hugh mundell- jah fire LP original
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Papa Ahmz
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Re: hugh mundell- jah fire LP original
I agree with Pisces..Castell had an equal amount of material pon the record, so the title is indeed misleading and short-changes him. Even though he's credited on the liner notes, his name shoulda appeared alongside Hugh's.
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Bellyman
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Re: hugh mundell- jah fire LP original
Well Pisces and Ahmz,
I think it is quit simple why there is no mention of Lacksley Castell on the cover. Remember, this is the Live & Love release from 1980, Hugh Mundell was well known to everyone who was interested in roots in those days and who had heard of Lacksley ?
IMO the people who managed the Live & Love label then just wanted to sell a record and Mundell's name was the seller then, riding high on the success of the recordings he did with Pablo. His 7" and 12" singles all sold well back then, it's just a money thing, easy like that. This is the late 70's/early 80's and there was no such thing like 'correctness' in which all those great re-release labels deal nowadays.
I remember a lot of discussions from those days when some people tried to tell me that Hugh Mundell and Lacksley Castell are identical persons...ridiculous nowadays, but then it took a whole heap a patience to get these things straight.
Anyway, maybe some day in the near future some label (Blood & Fire, Pressure Sounds, Auralux, Makasound or whoever)will put this one out again and then will name both artists like it should have been in the first place.
Greetings.
I think it is quit simple why there is no mention of Lacksley Castell on the cover. Remember, this is the Live & Love release from 1980, Hugh Mundell was well known to everyone who was interested in roots in those days and who had heard of Lacksley ?
IMO the people who managed the Live & Love label then just wanted to sell a record and Mundell's name was the seller then, riding high on the success of the recordings he did with Pablo. His 7" and 12" singles all sold well back then, it's just a money thing, easy like that. This is the late 70's/early 80's and there was no such thing like 'correctness' in which all those great re-release labels deal nowadays.
I remember a lot of discussions from those days when some people tried to tell me that Hugh Mundell and Lacksley Castell are identical persons...ridiculous nowadays, but then it took a whole heap a patience to get these things straight.
Anyway, maybe some day in the near future some label (Blood & Fire, Pressure Sounds, Auralux, Makasound or whoever)will put this one out again and then will name both artists like it should have been in the first place.
Greetings.
rougher yet