Mykesbass Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 I bought the Specials Encore a few months back. It somehow got put in a pile and completely forgotten, so I dug it out this evening and stuck it on in the car. Not what I was expecting at all, but all the better for it. A really mature sounding album, with very some Blockhead like funk, some very strong Fun Boy Three influence (great reworking of Lunatics) and some right on politics 👊🏼 Would have chosen Vote for Me but they haven't credited Ernest Ranglin for th eobvious borrow, so instead, another of the more reggae styled tracks, Embarrased By You. Whole album definitely worth a listen. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nail Soup Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 New song: Dub Pistols - Go Tell Your Friends ft. Horseman 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted October 16, 2020 Author Share Posted October 16, 2020 50 minutes ago, Nail Soup said: New song: Dub Pistols - Go Tell Your Friends ft. Horseman I don’t know anything about the dub pistols, I’ll have a listen to their stuff, that’s a good tune, this one sounds familiar but I don’t know where from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taunton-hobbit Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 I know the riddim to Bankrobber, but I'm not getting there, tink it's quite old? (I'll keep straining the brain) 😎 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted October 16, 2020 Author Share Posted October 16, 2020 (edited) 27 minutes ago, taunton-hobbit said: I know the riddim to Bankrobber, but I'm not getting there, tink it's quite old? (I'll keep straining the brain) 😎 Do you think it Would have been mikey dread ?, only I vaguely remember a dub version and it wasn’t this 🙂 Edited October 16, 2020 by Reggaebass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky 4000 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 It's a Clash song AFAIK. Produced by Mikey Dread. 🙂 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taunton-hobbit Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 (edited) 'This' might be, but the original riddim track it's not ................ 😎 Something in my head is muttering 'Lee Perry' ? Edited October 16, 2020 by taunton-hobbit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted October 16, 2020 Author Share Posted October 16, 2020 Nice bit of king tubby here, And here ☝️ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taunton-hobbit Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 (edited) On 16/10/2020 at 18:14, taunton-hobbit said: 'This' might be, but the original riddim track it's not ................ 😎 Something in my head is muttering 'Lee Perry' ? Try this? it's certainly the right riddim........... Think it might be this (after an hour & half of going through my reggae tracks) .... Edited October 17, 2020 by taunton-hobbit 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted October 17, 2020 Author Share Posted October 17, 2020 27 minutes ago, taunton-hobbit said: Try this? it's certainly the right riddim........... Think it might be this (after an hour & half of going through my reggae tracks) .... Nice work mr t☝️, I had a few hours myself going through lots of options , I thought it might have been a roots radics Bassline but no luck, but I did find some good tunes while I was looking, some of the riffs on equal rights are definitely the same , I didn’t think of Prince far I 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted October 28, 2020 Author Share Posted October 28, 2020 I’ve been listening to a fair bit of johnny Clarke lately , I came across many tunes I hadn’t heard in a long while, here’s a few ☝️ and a great Bassline here 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nail Soup Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Just been listening to Don Letts 6music show from Sunday. It was billed as dub special, but as is often the case it was all types of reggae, not just dub. It annoys me a bit when people use dub as a term for reggae.... but maybe I should get out more! Anyway, here's my pick from the first hour: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Blank Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 9 minutes ago, Nail Soup said: It was billed as dub special, but as is often the case it was all types of reggae, not just dub. It annoys me a bit when people use dub as a term for reggae.... but maybe I should get out more! I should get out more as well then, I find tracks I like few and far between on the aforementioned show, my tastes obviously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted October 30, 2020 Author Share Posted October 30, 2020 11 hours ago, Nail Soup said: Just been listening to Don Letts 6music show from Sunday. It was billed as dub special, but as is often the case it was all types of reggae, not just dub. It annoys me a bit when people use dub as a term for reggae.... but maybe I should get out more! Anyway, here's my pick from the first hour: Loving that nail soup, great riddim and her voice is so good, I couldn’t help thinking it sounded familiar, and after a bit of digging it seems to be a version of this 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taunton-hobbit Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Thanks RB - I'd have never got that one ! 😎 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykesbass Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 11 hours ago, Nail Soup said: Just been listening to Don Letts 6music show from Sunday. It was billed as dub special, but as is often the case it was all types of reggae, not just dub. It annoys me a bit when people use dub as a term for reggae.... but maybe I should get out more! Anyway, here's my pick from the first hour: Wow, the voice is very close to Grace Slick's original. I won't post it here as it isn't reggae, but George Benson did a fabulous version of this song before he was really famous. Well worth checking out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted November 1, 2020 Author Share Posted November 1, 2020 On 04/10/2020 at 13:13, redstriper said: Does anyone know the names of any of these riddims? Another one that came to me the other day redstriper is the great John Holt , love I can feel, great Bassline which is at 4.13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted November 4, 2020 Author Share Posted November 4, 2020 I don’t think I’ve posted these before, a couple of classics from Sugar Minott and anyone who used to listen to Rodigan in the 80s will recognise this one, it’s the album mix, it was the theme tune to his show , nice version at 3.36 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishman Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Check this – I bought my copy from Daddy Kool way back in the 80s on my monthly sortie… 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share Posted November 9, 2020 Groundation getting their groove on here ☝️ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Just posted this in another thread so... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share Posted November 9, 2020 21 minutes ago, TheGreek said: Just posted this in another thread so... Absolute classic mick👍 , takes me way back to about 1979/80 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted November 12, 2020 Author Share Posted November 12, 2020 (edited) Good bit of studio footage here and Devon Bradshaw playing a sweet little Bassline Edited November 12, 2020 by Reggaebass 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaartian Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 3 hours ago, Reggaebass said: Good bit of studio footage here and Devon Bradshaw playing a sweet little Bassline Love the Nescafe-logo'd shirt! Reminds me of the best instant coffee I ever had...Iscafe by Nescafe. Had it in '72 in Belize when it was still the British Honduras. Big jar. Very pale, fine powder. Looked pretty unappetizing. But holy gobsmacks, it was delicious! That was an early life lesson, heavily reinforced by all of those truly nasty-tasting "coffee crystals" instants that followed on. They put all of their effort into making it look like coffee while still dry. Sometimes, you just gotta get away from the way something looks. Like the percebes in Bilbao! FA-BO-LAS. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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