Two great sides of a 12″ by The Gladiators with Evil Doers and Pocket Money and an additional version by the great U-Roy. Trying to rack our brains which charity shop in the midlands in the long long past we found it in.
And talking of U-Roy, here’s the great man talking about King Tubby and his electronic and pirate radio wizzardry near the end of a track by Lapa called the 45th Parallel.
We at Weeds were very saddened to hear the news of the passing of the DJ Daddy, U Roy earlier today. Years and years ago we picked up a scratched copy of Jump For Joy/This is Another Festival on the Grounation label for 10p at John’s Second-hand shop in Hillfields, Coventry in 1978 and it went on from there…
Here’s a couple of our favourite clips of the great man that have cheered us up over the years. Some nice threads he’s wearing there too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRb7mprbj54
And here’s a piece of musical history, a recording of U Roy on King Tubby’s Hi-Fi in Kingston, Jamaica from 1975. Be warned the quaility makes some of our “3 out of 10” punk cassettes in the loft sound like sensurround sound! RIP the great U Roy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltV5-RF0Z1Y
The first part of the excellent late 70’s documentary Deep Roots Music with Mickey Dread featuring Tommy McCook, Daddy U-Roy, The Skatalites, Count Machuki (looking good!), Sir Lord Comic, Bobby Culture, Jack Ruby Hi Power amongst many others. An excellent watch for these cold nights! Big shout to Will for passing this link onto us.
Weeds up to me knees 