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Anyone heard this LP? From what I can gather it's a Wackies production from 1983, but it's not listed on Roots Archives...

Crazy - no one knows about this LP, it seems...

I think I've read about this LP in some Lloyd Barnes interview or wackies story.but as far as I remember this one was special for the Japan market for the "Tachyon" label, but not much copies were released, so this one became a very hard to find in europe and USA, probably you should search in Japan )

Yeah, probably you should search fo Tachyon

Max Romeo Interview (on reggae-vibes.com)

Q: And Wackies too, you did 'I Love My Music' for him at that time.

A: Mmm, 'I Love My Music'. A lot of songs through Wackies was Japanese people.

Q: You mean Tachyon Music, Sonny Ochai?

A: Sonny Ochai, yeah, of Tachyon Music in Japan. I did a couple of albums for them.

David Katz "Max Romeo:Chasing The Devil With Lyrics" www.upsetter.net

Shifting his base to New York in this period, Max's recorded output began to slow down. "I bought myself 3 vans, and started a courier service in New York, just to cool my head off. Then I met Sonny Ochai finally, I took him to Bullwackie who had a little studio in New York. We did that album, 'I Love My Music.' That's what started Tachyon actually, and I did this album that Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones played lead guitar on, 'Holding Out My Love to You.' I gave
Tachyon that as well, it was released through Shanachie Records. That was how the whole Japanese thing came through."

And that's the interview of Lloyd http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/smallaxe/wac ... fmusic.htm

“Some of them have only been released in Japan, by Tachyon. The cost of manufacturing in Japan is so expensive; those records never made it to the rest of the world."

That is probably why they couldn't be found

Thanks for the responses! Reason I was asking is that I'd taken a chance and bought a copy, but was waiting for it to arrive. It turned up today and it's killer!

Lucky You! Hope to see and hear this one to someday if there's gona be some left )

Well, I should add "killer apart from a dodgy cover of 'Let It Be'"!

I know of this album, i'ts "wackies" catalogue number,
LU 25-5009
I don't have the album but I have a 12" single from it,
"Call me when the heartache starts" catalogue number,
W 689
Try these addresses,

Wackies N.Y
4731 White plains road
Bronx, N.Y 10470
Tel. 212 655 8461

Youth promotion
1, Robert Crescent
Kingston 5
Jamaica.

I once received a message from Max, and I think it was via My Space"

Good luck,

Paul.