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Ahh what a sweet shot - Keith lookin just like forever xox

...and he has that New Page smell!

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This is great photo, I've never seen it before. Many thanks for posting it, Rockman!

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to all of the above.

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Bobby Gillespie Presents Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down --- ACE CDCHD 1453



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Lee 'Scratch' Perry's studio destroyed in fire after he leaves candle burning



The studio belonging to dub pioneer Lee 'Scratch' Perry has burned down in a fire after the Jamaican music producer left a candle lit.

"My whole secret laboratory burned out," Perry wrote on Facebook following the fire at his studio in Switzerland.

Perry continued to state that the studio contained his "whole life collections" including musical equipment and stage outfits. "I am so sad and my wife is so mad," he continued.

Perry went on to ask fans to send him "perfect things" that he can wear and use at live shows. He offered guestlist and backstage access in return.





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Oh no Lee Scratch Perry! He's still touring? God bless, at least no one harmed. Still. Complete bummer-- insurance? Anyway, thanks Rockman.

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Reminds me of his original Black Ark studio in Kingston, Jamaica:

More often than not, Perry has claimed that he personally destroyed the Black Ark due to "unclean spirits"

Black Ark Studios

In 1979, following years of increasingly bizarre and erratic behavior, Lee "Scratch" Perry, armed with a magic marker, covered every available surface of the Black Ark with impenetrable writings before allegedly burning it to the ground. This event, with the loss of the studio's unique sound and a hiatus in Perry's extraordinary creative skills, effectively ended an era during which much of Jamaica's most innovative sounds had captured the world of music. However, it has been related by several Perry family members that the studio in fact caught fire in 1983 after an ill-fated attempt to rebuild it, the result of an electrical accident. More often than not, Perry has claimed that he personally destroyed the Black Ark due to "unclean spirits" - an allusion to some of the undesirable people who were constantly at the Black Ark in later years. There are also stories that Perry was being blackmailed by gangsters who wanted a cut of the record profits. Perry himself stated in an interview with clashmusic.com regarding the fire, "Too much stress in Jamaica, all the time. Everybody want money, everybody want paid. Everyone got problem and want me to solve their problem. Nobody gave me anything, people just took everything. Everybody take this, and take that. So the atmosphere in the Black Ark studio was changing; it wasn’t like it used to be. Then I decided to make a sacrifice as the energy wasn’t good anymore." Shortly thereafter, he moved to London and then Switzerland.

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HOT 2CD set to accompany Guralnick's new book of the same name ...

Full of some of the finest recordings to come out of the Sun studios..
Blistering guitar from Willie Johnson on Lonesome Bedroom
and How Many More Years ... Howard Seratt's voice from heaven ...
Plenty of menace from The Killer and The Wolf...Cut throat nioise
from Pat Hare on Cotton Crop...Little Jnr Parker storming pre-rockailly
racket...The white-hot noise of Red Headed Woman AND AND that pinnacle
of The Rockin' Machine's Sun recordings the classic Mystery Train . -- MIGHTY STUFF....



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I don't know where to post this, so Rock Man's thread got lucky:
I dreamed I was teaching a class about Jagger singing Hang On Sloopy but ending it really quick
because he got spooked by the crowd doing the O-H-I-O moves that no one had warned him about,
and when I'd explained everything (yapyap) I went to show them the youtube clip, but one of the students
had already put a video cassette in the machine: The Altamont Concert.

My dreams knew today was December 6th before I did. Isn't it strange

Oh dear that's one stony pillow you're resting your head on ....



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Another stunner from the ACE/Kent soul series .... EEEEssential

BACK TO THE RIVER - MORE SOUTHERN SOUL STORIES 1961-1978
Kent Soul -- KENTBOX 18



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Geez Rockeee, if you were any more prolific, y'all would be having twins!

TWINS !!!.... Heck yeah I'm really tryin' Annie but she's terrified of what her grandmother will say...



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