S & D: Sly & Robbie

Guy Cuevas track is A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

pulled out language barrier to see if i was ready for it after disliking it for a few years. it's rad!

Blackwood Dub!!

great interview:
http://www.thetrapset.net/086-sly-dunbar-sly-robbie-grace-jones-peter-tosh-the-rolling-stones-bob-dylan/

cool to hear him talk about making beats on an mpc and producing 'Murder She Wrote' after his daughter picked that one out of a bunch he made that day.

i really wish they would remaster/reissue an expanded edition of rhythm killers ..

I love Rhythm Killers too, but were there other tracks from those sessions? Discogs indicates the 12" singles had:

Fire 12"
Fire 6:37
Ticket To Ride 5:54
Miles (Black Satin) 7:20

Fire/Boops (Here To Go) 12"
Fire 10:45
Boops (Here To Go)
Fire (Instrumental) 11:00
Boops (Instrumental)

Yes We Can Can 12"
Yes We Can Can 3:50
No Name On The Bullet 6:03

Two covers, two instrumentals, and the mysterious sounding "No Name..."

... which was pulled off Language Barrier.

Anyone else enjoying this new thing with Nils Petter Molvaer and Vladislav Delay? Had the potential to be an interesting mess but it's more successful than that, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwuF-L19e-U

Yeah, reading the description I thought it would be all over the shop, but I really like it!

oh shit "how long" sounds great!

Ah man, Robbie has passed.

https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/entertainment/20211208/robbie-shakespeare-sly-and-robbie-fame-has-died

Oh no, RIP Robbie, such a peerless catalog

Talk about a guy that probably has no idea how many records he appears on ...

:(
bongRIP

absolute legend.
i probably have a LOT of stuff with him hidden in the credits (often unlisted).
and, as i have said elsewhere ..
i would love love love a 2cd remaster/expanded editions of the language barrier/rhythm killers albums.
as it is, of his non reggae stuff, nothing beats the 2cd comp of the Grace Jones/Compass Point sessions.

https://www.discogs.com/release/7017707-Grace-Jones-Private-Life-The-Compass-Point-Sessions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlTjAq8hOvM

Ride on, riddim king. Listening to Black Uhuru's Showcase album.

wikipedia says "He died following kidney surgery in Florida, in December 2021, at the age of 68". That's no age at all. RIP bassmaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agLUPSU41lU

also best bassline ever or what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMpACxYoPEM

Love this one - this is the original Jamaican mix without the other overdubs so Robbie's bass comes in clearer, thicker and warmer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBRMz_QV8Kg

Anyone ever see this? Pretty good, actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLUXWTpW40U

Isn’t it Family Man on “Concrete Jungle”?

Nope. Shakespeare plays on that ONE track. Barrett takes the rest.

(on Catch a Fire that is)

Ah, okay, was wondering if it was something like that.

fuck! i reckon he plays on more music i own than almost anyone who has ever lived.

Enjoyed rewatching the Rock School clip after all these years, but seem to recall a bit with Robbie talking about right hand placement “tone gettin’ heavier….tone gettin’ lighter” that I didn’t see there.

oh wow I had the Rock School book as a kid

I think I still may have it.

This guy has a discussion and links to the whole episode. http://marcoonthebass.blogspot.com/2010/05/bbc-rock-school-80s-tv-series-teaches.html?m=1

damn we lost scratch perry and robbie shakespeare in one year, that's too much

U Roy and Bunny Wailer too ;_;

Astro too.

shit that was all this year??

Hell we lost Toots to COVID last September too. It's been a brutal 15 months!

also best bassline ever or what?

yes, it's a good candidate! I think I knew Sly & Robbie produced that but I didn't know Robbie also played that fantastic bassline

https://gui✧✧✧.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/bob-dy✧✧✧@1400x1050-1392x1✧✧✧.j✧✧

^ mark knopfler getting a chance to play with one of the greats

lets try that again:

https://i.ibb.co/F3G9Yrw/Capture.jpg

oh man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfMmG8QRZWk

Long ago in the 80s I saw Sly & Robbie backing Black Uhuru live and they were magnificent. RIP Robbie

Best rhythm section ever? RIP big man.

Of the later stuff, I liked the collaboration with Eivind Aarset and Vladislav Delay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctdeiieow40

Talk about a guy that probably has no idea how many records he appears on ...

― Josh in Chicago,

from a Wrongtom tweet : "True story. Robbie was invited into the Sanctuary/Trojan archives in an effort to identify tracks he played on, and even he wasn't sure"

xpost - chinaski that's a great album, discovered it randomly on spotify this year

they recenetly released a dub mix of "Jokerman" by Dylan (posted in the Infidels thread but wanted to post here too) kinda cool, really emphasizes Sly & Robbie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmrrzLoO-UQ

Wow, Rhythm Killers has an enormous Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_Killers

I enjoyed … Presents Taxi last night.

Long ago in the 80s I saw Sly & Robbie backing Black Uhuru live and they were magnificent.

i saw them with black uhuru too and then at the start of the millenium with grace jones. blessed to have had those experiences.

I had Rhythm Killers and its predecessor Language Barrier (which includes a remake of Miles Davis's "Black Satin" from On the Corner!) on cassette in high school and listened to them all the time. Love those records.

I had Rhythm Killers and its predecessor Language Barrier (which includes a remake of Miles Davis's "Black Satin" from On the Corner!) on cassette in high school and listened to them all the time. Love those records.

― but also fuck you (unperson),

same.
hence i would love to have expanded 2cd editions of each album.
can you imagine the extras, and how fantastic they could be.

randomly going through sly & robbie credits on discogs and it's seriously doing my wants list no favours.

wish this one was on youtube, looks incredible:
https://www.discogs.com/release/3229693-Derrick-Harriott-Acid-Rock

only track that is uploaded is pretty sick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o90cfUmUheo

also i had no idea they made a track with smokie(!). it's okay?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8gpawLRQQ

Come to think of it, who sings "Mellow Mood" on the album?

I just looked and can’t find a single thing anywhere. The credits list Shider, Mudbone Cooper, the Jungle Brothers, Shabba Ranks, and the Last Poets guy on vocals. It’s pretty clearly none of them (or the woman who’s credited w bgd vocals). I’d say somebody like Bim Sherman but they don’t appear to have ever worked together.

Bernard Fowler sang on a million Laswell things in the '80s and '90s. I interviewed him once and he said Laswell's assistant used to call and say, "We're going into the studio on Tuesday" and he'd show up and it'd be a Herbie Hancock session or Yoko Ono or whoever, and he'd just sing whatever they put in front of him. It could be him.

Ooh Fowler is a good call. It could totally be him.

Tune in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkSZraRWiOM

Here is Fowler singing w S&R a few years earlier on Language Barrier:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP2ssi7FQBU

And on Rhythm Killers right after that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfyXQjQLpeQ

I kept thinking it must be some lovers rock crooner but as I think about it, Fowler is as likely as anyone given his ability to sing almost anything and his work with them to date. It’s just weird he wouldn’t be credited.