[FoundationStepper]

Ranking, on Sep 17 2006, 12:12 PM, said:

...I saw Chris Blackwell in Nassau, Bahamas, drinking the blood of a fowl frm a rum glass at his new studio in Compass Point...

...Scratch goes on to allege: "Chris Blackwell is a vampire sucking the blood of the sufferer. Tom Haynes his lawyer is a vampire. His secretary Denise is a witch who claims to me she is a high priestess." To the latter statement Partridge replies, "she has many talents but has never yet revealed a penchant for witchcraft"...

classic

[dunchillin]

Mickie did you just read my 2nd post and then skip to the end?

It's called taking the piss. Anyone genuinely being racist would in the past have had their head introduced to my bat, and now.... well, I hope we don't find out.

If I'm being mis-interpreted (again) all I can say is..................tough.

[crazybaldread]

What producer of dem times didn't rip off the artist? Really is Coxsone a vampire? Is Joe Gibbs a vampire? Is Scratch a vampire? etc etc.....

[dunchillin]

crazybaldread, on Sep 18 2006, 10:45 AM, said:

Is Scratch a vampire? etc etc.....

wasn't it you who said when we get mad at others for something it's usually because we see that trait in ourselves...?

[crazybaldread]

dunchillin, on Sep 18 2006, 11:15 AM, said:

wasn't it you who said when we get mad at others for something it's usually because we see that trait in ourselves...?

Touche dunchillen.... Like I said a grain of salt is best served with most of my ideas... Never to be taken as gospel....

But yes I do believe that we live in a world of mirrors....

[Sabotage]

I think he did a bloody good job on catch a fire.... to start off with a total straight up reggae sound recorded in jamaica and use foreign musicians to overdub tracks to make it work internationally, is a big achievement considering of course that reggae was considered to be an absolute joke in the UK before that record, and the musos he hired had heard nothing like it before but managed to fit in exceptionally well.....

he gave the wailers the trust and the money they needed to record that record, and then when he had that in the can he added to it instead of diluting it. big him up for dat...dunno what he did after that tho LOL

[Chris]

With the Professor and Sabotage on this one.The good far outways the bad. In short it is unclear to me why he gets the bad press. Surely his business practices wouldn't be all that unethical by the standardsof the industry?

[L.Static]

professor, on Jun 16 2006, 10:00 PM, said:

Suffice to say Blackwell's efforts were crucial to establishing reggae outside of JA, we may not have been chatting here without him. He gets badmouthed a lot over his business dealings, I'm not sure how much of it is deserved. On balance he's definitely in positive territory.

Most of you that made a post here about Blackwell understand little about Jamaica, its culture, its record industry and his business and personal history. That is the first thing, the second is he was pivotal in launching the Ja. music scene with his productions
(i.e. "Boogie In My Bones" B/W "Little Sheila"-Laurel Aitken) which were some of the first locally recorded hits. And distributing and licensing Ja. music in the U.K. with Island set up circa '62. And thirdly it is my opinion and experience that anyone else who would've been in Blackwells shoes would have got the same kinda flak. The Bob Marley thing came after he'd been in the business for several years. I'm not saying I know or understand everything, but gosh read these posts. He was a neccessary evil at worst case scenario. I've had that Lee Perry "Judgement In A Babylon" 12" for over ten years and it makes me giggle, but so does half the other stuff Scratch says post Black Ark. Oh, and Rita Marley she is the richest woman in the Carribean (fortune estimated around $200 million U.S.) what does she do other than try and take ex Wailers members to court so she can own more of the Marley legacy??????????????????

[Selecta Bing]

It is a common thing in the Carribean to mix little chicken blood with a little rum and spurt it in the corners of a new premises and that is what CB was doing.

Scratch would certainlty have had a beef with CB and has had with several others in the past standard thing in JA runnings from what I have read.