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Visitor wrote:nickfa wrote :To me the track A Big Joke, sounds remarkably like the Joe Gibbs version Ghost capturer, perhaps that was the joke perry nicked the track back and added the laughing.
Nick

I only know that track from "truth and wizdom" compilation (that compilation has some non-perry tunes). It might be it isn't upsetter related at all.

David Katz, in the book "People Funny Boy", agrees with Nick on this...
(although he calles it Bigger Joke):

"...Perry eventually got his own back by re-pressing Gibbs´version with added mechanical laughter effects..."
(page 119, first edition of the book)

Thanks for that Blackarkrock,
i will have to re read that book noew or at least page 119.
thanks for info
Nick

Mick Sleeper wrote:I like High Plains Drifter, but none of the songs really stand out for me. There are much cooler and groovier Upsetters instrumentals from that era that have already been compiled.

Always nice to see this stuff resuscitated and re-published by a legit press. Agree that some of the material is less than thrilling. Glad I passed on the 7s because the non-LP versions are yawners for the most part. Still awaiting my silkscreened-jacket LP--couldn't resist that, mostly 'cause the second "Sound System" on Pressure was so GD good!

Visitor wrote:I find this one rather boring compared to the latest Trojan "Black Ark era" release. Talking about Candy McKenzie of course.

No one's a bigger Black Ark freak than me (OK, it's close with Mick!), but the Candy LP just isn't very good. Walking In the Sun is fantastic, but it was already re-issued. Have to strongly disagree with Mick that Candy is better than Pipecock Jackxon, apart from the sheer new-ness of it.

RestoreJuniorByles wrote: No one's a bigger Black Ark freak than me (OK, it's close with Mick!), but the Candy LP just isn't very good. Walking In the Sun is fantastic, but it was already re-issued. Have to strongly disagree with Mick that Candy is better than Pipecock Jackxon, apart from the sheer new-ness of it.

Yeah, I agree that the Candy LP is good, but not great. I love her voice, but the material isn't as strong as it could have been. Did I say that the Candy LP is "better" than Pipecock? I think that Pipecock Jacxson is sort of a weird candidate for reissue when there is much better Black Ark material still out there in vinyl oblivion waiting to be restored and reissued. If Trojan had re-released Pipecock 5 years ago, that would have made sense; at a time when so little good reggae is being reissued, it's definitely an odd choice.

I think High plains drifter is a great link from the cheese organ of africas blood and return of django to the early black art stuff like enter the dragon and silver bullets and return of the wax and such. Just as pipecock is the missing link between the end of the ark and the beginning of Perry’s modern streams of conscious.

I think it is an important release, unlike Mick, I haven’t heard many of these tracks before.

I liked the Candy LP not for her singing or the songs so much as for the Production by Perry to me it showed how good he was at making pop records with a reggae soul twinge.

I have to agree with Mick, it’s disappointing that Pipecock got re-released to the exclusion of other material.

haven't yet gotten this but i don't anticipate loving it as much as that return of sound system scratch (totally different styles, i know, but in terms of interesting compilations). the one qualifier to that is that i'm super excited to get the iniquity workers track. i passed on picking up the orig 45 years back for $10, just kept putting it off. every time i passed through it was sitting there and i never nabbed it, big regret! love that one, serious roots in the jerky upsetter phase (sounds kinda post-words of my mouth but pre kung fu LP).

Surprised people on here seem to not like this that much. I think it's great. Love this era of Scratch's career. Big Busty Brown fan as well.