SCRATCH PERRY IS A WEAPON

Just to prevent future confusion, November 15th is a Wednesday and November 16th is a Thursday.

Lee Perry is an amazing musician but most of his music is difficult to find. Raggae would not be half of what it is without him.

Truth be told, man rocks

one of the illest reggae artists out there. pioneered the art of dub, almost no one is iller.

lee scratch is a genius... the originator of the massive dub sound, and one of the main catalysts in evolving the sound of the wailers back in the black ark days... check out my personal favorite lee scratch production - The Congos - Heart of the Congos... you will understand then. make sure to catch this tour

where's all the haters? normally 200 people talk some shit about every musician in every article on this site.... oh yea... you can't talk shit about perry.

I have seen Scratch a bunch of times and have been both thrilled and disappointed. No denying his genious, and I own about 30+ CDs of his music and productions. But it depends a LOT on the band he plays with, it can get really weird ellectronicaly bull... - That being said I would never miss a show :)

But two more things: he shaped the Wailers BEFORE the black arch opened its doors. And his music is not really hard to find.

Check http://www.eight4eight.com/848_frame.html - apparently the site is down temporily, but the guy has a store only for Lee Scratch Perry, full of all the goods.

http://www.bigupradio.com/index.jsp is the best general Reggae store and you will find lots of things by hime there as well.

Peace,
Felix

For Scratch at his finest, I strongly recommend Lee Perry's "Baffling Smoke Signal: Upsetter Shop Vol. 3". Not hard to find Lee at all over @ Ernie B's; 116 Scratch titles alone. http://www.ebreggae.com/

I'm not jumping on here to hate on Scratch. I'm a huge reggae fan and he's one of my favorite reggae/dub artists of all time. I realize the unquestionably huge impact that he had on the entire genre of music. However, I was a little disappointed when I went to see him with DIAW at CBGB in September. I've seen Dub is a Weapon several times and love them. They can lay down some really heavyweight live dub. Great stuff. Going into the show I thought it would be them playing the instruments with Scratch working the samples, loops, computers, etc. What it turned out to be was their standard verion of heavy live dub with Scratch singing vocals only for the whole show. Like I said before, I think he's an extremely talented artist in the realm of dub, just not when it comes to vocals. For instance, one of his songs was just him singing over and over, "Inspector Gadget, Inspector Gadget." I went to the show mainly because I had never seen Scratch before and also wanted to check out CBGB before it closed. It was pretty good, just not what I expected.

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excellent collab! scratch honestly goes thru about 7 joints ON STAGE for most of his shows. a lot of the time he'll take about 5 hits, then toss it into the crowd, then reach in his macy's bag (no joke) for another. its hilarious! big up to Scratch!