― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Monday, 6 October 2003 22:35 (twenty years ago) link
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― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 6 October 2003 22:58 (twenty years ago) link
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― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 6 October 2003 23:12 (twenty years ago) link
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― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 6 October 2003 23:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 00:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 00:49 (twenty years ago) link
i was just over at a friend's house scavenging through his record collection before he moved and picked up a Trojan Collection called "Melodica Melodies". on the back it says "Although Peter Tosh is usually given credit for introducing the melodica to reggae, it was undoubtedly the "Far East" sound of Augustus Pablo that inspired the likes of Joe White, Glen Brown and dozens of others to make their own contributions to this unique brand of music."
― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 01:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcus Barr (Marcus Barr), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 01:34 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 04:30 (twenty years ago) link
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― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 06:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 06:54 (twenty years ago) link
Worst: ANYTHING by Gorillaz. Go away, you puffy-faced twat.
― kate (kate), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 07:00 (twenty years ago) link
Is this true? How astonishing.
I'd vote for Pablo's "Pablo Meets Mr Bassie" as one of my favouritest pieces of music ever.
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 07:04 (twenty years ago) link
& King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown, obviously.
― bham, Tuesday, 7 October 2003 08:23 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 10:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 12:10 (twenty years ago) link
Was it also Swaby then who played melodica on the early instrumental piece by Bob Marley & The Wailers, "Memphis"? (For it wasn't Pablo on that track, I've read somewhere)It's a search-worthy track anyway.
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 12:13 (twenty years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 12:18 (twenty years ago) link
While I like the sound of them, I have a friend who absolutely hates them. Calls them 'Jamaican bagpipes'.
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 12:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 13:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 13:55 (twenty years ago) link
About a year and a half or so, more like?With "The DeJohnette Complex" being recorded in late December 1968, and the young Pablo/Swaby doing his first playing in the studio in 1970, as it's chronicled. ;)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 14:10 (twenty years ago) link
Woops! Was it *Glen Adams* then... - was wot I meant. Me bad.)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 14:24 (twenty years ago) link
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― Neil FC (Neil FC), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 20:54 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 05:27 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 05:31 (twenty years ago) link
― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 05:34 (twenty years ago) link
(xp) I think EVERYone said the exact same thing on both threads.
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 05:36 (twenty years ago) link
Well, okay, but according to the liner notes of "The DeJohnette Complex" DeJohnette had been playing melodica for quite some time, and this was only the first recorded example of him doing so. Still, I'm sure Pablo had everything to do with popularizing the instrument, since DeJohnette rarely played it after that one record.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 07:00 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 07:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Duke Dubuque (Duke Dubuque), Saturday, 21 January 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― retrogurl, Sunday, 22 January 2006 04:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 22 January 2006 06:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 22 January 2006 08:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I should probably listen to more reggae & dub
― Ian Dyster, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 02:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Great, great song (except for a purely Geirist sensibility--I would steer him away from this song if he happens to read this thread). The melodica (which I initially thought was an accordion, here) comes in after the song is about 3/4 over, and it really took me by surprise. (I wonder if Charlie Palmieri was listening to reggae in the 70s. I'd kind of be surprised if he hadn't at least checkde it out.) I hope Fania issues a remastered version of The Heavyweight in short order.
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtXXRsQrin0&search=shiina%20ringo
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 22 April 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link
thats how i fell about that last clip.......
― danny boy (danny boy), Sunday, 23 April 2006 10:14 (eighteen years ago) link
thats how I feel about that last clip.....
― danny boy (danny boy), Sunday, 23 April 2006 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Sunday, 23 April 2006 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link
That's how I feel about Shiina Ringo in general.
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 23 April 2006 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Regardless, it's still the best.
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 23 April 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Although I do quite like the melodica in Blue's "All Rise" too (the only thing I like about that song tho)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Too much improvisation! ;-)
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Roland Kirk's clavietta work deserves mention, even if he does play it with one nostril.
― christoff (christoff), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― absolutely no one of any stature, Sunday, 14 May 2006 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― yer mam! (yer mam!), Sunday, 14 May 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 14 May 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Goldberg (Steve Goldberg), Sunday, 14 May 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― J (Jay), Sunday, 14 May 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0rjMO7JE4&search=tokyo%20jihen
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:40 (eighteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-IXJLgRnvs
Live performance of this classic song with an awful-sounding melodica solo starting around 1:35. It goes on and on and...yeah, wow. Is that in the studio version at all? Are they just trying to expand their sound?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 2 April 2011 06:07 (thirteen years ago) link