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Location: Michigan | Nice to hear from you again Tragocaster but you have got to play some Third World
( 96* in the shade )
if you are on a Cruise Ship or an Island.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98hGHjPNo9k
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Location: big island | UB40 and Marty Dread are popular here in the islands and would be my favorites also, however, i rarely listen to reggae. what i really despise is all the blasts from the past that local groups have added a reggae beat to. i'm serious when i say that 9.5 out of ten popular local songs have a "jawaiian" beat to them and 8 of those 9.5 are remakes. young locals are skankin' all over the place here. |
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Location: GA USA | I know they could be mainly labeled punk, as they are one of the 3 godfathers of punk along with Minor Threat and Black Flag, but much of the latest Bad Brains album is straight up reggae. And it's good too, imho. |
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Location: atlanta | The Heptones, featuring Leroy Sibbles on lead vocals. Their finest albums were "Night Food" and "Party Time", both on Island Records in the late 70's.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | The Feelies |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I knew you'd come 'round |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Cliff and the Cobwebs |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
I knew you'd come 'round Actually, I'm semi-impressed.
Not the type of music I typically care for in more than small doses but they do it extremely well.
I especially like the covers...."paint it black" and "everybodies got something to hide cept for me and my monkey".
Thanks (gulp!) for sending it to me. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ;) (I understand how painful that was) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | been in the car's cassette player all week!
Amazing how primitive and how much dead air cassettes have. Progress marches on. |
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Location: NJ | Wow & Flutter.
(Great name for a Duo!) |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by cliff:
Wow & Flutter.
(Great name for a Duo!) one guy does good impressions while the other one just passes gas? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Butch and the Flamers? |
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| Originally posted by tragocaster:
I never really "got" reggae until I started playing on cruise ships, and spending a lot of time in the Caribbean. It gets forced on you, and you either learn to love it or hate it.
I became a big Bob Marley nut, and bought almost every album. Then I was introduced to the Wailers early ska hits, which is most enjoyable.
I also love Toots and the Maytals - both their early ska stuff, and their later reggae/rock steady stuff.
Oh and Ernest Ranglin is a GUITAR GENIUS!!! You are not wrong Trago.
Ernest Ranglin was always thought of as a jazz guitarist over here - he visited a lot back in the day. Fabulous player and a really nice guy - he would wow whitey uptown with his jazz and then head off to South London and wow the west Indian community with his reggae playing. I've never heard a solo on a reggae record that didn't sound like ernest was playing it. Everybody copies him whether they know it or not. Another one of those guys who never made any money but was a real talent and a great influence on others.
Only in the OFC are all these old guys remembered and appreciated ;) |
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Location: Tennessee | Hmmmm ... nobody's mentioned The Tide is High by Blondie yet! :eek:
For crossover punk/ska/reggae, The Specials were the first and the best. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I will repeat... But there are few things more annoying than White People playing Reggae... :mad: |
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Location: NJ | ub 40 |
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| From Birmingham, England. Half of them are white. |
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Location: NJ | i think they had a hit with red red wine about 3 times in the states |
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Location: NJ | you'd think we woulda' learned after the first time . . . |
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Location: Tennessee | rat in mi kitchen is my fave ub40 song. when it first came out, it was a song I used to demo the virtures of my Cerwin-Vega sw12 subwoofer.
Same thing for The Specials, except they're from Coventry. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Itals were great too |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | ... as are the Germans and French. |
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| The Specials - from the same place as me. |
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Location: San Ramon/Canandaigua | so far the already said specials, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Bad Brains...
but i'd also like to add Slighty Stoopid, the do a killer cover of Leavin on a Jetplane |
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Your favorite Reggae bands?
