Reggaebass Posted August 30, 2020 Author Share Posted August 30, 2020 3 hours ago, durhamboy said: The Dubbeez and some Australian Reggae. Great ones durhamboy, I don’t know much about the Dubbeez, I looked them up once when I saw this a few years ago and I really liked the bass playing by Olivia Davina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted August 30, 2020 Author Share Posted August 30, 2020 I’m subscribed to Bionic Dub and this was put on yesterday, it sounds familiar but I’m not sure where from, it’s by sound dimension, who were the in-house band in studio one in the sixties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaartian Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 13 hours ago, durhamboy said: The Dubbeez and some Australian Reggae. Sub'd the Dubbeez (even though the photo is reversed; bass player is right-handed). Enjoyed the Baru tune! Nice fusion of indigenous Australian music with reggae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted August 30, 2020 Author Share Posted August 30, 2020 I like this one by the dubbeez 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaartian Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Reggaebass said: I like this one by the dubbeez Yes, I too have sung into a beer can. And talked to Ralph on the big white phone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nail Soup Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 2 hours ago, Reggaebass said: I like this one by the dubbeez Good tune, but they look very bright eyed and bushy tailed considering they have a bad hangover! I'll have what they drink please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nail Soup Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 On 22/08/2020 at 14:10, Nail Soup said: Under Me SlengTeng - Wayne Smith. Widely acknowledged as the first all-electronic reggae song - 1984. What do you think of the song... what do you think of the shift to electronics in reggae? To answer my own question......... A lot of electronic reggae sounds really good. Normally I can see/understand how different musical genres have progressed over time, but it's pretty hard to see how reggae morphed into dancehall.... reggae was based on some pretty nuanced musicianship, and dancehall was based on some pretty crude electronics, without subtle timings and dynamics. However, dancehall worked and created some good sounds. I just can't quite see it as part of the reggae story somehow! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted August 31, 2020 Author Share Posted August 31, 2020 21 minutes ago, Nail Soup said: but it's pretty hard to see how reggae morphed into dancehall I started playing around 1978 and the music then was pretty heavy dub , what I would call roots/ rockers reggae, then around 82-83 the the music mellowed a bit to more dance hall style when clubs like ,The Four Aces in Dalston started playing more by people like, Barrington levy, Gregory Isaacs, Don Carlos, Bunny Wailer, Burning Spear, Peter Tosh, And also quite a bit of lovers rock was being played more by people like, Jean Adebambo, Louisa Mark, Janet Kay, Carroll Thompson . Then around the mid 80s the more heavy dub was only being played in a few clubs I went to, and bands like, Aswad, Dennis Brown , ub40 were pretty popular. Synth Basslines wasn’t heard of in my youth, I know what you’re saying though Nail Soup, what is considered dancehall now isn’t what I knew it as , and I’ve noticed a few older reggae artists like Lutan Fyah, are using a lot more electronics in their music now , and I must admit I do flip past a lot of the new electronic reggae 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Blank Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykesbass Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Sorry @Frank Blank, you have beaten Spotify again. Nice tune! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykesbass Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 3 hours ago, Nail Soup said: To answer my own question......... A lot of electronic reggae sounds really good. Normally I can see/understand how different musical genres have progressed over time, but it's pretty hard to see how reggae morphed into dancehall.... reggae was based on some pretty nuanced musicianship, and dancehall was based on some pretty crude electronics, without subtle timings and dynamics. However, dancehall worked and created some good sounds. I just can't quite see it as part of the reggae story somehow! I don't think the transition is any stranger than other genres, especially heavier rock - the heavily scooped and quantized sound of bands like Cradle of Filth compared to Led Zeppelin/Black Sabbath, modern dance music's evolution from 70's disco (or even disco's transition from funk), all show exactly the same changes you highlight here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakforest5961 Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Reggae's influence is somewhat different from reggae's evolution (which I don't have the experience to analyse). This one is somewhere in an outer orbit of planet reggae. For something a little different, only spend the next 4m 20s of your life listening to this if you are open to a reggae influenced modern rendering of a medieval melody, with latin lyrics, something resembling a slap bass solo (what!), and some spooky whispering thrown in too... This is Adaro with "Mariam Matrem (Radio Edit)": 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 12 minutes ago, oakforest5961 said: ... spend the next 4m 20s of your life listening to this... Errrm... Nope. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Here's one that will annoy Doug - it's got rap and everything! 😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 And here's one that espouses all sorts of terrible things 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Blank Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Mykesbass said: Sorry @Frank Blank, you have beaten Spotify again. Nice tune! This one was courtesy of Radio 3’s excellent Late Junction. Edited August 31, 2020 by Frank Blank 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said: Here's one that will annoy Doug... Yup, but not for long. ... Edited August 31, 2020 by Dad3353 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted August 31, 2020 Author Share Posted August 31, 2020 34 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said: And here's one that espouses all sorts of terrible things That’s a great one Leonard ☝️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nail Soup Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 On 28/08/2020 at 16:48, Reggaebass said: For any Bob Marley fans there’s a program on BBC2 on Saturday night at 21.45 called , When Bob Marley came to Britain ☝️ Watched my recording last night... enjoyable program, some of it was old news, but enough new stuff in there. Particularly like the contributions from 'members of the public'. However I think they could have cut the awkward meet-up scene between the 3 old schoolmates of the school where Bob played, and cut straight to the other scenes with them in! Was funny that one guy billed them as Bob Marley and the Whalers! Just shows how they weren't that well known in the UK early on! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted August 31, 2020 Author Share Posted August 31, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Nail Soup said: Watched my recording last night. I particularly liked the old footage of , stir it up and lively up yourself Edited August 31, 2020 by Reggaebass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durhamboy Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Ooops, posted a link I'd already posted and can't get rid of it! Here's what I meant to post. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drTStingray Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 (edited) I noticed this the other night on one of those BBC compilation programmes - this one was on reggae at the BBC - it's Dave and Ansell Collins with their no 1 hit on TOTP in 1971, Double Barrel, when their fan base would have ranged from West Indian, to first generation skinheads, to townies (previously mods) and teeny boppers. Of great interest is the bass guitar - a fiesta red pre CBS Jazz with matching headstock, mint scratch plate and a very dark rosewood board - at one point in the video you can see the battered bottom edge of the lower horn showing what appears to be white paint - interestingly a very similar indeed Jazz with similar damaged paintwork with the same colour under was at Andy Baxters for some while a couple of years back - I wonder if it was the same one? https://youtu.be/UQNPiUuU58Y Edited September 1, 2020 by drTStingray 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 8 hours ago, drTStingray said: Of great interest is the bass guitar - a fiesta red pre CBS Jazz with matching headstock, mint scratch plate and a very dark rosewood board - I noticed that jazz drT, if it was the same one that Andy Baxter had I would have thought it would be worth quite a bit more because of the history, do you think. I also noticed on the Bob Marley program that Aston Barrett was playing a P bass, I’ve only ever know him to play a jazz 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drTStingray Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, Reggaebass said: I noticed that jazz drT, if it was the same one that Andy Baxter had I would have thought it would be worth quite a bit more because of the history, do you think. I also noticed on the Bob Marley program that Aston Barrett was playing a P bass, I’ve only ever know him to play a jazz 🙂 I'm not sure re the change in value - it certainly wasn't priced or referred to with that history - but would it increase value that much unless played by someone extremely famous - it struck me as an odd coloured bass for a reggae band!! The drummer on that was Sly Dunbar (one of his first appearances). I also noticed the Precision being played by Aston Barratt - interesting one of the guitarists had got pink spot stickers all round the outside edge of his apparently pristine Les Paul!! In fact most of the reggae band musicians appeared to have odd things attached to the instruments (eg a large pink hair scrunchy fixed on a headstock, stickers on guitars being very popular). I wonder if the Precision was a loan instrument? Family Man is also shown playing through an Acoustic 370/301 set up - seemingly the rig of choice for some R and B or a reggae players of the period (I had one of these but not till the late 70s - mine originated with the band Mud)! On the reggae programme I watched, the guy in Steel Pulse is shown playing a very smart natural finish Stingray - but Jazzes seem to have been the popular choice for reggae bands 👍 Edited September 1, 2020 by drTStingray 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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