S & D: Sly & Robbie

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

forgot about this manu dibango, absolutely killer track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnasTKUAK1k

yes, that version of black skin blue eyed boys is so good. a major want.

smokie!!!

the released version got toned down a bit from this but robbie's bass here is pure fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0COUDu5uSHI

oh god i was just about to say i still need those serge albums they're on. and about a hundred other things too!

Sentimental favorite remains "The Third Power" by Material, with Sly and Robbie writing and playing on every track save the awesome covers. This bass line is super-cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRmwu8jqJc4

Shakespeare's playing on this Funkadelic cover rules:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w-g9xjJat8

of course they did a record with sandii & the sunsetz, i mean why not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU0kuMaRmHo

the released version got toned down a bit from this but robbie's bass here is pure fire.

holy god the drums too!

Sentimental favorite remains "The Third Power" by Material

yeah that goes hard too! was listening earlier to some of the yoko ono stuff they did with bill laswell and nona hendryx and anton fier et al but that was more on a disco tip

maybe i'll finally get round to listening to that joe cocker compass point album though i'm still somewhat allergic to his spittle-flecked voice. is it any good?

that cover of cosmic slop is so nice

still want this damn album too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rffg8aWSw_o

Did someone say cover of "Cosmic Slop"?

who knew 'cosmic slop' needed strings, material knew i guess

The neighbors would talk and call her Lazawell.

lol

Man, I don't know if it's just because he was only 68, but he was just not someone in my mind who was yet in the category of "great musicians who might die one day."

I've always loved this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFmI34xBD08

Sentimental favorite remains "The Third Power" by Material, with Sly and Robbie writing and playing on every track save the awesome covers.

who knew 'cosmic slop' needed strings, material knew i guess

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.