Tuesday, August 18th
sounds of Jamaica
King Tubby (aka Osbourne Ruddock, 1941-1989), The Heaviest Dubs – Part 2 !!! (DJ Mix by Mista Savona), published 7/14/26
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Illinois
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: dub
2024
Thursday, May 30th
sounds of Jamaica
King Tubby: The Heaviest Dubs, published 2021
As a white London boy growing up in the 70’s, surrounded by my friends of west indian descent with their red, gold and green coloured wooly hats and King Tubby blasting from their portable cassette players, I learned to love the almost mystical sound of the incessant, almost hypnotic, bass.
—YouTube comment
2023
Thursday, August 17th
sounds of Jamaica
Mista Savona (DJ), King Tubby’s Heaviest Dubs (King Tubby aka Osbourne Ruddick, 1941-1989), published 2021
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lagniappe
reading table
Why is everything now geared to longevity? If everything’s directed at maximizing the number of years you live, you’re denying life itself.
—artist David Hockney (1937-), quoted in A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney (Martin Gayford, expanded edition, 2016)
2023
Wednesday, July 5th
sounds of Jamaica
“Heavy Dub Mix Vol. 1 – Golden Age of Dub, 1975-1982” (Tracklist in YouTube Comments), published 2020
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago (Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape, through 9/4/23)
Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890, The Bridge at Courbevoie (1887), detail
2021
Friday, September 10th
basement jukebox
Augustus Pablo (1953-1999, melodica), King Tubby (1941-1989, engineer, producer), “King Tubby’s Meets Rockers Uptown,” 1974
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
2021
Tuesday, August 31st
passings
Lee “Scratch” Perry, producer, March 30, 1936 – August 29, 2021
With Junior Murvin, The Heptones, The Congos, The Upsetters, “Play On Mr. Music,” live, Jamaica (Roots Rock Reggae [1977])
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Producer/co-writer: Junior Murvin, “Police and Thieves” (J. Murvin, L. Perry), 1976
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Producer: The Upsetters, Black Board Jungle, 1973
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
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reading table
. . . all thens are lost in a now without a time.
—William Bronk (1918-1999, MCOTD Hall of Fame), from “Referral” (Some Words, 1992, 1998)
2011
Thursday, 12/29/11
more favorites from the past year
Dub shows aren’t an everyday thing in Chicago, so last night, despite the weather (rain) and weariness (from traveling to see a client in prison), I ventured out to a club to catch this guy. A show like this isn’t just an aural experience: each beat of the bass vibrates your ribcage.
Mad Professor (AKA Neil Fraser, born 1955, Guyana)
Live, London, 2011
Vodpod videos no longer available.
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Live remix, Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Lively Up Yourself,” c. 2008
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(Originally posted 9/19/11.)
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Life thickens as you get older, becoming more layered. The other night, for instance, listening to Mad Professor dub Bob Marley at a club on Chicago’s south side (Reggie’s, State near Cermak), I found it hard not to think of another night over thirty years ago, of another club on the other side of town (Quiet Knight, Belmont near Clark, now gone), of hearing Bob Marley not dubbed but live.
Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Trenchtown Rock”
Live, Chicago (Quiet Knight), 1975
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(Originally posted 9/20/11.)
2011
Monday, 9/19/11
Dub shows aren’t an everyday thing in Chicago, so last night, despite the weather (rain) and weariness (from traveling to see a client in prison), I ventured out to a club to catch this guy. A show like this isn’t just an aural experience: each beat of the bass vibrates your ribcage.
Mad Professor (AKA Neil Fraser, born 1955, Guyana)
Live, London, 2011
Vodpod videos no longer available.
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Live remix, Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Lively Up Yourself,” c. 2008
Vodpod videos no longer available.
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