Okay so let’s see, when you do move to the city and you’re working on construction and you start hearing the rhythm of the rocks, how did you start to go to the recording studios to make your mark that way? His boss looked at them and said, “Look at what they have done to our superstar.”.
I mean, you knew him well, was he a vengeful person? Oh yeah? Well then I guess it took a while. But then he gave back something much more positive than cancer … So what the American government give to Bob Marley is cancer. Now they’ll find the answer and send back what they give. He’s my student, so the American Government and the American scientists give my student cancer. There was that conspiracy that the government gave him cancer.īob Marley was my student. Why did they give Bob Marley cancer? If they give Bob Marley cancer, then Bob Marley give them the virus. They gave Bob Marley cancer and them could not find the answer. It will be too boring without the American singers.Īmerican scientists and American Obeah men and American beasts gave Bob Marley cancer, in a year. I don’t know what will happen to the good singers in America to find a way out, to find freedom, because if all of the American singers die, I will cry. I don’t like to see what will happen to the Americans because most of the American singers, I learned from them and I love them.
You know what I mean? So I mean to say if you want to hear about something like “Me love Jamaica because they’re my people,” but they actually are too nice to me and they’re like raggamuffin, and me no like raggamuffin. So most of the stars that I have put up were coming from the American singers. I watched Bob Marley in that duration before reggae becomes so common. I love good singers, I love real singers. So I was always listening to good singers. I love the American artists, them so much because the American artists have super very good voice. I love hip-hop music even more than reggae music. Michael Jackson? You’d been recording for years before you heard him, right? So I reckon my number one spot is Michael Jackson. Yeah, I was loving pop music and “Take out those papers and the trash, or you won’t get no spending cash.” I am a lover of pop music.
Well, I liked “Charlie Brown,” like pop music. Were there songs in your family before you went off to Kingston, music that you liked? Lee Scratch Perry: I grew up with revolution in my brain, revolution in my leg, and revolution in my head. But if you go to /takenote right now, you’ll be able to read along with the transcript. Oh, also, another thing to warn you about: This interview was done via What’sApp, so the quality suffers a little. I mean, is anything traditional anymore? For instance when I ask him …. So do not expect a traditional episode of the Music Is My Life podcast. What I decided to do instead is to interrupt every now and then to give you some context. The conversation that you are about to hear takes a lot of twists and turns and some of his answers were so different from the questions I asked that I was tempted to dub in some alternate questions. He sings a song called “I Am a Madman,” and a lot of people who have worked with him would agree with that. One other thing about Lee “Scratch” Perry and the reputation that precedes him. He collaborated with the Clash, with the Beastie Boys, with George Clinton, with Keith Richards, and so many more.
His musical influence is not limited to reggae either. It’s possible he also invented sampling, using the sound of a crying baby to begin his song “People Funny Boy” in 1968, a scathing song against one of his rival producers. He was Bob Marley’s mentor, producing some of his first recordings. As a music producer, he arguably invented reggae in the late 1960s and early 70s, and he inarguably invented dub in the mid 1970s at his famed Black Ark Studio in Jamaica. What follows is a transcript of the very surreal interview.Īt 84 years young he has enough laurels to rest on, but he still keeps creating. We were fortunate enough to interview the Upsetter in 2020, for the 50th episode of the Music is My Life podcast. Lee “Scratch” Perry passed away on August 29th. Photos of Lee “Scratch” Perry by Frederik Ranninger of Pit Pony Photography ( © pitpony.photography / CC-BY-SA-3.0)
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