Prince Buster

And I'll have the only copy of that in the universe.

Prince Buster and Duke Reed and the great early producers.

So that's why I want people to know about Lee Scratch Party because if somebody in his 50s can be really jaded and yeah, whatever, whatever, and then here comes Scratch, if you're in your twenties or thirties and are confronted with this record, you know, it might even hit you harder.

Cause I think it's an absolutely, it's an absolute masterpiece of a record.

You know what I mean? Our white contemporaries.

Um, so dad's listening to the emerging reggae sounds, toots and the metals, Prince Buster, um, you know, stuff like that.

Along with some country, old Jamaicans love country and Western.

Don't ask me why.

But like everybody knows, everybody knows Rudy.

And this is a cover of Prince Buster.

Scott Royal Reggae Reggae Royalty.

So everybody knows that one, too.

So...

For today, before we get into much discussion, just as a little refresher and to throw everybody kind of into the pool, you know, I teased it last time, we listened to Al Capone by Prince Buster, old ska song.

I think we should let everybody hear a bit of The Special's very first single, Gangsters, so that they can get a real, sort of, really the first example released on record or the first example ever of the little genre slash scene that we're gonna be talking about today.

little gangsters yes this is uh you know our president likes to say the gangsters gangsters

I have met people.

IRL in Rochester who were aware of the specials at the time and then they a few people and they were like I guess I suppose Gen X they were people who were very into college radio in the 80s like people who probably also heard REM when they pretty early on because this was like shit that would be on college radio and not really anywhere else in the states Um, so another band that got really, really big, but also shifted their style a little bit was Madness from North London.

Their name comes from a Prince Buster song.

Their first single was on Two Tone Records.

But I'm going to use this as an opportunity to tell you what we listen to.

Prince Buster is who we just heard with The Baddest.

Great one from the Heptones on Studio One, In Love With You.

Dandy did that instrumental called My Kind of Love.

revolutionaries in the background with African spirit taking us to the end of the show on the train to Scottville.

A couple of nice DJ tracks at the end there.

Big Youth, along with John Holt and Leave Your Skang, which was a Prince Buster production.

Iroy came before that with Monkey Fashion.

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like yeah like madness and the specials so hearing them kind of name drop all those bands made me curious so i kind of just started um listening to like two-tone and then from there um just going to shows and then meeting like skinheads and learning what like a skinhead was um like a true skinhead i got introduced to more like of the traditional stuff i was kind of getting like educated through this person so it was really cool to be like what what are you talking about Yeah, you know that song, One Step Beyond? That's by an artist named Prince Buster.

And he was totally schooling my ass.

Because I'm just this third wave ska punk kid just playing in my first band.

He wants to debut the flyer.

Oh, yes.

It's a tribute to Prince Buster.

Sorry, the lighting just changed.

He was rejected along with his team by the then anti-Rastafarian in the 1950s, or say the music establishment.

He was a pioneer percussionist and was used on many recordings of the 1960s by the top producers Prince Buster, Coxone Dodd, and others.

He also worked with some artists, Kingstitt, Oak Brothers, many, many.

And he also released some material with his band, or his bands, the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari and also the Warikas.