He's seventy-fucking-eight, & it's not The Upsetters or whoever w/ him, but were there ever a reason to leave the bunker it's "Scratch" Perry
free at the Santa Monica Pier Thurs.
"I’m an artist, a musician, a magician, a writer, a singer; I’m everything. My name is Lee from the African jungle, originally from West Africa. I’m a man from somewhere else, but my origin is from Africa, straight to Jamaica through reincarnation; reborn in Jamaica..." Lee "Scratch" Perry (born Rainford Hugh Perry, on March 20, 1936, in Kendal, Jamaica) is a Grammy award-winning reggae and dub artist, who has been highly influential in the development and acceptance of reggae and dub music in Jamaica and overseas. He employs numerous pseudonyms, such as "Pipecock Jaxxon" and "The Upsetter". Arguably the first creatively driven "artist-producer" in modern recorded music, Lee "Scratch" Perry occupies the highest level of music making - standing comfortably next to pioneers like George Martin, Phil Spector, and Brian Wilson.
S'pose I'll need to be there well in advance to get a spot (or even a seat) on the pier rather than on the sand watching the video. The struggle never never ends, does it?
Ja mon.
ReplyDeleteThe weather bot on the "news" this morning said that there are gonna be all sorts of crazy waves today/tomorrow up there, possibly threatening the pier(s). You should still go -- if the show gets cancelled, maybe you can watch rich people's houses fall into the ocean?
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ReplyDeleteThat never pans out as threatened. Santa Monica's beach pretty much runs north-south & faces west; it's where the coastline curves west & faces south that trouble happens. (By then the richie rich houses are on cliffs, not the beaches.)