Lloyd Coxsone Interview by [Barry G, audio]
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Veteran Soundman Sir Lloyd Coxsone has given a video interview criticising radio disc jacket David Rodigan. He responded on is Facebook page he think the real backbone of contention seems to revoke from alleged saying he is The Godfather of Reggae!
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Thank You Lloyd Coxsone for remembering and bigging up my father Lord coose Aka donkey man. Who was instrumental in the reggae scene in the UK from the 1960 up until 2009 7 days a week.
Keep his name alive x
Barry G's Voice Is Truly Golden... He inspired the talking on the original one manned sound system.. The Stone Love's of the world. David Rodigan Loves Reggae Music and That is All That Matters... Love Is Jah...Jah Is Love.
Lloyd Coxsone & David Radigan both pay there individually dues to the reggae culture so i give respect to both elders for there work in the music culture! i uld like to see a sound clash with Coxsone vs Radigan!
i would like to see that tooooooo !!!
Lloyd Coxsone you are a sad piece a shit
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There are many reasons why this issue has come up. But if you wanted to hear any good fm quality reggae on the radio in London, you had to listen to Rodigan on Capital or Williams, a black dj on the BBC radio, I think. They both got me, as a REGGAE Lover, into specialist record shops and departments. And the both got me going to blues, dances, and clubs. Brilliant as Sir Coxone was, and still is, there was a desperate need in the 70s and 80s for lovers of reggae to hear the rhythms on the airwaves. Rodigan had a crap radio slot as well. From a British point of view, it would be fair to say that Rodigan is the Radio Dj Godfather of reggae on the radio. National radio stations almost exclusively played only occasional pop reggae and Bob Marley. And that's another point. The British in general thought Bob was reggae and gave no space to Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs or even British reggae artists. It is sad that rhythm, harmony and melody in reggae has diminished; especially sad that the pressing of records has gone from Jamaica. Also, in the UK back in the times, there was American soul, disco, funk and jazz coming through and challenging the traditional reggae community. Then hip hop, house and acid music.
It's all very well Coxsone saying he entertains white and black, but at the start of 70s I'm very sure he had to play to almost exclusively black audiences at exclusively black held events. At those events the whites were exclusively women who had black partners.
Thank heavens Times have changed for the better. God of the sound systems - except for Jah Shaka - Sir Coxsone still needs to change some. Note: he is right. The best reggae music still comes from 70s and 80s. Dancehall and Jungle couldn't carry the music through.
Right now, I'm into dub techno music and reggae from various parts of Europe and Africa which isn't even in English. I'm always gonna love reggae.
End of story.
I don't know what's in David Rodigan's heart and mind. But Coxsone is a 100% correct. Specials are gimmick music, to have some famous singers calling out your name is good to massage that individuals ego and whip up the crowd. It's good for sounds clashes other than that it does not help musicians.
Novelette you are missing the point and it is not about jealousy. Maybe you are a Jamaican who didn't grow up or live in the U.K.
The late great Mikey Dread said the same thing years ago in many interviews. he gave Rodigan a demo tape of his show, which had no talking just jingles and effects between the tunes. Rodigan took it to the BBC and they gave him a job hosting a radio show, they thought he had done the tape himself! His show with its jingles were a copy of Mickey Dread's famous radio show.They wanted a 'Charlie Gillet' of reggae and rap so if they had a white man fronting a specialist black music show they would have a wider audience. With a black presenter people may think 'it's just for black people' and no body would listen to it. That was why Charlie Gillett's World Music show was so popular. So you think out of all the black People who were making the music and playing it on sounds across the country they couldn't find anyone as good as David Rodigan or Tim Westwood to host a reggae and hip hop show on the radio?In his book he made the point that he never played live in a dance till after he had his radio show. Rodigan was never a sound man, and on his first dance the audience looked shocked when they realised he was white! That is probably why he boasts about his encyclopaedic knowledge of the music and naming obscure artists tunes, rhythms, or he has a dub plate no body else has because the artist Prince Buster did it for him as a favour! etc to make up for his lack of sound system credibility. He even acts like that in sound clashes like he is hosting his radio show! The others don't act like that it is cringing! All sounds have their exclusives. I recall seeing him at two major world clashes and both times he played the same dubs in the final round! He doesn't like other white sounds like sentinel from Germany. He likes being the main white man in reggae. But they are bonafide sound men they even have a woman selector one of the few sounds to have one and reached the top the hard way winning the world sound clash without a radio show. They were far better than him on the. CLash in Germany but by some fluke he won and he looked embarrassed How good is he apart from being a crowd puller, which is how he is the highest paid DJ . Papa Levi made the first anti Rodigan dis tune in the 80s 'RamJam Capitalsim' he made the same points as Coxson
Rodigan has said before how he knows, or it has been said that he knows, reggae music better than Jamaicans. Please! he shouldn't say things linke that and be humble. All he does is read up, meets and talks to the big names in reggae over in Jamaica who will be ever grateful and overawed that a white Englishman has a reggae show in London promoting the music so they rush to do specials for him.
In london during his heydays in the 80s he sometimes would act like he was black or Jamaican and caused offence with his patronising. He was in a dance once boasting about a tune and background of it, he said ' tunes like this makes me think about being in Jamaica, eating my rice & peas while you English people here can eat your fish and chips!' It was his attempt at a joke but the audience went mad and he got cussed fortunately there was no trouble.
The reason for his attitude during the said 'heyday' he was biggest name in reggae in the U.K. Due to his show he decided what got played or was invited and if he fell out with anyone they wouldn't get played. He later claimed he had guns on his head by people telling him to play their stuff but he always refused. Maybe he was looking for sympathy After falling out with a producer/label or he wanted to sound like the big names in Jamaica who really went through that from stories he heard from them.
His show was about him. Tony Williams created the the first U.K. reggAe awards and had a chart show. Rodigan didn't do that and we no longer have uk reggae awards
Nice One. "Lloydie So Great Coxsone" It Go So De Boy Think Him Run OUR Music Fe True.
I want to know were this documenty is can any 1 help me?
Respect Mark Free Thanks for that bit of history & knowledge on the uprising of David Rodigan in England I first known of him hearing a clash between him & Barry G i was amazed on how he played and all them tunes he got & played on Barry i then saw him live in a soundsystem worldclash in Jamaica n he did play some great tunes & dubplates with good entertainment that had the audience loving the vibes! I think its great for anyone to play reggae music as a DJ or Soundman selector cause the world is loving reggae Since BOB MARLEY as spread it across the world That its ONE LOVE and DENNIS BROWN let it be known that LOVE & HATE CAN NEVER BE FRIENDS! So lets unite as one my people & share the love!
Well said...Sir Coxone stand your ground...hear hear! 👍
coxsone we all know you are famous so respect to you too
if Jamaicans are not careful they will lose their music to others who never gave a dame about Jamaican music & that's a shame. don't think for a minute Jamaican music won't be taken over like Jazz rock & roll & hip hop.
Sounds like coxone is jelous I never heard rodigan proclaim to be the godfather he just loves the music
Without blacka dread and festus on coxone sound it is not the same I couldn't listen coxone now the vibes is not there anymore .
I respect Rodigan but I overstand where Coxone is coming from.what is MBE member of British Empire,colonial conquest to take from another nation and claim for themselves Rastafari no ina dat. FIRE PON anyone who is.
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Just de other day him fight down Blacker Dread , man ah dinosaur, him ah talk bout special, so wah bodyguard, jaro, odessy, black cat , stone love been playing these years , , pure rubbish
woooooe a true him nah listen dem sound deh🤣🤣
The thing about it its like a mental slavery thing where you had elvis claim that he was the king of rock and roll but he did not invent rock n roll and all he did was shake his hip and twist his legs that was it rodigan used people in the black reggae business and made millions from it now ges honored but if he had mention all these great people who helped him aliong the way then he could put himself there but all he did was stop alot of black people from eating food especially the ones who helped him get there take nothing away from rodigan for a white man to play our black music you have to respect the man cause he is no fool but you never forget the people who helped you get to those heights its as simple as that show the respect to those who are due the respect dont make out that your this big sound man when you never own a sound system you never buss a artist so its rodigan getting black singers mcs to sing and toast about him to win a cup that would be worth about a tenner in some sports shop so do you see the man mentallity to think he is the dodfather of black peoples music is a big disrespect mental slacery all over again its indirect racist to me have a nice day
Tim Westwood can we start something about him 😳😳
Never heard Rodigan say anything like that, only ever heard him praise the music, the artists the producers and the sound systems, he shows upmost respect to the Jamaican music heritage, and I saw him on TV and on the radio when his book was released, he said nothing about being a godfather or anything like that, and his book is a homage to the music and the promoters! Yes, he has had certain opportunities being white, with radio access or whatever, but still he has done what many people do, promoted the music and given respect to it, you can't help being born white or black or whatever, and yes u can't help falling for the music you love too. Everyone has their own experience, so I don't disrespect, this my experience.
italsounds just because you didn't hear him say it, that does not mean it
was never said; the Independent Newspaper a U.K. publication in an
article first published on September 16 2003, titled ((David Rodigan: my
dear boy, I'm a Reggae Legend.)) in that article he was called the King of
Reggae music. you can read it for yourself, at www.independent.
co.uk/search/site/david/%62520Rodigan?page=1 maybe he was a good
DJ, but he was no Godfather/king of reggae;
Barry G ,! ask Lloyd Coxsone when or where did David Rodigan ever say he was the Godfather fi Reggae Music ? that dread his ling "straight" Radigan play on enhancement in putting our culture so many could hear and understand it, ,It was Blackwell who put bob Marley to Europeans ,( that a fact,) Coxsone just mad because him no get on award ,
George Myst
if sound system was not der ina first den rodigan na learn so how he isa better den coxsone moveeeeeeeeee
Jamaican in the uk dont support artist till they have made it big somewhere else first
Let's not fool ourselves...how can a white man be the Godfather of reggae music?...come on now
Jazzy J Bless, Rodigan never ever say that Coxone have a colour problem
Jazzy J if you're white anything is possible, it's called white privilege;
and it is Real;
David rodigan is brilliant and never heard him say he is the godfather he loves the music and the people it seems to me you are jealous chill out learn to love each other he promotes a lot of reggae music he is well respected learn to respect him they love him and you can't handle it we do love our Beatles the greatest group in the world you sound racist with the little white man I married a black man more than 45 years ago love we welcome the love of reggae music and promote all dem shows love to you coxsone bless up sad that you can't respect the man he loves your music and the people wish you all the luck in wat you do like rodigan respect
Carol Martin; we must Lean to Accept that whites are masters at everything,
and everything will be fine, I didn't know that the Beatles were the greatest
group in the world, who said so????
me said the beatles were the greatest we all have a choice but i love buju banton he has got the best voice that i have ever heard i never heard rodigan say he is the godfather of reggae music i dont no rodigan just been to a couple of his show s and he is a great d j
Rodigan may not of said it but he also didn't deny or aknowledge other black british, Jamaican men who gave him a huge leg up, which has made him the man he is today.
In many people's eyes David Rodigan is giving you half of a story.
And Lloyed Coxsone is giving you the rest, which many people won't understand unless you have experienced it.
I for one understand his plight, as my father was brutilised on a regular basis for giving not only his jamaican people but those people who were probably considered to be on the fringes of society a place that they would be accepted if you appreciated reggae music.
David Rodigan was one of those accepted people.
Ah true listen to him it's true .
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up bredda
Rodigan is a great dj and I respect what he has done for reggae music . Lloyde coxone should leave rodigan alone I dont know if he is jealous of rodigan success or he feels that it should be him in the hot seat, coxone should not use the race card against rodigan the business is big enough for everyone to get a slice of the cake.
Am White & Am dissapointed with this talk
, I love Reggae music & it mostly thanks to Papa Rodi & Tony WIlliams, they got me addicted to it years ago early 80's with tunes on the Radio from Captain Simbad ,Kojak,then loved Saxon sound,Scientist Aces international
Mad professor,Tenor Saw, The point being If it wasn't for Rodi I wouldn't have even known about Augustus Pablo, Alton Ellis,Mighty Diamonds, Capleton,Tappa Zuki the list can go on and on, I'd have never seen cup clashes etc.,spread love it's all about the music
Why r you disappointed the man didn't say nothing other than David Raddigan is not no ambassador for the reggae which is true thecnicolly an diplomatically he's nothing but a modern day pirate
the more i listen the more annoying coxsone is to be honest respect urself coxsone rodigan married a black woman and had mixed race kids bob marley is mixed and one of the best musicians of all time this should not be a black and white thing leave that at home learn to love the people maybe your government should give u an mbe for your work to you will not get one with an attitude like that sorry be respectful you getting old now respect sir coxsone sending you english love WE LOVE YOU remember that stop being jealous
Maybe he should stick to bring a radio presenter instead of trying to be a sound man without a background in sound He got found out a few times when he invited the big sounds from Jamaica on his show like Gemini and Bodyguard in the 80s to clash. He made himself look a fool by asking Gemini if they play the tunes what the the DJs want to chat over. Gemini sounded bewildered and stated the obvious: 'we play what the people want to hear!' That made me wonder is Rodigan for real? When he clashed with Bodyguard he played dub specials 'who is going to Bodyguard the Bodyguard'. They just laughed and told him ' Rodigan you are playing Mickey Mouse, we get that all the time' they killed him with exclusive non special dubs. If Rodigannwas a serious sound man he wouldn't talk or play in such a naive fashion
From someone who was in the reggae- music business, from way back when, I give David Rodigan high regards for his contribution in spreading reggae music . However, I fully understand the contempt Sir Cox feels coming from David . For anyone except Toots and the late Joseph Hill( Culture) to say he is the godfather of reggae is a blatant disrespect to our heritage . Reggae music gets it name from Toots and Culture in the Bronx, NY. In fact, the name " reggae" came about by an accident . It was Streggae it was suppose to be named . However, the white woman did not hear what Toots said when she asked him " what type of music he was playing?" She jumped the gun and implied that he said reggae and he said yes, "reggae ". Yes; Toots and Culture gave birth to reggae in Bartley's night club in the Bronx.
The only fault I find with Sir Cox, is, he is not articulate in driving the point home : he is somewhat over the place. As a result, it make it seems as if he a racist . Clearly, he is not. What Cox is saying is not different from what we Jamaicans did to Bob Marley and other Rastafarians . We often sell out our own , yet; build pedestals and placed others on .
Rodigan has been coming to Jamaica for decades. He loves our music. And it is fear to say he has done a lot for the music. However, he is not a musician. Therefore, it is doubtful that a Reggae Historian and a Radioman such as Rodigan would refer to himself as the Godfather of Reggae. It is a well establish fact that Reggae came about when musicians decided to slow down the Ska beat and pick the guitar. I started following Rodigan in the nineteen eighties. Himself and Radio Disc Jockey, Barry Gordon had many clashes. I think Coxsone is bitter because the Jamaican people have bestowed one of their highest awards on Rodigan. Also, the brand, 'Rodigan' is a household name is Jamaica. Most Jamaican have never even heard about Lloyd Coxsone. And many of those who have-have never seen the man.
Contribution??????
Why you people call him sir coxsone?
Lloyd you need to apologise you chat rubbish can't believe I listened to you you make a lot of hatred in the world chatting like that little rasist remarks its hurtful rodigan has MBE to his name for a reason peace brov
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Pure lie coxsone ah tell , Rodigan never ever say anything bout him ah godfather, pure bad mind , pure rubbish him ah talk ,
Nattybonga, the Independent Newspaper did an article on David Rodigan,
titled (( David Rodigan: my dear boy, i'm a Reggae Legend)) in it they refer
to him as the King of Reggae; article publish Tuesday 16 September 2003
go and find the article, at www.independent.co.uk So you are the Liar,
Lloyd Coxsone was speaking the truth; not even Bob Marley ever claim to
be the king of Reggae, it's called white privilege, and it's real
Kallian K Gaming, you can twist and turn all you want, Masquerading
trying to Dance around the facts; this Controversy started when a
white female presenter, said to David Rodigan, how does it feel to be
the Godfather of Reggae in the U.K., David Rodigan Reply to that
Question was, (( I am honoured )) he did not Refute that statement,
he happily took on that accolade, that he is the Godfather of Reggae
in the U.K.
he accepted the title given to him by other whites, if he was a person
of integrity, he would've said no, I am not the Godfather of Reggae in
the U.K. Such accolade should be given to the many Sound Systems
DJ's and Operators, who are the true pioneers of Reggae in England,
including Sir Lloyd Coxsone,
I don't know why you seem to think that my view on the Subject, is
irrelevant, and yours is relevant, this is about the first people who
Established Reggae Music in England, who were blacks from the
Caribbean, and it doesn't matter how long you or I, have been Listening
to Rodigan, or Sir Coxsone and the others, the Black Cultural Archives
of Britain, show that the first Jamaican Sound Systems started in 1955
Rodigan first started on Radio in 1978, playing only for one hour, per
week, while Sound Systems were playing all around the Country every
night from 6pm to 7am in the morning, No Contest, moreover Rodigan
never had a sound, Reggae didn't start with Rodigan in the U.K. Reggae
is bigger than Rodigan;
Some of us are afraid to speak the truth, afraid to upset the whites, and
these people are Laughing at us, Like we are Clowns, whether you are
black or you are white, if you are not with us, then you are against us,
history highlight all the many inJustice and inequalities that's been done
and is still been done to black people, but you don't care about that, you
don't want to speak about that, but as soon as a brother start to talk the
truth, you want to Jump on him, to defend white privilege;
the Link for that article is www.independent.co.uk/search/site/
David/%62520 Rodigan?page=1, find the page and it's on page 3,
that article refer to David Rodigan as the (( King of Reggae ))
Killian K Gaming; the Source is www.independent.co.uk/arts-
entertainment/music/features/david-rodigan-my-dear-boy-im-a-reggae-
legend-87187.html the article was written by Ian Burrell, on September
16th 2003, open the page and Scroll down to the bottom, the title is
(( David Rodigan, my dear boy I'm a Reggae Legend; you can search and
read it, yourself;
Kallian K Gaming; you're like a drowning man clutching at straws, after
telling me off, because you claim that I didn't give the exact Link, Now
60 minutes ago you claim that you cited that very same article, how
Convenient!!! go back and read my Comment to Nattybonga, 3 days
ago, I was quoting from that article, I gave the title of the article,and
the Date it was written,
in one of your comment you said, and I'm Quoting you, (( we are not
going to Look for something that may not even exist)) what were you
referring to, if it wasn't that article?? you admitted that I was the one
who found the article, but you complained that I didn't give the exact Link,
your attempted Craftiness only demonstrate that you're very unskilled
in deception; However you are missing the point; David Rodigan
didn't say that I'm the Godfather of Reggae in England; that accolade
was given to him by Other whites, and then King of Reggae,
when the white female presenter, said to David Rodigan, how does it
feel to be the Godfather of Reggae in England, David said he was
honoured, he accepted the titled, he happily took on that accolade,
that he was, if he was a person of integrity, he would mention the
many black people who was before him, and those who Nurtured him
from the beginning of his career; So when truth comes, falsehood
will vanish;