The Crazy, Genius Life of Lee Scratch Perry

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  • Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2024

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  • @United-States-of-Africa
    @United-States-of-Africa Год назад +3

    Thanks for this summary of the legend.
    I was born in Hanover Jamaica near the area as Lee scratch perry the musical genius.

  • @dmagwaza
    @dmagwaza Год назад +9

    One of the greatest producers of all time! RIP Scratch/The Upsetter. 🙏🏿

  • @kenmaykut9461
    @kenmaykut9461 Год назад +2

    Lee Perry is one of my fav. I met him for 20 years, and he was a character. The anthology box set changed my life. Thank you for doing this on Scratch. Your videos are getting better. Please keep it up. Love to see one on Eral Zero. Thank you.

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад

      I also saw him.a few times in the 2000s but then sadly not anymore
      I wanted to see him so badly in Berlin the year he died and the year before
      I saw him on RUclips and he was not good looking I was worried for him despite he's not my relative
      I think he had some illness despite his wife saying no
      Some people train every day and are super fit even when 80 years old but he really was looking weak
      Lee " Scratch " Perry lives forever 🙏🚀🌠
      Lee " Scratch " Perry Legalize ganja universally 😂

  • @zurimoore2545
    @zurimoore2545 Год назад +2

    GOD REST HIS SPIRIT WHAT A VERY INTELLIGENT MAN 👑🌌🌿🫀🪽🙏🏾🦁🌇🎵 REST IN POWER LEE SCRATCH PERRY 🎛🎚🎙🎹🪇🪘📀💿🧮📽🎥💡🕯🔆

  • @phynessea247
    @phynessea247 Год назад +11

    Excellent content--there is so much to Scratch you could easily do a part ll and lll. His work with the Congos--which caused a lot of strife, the botched attempt producing a female group The Full Experience that caused a rift between him and Jimmy Cliff. The animosity between him and Bunny Wailer..the list goes on and on...He is truly missed.

    • @ReggaeAppreciationSociety
      @ReggaeAppreciationSociety  Год назад +1

      Interesting. Will explore these stories

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад

      And part 4 and 5 .. 😂
      His life can not be told in 11 minutes
      Let alone the impact his music made on electronic music and the rise of techno is something most people don't know
      The deep hypnotic sound of techno was also a lot inspired by Jamaican dub music
      Also Lee scratch Perry was the first or one of the first who allowed Rasta Man to play in Studios in the late 60s
      He helped Bob Marley when he had no home and let him live in his house
      He showed Bob Marley to sing from his heart and not like a typical singer
      I read that in his biography I think both Bobs and Perry's and also I think recently saw it on RUclips in a Mad professor Interview with Earl 16 about Lee " Scratch " Perry and his passing
      There is so much to tell
      The was a website called eternal thunder
      It sadly closed down in 2023 after 25 years online
      The biggest collection about Lee " Scratch " Perry on the internet
      A real Wikipedia for Lee " Scratch " Perry
      You can still use way Back machine to look at it
      Its a shame that's it's closed
      If you really want to know something about Lee " Scratch " Perry you can ask
      Mick Sleeper the owner of the website and Lee " Scratch " Perry expert since the 90s
      He is somewhere on the internet and maybe someone can contact him
      Lee " Scratch " Perry Legalize ganja universally 😂
      Lee " Scratch " Perry the real original freedom fighter from Jamaica
      He was a spiritual man and believe he was on a mission to save the world from evil forces 😄🌠

  • @rusticization
    @rusticization Год назад +6

    It is so hard to believe that this great Reggae producer and singer is gone.
    May Lee Scratch Perry continue to rest in paradise.🙏

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад +1

      It was unbelievable
      I cried when I heard he died
      These politicians kill people and live and Lee " Scratch " Perry fights for justice and dies ?
      It is not fair but he is still around
      His spirit can not die it is immortal 😂🌠
      Lee " Scratch " Perry on the wire
      Lee " Scratch " Perry ball of fire 😂
      Yeah yeah

  • @rajeshaggarwal777
    @rajeshaggarwal777 Год назад +10

    more BLESSINGS to all the Creators of REGGAE MUSIC which is The Music Of Kings... Rajesh Semrete Selassie Aggarwal FRSA 🙏💚💛❤️🙏

  • @maximilianoesteban8740
    @maximilianoesteban8740 Год назад +1

    I think it would be a very interesting subject to make a video all about the " Black board Jungle " album

  • @lawrencenjawe9875
    @lawrencenjawe9875 Год назад +5

    Ok in a recent @Reggae Appreciation video, Sir Clement Coxsone Dodd was voted by viewers largely as their favorites reggae producer...Kudos to him..But for me the very colourful Lee Scratch Perry ranks supreme. .His role in the shaping and development of Roots Rock Reggae in the 70s can never be understated. The sheer volume of work ranging from his own dub productions, work with the Wailers and numerous albums that stand at a high point in the history of reggae is absolutely astonishing..Max Romeo-War in s Babylon, Heptones- Party Time, Junior Murvin- Police and Thieves , The Congos - Heart of yhe Congos, His own productions Super Ape (1976) , Toast Fish Collie Weed and Corn bread (1978) to name a few, not forgetting penned material for others and mixing jobs...The "Mad Genius" needs to be celebrated..With the artistic decline of music production in our times when the digital now supersedes the analog, they'll never be another LSP..

    • @The_Com-Mentor
      @The_Com-Mentor Год назад +3

      Agreed, I think he got the best sound out of The Wailers.

    • @gokolink
      @gokolink Год назад

      @@The_Com-Mentor that drum machine on natural mystic and rainbow country... oof.

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад

      Lee " Scratch " Perry was a super talented man
      He had special ears as other musicians said in Jamaica
      Everybody knew he was special
      Long live Lee " Scratch " Perry 😂🌠
      He was a spiritual man and a freedom fighter 🙏

  • @United-States-of-Africa
    @United-States-of-Africa Год назад +1

    Just the man image alone shows you he's unique and different

  • @valmarsiglia
    @valmarsiglia Год назад +4

    So glad I got to see him on his last tour.

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад +1

      I also wanted and had the feeling he was not looking good and healthy
      Sadly he died before coming to Berlin a last time
      A few times he went there but I did not go
      Sadly he never came to Leipzig my city also here in the eastern Germany I bet many people love him not only in the big cities like Berlin or Hamburg

  • @KelmutHool
    @KelmutHool Год назад +5

    Lee Perry was the first alongside King Tubby who put the emphasis on the huge fat bass and spaced out effects. His innovative productions laid the foundation for all of modern dance music. His influence on all kinds of artists in the past, present and future cannot be overstated.
    I saw him live a couple times in the early 2000s, moments I will never forget. He truly was one of a kind.
    Bless ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад

      I also saw him in Dortmund I think in 2003 ??
      It was unbelievable 😄
      A force of nature together with mad professor
      I was still going to school back then
      Bob Marley was dead but this man who made all the reggae music from early on who pushed reggae music and righteousness
      Drum and the Bass
      Trippy sound real music very high quality
      Musicians playing on point
      Music that touches the heart and soul 😄
      As he said
      The Drum is the heart and the earth and the Bass is the sky or something like that 😂
      Always funny always something crazy
      He was such a inspiration and truly
      ONE OF A KIND 😄
      Techno music , Hip Hop soo many things came from Jamaica and him king tubby and scientist and of course don't forget the good ganja 😅 despite king tubby did not smoke

    • @KelmutHool
      @KelmutHool 8 месяцев назад

      @@ru8775 That's awesome, I saw him once in Dortmund too! I believe the venue was the Live Station, I don't think it exists anymore. There was another place in Dortmund called the Dietrich Keuning Haus, saw Mad Professor at least twice there :) and so many others... good times.

  • @gregoryspevack2263
    @gregoryspevack2263 Год назад +5

    I had some crazy Scratch run ins and even Djied at one of his shows. You did a great one on this !

  • @NoSugarThanks
    @NoSugarThanks Год назад +5

    Time boom X de devil dead,one of my top ten albums of all time..a masterpiece

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад

      S.d.i is such a relaxing and positive song
      His music is not just music it is art truly and a message to the heart and soul
      Righteus come to heaven right now
      Un righteous go to hell 😂
      I hope his curses for the rich will come to reality one day and the poor people of the world can live life in peace and normally without being slaves for the rich like in the past 1000s of years
      In the West east and everywhere
      Lee " Scratch " Perry lives forever 🚀🌠

  • @anthonymackey222
    @anthonymackey222 Год назад +3

    They really need to make a movie about him.

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад

      Yes but not a Hollywood movie 😂
      Fuck them
      They rather go to Nigeria or Bollywood to make film about him
      With real sufferers not rich spoiled actors 😂

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад

      Yes but not a Hollywood movie 😂
      Fuck them
      They rather go to Nigeria or Bollywood to make a film about him with real sufferers not rich spoiled actors 😂
      He was spiritual man and freedom fighter
      He toured the world in till he was a very old man to spread the message of live and against banks the imf
      The CIA the militarys the evil powers who hate normal people
      Lee " Scratch " Perry lives forever 🙏🌠
      A true world citizen

  • @OGxCSH
    @OGxCSH Год назад +2

    Blessings R A.S...thanks again for another great video. Scratch was a genius and a madman rolled into one. You need a little bit of both to compose masterpieces like he did. All praises due and RIP Lee "Scratch" Perry. Big ups once again R.A.S

  • @Gnosis639
    @Gnosis639 Год назад +2

    Had no idea Scratch Mother was a practitioner of Ifa, the spiritual system of the Yoruba of Nigeria.

  • @zuni1966
    @zuni1966 Год назад +3

    Punks also loved him

    • @ReggaeAppreciationSociety
      @ReggaeAppreciationSociety  Год назад +1

      Yup 👍

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад +1

      I am the king of the punks he said sometimes 😂
      He also took Bob Marley to the punk club's in London
      I saw a Bob Marley documentary on BBC I think there on RUclips
      Bob Marley did not like them and did not understood why he took him With him but then later understood
      Lee " Scratch " Perry also was the first or one of the first idk to tour the UK in the late 60s and his music was super popular with the skinheads 😂
      White reggae skins
      The graffiti he painted all over his black ark studio now became fashion in the 2010s and on
      On expensive fashion stuff widely written on it
      Its the same style go look at it
      also the way he sings sometimes double track annoying on a song or chatting crazy stuff
      Just Vibing real different stuff a trippy style of toasting on the riddim
      I first saw that come back in 2010 when trap music became real popular
      Riff raff is also a cool rapper with crazy style other rappers too
      It's similar drug style music non linear
      The world has become a lot of crazier with the internet and people doing what they want
      He was ahead of the time and doing it it the 70s and 80s when the world was still very very conservative and nowadays 4K RUclips and social media people unthinkable
      People back then would say if someone would tell them from 2024
      STOP SMOKING THIS GANJA 😂
      It makes you crazy with all these ideas and crazy stuff
      He was a free spirit and was living in the future even back then
      Intelligent people know that stupid things are enforced upon people can not last forever and change always will come but that takes time and the rich delays it to take decades always
      Lee " Scratch " Perry lives forever 🚀🌠
      I and I a freedom fighter
      I and I go beat down Babylon 😂😂😂
      Reggae music is positive music for all people in the world 🌠

  • @humble1449
    @humble1449 Год назад +2

    Always great work.Keep up the good work.OneLove.

  • @BlessUpKev
    @BlessUpKev Год назад +2

    Bless up bruddah Im loving this content way from Detroit

  • @originaldjchucks
    @originaldjchucks Год назад +3

    Legendary !

  • @watsonunlimitedmusic
    @watsonunlimitedmusic Год назад +4

    Saw him perform in London, UK in '96. He'd become successful again in the early 90s after a couple of successful collaborations with Mad Professor and the success of mid 90s reissue compilations like 'Voodooism' (Pressure Sounds 1996) and 'Arkology' (Island Records 1997). That's why Beastie Boys featured him. Another aspect of his 90s resurgence was his wild stage shows. When I saw him in 96, he took apart his microphone and set it on fire on stage.

    • @ReggaeAppreciationSociety
      @ReggaeAppreciationSociety  Год назад +2

      Wow 😄 he was such a character

    • @watsonunlimitedmusic
      @watsonunlimitedmusic Год назад

      @@ReggaeAppreciationSociety Unforgettable !

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад

      Yes his live shows were full of energy and when you was there like me in the early 2000s as a young kid still you could see what kind of professional he was
      Always freestyling doing this and that and then this
      Super creative
      A real real real musician not like the lame fake hipsters today who pretend but are just boring and untalented 😂
      Either you have it or not
      You can not fake talent
      If you are interested in music you see how he sings how he makes everything easy and natural
      He's just a born talent and very very eccentric man 😂
      Lee " Scratch " Perry lives forever 🚀🌠

  • @MsWildberry1
    @MsWildberry1 Год назад +4

    Blessings in abundance Music Appreciation. It's good to hear that Jah Bunny rightfully laid hands on Perry because too many producers ripped off the artist in those early days.
    Still I have to give Perry props because he did a lot to progress and make Reggae known at home, and on the global market. Interesting content as usual. ❤💛💚🖤

  • @Troy-g3q
    @Troy-g3q 6 месяцев назад

    Lee scratch Perry is the nutty professor. A genius .

  • @56postoffice
    @56postoffice Год назад +1

    The man was also responible for the use of the drum machine in reggae for the first time during the mid 70s. The riddim is called *"Chim Cheri"* but it would be 10 years later it became a dancehall legendary riddim when a young DJ/singer by the name of Shinehead would utilise it for the classic *"Billie Jean."* LSP was always the pace setter.

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад

      What song is that ?
      I know he used a drum machine in dub revolution and with a few Bob Marley songs like the original natural mystic and rainbow country

  • @loveheals6184
    @loveheals6184 Год назад +3

    Fascinating & Frustrating, Exploiter & Supporter, Mean Madman & Helpful Genius Financially Greedy Cheat & Esoteric Mystical Practitioner. Difficult to define in singular terms. Much like Eshu in the Ifa spiritual tradition of which his mother was a part. (Trust this Rasta to have unique details on this channel. I never knew about his Yoruba Mama.) So ultimately in his personal lineage 🇯🇲&🇳🇬 are linked. One Blood❤.

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад +1

      The people in Jamaica said he helped so many people
      Have them money and food
      His yard always was full of people who took his help and lots of them never gave anything back I think as always
      Good people get abused often
      In the 70s he was also extorted by gangs , police and had to pay to be left alone
      Jamaica was not a nice place back then
      Lee " Scratch " Perry had special ears as other musicians said in Jamaica a very talented one of a kind person
      He was the Jamaican fela kuti if you could compare
      Was there one man in Nigeria like Fela Kuti ?
      No it can not also because of the time and circumstances they lived in
      It can not be replicated it just can be preserved for the future for people to look listen and enjoy the positive vibe and message of the music
      Fight for freedom and against injustice
      The ganja plants helped him to make the right music with a message build in to last forever
      Its not always just the lyrics it's in the music 😄
      Lee " Scratch " Perry a world hero 🚀🌠

    • @loveheals6184
      @loveheals6184 8 месяцев назад

      @@ru8775 Peace, Fam. Deepest respect and gratitude to you for such an in depth education on Lee Scratch Perry 🙌🏿🥰. That was an act of generosity that shall be part of the archives in this important channel. And if/when I speak of him, I'll reference your words to help deepen the dialogue. Additional context from those who KNOW enriches our comprehension of history and contemporary times. On a separate note, his being so far ahead of his time as well as uniqueness and straight-up eccentricities made me think he was an Aquarian sun sign. His 20Mar36 birthday in Hanover (if correct) had him on the final day of Pisces and on the cusp of Aries which makes sense given his deep spirituality and mysticism. Proximity to the Fire sign must've informed his personality as well. What did make me chuckle, feeling gratified was seeing that per his astrological chart, his moon sign is Aquarius. Though a novice in these studies, it was interesting to see how his potential was manifested. I Give Thanks, once more. Peace and Love ❤💛💚🖤

  • @maxwaldburg4286
    @maxwaldburg4286 Год назад +1

    Another great video! Didn’t realise that was joe gibbs in the harder they come movie. Quite a convuluted crazy story but u tell it well I only knew bits but u put it all together. Return of the super ape is perhaps the greatest dub/reggae album of all time imo.

  • @surunitemiakanni-oye4346
    @surunitemiakanni-oye4346 Год назад +2

    Consider Pablo Moses as a topic.

    • @ReggaeAppreciationSociety
      @ReggaeAppreciationSociety  Год назад +1

      Yes I ✌️ thanks for the suggestion

    • @lawrencenjawe9875
      @lawrencenjawe9875 Год назад +1

      Yes Sir. I've been (and still am) waiting for a Pablo Moses bio (Though I'm familiar with the artist's work thru numerous sources. Still it would be great to have a Pablo Moses presentation on this excellent medium that is @Reggae Appreciation.....The Great Pablo Moses, One of my very best Reggae performers

  • @dexocube
    @dexocube Год назад +6

    The word genius gets thrown around an awful lot, mostly erroneously. But with Lee Scratch Perry, it doesn't seem enough does it?
    We need new superlatives to describe him.

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад +1

      One of a kind talent
      Really very seldom people like this are born
      It's true 😂

  • @Michel-7.7.7
    @Michel-7.7.7 Год назад +2

    "She said she want roast duck"
    "The front door locked, you have to enter trough the back"
    Good times, when his lyrics were all about food😂

    • @Michel-7.7.7
      @Michel-7.7.7 Год назад

      @@User-NmIDsio24 you're kidding me, right? Aaand you don't understand jokes/ sarcasm? Now tell me about the "front door/back" thing😁

  • @thembadube9589
    @thembadube9589 Год назад +3

    Scratch was a really eccentric genius. He did the young Wailers dirty by not sharing the money he received from the work they did him him. Would be interesting to know if they ever forgave them.

    • @phynessea247
      @phynessea247 Год назад +1

      Scratch was loath to pay people--even though he experienced the same treatment from Joe Gibbs.

    • @lawrencenjawe9875
      @lawrencenjawe9875 Год назад

      I'd like to think they did forgive..Perry and Marley did collaborate with Bob on his single Punky Reggae Party while he was on exile in the UK in 1977 and I believe he partook in Bunny Wailer's masterpiece album Black Heart Man of 1976.... Don't take my word for it though. Those collaborations might have been a marriage of convenience.. Who knows?😁😁

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад +1

      He produced a lot of Bob Marley songs in the 70s and never got any money , mention or at least some respect for it
      He helped Bob Marley became big and spread the word worldwide
      He was his mentor
      Three little birds is one of Bob Marleys most loved Songs but how did the song was recorded ?
      Bob came to the black ark and hear the rise in play and wanted to sing on it so badly but scratch said NO 😂
      He wanted Max Romeo to sing on it and the song was
      War in a Babylon 😂
      Bob drove home and recorded the song himself and I'm glad scratch allowed Max Romeo to sing on it
      It is a reggae classic and a real tuff song with many versions 😄
      A Bob Marley version in the Black Ark would be nice to hear also
      It's a pity Bob Marley did not recorded more songs at the black ark with Lee " Scratch " Perry
      The songs they made together have such magic vibe and ruff style
      It like the songs with the Wailers and even worse the remastering of Chris Blackwell to make it more sellable and soften the sound
      The new Bob Marley movie is based in time exodus Album made him a super star
      But the song exodus was produced by Lee " Scratch " Perry and lots of other songs on the Album too
      Who knows that or speaks the truth ?? 😂
      Lying is bad for the soul
      Don't do it 😂🌠

    • @darganx
      @darganx 2 месяца назад

      @@lawrencenjawe9875 They could have been post production and overdubs, they didn't have to meet!

  • @rvbsoundfactory
    @rvbsoundfactory Год назад +2

    Interesting! Damn, Bunny wailer matchhim up in the restaurant.
    Perry asked for that one.
    Horace Andy, got it down. money, money money money is the root of all evil.
    Still, Lee Scratch Perry up there with the musical gods.

    • @ru8775
      @ru8775 8 месяцев назад

      Poor people do stupid things that's often in poor countries 😂

  • @father3dollarbill
    @father3dollarbill Год назад

    Your voice is clipping