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Post by gryffe on Jun 29, 2011 17:09:55 GMT
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Post by edwardgeorge on Jun 30, 2011 0:36:38 GMT
why. what's he done?
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Post by gryffe on Jun 30, 2011 10:23:51 GMT
is he the real deal?
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Post by I on Jun 30, 2011 11:32:34 GMT
He's a bloke who's been doing what he is still doing for more than 35 years. That's a pretty long sentence by anyone's standards to me. I reckon he's the real deal if anyone is!
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Post by gryffe on Jun 30, 2011 14:34:18 GMT
looks to me like you are damning him with faint praise, maybe i'm reading you wrong.
(if there was such a thing as a moderator around these parts they would move this to the jamaican music section. but as has become apparent over the last while....)
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Post by edwardgeorge on Jul 1, 2011 20:05:14 GMT
is rodigan the real deal?
it does seem a bit late in the day to be asking that sort of question.
rodigan's integrity is intact - if that's the sort of thing you want to question.
if in doubt, check the rep as a broadcaster & a clash dj.
if that's not enough, follow the love he gets in j.a, it isn't too hard to track; this is all history book stuff now - although the book has yet to be written.
he's tim westwood's dad, his detractors might say - he's a white guy repping at a high level for a music which you wouldn't think would be short of more indigenous reps, this being england.
i'm sure there's someone with something to say about the ins and outs of that - that's history book stuff, too - why him, how him, and not [insert appropriate name(s) here]; another book yet to be written.
but love is love, iamneillennon, and the fact, if not the story of it, is that rodigan loves reggae and reggae loves him right back, though mind you, that's a story [about music, race, class, location and, probably, love] that could use a little history writing too.
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Post by gryffe on Jul 1, 2011 21:50:54 GMT
he's tim westwoods dad? seriously? can't take westwood seriously with that fake accent  knows his stuff mind you i have a few rodigan comps, pretty run of the mill dub stuff to be honest that i bought years ago. of course i know of him, i just saw something on the trojan website about it being his birthday so i just thought i would ask what everybodys thoughts on him were. as expected, the response was overwhelming  |
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Post by I on Jul 2, 2011 9:34:55 GMT
I suppose most people ignored your question because it was put in such an offensive way, as though to court controversy. Edward George and myself have answered your question yet still you gripe. What did you want? The sort of racist outburst that was printed as a broadsheet 20 years ago and is in my possession, stating that Roddy was exploiting black music for his own private wealth? The additional slur was that he had even married a black woman to further his career.
As a champion of Jamaican music he is without peer. His tastes in reggae are not my own, yet his championing of modern Jamaican music has won him many friends in the black community and that itself is both rare and admirable.
You didn't really expect anyone to bite your bait did you, Sean Ono Lennon? As you frequently point out, nobody is much interested in anything on this forum anymore.
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Post by gryffe on Jul 2, 2011 10:57:42 GMT
dear unobserver, please dont judge others as you judge yourself. thank you. this is one of the albums that i have. i guess its the kind of thing you might give to a friend to try and convert them to dub.  |
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Post by edwardgeorge on Jul 2, 2011 11:08:50 GMT
your question: 'yay or nay?'
a reasonable answer: 'his championing of modern Jamaican music has won him many friends in the black community and that itself is both rare and admirable.'
you're not wrong about the album, and i think you've summed up a part of the reason rodigan is held in high regard by both sides of the reggae fraternity, those who make the music and those who consume it.
can we put this one to rest now?
edward george
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Post by snoopy on Jul 6, 2011 14:01:17 GMT
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Post by finbar on Jul 6, 2011 20:08:50 GMT
He's a very sincere fellow who is extremely compotent at what he does. I thought that both Edward George and Penny both summed it up very nicely in their posts, and for me, this line says it all:
"As a champion of Jamaican music he is without peer".
What do you think of him?
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Post by Mr Swing Easy on Jul 6, 2011 20:33:42 GMT
just opened this thread, jumped straight to the audio & thought the 'is he the real deal ?' question above refered to gilles petersen, clearly not on the basis of his opening 15 minutes. can't wait for the clash later.
is roddy the real deal ? you bet. you should get the rest of those selector's choice gryffe they are all bang on. anyone who knows me musically knows i love rodigan to the bone, initially from the radio on BFBS tapes we got hold of and the capitals. after finally seeing him in the flesh for the first time in 2001 i have made up for lost time over the last ten years - raving to him well over 100 times across london, birmingham and, with dubindub of this parish, new york. some of my favourite memories are of the off-centre nights - no more than 20 of us in the battersea bar with roddy ripping up 007 , liquidator & israelites on the best pub set in town ; a really wild and windy night at brixton mass with barely a coating of people round the cavernous wall ; an impromptu clash at the end of a community centre dance with saxon in harlesden (roddy won) ; piling out of the tudor rose on a hot july morning to the strains of 'my baby just cares for me' ...
a selector who only ever plays for the crowd & wants to entertain and impart his love for the music. he's also the hardest working bloke i've come across in music. T.
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Post by consciouspilot on Jul 6, 2011 21:25:07 GMT
Lennon, Just for the record, Tim Westwood's dad was the Bishop of Peterborough until the late 90s. Peterborough is like LA, but with roundabouts.
Rodigan has four children, called Dubplate, Clash, Bashment and his youngest with the strange moniker of "Nowlisseneremassive".
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Post by Mr Swing Easy on Jul 7, 2011 17:56:42 GMT
... actually two sons called jamie and oliver, i've chatted with both and fine young men they are too. jamie is a prominent dubstep selector but i forget his dj name. just getting to the end of the recording tonight, a brilliant session gilles p does a great job and roddy, obviously loving the platform, is in sparkling form. his depth of knowledge, range of experiences and articulacy is compulsive listening. decent music too, the tenor saw cut live from the brooklyn empire session with barry was seriously hot. T.
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Post by I on Jul 7, 2011 17:59:31 GMT
Well, Rod's son Jamie Oliver has done alright for himself as a chef! However, he's not prematurely balding like his dad.
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Post by consciouspilot on Jul 7, 2011 19:05:04 GMT
Enjoyed the Roddy session Toby, but when he says he's mystified how many people could know Jimmy Cliff's 'You could get it', he's playing to the gallery: that tune has been on more ads than 007!
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Post by Mr Swing Easy on Jul 8, 2011 10:54:50 GMT
. .. a'true, but i am amazed at how savvy the i-pod generation is about all forms of music. they have instant access to all genres and eras in a way we never had and are far more taste eclectic than i ever was at that age. roddy could have substituted that bestival example with others from , say, shows in milan or naples where they knew every word to every delroy wilson he played ! i thought roddy's exposition on the rastafari origins of reggae was the best bit. not an obvious answer to 'what is the history of reggae' but a powerful and carefully constructed one. T.
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Post by steverice on Aug 31, 2011 6:21:34 GMT
Well, Rod's son Jamie Oliver has done alright for himself as a chef! However, he's not prematurely balding like his dad. Observer Everybody balding |
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Post by Mr Swing Easy on Aug 31, 2011 6:57:44 GMT
... balding for love. T.
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knows his stuff mind you
