ROOTS REGGAE live at JOHN PEEL

[rasralo]

Can I buy anywhere the Reggae-live-recordings (Carnastoan for example) that were made at John Peel's show?

[kalcidis@greece]

They were never made for sale (except Culture, Gregory and perhaps some other session). There was a blog that had several nice sessions on mp3 ripped from cassettes. That's your best shot to get them I'd think. The Musical Youth for one is murther!

[lenroy]

John Peel and his shows producer John Walters, formed a record label called Strange Fruit to release all deemed in demand sessions that were recorded and aired. Obviously, not every reggae artists work was ever released. kalcidis@greece is right in that the Culture, Aswad, Capital Letters, Musical Youth etc were released to the public. The website might still be functioning. When I looked (many years ago now) there was a catalogue listing of releases and what was still available. Bearing in mind that John Peel is now dead and John Walters (in my opinion) never seemed to have a natural affinity to reggae, I wouldn't think that there would be much there to appeal to anyone checking this forum. Have a look, the label may still be running.

[Herm-one]

I have an album by (BLACK ROOTS - IN SESSION 1985)
I also have a recording of (PRINCE FAR I ) in a John Peel session with 10 songs.

[Midgieman]

I Have Misty In Roots At John Peel Session

[rasralo]

Yeah, the BLACK ROOTS LP and the MISTY set I have got in my collection.
Never heard about a PRINCE FAR I recording at John Peel.

Thanks

[Chaz]

Prince Fari did one session for John Peel’s radio program. It was never released on record or CD.

It certainly was not 10 numbers though:

07/06/1978 - Prince Far I And Creation Rebel

Spoken Introduction
Black Man's Land
No More War
The Dream
Foggy Road
Front Line

[lenroy]

A small world. I remember listening to that particular broadcast. In regard to rasralo's enquiry about reggae sessions availability from the John Peel show I've had a look on a Strange Fruit records catalogue listing and there is virtually nothing there.

[i@n]

The Far-I Peel session is kicking about the internet if you look hard enough.

[dubdoudou]

Infos I found:

Prince Far I
with Creation Rebel
B.B.C. John Peel session
First broadcast 4th July 1978


1 Spoken Introduction
2 Black Man Land
3 No More War
4 The Dream
5 Foggy Road
6 Frontline

Recorded June 1978

Prince Far I - Lead Vocals
Clinton Jack - Bass
Vernon - Guitar
Charlie - Drums
Clifton Morrison - Keyboards
Dr. Pablo (Augustus) - Melodica

Rebroadcast 13 November 2005
Producer - Jeff Griffin