reissue wish lists
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:04 am
What do you wish would be reissued? Seems to me there's lots of stuff left in the vaults. And some artists are much better represented than others. I love Joe Gibbs, but his stuff has flooded the market to the exclusion of some others recently, I think. Here's a short list off the top of my head of things I either know exist or wonder about that I wish were more easily accessible:
-All the Dr. Alimantado lps on Keyman. In the mix 1-5, Kings Bread, Wonderful Time, Love is..., etc. I love this stuff but never hear anyone even talking about it! An old friend used to have all these. He sold them all. i've never heard them since. (maybe 15 years ago)
-The vocal and or dj cuts to the Mudie meets King Tubby dub albums. Why are these dub albums well known, but not the original cuts? I don't get it. Or are they and I'm just in the dark?
-More of the 70's Studio One stuff, exemplified by the spacey instrumentals by Bagga Walker and Pablove Black. I know some of this is out there, but I suspect there's lots more in the vaults.
-There's no shortage of Bunny Lee productions, but in the movie Dub Echoes we can see his room crammed with old tapes gathering dust. What are these? Have they all been released even?
I don't know what keeps this stuff from seeing the light of day. Or maybe I do. No one has the time or money to put in for what would probably be little return!
-All the Dr. Alimantado lps on Keyman. In the mix 1-5, Kings Bread, Wonderful Time, Love is..., etc. I love this stuff but never hear anyone even talking about it! An old friend used to have all these. He sold them all. i've never heard them since. (maybe 15 years ago)
-The vocal and or dj cuts to the Mudie meets King Tubby dub albums. Why are these dub albums well known, but not the original cuts? I don't get it. Or are they and I'm just in the dark?
-More of the 70's Studio One stuff, exemplified by the spacey instrumentals by Bagga Walker and Pablove Black. I know some of this is out there, but I suspect there's lots more in the vaults.
-There's no shortage of Bunny Lee productions, but in the movie Dub Echoes we can see his room crammed with old tapes gathering dust. What are these? Have they all been released even?
I don't know what keeps this stuff from seeing the light of day. Or maybe I do. No one has the time or money to put in for what would probably be little return!