P stories is at one point he got so fed up with rastas following him around everywhere, he painted “I am a batty-man” all over his own car to get rid of them!!
Another one is that my mate was supporting him at Concorde2 one year. He was really nervous about meeting Lee Perry & didn’t know what to say to him. Just before he went on, it was just the two of them sat backstage, so my mate plucked up the courage to say something to him. As he looked up to start talking, Lee Perry had set alight to his own shoe!!
I will certainly be spinning a tune or two for The Upsetter this evening.
SeagullDubai
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