Brilliant speach Nick i was too young to remember those early dances but started to reach in the late 80s and 90s but i was always up all night 3 to 6am to listen to ur show Nick was a massive influence on me to the roots scene big up to u and still hear 40 years later bless up Nick Manasseh
Great memories from Manesseh on the Great Man Jah Shaka. Nicks description of being at Shaka dances strike a chord with me. Was an inspirational experience.
Some great memories and a great little history lesson. Shaka last DJ'd in Paris, in the early hours of 2nd April, for three hours, but not on his own system. The last two times the Jah Shaka sound system fired up, was in Birmingham at Lab 11, on 27th December 2022, all night session. And finally in East London, at E1, on the 7th January 2023, again, all night. He was quite old, but he still used to play 6/7/8 hour sessions, not even stopping to piss. He was a force of nature. The true King of the Sound System, as in an example to us all. "GWAAAAN SHAKA!"
When " Manasseh " used to be on " Kiss fm " it was on a Sunday Morning from 3:00 am to 6:00 am . If we was out raving on a Saturday night i would pay my little brother to Tape the show while i was out . And then you would try to search out any tunes you heard for the rest of the week . North , South , East & West , All over to search out tunes . Friday nights would be when new JA pre"s would become available in the Reggae shops , If you blinked you would have missed them , Great Times indeed .
Those times minidisc recorder was working well! I used to set the timer to come at 3 on when martin campbell used to say "you're listening to manasseh...on kiss..100 fm" truth be told I'm still looking for a few tunes from those old recordings...gwaan manasseh
We used to listen to Nick on Kiss FM in the car on the way back from the Shaka dances. Particularly remember coming out the Arches sessions at 5am, putting on the radio and Nick giving a big shout to all those coming out of the Shaka dance...
That was a really good eulogy of Jah Shaka. Alas Shaka inspired so many imitators who are at best clownish and pitiful, at worst cringe and insufferable...... Shaka made Soundsystem a THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE, the forced and exaggerated dancing, playing the priest/preacher/pastor role...... Shaka made his soundsystem about Himself, the individual, not the 'crew', HE was the focus, the 'cult of personality'...... Some are drawn to the 'crew' aspect of soundsystem and some to use it as a platform for themself, a vehicle for their EGO...... We don't need another Shaka OR ANY poor copies....... i say that not out of reverence for Shaka, but because the European Shaka copies are SO cringe and insufferable, please just stop it right now....... They litter the music with too much echo and siren because THAT is their 'musical' contribution to the sound coming from the speakers, again a man's EGO ruins everything for everyone else , why can't they just let the music play without compulsively hitting that siren again and again for a little dopamine EGO hit every time they press it....... which brings me to the MIC ACTION which seems to be what "Dub" means to Europeans under 35 years old...... They call themselves "Dub This" and "Dub That" and every event is "DUB DUB DUB WORLD NIGHT OF DUB MUSIC WITH DUB 'artists' " and yet it is always talentless egotist microphone posers talking idiotic cliche and "jah" nonsense OVER the song, then when they get to the famous DUB you use to market yourselves, the microphone poser jabbers allover THAT TOO so we NEVER GET ANY DUB, just mic action , mic action , mic action yet NONE of them ever have any LYRICS or INSPIRATION except to regurgitate the same old "jah, king of kings, lord of lords" nonsense that NONE of them truly believe in
@@Bmaticthats fashion for you. Draining the life blood. I first saw Shaka, late in his career in 1988. After 96, it became meaningless for me. But when the current fashion dies, as it will, the true followers will still remember the original nights.
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Brilliant speach Nick i was too young to remember those early dances but started to reach in the late 80s and 90s but i was always up all night 3 to 6am to listen to ur show Nick was a massive influence on me to the roots scene big up to u and still hear 40 years later bless up Nick Manasseh
Great memories from Manesseh on the Great Man Jah Shaka. Nicks description of being at Shaka dances strike a chord with me. Was an inspirational experience.
Some great memories and a great little history lesson. Shaka last DJ'd in Paris, in the early hours of 2nd April, for three hours, but not on his own system. The last two times the Jah Shaka sound system fired up, was in Birmingham at Lab 11, on 27th December 2022, all night session. And finally in East London, at E1, on the 7th January 2023, again, all night. He was quite old, but he still used to play 6/7/8 hour sessions, not even stopping to piss. He was a force of nature. The true King of the Sound System, as in an example to us all. "GWAAAAN SHAKA!"
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When " Manasseh " used to be on " Kiss fm " it was on a Sunday Morning from 3:00 am to 6:00 am . If we was out raving on a Saturday night i would pay my little brother to Tape the show while i was out . And then you would try to search out any tunes you heard for the rest of the week . North , South , East & West , All over to search out tunes . Friday nights would be when new JA pre"s would become available in the Reggae shops , If you blinked you would have missed them , Great Times indeed .
Those times minidisc recorder was working well! I used to set the timer to come at 3 on when martin campbell used to say "you're listening to manasseh...on kiss..100 fm" truth be told I'm still looking for a few tunes from those old recordings...gwaan manasseh
LOL , I forgot all about the " Martin Campbell " intro .
We used to listen to Nick on Kiss FM in the car on the way back from the Shaka dances. Particularly remember coming out the Arches sessions at 5am, putting on the radio and Nick giving a big shout to all those coming out of the Shaka dance...
Yh man them days..joey Jay and nick manasseh tear through radio waves
Great rememberance speech. Very moving and emotional hearing that! Lots of good memories!
That was such a great essay.
Nice one Nick.
Yh Friday evening after work man go from one record shop to the next till you make full circle
Don't like to hear Raphael describing himself as "white". WE THE YELLOW MAN!
That was a really good eulogy of Jah Shaka. Alas Shaka inspired so many imitators who are at best clownish and pitiful, at worst cringe and insufferable...... Shaka made Soundsystem a THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE, the forced and exaggerated dancing, playing the priest/preacher/pastor role...... Shaka made his soundsystem about Himself, the individual, not the 'crew', HE was the focus, the 'cult of personality'...... Some are drawn to the 'crew' aspect of soundsystem and some to use it as a platform for themself, a vehicle for their EGO...... We don't need another Shaka OR ANY poor copies....... i say that not out of reverence for Shaka, but because the European Shaka copies are SO cringe and insufferable, please just stop it right now....... They litter the music with too much echo and siren because THAT is their 'musical' contribution to the sound coming from the speakers, again a man's EGO ruins everything for everyone else , why can't they just let the music play without compulsively hitting that siren again and again for a little dopamine EGO hit every time they press it....... which brings me to the MIC ACTION which seems to be what "Dub" means to Europeans under 35 years old...... They call themselves "Dub This" and "Dub That" and every event is "DUB DUB DUB WORLD NIGHT OF DUB MUSIC WITH DUB 'artists' " and yet it is always talentless egotist microphone posers talking idiotic cliche and "jah" nonsense OVER the song, then when they get to the famous DUB you use to market yourselves, the microphone poser jabbers allover THAT TOO so we NEVER GET ANY DUB, just mic action , mic action , mic action yet NONE of them ever have any LYRICS or INSPIRATION except to regurgitate the same old "jah, king of kings, lord of lords" nonsense that NONE of them truly believe in
A decent quality rant & i agree with several observations
@@Bmaticthats fashion for you. Draining the life blood. I first saw Shaka, late in his career in 1988. After 96, it became meaningless for me. But when the current fashion dies, as it will, the true followers will still remember the original nights.
Massive thanks for this, amazing