blue riddim band

[joker smoker]

When I was in the 9th grade in high school, (in 89) a bought a cassete by this band i dont remember the title of cass. but one track i do remember is nancy reagan. good stuff!! jah bless

[benjamin]

Truely nice. They played your song in the reggae Sunsplash. Here you have the history of the band.

http://niceup.com/writers/carter/blueriddim

[JOKER SMOKER]

BENJAMIN. THANKS FOR THE INSIGHT. DO YOU KNOW THE NAME TO THAT PARTICULAR ALBUM? JAH BLESS

[Bellyman]

The song should be on their first album. Just called 'Blue Riddim Band' and independently released on 'A Major Label'records around 1980. They on ly made three albums, this first, 'Restless Spirits' (see Roots Archives) and 'Alive in Jamaica'. The last is supposed to be recorded live. The last two albums came out on 'Flying Fish' records in the States (1981 and 1982).

[Zionist]

This is an old thread deserving of revival. Blue Riddim band didn't look "authentic" - but they sure sounded like the real deal! What nice vibes on the two clips linked below. The sunsplash video (Nancy Reagan) is a real treat - as is the other one - a spot on instrumental cover of what I think the killer, Original Survivors "Come Away Jah Jah Children." Sounds pretty much like the Black Disciples to me...

Also a good read about the history of this under-rated group. As it was said, all the attention that was lavished on UB40 should have gone to these guys instead!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrMZj3wl ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsGgXYHV ... L&index=58

http://marcoonthebass.blogspot.com/2009 ... -band.html

Anybody else here like these guys? Sadly, a couple of their leading members passed away (including Scotty, the singer/trumpeter) but they are still around.

[Musitronics]

I like them Nancy Reagan is wicked tune! It's sad though I remember they got boo'd when they walked on stage at that sunsplash gig, the video doesn't show it, I guess a lot of artists get heckled but this was one band that truly didn't deserve it.

[rastaguy1]

The tune, "Nancy Reagan," mashes up the '80s scene!

Love it!

[Zionist]

I like them Nancy Reagan is wicked tune! It's sad though I remember they got boo'd when they walked on stage at that sunsplash gig, the video doesn't show it, I guess a lot of artists get heckled but this was one band that truly didn't deserve it.

I wish I had been there (I was a little kid then...) They may have been booed initially, but according to this, they stole the show.

Reggae In Transit
By Tony Matthews
REGGAE SUNSPLASH ‘82’ came to an interesting conclusion at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday August 8, 1982. Some estimates gave figures of up to 100,000 fans lingering In Jarrett Park suffering some mediocre talent enduring their ordeal, waiting to be taken to ultimate MUSICAL ECSTASY by their idol — DENNIS BROWN — who was billed as the last of the REGGAE SUPERSTARS on the MARATHON 4 NIGHT REGGAE SUNSPLASH ‘82 MUSICAL FEAST

‘We all love the MIGHTY DIAMONDS, and a capacity crowd grooved Thursday night until Friday morning waiting to hear them. Nothing spectacular happened. I am busy trying to organize myself in the crowd to find some good angles for my pictures when the announcement is made — immediately there is a mood everybody is getting ready to have a good laugh at some white cats coming to the home of reggae to play REGGAE. Obviously these cats have got to be crazy or something. To my left stood two Jamaican dreads, since there were dreads from as far as Japan I make the distinction) I could hear the snigger in his voice as he said: “Bloum-Beet, a whe dem white bway ya a go? Dem tink any white can hangle dis riddim yah”. By this time Bagga Brown had gone through his little verbage and finally the guys on stage turned out to be “The Blue Riddim Band”, that tickled me a bit since the dread figured that “no Whitey can’t bangle dis ya RIDDIM yah”.

After five minutes tune up the Blue Riddim goes right into their thing —. clean and I mean clean, the Drummer; mountain of BLONDE locks under his hat is drumming up a storm, and there is a cat with a Red and White bandana round his face cowboy style, playing. a mean blue harmonica - a horn section that is crisp and clean, a tenor man, shades of Dean Fraser.

All of a sudden Jarrett Park is Jamming like crazy like all 40,000 people are standing and singing along as the old favourites reverberate across the park. The Dread beside me looks at his “spar” in amazement and says: “Jab know — dem whitey ya a play some wicked music, star” and starts to groove on his sense. Cool

BLUE RIDDIM HAD ARRIVED and Bagga Brown knew, and I knew when the Bald Headed cat put down his SAX and picked up his TROMBONE --- the Park mash dung now. From the first peal of the sliding born — DON DRUMMOND’S memory was like a living flame rekindled by the instrument which he immortalised.

Bagga stepped in, maybe he realised something deeper as I did of what was unfolding before our very eyes at SpIash ‘82’, he tried to get them off stage but “EASTERN STANDARD TIME” was on their minds so the crowd HUNGERED for more “BLUE EYE REGGAE” as Bagga so aptly put it. So BLUE RIDDIM came back for an ENCORE, and scored the greatest success of their career — The pressure was now on like a Vice — The Diamonds had to come on at maybe 7.00 am: and one-up the Blue Eyed Reggae, could they do it?

Finally the Diamonds came on, it was now daylight, people were tired but stood their ground hoping for a sterling performance by the MIGHTY DIAMONDS One could sense that they were aware of their up bill Climb.

Although people were shouting for their old favourites like “Pass the Cutchie” they still had their work out. The Blue Riddim had set a high standard The first half of the Diamonds repertoire was rather bland — They saved “Pass the Cutchie” for their encore and just about got over, So, bleary eyed all 40,000 stumbled out of Jarrett Park talking In hushed tones about the Blue Riddim Band how they stole the show.

http://www.kcreggae.org/Artists/Blue_Ri ... ransit.htm