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Post by gd on Feb 13, 2006 9:02:14 GMT
Or rather "Lloyd Coxone question".
Namely, I saw this LP [ftp]http://www.roots-archives.com/release/3882[/ftp] in a shop yesterday and liner credits say something like "album recorded at Lloyd Coxone studios, Kingston, Jamaica". Could this be a typo? Am I correct if I assume that the LP is recorded at Coxsone Dodd. i.e. Studio One? Is that LP any good?
So many questions for a first post around here.
PS Thanks for the invitation, boss
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Post by bmd on Feb 13, 2006 9:18:58 GMT
Not one I'd see,...
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Post by jayb on Feb 13, 2006 10:26:14 GMT
Lloyd Coxsone is of course a UK producer (most famous for his king of dub rock LP's) and immortalised by I Roy on his Coxsone Affair outing for Gussie - I dont think this was recorded at Studio One but suspect that Lloyd produced / financed the session at some JA studio or other.......perhaps if Penny Reel is around somewhere he could clear this up.....
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Post by ekki on Feb 13, 2006 11:33:32 GMT
As far as I know, Ras Michael only recorded one song for Studio One - the fantastic "Good People".
Don't know that "Tribute..." album, the song "Keep cool Babylon" is a nice track, but not in the same league as "Good people".
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Post by jackjohnson on Feb 13, 2006 13:29:39 GMT
that LP has 2 seriously wicked cuts to the same binghi rhythm "Tena in Love" and "Jazzbo Abubaku at large" horns and drums cuts - all time killers!! no connection to studio one whatsoever, not sure which studio though..
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Post by I on Feb 13, 2006 13:42:52 GMT
This album was produced by one of the dodgiest guys I've met in reggae, who called himself Jazzbo Abubaka, nothing to do with Prince Jazzbo. It was released circa 1975 and is a typical Ras Michael album of the time, with favourite Rasta hymns like Gabrail-A-Alma, Peace And Love, Keep Cool Babylon (You Don't Know What You're Doing). Jazzbo surfaced at the time of this albim's release; I met him at Trojan once or twice and then as suddenly he disappeared, never to be heard from again.
He had the tapes of this album, claimed he'd produced it but was not a Rasta nor a music business person. I can't be sure but I think he possibly stole the tapes in Kingston and brought them over here to sell. Then - as now - Trojan accepted them without a word and put the album out. I don't think there was any Coxsone connection, Lloydie or Dodd. The album sounds to me like it was recorded at Dynamic. The people who ran Trojan when this was issued had only procured the label a couple of months previously and knew nothing of reggae; like man people of the time, they thought Lloydie and Clement were one and the same man. Ras Michael alteady had two LPS out on Trojan: 'Dadawah' and 'Nyahbinghi', as well as a very popular set on Vulcan called 'Rastafari' and was pretty popular back then. He'd also not yet come to Britain then so might not have known of this LP's release.
I may be branding Jazzboe Abubaka unfairly. He was a Jamaican businessman and may well have ben hired by Michael to sell his product here. I don't know though, I just didn't trust him.
AS Ekki says, Michael made only one single for Coxsone a year or two later. Whatever, I used to love this album before someone stole it from my flat.
Penny Reel
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Post by gd on Feb 13, 2006 13:52:26 GMT
Thank you for your always informative answer Penny (and thanks to other people as well)
I might be able to get you a copy of the LP as a local shop sells it dirt-cheap.
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Post by I on Feb 13, 2006 13:56:59 GMT
I may well be interested, GD.
Reel
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Post by zoki on Feb 13, 2006 14:18:24 GMT
"Whatever, I used to love this album before someone stole it from my flat."
Funnily enough, the same story about that LP here... A friend of mine got that album (he purchased it in Vienna back in times), and lent it to another guy who's never returned it back to him... He claimed that he never borrowed the album. So neither a friend of mine or my parrot have heard that album for years...
GD, if you buy that album, can I get a CDR copy please?
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Post by gd on Feb 13, 2006 14:26:38 GMT
[quote author=zoki board=music7 thread=1139821334 post=1139840304GD, if you buy that album, can I get a CDR copy please?
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Unfortunately not as I do not have the required facilities for that. I am an old miser who still lives in 20th century and improperly use company's computer.
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