Nuff bitter people on here. Listen Roddy is a Legend straight up, he played Reggae back when it was not popular outside of Jamaica and only Reggae. The man has been pure comitted to the scene for TIME and has got the scars to prove it. I think his battle chest of Dubs from every big time artist since the 80's speaks volumes honestly. Reggae is about ONE LOVE leave the bitterness at home.
Uncle Sleven no that's not true reggae has always been popular in those times it was not mainstream in the uk but it was popular amongst blacks mainly David rodigan got a mainstream radio show when reggae wasn't popular amongst white people I will give him that
I feel you Tommy, just doesn't feel right people trashing him when all he has ever tried to do is spread the sweet reggae vibes? I know for a fact that radio show made reggae mainstream in mainstream society in the 80's, if you wanna call it white society fair enough but a lot of other black people heard that show on the world service. I think if you asked him yourself I reckon he would say himself 60's and 70's systems were crucial and that the scene was great then he just came in later and did everything he could because he fell in love with the it. The man clashed BARRY G in 83! I mean cmon man. Everyone remembers those great times I think we should all just spread these sweet sounds to everyman we can.
Uncle Sleven I do rate rodigan for his work he has put in no doubt but it just pisses me off when people get credit for something they are not that's all
Speaking highly about a "Radio DJ" who NEVER owned a sound or made an effort to BUILD a Sound System & play to the ghetto here in London. Transforming Sound System presentation from floor level WITH the people to on stage jumping around nonsense. Don't rate him from he played ON MY yout sound in 87. Big Up Original Mikey Dread & Tony Williams. 2 guys doing it BEFORE Rodigan. Sound System DIDN'T play in clubs, that where rodigan & snobs went. Dont even talk about Clashing when Rodigan NEVER knew the art & have dubs & couldn't play 45. Our parents who CAME from Yard were getting pres from relatives & didn't NEED no radio dj to highlight these tunes. The same thing sound men were doing anyway.
Mikey Dread is a legend and arguably part of the second best reggae soundsystem in the world. He is entitled to his opinion but most of us weren't there so we don't know really what went down. It's between them. But just as Mikey Dread is a pioneer and responsible for bringing education and joy through playing reggae so has Rodigan and anyone who has ever suffered prejudice can also appreciate that despite him being white and not from poor circumstances he faced his own persecution on the journey of him being part of putting reggae on the map. Whatever people want to accuse him of, over the many years he earned his stripes and worked hard and at the end of the day probably knows a damn lot more about reggae music here than most of the people on here complaining about him.
People have to give David Rodigan respect.He has done a lot for reggae music.People need to know that if it was not for Rodigan some recording artists would not be getting royalties due to them for the music that they recorded.
E CRIS LE MAITRE I respect rodigan for his contrabution to reggae but thiers many other people that done more than him for reggae in England that don't get any props like saxon John peel etc it's always the white guy that gets the props it pisses me off rodigan is a dj that helped push the music and bussiness of reggae he's not a pioneer
Is Saxon white? No. David Rodigan was the first white deejay to host a national reggae show in the UK and that makes him a pioneer. I gives props where it's due and Rodigan has earned his for being first
yo blood this interview is golden blood but when i get back to London i would really like to meet you in person uncle Roddy and shake your danm hand man i really respect your love for this music i also love big up and long life in blood
He hung and learned from the pioneers good for him so he could carry on using his access to the BBC and capital to continue promoting the greatness of reggae music but pioneer no perhaps The Establishments UK Reggae DJ....?
I take it none of you have got Jamaican blood because if you did you would know that the records David Rodigan was playing were being played by sound systems week in week out so in what way is he a pioneer
Really enjoy the interview.. a man with a lot of understanding about the music with a lot of charisma, much love RADDIGON I'm gonna buy dat book. I and I rememba the day with Barry G and Raddy ... di good old days. Bless up mi messenger.
RESPECT to the Blackbird leys crew! RIP David Noland, big up Portmeddow party people......Jericho crew.....Kingston Road......Happy Days....Peace&Dub!!
Capital Radio made Rodigan,Anyone who thinks colour had nothing to do with it,wasn't around the struggling Reggae artist trying to get their songs played on the radio,no pirate stations back then,playing Reggae all day.Big up Rico & Eddie Grant,Count Suckle,Coxsone,Jah Shaka,Fatman, Saxo, just some of names who pioneer reggae from the Uk!
A True Legend. Nuff Memories of growing up in North London and tuning into Capital Radio to listen to “Roddy” fling down his tunes and jingles. There was nothing better. He has a Reggae Encyclopedia imbedded in his brain. 👍🏽
When I was at JBC, I did a demo program for David Rodigan from London who used to write me as a penpal saying he would one day like to do a reggae show like mine in England. He asked me to do a show and mail it to him. I did it and he took it to the BBC and they thought he did it and gave him a job. I went to London in 1979 to do some PR work on my first album, “Dread At The Controls”, for Trojan, and brought my jingles and my knowledge to show and teach Rodigan: why I played this, why I played that song, etc. I schooled him (I am not a racist - but I see why some Black people were against me in London for showing Rodigan anything. They hated him and advised me not to do it. Rodigan knew what he was doing. I was told I was being used - but I said let’s keep reggae on the airwaves in London - and I ignored what their caution. Today, I take the blame, I was warned more than once, etc - and if you should interview Rodigan, ask him how he got his first Radio job on BBC ask him who showed him about using jingles (my jingles were his first jingles) - as no one in the UK knew of this style of Radio. Dread Broadcasting used to use my tapes and re-broadcast them, I loved them for this. Sound systems used to cut Dub plates from my show which was and still is Hot Property in the UK. Today, I see Rodigan and all those pseudo people taking credit and acting like they have amnesia and such - but time will tell. David Rodigan can’t pay me for giving him a career in Reggae and making him a somebody. Did anybody know of him before I put him on UK radio? Who is this reggae invader, anyway?
57 years of age now and been around for some time. I like you have been around from the 60s. Died for Black music on the radio in London where I grew up. Frustration was the word of feeling for a long time and pause pushing on my keyboard cassette recorder. So I feel what you are saying... Excuse my ignorance for not coming across you or this post about you before now. But since the br'uck' with Lloyd Coxsone, it got me wanting to find out more as to why David has been 'crowed' King...' There was a time when the Chinese treated the late great Bruce Lee with contempt because he exposed Jeet Kune Do & Wing Chun ( Kung Fu ) to a completely different culture, so if as you say people cussed you for sharing your knowledge in and around 1978, take comfort from the fact that today BBC 1 is still playing Reggae and all the subcultural music that has sprung from Jamaican music. Beleive me, it was a mega negative BBC radio backed by a racist board of directors who did not like anything which they considered unorthodox and minority. I would have thought David would have given you some credit. One thing for sure, and like anyone who is clever enough ( and ''completely nuts'' for something... As David says), why wouldn't he take full advantage as that wicked Welsh pirate Captain Morgan did BITD..? King, he is not. ( His book,' My Life in Reggae' may suggest that, but does David actually claim himself that he is..?) A maestro he certainly is & Dam clever. Nevertheless, if he has not given a BIG UP to all those Sound men who was there long before him, that is where the hate, anger, and racist remarks are coming from. David has the platform to himself, he could use it if he chooses, however, he wants... The Apollo Club in Willesden, I remember well. Booed and jeered at the star of the show was putting it mildly! Bouncing Ball club in Peckham and Gossips just off Wardour Street, remember that well!!! If you have AV media, please share it on RUclips. It is the past that is taking us thru' to the future. My family is actually from Clarendon. I would have loved to have seen that clash with 'Bodyguard Soundsystem' back in 91. The way I see it... It's like Waggy T. He is a Chinese Jamaican deejay, sound system operator and selector from way back ( last I heard he was in Canada...) and got plenty of negative vibes when people realized he was not Black Jamaican... You remember Yellowman...Need I say more about the nasty way his own people treat him back a yard when he was coming up. Yet King Yellowman stands tall and shines thru' all the negativeness he had to endure growing up ... And David will continue to do the same. And add more fame. Some say, primarily, because he is a white Englishman who boldly went where no man went before him... Back a yard and took something totally Jamaican and made it a household abstract word on the mouth of plenty non-white as well as European people along with all the greats like Bob, Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Decker, Jacob Miller, Toots Hibbit and not forgetting the one hit wonder gal, Millie, as well as many many more! Tommy Smith ( Is how you get such a pretty English name anyway...I am curious to know? And what was your radio programme called. Apart from Bodyguard sound, I also know Vulcano sound as well as Kilimanjaro from its beginnings. Those sounds will have featured highly with you back then. Use your position and tell us more. People are listening! With 'nuff respect!
prove it or shut up! There is always someone to try and take the credit to make themselves look good. No one has heard about you and all that you are trying to do is to try and beat RAM JAM down arsehole. RAM JAM blessings mate.
I think what some people are missing in the Rodigan or Robb and Gone debate is exactly what the title on this RUclips clip says 'Pioneeer' or in the ITV video where Rodigan was labelled the Godfather of reggae music- a pioneer is someone who is the first or amongst the first to create or discover something- just like Columbus was not the first to discover America as there where idegenous people their already - Rodigan was not the first or amongst the first to spread reggae music across the UK and Europe- that recognition should go to the likes of Sir Coxsone- What I and many take offense to is that in many interviews such as this one when Rodigan is introduced as a pioneer or godfather he does not correct/school or acknowledge the REAL pioneers and Godfather as real a student of the music should do-it-as a sign of respect to his peers that came before him
Great interview with additional background information and essential advice for all DJs by Sir Rodigan. Like that... rewind and come again. Frankie G from Germany
David Rodigan yeah absolutely right is the music that keeps us going is the music that is our spirit I'm a DJ on the radio without my music I'm lost my music is my best friend you've done well writing I listened to your show and and get some tips from you from the Lodge of your music keep up the good work Mr David RAM jam Rodigan
rodigan is not a pioneer i am an elder now , i was a youth in the 70s & when i started gong to dance hall to watch the sounds of that day clashing with other sounds it was one for one all the way till it done plus the sound systems played with one deck & the selector & the crew had there backs to the crowd .rodigan has not bust any artist from jamaica don't forget artist like millie small prince buster they were doing there thing in the 60s & at this time & there was NO RODIGAN AT TIME all those who think he is a pioneer they are welcome to think so but it don't make true Lloyd coxson is right . i don't have anything against rodigan but we have to tell the truth
Um Tony Williams first Sunday rice n peas show with DR as side kick for competition winners then went to capital radio this guy never had a sound system so he played in the west end of London gossip night club with face
`Rodigan is not a pioneer there were a lot of people before him. I have nothing against David Rodigan personally but to call him a pioneer is not true. remember black Jamaicans brought their music with them from Jamaica to England & they created a sound system culture & this sound system culture was around a very long time before Rodigan came on the scene. it's about time people get the Tarzan syndrome from their minds.
A pioneer for playing reggae music on the radio as he said when he heard to the music...people forget it was Festus Coxsone Rodigan spent his days with when he lived in Putney - where he learned much of his craft but as usual these things dont get a mention. If he was a true pioneer he would give credit where credit is due...only a matter of time
Ppl dont b blinded. Ppl listen to the late Castro brown n the great lloyd coxson. Rodigan is a very very good, but isn't no God father for raggae. Plz.
Micky Dub :: You may be missing the messages because you are stuck on the messenger's looks!! In any environment it is always best clever to have a local bring it to the masses. Reggae is popular in Japan and Korea. Guess what, the main promoters (day in & day out) are Japanese who speaks little if any English at all. Sometime back I saw a reggae show that was not in English and with a local spin version. It was quite different yet exciting to be there.
I agree what one guy below said the soundsystems from th 60,s upwards in the uk should get the credit as uk reggae pioneers not David rodigan it has nothing to do with race so don't play the race card people
Rodigan where you get the format jingles & sound efx & intro to all the artist from yard ? the late great never mentioned Mikey Dread, Original Dread at the controls revolutionary back to back Roots & Culture via radio JBC before Barry G Respect due to Mikey & imigration bulshit helped Rodigan prosper for the sake of Reggae on the Radio ask UB40 or Clash if a lie me a tell !
Your on the biggest radio station in the world as someone who claims to have reggae roots knowledge why wouldn't u mention some of the guys from 60,s upwards who start this in the uk I'm sorry I have lost respect for rodigan he has shown his true colours
Tommy Smith no disrespect but does he have to have a hit record or produce tracks and rhythms to be a "pioneer". If u take time to listen to this interview or even do a little research I think you will have a different view of the master rodigan. He will be forever remembered for pioneering this music we love called reggae. Poineering develop or be the first to use or apply (a new method, area of knowledge, or activity).
It's true . . it's one of the one's ''If you know, then you know''. You can't school certain people on certain things, their ignorance has passed the need for any education. #FuckEm
Rodigan is a radio dj that move on to soundsystem clashing and because he was white he brought the music to new audiences but he's not a pioneer I do respect his knowledge of reggae music and his work over the years but if you know about reggae and soundsystems you would know rodigans music talent is mediocre and when ever he went against real reggae pioneers he got slaughterd most of rodigans fame relied on the fact he was white like it or not thier were many white people doing and in reggae before rodigan
sweet2def what do you mean rodigan wasn't the only white dj pushing reggae John peel was aswell rodigan got famous when he started clashing jamaican sounds and because he was white he got really famous in jamaica if you know about music u would no he's not a pioneer he's a reggae lover that helped push reggae to white audences which I do respect
u can also swing people monies. u not a magnet.... many can't stand him... just CA's u know music like many others do.... don't make a legend.... puppy show act
Siobhan Johnson pioneer lol rodigan is a radio dj that got famous in jamaica for clashing because he was white if rodigan is a pioneer what about real sounds like Saxon
david rodigan is reincarnation of henry morgan the pirate. All of us from jamaica love music,before david robberman rodigan there was alex pascal.tony wiliams'steve bernard and all of the sound system promoting reggae in the 60s all the way up to the70s'80s90s to where we are now back in them days you never had any black people on the radio or t v apart from the odd one .in england you had no one on the radio apart from those three guys i have mention.then around 1978 this ball head bwoy david robberman pops up on radio london &then capital radio goes to jA learnt some knowledge then gets a slot on the radio playing reggae all that punk david roddigan has done is take take take. what has he given back to black reggae music who has he sponsored, black busines'black charities i tell you how many just one himself and is pockets.just because he speaks polite has manners when he is around us you all say he is a pioneer dont make me laugh the sound system owners from the 60s shouid be getting credit not that coot david ballhead roddigan
wheter you like it or not, Rodigan has a major role for reggae music spread in continent Europe. you should try to respect that, from the early 90`s all big artists and sounds from yard and US LOVES to goes to TOUR EUROPE cause thats where they eat the most food
so you might reconsider joining that comment from jammy jordon wholeheartedly, because it is offending and fool in a way to say Rodigan only take take take, and has given back nothing only helped to open the biggest market for all yard music business
His a pioneer in the sense that he was the first DJ who brought Reggae music to audiences in the UK! He promoted Reggae music over the radio.. If your from the UK you would understand.
@@liverbird956 No he isn't a pioneer there were DJ's before him that played reggae and it was sound systems up and down the country that did far more to promote reggae music in clubs and house parties and record shops did too, as for this thing about him bringing it to a wide audience white people didn't listen to his show at the time
@@garygyles1319 I agree with you about the sound systems and club's promoting reggae, but that was the underground scene, DR introduced Reggae music to the mainstream audience, And yes us White's did listen to DR that's how a lot of White's were introduced to Reggae music. What dose it matter anyway, we all love the music...One ♥️
@@liverbird956 it matters a lot because there were people who have done more for reggae music long before him and I can guarantee you that most white people didn't know who David Rodigan was at a time I don't know anybody with a Jamaican background who started listening to reggae music just because of him
Nuff bitter people on here. Listen Roddy is a Legend straight up, he played Reggae back when it was not popular outside of Jamaica and only Reggae. The man has been pure comitted to the scene for TIME and has got the scars to prove it. I think his battle chest of Dubs from every big time artist since the 80's speaks volumes honestly.
Reggae is about ONE LOVE leave the bitterness at home.
Uncle Sleven no that's not true reggae has always been popular in those times it was not mainstream in the uk but it was popular amongst blacks mainly David rodigan got a mainstream radio show when reggae wasn't popular amongst white people I will give him that
I feel you Tommy, just doesn't feel right people trashing him when all he has ever tried to do is spread the sweet reggae vibes? I know for a fact that radio show made reggae mainstream in mainstream society in the 80's, if you wanna call it white society fair enough but a lot of other black people heard that show on the world service.
I think if you asked him yourself I reckon he would say himself 60's and 70's systems were crucial and that the scene was great then he just came in later and did everything he could because he fell in love with the it.
The man clashed BARRY G in 83! I mean cmon man. Everyone remembers those great times I think we should all just spread these sweet sounds to everyman we can.
Uncle Sleven I do rate rodigan for his work he has put in no doubt but it just pisses me off when people get credit for something they are not that's all
CULTURE VULTUREEEEEEEE
To you mate. Pioneer to you. Our parents CAME FROM Jamaica & we kept in contact. Didn't need no radio to know what was new in Yard.
Can’t believe the negative comments about my guy rodi...the haters must of been dusted in a soundclash
Speaking highly about a "Radio DJ" who NEVER owned a sound or made an effort to BUILD a Sound System & play to the ghetto here in London. Transforming Sound System presentation from floor level WITH the people to on stage jumping around nonsense. Don't rate him from he played ON MY yout sound in 87. Big Up Original Mikey Dread & Tony Williams. 2 guys doing it BEFORE Rodigan. Sound System DIDN'T play in clubs, that where rodigan & snobs went. Dont even talk about Clashing when Rodigan NEVER knew the art & have dubs & couldn't play 45. Our parents who CAME from Yard were getting pres from relatives & didn't NEED no radio dj to highlight these tunes. The same thing sound men were doing anyway.
Dem backward.
The KING 🙌🏼🙌🏾
BBC Radio 1Xtra let the interview roll no need to stick to a script when uve got legends in the building it just spoils the momentum
BBC Radio 1Xtra David Rodigan is not the king of sound clash ok it's sir coxsone sound
BBC Radio 1Xtra calling him the King is disrespectful to all the real reggae Legends
David Rodigan is the Encyclopedia of Reggae Music- From Manchester Jamaica
back in the day when we used to listen to pirate radio at home virtually every advert for an event mentioned his name. true legend and a gentleman
big up the Rodigan, , nuff respect , never forget the days with you and Barry G from JBC
love this interview. Mr David Radigon much respect.
Mikey Dread is a legend and arguably part of the second best reggae soundsystem in the world. He is entitled to his opinion but most of us weren't there so we don't know really what went down. It's between them. But just as Mikey Dread is a pioneer and responsible for bringing education and joy through playing reggae so has Rodigan and anyone who has ever suffered prejudice can also appreciate that despite him being white and not from poor circumstances he faced his own persecution on the journey of him being part of putting reggae on the map. Whatever people want to accuse him of, over the many years he earned his stripes and worked hard and at the end of the day probably knows a damn lot more about reggae music here than most of the people on here complaining about him.
People have to give David Rodigan respect.He has done a lot for reggae music.People need to know that if it was not for Rodigan some recording artists would not be getting royalties due to them for the music that they recorded.
E CRIS LE MAITRE I respect rodigan for his contrabution to reggae but thiers many other people that done more than him for reggae in England that don't get any props like saxon John peel etc it's always the white guy that gets the props it pisses me off rodigan is a dj that helped push the music and bussiness of reggae he's not a pioneer
Saxon are respected.They were formed in 1976.
Is Saxon white? No. David Rodigan was the first white deejay to host a national reggae show in the UK and that makes him a pioneer. I gives props where it's due and Rodigan has earned his for being first
Exactly what did he do
I'll say it again, David Rodigan was the first white deejay to have a UK radio show on the BBC dedicated solely to reggae, that's what he did
Excellent interview with Sir David Rodigan, more please and please let's have a reggae show on BBC television, peace.
DAVID RODIGAN IS A LEGEND !!!
I think you mean 'a gimmick'.
yo blood this interview is golden blood but when i get back to London i would really like to meet you in person uncle Roddy and shake your danm hand man i really respect your love for this music i also love big up and long life in blood
YES, David Rodigan is a Reggae Legend - and put this in your dub box, Reggae is color blind!
He hung and learned from the pioneers good for him so he could carry on using his access to the BBC and capital to continue promoting the greatness of reggae music but pioneer no perhaps The Establishments UK Reggae DJ....?
Good point. He is probably not a pioneer in the industry, but definitely a legend.
Pioneer in terms of UK reggae DJ/Selecta.
I take it none of you have got Jamaican blood because if you did you would know that the records David Rodigan was playing were being played by sound systems week in week out so in what way is he a pioneer
The man is a " LEECH " off of the reggae industry . and all this thing about " he was there he was there " AH LIE IM AH TELL "
Really enjoy the interview.. a man with a lot of understanding about the music with a lot of charisma, much love RADDIGON I'm gonna buy dat book. I and I rememba the day with Barry G and Raddy ... di good old days. Bless up mi messenger.
Thanks for taking us back down memory lane the good old days.
RESPECT to the Blackbird leys crew! RIP David Noland, big up Portmeddow party people......Jericho crew.....Kingston Road......Happy Days....Peace&Dub!!
nice one mr K
Yes Danny! Original Jericho Crew! Tearing Down The walls….Big Love always…..
Portmeddow parties - happy days
The great David Rodigan yes he's a legend
david rodigon is a real legend and godfather in the music buisness.real don...simple!
Lion - i !! Big up and Beautiful Vibrations to the Fullness Bredren !!!
Love it! Great interview, nicely done Target
Those Were the good old days David the absolutely right born into the 80s and 70s we didn't have very much but we enjoyed it
When reggae hits you you feel no pain with Rodigan :)
Capital Radio made Rodigan,Anyone who thinks colour had nothing to do with it,wasn't around the struggling Reggae artist trying to get their songs played on the radio,no pirate stations back then,playing Reggae all day.Big up Rico & Eddie Grant,Count Suckle,Coxsone,Jah Shaka,Fatman, Saxo, just some of names who pioneer reggae from the Uk!
Great Interview! Bless Up the Selectah Rodigan!
it's all about sir Lloyd coxsone. The true God father of reggae music!! people praising David rodigan need to get educated.
both should be held in high esteem. what is the problem?
DTPS_Champion yes because David Rodigan hasn't got anything to do with reggae music
Love me some Rodigan🥰💚
A True Legend.
Nuff Memories of growing up in North London and tuning into Capital Radio to listen to “Roddy” fling down his tunes and jingles. There was nothing better.
He has a Reggae Encyclopedia imbedded in his brain. 👍🏽
big up to sir rodigan brap brap
When I was at JBC, I did a demo program for David Rodigan from London who used to write me as a penpal saying he would one day like to do a reggae show like mine in England. He asked me to do a show and mail it to him. I did it and he took it to the BBC and they thought he did it and gave him a job. I went to London in 1979 to do some PR work on my first album, “Dread At The Controls”, for Trojan, and brought my jingles and my knowledge to show and teach Rodigan: why I played this, why I played that song, etc. I schooled him (I am not a racist - but I see why some Black people were against me in London for showing Rodigan anything. They hated him and advised me not to do it. Rodigan knew what he was doing. I was told I was being used - but I said let’s keep reggae on the airwaves in London - and I ignored what their caution. Today, I take the blame, I was warned more than once, etc - and if you should interview Rodigan, ask him how he got his first Radio job on BBC ask him who showed him about using jingles (my jingles were his first jingles) - as no one in the UK knew of this style of Radio. Dread Broadcasting used to use my tapes and re-broadcast them, I loved them for this. Sound systems used to cut Dub plates from my show which was and still is Hot Property in the UK. Today, I see Rodigan and all those pseudo people taking credit and acting like they have amnesia and such - but time will tell. David Rodigan can’t pay me for giving him a career in Reggae and making him a somebody. Did anybody know of him before I put him on UK radio? Who is this reggae invader, anyway?
57 years of age now and been around for some time. I like you have been around from the 60s. Died for Black music on the radio in London where I grew up. Frustration was the word of feeling for a long time and pause pushing on my keyboard cassette recorder.
So I feel what you are saying...
Excuse my ignorance for not coming across you or this post about you before now.
But since the br'uck' with Lloyd Coxsone, it got me wanting to find out more as to why David has been 'crowed' King...'
There was a time when the Chinese treated the late great Bruce Lee with contempt because he exposed Jeet Kune Do & Wing Chun ( Kung Fu ) to a completely different culture, so if as you say people cussed you for sharing your knowledge in and around 1978, take comfort from the fact that today BBC 1 is still playing Reggae and all the subcultural music that has sprung from Jamaican music. Beleive me, it was a mega negative BBC radio backed by a racist board of directors who did not like anything which they considered unorthodox and minority.
I would have thought David would have given you some credit.
One thing for sure, and like anyone who is clever enough ( and ''completely nuts'' for something... As David says), why wouldn't he take full advantage as that wicked Welsh pirate Captain Morgan did BITD..?
King, he is not. ( His book,' My Life in Reggae' may suggest that, but does David actually claim himself that he is..?)
A maestro he certainly is & Dam clever. Nevertheless, if he has not given a BIG UP to all those Sound men who was there long before him, that is where the hate, anger, and racist remarks are coming from.
David has the platform to himself, he could use it if he chooses, however, he wants...
The Apollo Club in Willesden, I remember well. Booed and jeered at the star of the show was putting it mildly! Bouncing Ball club in Peckham and Gossips just off Wardour Street, remember that well!!!
If you have AV media, please share it on RUclips. It is the past that is taking us thru' to the future.
My family is actually from Clarendon. I would have loved to have seen that clash with 'Bodyguard Soundsystem' back in 91.
The way I see it... It's like Waggy T. He is a Chinese Jamaican deejay, sound system operator and selector from way back ( last I heard he was in Canada...) and got plenty of negative vibes when people realized he was not Black Jamaican...
You remember Yellowman...Need I say more about the nasty way his own people treat him back a yard when he was coming up.
Yet King Yellowman stands tall and shines thru' all the negativeness he had to endure growing up ...
And David will continue to do the same. And add more fame. Some say, primarily, because he is a white Englishman who boldly went where no man went before him... Back a yard and took something totally Jamaican and made it a household abstract word on the mouth of plenty non-white as well as European people along with all the greats like Bob, Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Decker, Jacob Miller, Toots Hibbit and not forgetting the one hit wonder gal, Millie, as well as many many more!
Tommy Smith ( Is how you get such a pretty English name anyway...I am curious to know?
And what was your radio programme called. Apart from Bodyguard sound, I also know Vulcano sound as well as Kilimanjaro from its beginnings. Those sounds will have featured highly with you back then.
Use your position and tell us more. People are listening!
With 'nuff respect!
prove it or shut up! There is always someone to try and take the credit to make themselves look good. No one has heard about you and all that you are trying to do is to try and beat RAM JAM down arsehole. RAM JAM blessings mate.
Understood
Big Ups to Fadda Rodigan🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Jamaican music is universal the biggest export out the island.
legend
Rodi, you were my jukebox in Margate when I discovered your show on BFBS here in Germany in the 1980s.
Salute to Target and Rodigan!
I think what some people are missing in the Rodigan or Robb and Gone debate is exactly what the title on this RUclips clip says 'Pioneeer' or in the ITV video where Rodigan was labelled the Godfather of reggae music- a pioneer is someone who is the first or amongst the first to create or discover something- just like Columbus was not the first to discover America as there where idegenous people their already - Rodigan was not the first or amongst the first to spread reggae music across the UK and Europe- that recognition should go to the likes of Sir Coxsone- What I and many take offense to is that in many interviews such as this one when Rodigan is introduced as a pioneer or godfather he does not correct/school or acknowledge the REAL pioneers and Godfather as real a student of the music should do-it-as a sign of respect to his peers that came before him
GREAT INTERVIEW!!!
Great interview with additional background information and essential advice for all DJs by Sir Rodigan.
Like that... rewind and come again.
Frankie G from Germany
Awesome interview...
great interview 👍
BIG UP RODIGAN SEEN U LIVE AT THE PORCHE CLUB BIRMINGHAM ALONGSIDE LOVE INJECTION THE UK'S NUMBER SOUND RIGHT NOW.EZEE IYA MANCHESTER PARISH JAMAICA.
David Rodigan yeah absolutely right is the music that keeps us going is the music that is our spirit I'm a DJ on the radio without my music I'm lost my music is my best friend you've done well writing I listened to your show and and get some tips from you from the Lodge of your music keep up the good work Mr David RAM jam Rodigan
Top respect to Sir David ram jam Roddy.
I used to listen to him on the radio in Germany in 1986. 🌻👏🇯🇲 love Jam Jam.
Good interview 🖒
Even David Rodigan needs a visitor pass 🤣
YES RODIGAN! Still number 1 in the game!
Byoy, youtube is still full of HATERZZZ! Some of the comments I have read are people trying to show how much they know .Wasteman.
Love the Bob Marley story.
split feelings on this one
let the interview roll no need to stick to a script when uve got legends in the building it just spoils the momentum
Get jah Shaka on the bbc real uk legend pioneer or coxsonne or Saxon
EVEN OTHER ARTIST TOO I WISH GREGORY ISAACS WAS ROUND BWY MADNESS .
rodigan is not a pioneer i am an elder now , i was a youth in the 70s & when i started gong to dance hall to watch the sounds of that day clashing with other sounds it was one for one all the way till it done plus the sound systems played with one deck & the selector & the crew had there backs to the crowd .rodigan has not bust any artist from jamaica don't forget artist like millie small prince buster they were doing there thing in the 60s & at this time & there was NO RODIGAN AT TIME all those who think he is a pioneer they are welcome to think so but it don't make true Lloyd coxson is right . i don't have anything against rodigan but we have to tell the truth
Exactly how was or is he a pioneer.
Legendary
Anyone here heard the breakage - hard refix he's talking about at 39:25 ??
Vinyl, a lasting collection
Tyyyyyy
Big up popa rodi
22:19 To true! :)
rodigan mom is from maryhill !!!!! glasgow
Ask him if he ever carry a speaker box, or string up a sound
Big man rodigan
Um Tony Williams first Sunday rice n peas show with DR as side kick for competition winners then went to capital radio this guy never had a sound system so he played in the west end of London gossip night club with face
Rodddigannn
You man need to throw some respek
The people that are Bigging up David Rodigan are the ones that know Jack shit about reggae music
have the book
Rodigsn played music created by pioneers of reggae music
When did he start playing Reggae Muzik
I'm guessing before you
Around 1977
Some people mad on here
`Rodigan is not a pioneer there were a lot of people before him. I have nothing against David Rodigan personally but to call him a pioneer is not true. remember black Jamaicans brought their music with them from Jamaica to England & they created a sound system culture & this sound system culture was around a very long time before Rodigan came on the scene. it's about time people get the Tarzan syndrome from their minds.
daddy rodigan
A pioneer for playing reggae music on the radio as he said when he heard to the music...people forget it was Festus Coxsone Rodigan spent his days with when he lived in Putney - where he learned much of his craft but as usual these things dont get a mention. If he was a true pioneer he would give credit where credit is due...only a matter of time
Rodigan is the man!!
roddy the dubwise smoddy
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Fork tongue
He is the original sound boy ✊😉
barnz zilla RODIGAN IS NOT THE ORIGINAL SOUND BOY !!!
He has NEVER owned or built a sound system !!!!
He's a radio Dj/broadcaster !!
Ppl dont b blinded. Ppl listen to the late Castro brown n the great lloyd coxson. Rodigan is a very very good, but isn't no God father for raggae. Plz.
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You cant be a " WAGGONIST " 22. 29 min that"s what Rodigan has been all these years off the Reggae industry
Micky Dub ::
You may be missing the messages because you are stuck on the messenger's looks!!
In any environment it is always best clever to have a local bring it to the masses. Reggae is popular in Japan and Korea. Guess what, the main promoters (day in & day out) are Japanese who speaks little if any English at all.
Sometime back I saw a reggae show that was not in English and with a local spin version. It was quite different yet exciting to be there.
Emiliano i think you are missing the message .... " DO YOU KNOW WHAT A WAGGONIST " IS " ?????
Dude is NOT a reggae pioneer. he's a radio disc jockey, that's it.
I agree what one guy below said the soundsystems from th 60,s upwards in the uk should get the credit as uk reggae pioneers not David rodigan it has nothing to do with race so don't play the race card people
reggae pioneer?
do some research
BKB 2017 good question, he came around long after reggae was established in England, cox, and a lot before him paved the way do your research?
The godfather he knows reagge better than anybody and he white. It shows 1 blood
Rodigan where you get the format jingles & sound efx & intro to all the artist from yard ? the late great never mentioned Mikey Dread, Original Dread at the controls revolutionary back to back Roots & Culture via radio JBC before Barry G Respect due to Mikey & imigration bulshit helped Rodigan prosper for the sake of Reggae on the Radio ask UB40 or Clash if a lie me a tell !
Your on the biggest radio station in the world as someone who claims to have reggae roots knowledge why wouldn't u mention some of the guys from 60,s upwards who start this in the uk I'm sorry I have lost respect for rodigan he has shown his true colours
Reggae pioneer lol that's pushing it a little bite name one reggae song rodigan has produced
Tommy Smith no disrespect but does he have to have a hit record or produce tracks and rhythms to be a "pioneer". If u take time to listen to this interview or even do a little research I think you will have a different view of the master rodigan. He will be forever remembered for pioneering this music we love called reggae. Poineering develop or be the first to use or apply (a new method, area of knowledge, or activity).
It's true . . it's one of the one's ''If you know, then you know''. You can't school certain people on certain things, their ignorance has passed the need for any education. #FuckEm
Rodigan is a radio dj that move on to soundsystem clashing and because he was white he brought the music to new audiences but he's not a pioneer I do respect his knowledge of reggae music and his work over the years but if you know about reggae and soundsystems you would know rodigans music talent is mediocre and when ever he went against real reggae pioneers he got slaughterd most of rodigans fame relied on the fact he was white like it or not thier were many white people doing and in reggae before rodigan
sweet2def what do you mean rodigan wasn't the only white dj pushing reggae John peel was aswell rodigan got famous when he started clashing jamaican sounds and because he was white he got really famous in jamaica if you know about music u would no he's not a pioneer he's a reggae lover that helped push reggae to white audences which I do respect
One word mikey dread if you know you know
Reggae Pioneer??? Hmmm.....lol
u can also swing people monies. u not a magnet.... many can't stand him... just CA's u know music like many others do.... don't make a legend.... puppy show act
plagiarism comes in many form one is... deceit an infiltration
you are a very sad person. get a life.
Pappy show.
+SC did. do cc. vb
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 pioneer I mean the audacity of this people
Siobhan Johnson pioneer lol rodigan is a radio dj that got famous in jamaica for clashing because he was white if rodigan is a pioneer what about real sounds like Saxon
more than one pioneer, dude
to be expected from the BBC.i doubt roddy would even claim that one to be fair.
david rodigan is reincarnation of henry morgan the pirate. All of us from jamaica love music,before david robberman rodigan there was alex pascal.tony wiliams'steve bernard and all of the sound system promoting reggae in the 60s all the way up to the70s'80s90s to where we are now back in them days you never had any black people on the radio or t v apart from the odd one .in england you had no one on the radio apart from those three guys i have mention.then around 1978 this ball head bwoy david robberman pops up on radio london &then capital radio goes to jA learnt some knowledge then gets a slot on the radio playing reggae all that punk david roddigan has done is take take take. what has he given back to black reggae music who has he sponsored, black busines'black charities i tell you how many just one himself and is pockets.just because he speaks polite has manners when he is around us you all say he is a pioneer dont make me laugh the sound system owners from the 60s shouid be getting credit not that coot david ballhead roddigan
jammy jordon yes finally some one with some sense and how come he never mentions mikey dread
wheter you like it or not, Rodigan has a major role for reggae music spread in continent Europe.
you should try to respect that, from the early 90`s all big artists and sounds from yard and US LOVES to goes to TOUR EUROPE cause thats where they eat the most food
Tom Driver yes that's true
so you might reconsider joining that comment from jammy jordon wholeheartedly, because it is offending and fool in a way
to say Rodigan only take take take, and has given back nothing
only helped to open the biggest market for all yard music business
jammy jordon wish year did you born,,,sound system own should be respected but also raddigan he play it on the radio so he should get is respect too
David rodigan's got nothing to do with reggae music whatsoever he's is just a culture vulture acting like he created Reggae music
His a pioneer in the sense that he was the first DJ who brought Reggae music to audiences in the UK! He promoted Reggae music over the radio.. If your from the UK you would understand.
@@liverbird956 No he isn't a pioneer there were DJ's before him that played reggae and it was sound systems up and down the country that did far more to promote reggae music in clubs and house parties and record shops did too, as for this thing about him bringing it to a wide audience white people didn't listen to his show at the time
@@garygyles1319 I agree with you about the sound systems and club's promoting reggae, but that was the underground scene, DR introduced Reggae music to the mainstream audience,
And yes us White's did listen to DR that's how a lot of White's were introduced to Reggae music. What dose it matter anyway, we all love the music...One ♥️
@@liverbird956 it matters a lot because there were people who have done more for reggae music long before him and I can guarantee you that most white people didn't know who David Rodigan was at a time I don't know anybody with a Jamaican background who started listening to reggae music just because of him
@@garygyles1319 Ok you've missed my point completely!!
😂😂😂 pioneer. .... yh ok 😐😐
REGGAE PIONEER??? I DONT THINK SO ....
david rodigon is a real legend and godfather in the music buisness.real don...simple!