An Epic Story of Lee 'Scratch' Perry
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- čas přidán 27. 02. 2023
- Lee "Scratch" Perry was a Jamaican record producer, composer and singer noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style. Perry was a pioneer in the 1970s development of dub music with his early adoption of remixing and studio effects to create new instrumental or vocal versions of existing reggae tracks. He worked with and produced for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Marley and the Wailers, Junior Murvin, The Congos, Max Romeo, Adrian Sherwood, Beastie Boys, Ari Up, The Clash, The Orb, and others. He, however, had issues with many of the artists leading him to burn down his Black Ark Studio and his wife to abandon him. Kindly watch and share your thoughts in the comment section down below and I'll see you again very soon for another video, however until we meet again, please subscribe, like, and hit the notification bell to keep you updated on our latest video.#shorts #shortsvideo #shortsvideoviral #reggaemusic #reels #youtubeshorts #youtuber #jamaica #usa #bobmarley #petertosh #reggae #reggaetontiktok #shortmovie #africa #reelsinstagram #youtubeshorts #youtube #nigeria
This man is a true genius of Jamaican music,along with Jackie mittoo
He seems to have gone through a lot and survived it all and lived for 85 years.
When you're gifted you're gifted and no one can the that away. R.I..P. ✌ ☮ always.
Really, a man with no education having gone this far was no joke. He was determined, focused until he made his goal. Rest in eternal peace perry.
Foolishness. Trench Town Rock was recorded at Federal studio in 1971 with the then Upsetters (Family Man, Carlie, Reggie Lewis), Wailers and Wailing Souls. That session also laid down Wailing Souls' Harbour Shark and a third track I can't remember now. So even if Trench Town Rock mocked him, it was while the Wailers were working with him. I was a schoolboy and was taken to the session by the excited group from the record shop where we hung out. After the session, with Bunny Wailer as the driver of the brown Escort, I was dropped at Victoria Park (now St William Grant Park) to catch a late bus home.
Great information thank you. More!
Respect
Knowledge
Great to get first hand accounts of people who were there. Thanks
Scratch was a genius, but he very bitter towards Bunny and Bob till his dying day
Unforgettable Lee 'Scratch' Perry- big thanks for making some amazing musi and just being you!
Such an Epic story of the time ❤❤❤!!!
Love the man! He was eccentric and radical for his time. A true legend of Reggae Music. One 💕 love Ideen. Forward to Zion! ✌️ Peace!
Just found a Documentary of Lee's later years, which he spent in my homeland switherland. In the most conservative part of it, having a great time in the nature between mountains and cows. Now, if he was eccentric by jamaican standards, let me tell you, he looked like an extraterrestrian in that scenery.
A shame I only got to know about that so late... would have loved to visit him... Maybe bringing a new mirror for his hat... ;)
He was a special man
Wowwwwwwwww probably the only Reggae artist to date to have died at an advanced age and of natural cause. Thanks Ras Dennis
Seen him some years ago, smoking drinking on stage. Still legendary. 2017- 2019
Wow what an awesome and well spoken documentary!!
The most fun I ever had performing and playing 6 or 7 instruments over the years has been the 12 years I played reggae on the east coast w Babatunde and the Roots International Crew, and especially the late great Wilson Blue and Blue Roots Reggae Band.. among others. I'm Blue Roots we once even opened for Dub Syndicate at the reggae festival at Stepping Stone Ranch in Escoheag, R.I. 1996.. it was over 110 degrees up on that stage, I played barefoot and the bottoms of my feet burned, I looked like a long haired lobster afterwards, and the LED readout on my stage keyboard melted so I couldn't even see my programs.. ALWAYS a huge fan of Dub Syndicate, Peter Tosh, Marley, Pan Hall, and countless others, this was the single best mini bio of one of the most memorable and talented engineers of reggae and it's production, of all time! Thank you for this incredibly informative bio on the great Lee Scratch Perry!
Lee Perry is immortal
Mad genius
RIP THE GOAT
He s not and that is my opinion.....: Chris Blackwell and Crew
Fi truuu!! ...Give thanks Bro.Ras Dennis! ...I love Bro. Scratch's music and of-course have massive respect and Raspect for him and this video/documentary is very informative. I learned alot more about our Brother!! Again, I give THANKS for all the work and time and care it took to come to forewishen!! Blessed love!! ..RasTafari!!!😇🙏👍💚💛❤️
Awsome mini docs, greetings ras dennis, one love blessing to lee perry dubing in the sky
Reggae Started Before Lee Perry Exited Studio One, Reggae Was Created And Invented By Our Dynamic Musicians,,,🏆🇯🇲 Mr. KeenObserVatioN 🇯🇲🏆
Lee Perry is the brother of George Clinton by anoher mother, talented and eccentric to the max....both of them 😆😆
Perry was a pirate
Bless Lee Scratch and 🔥
I'm ALSO Ras Dennis. 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼 🇬🇳
I always thought him and Bob had similar voices. Even speaking
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Yes, you're very correct on this.
Great musician
Happy to see him live. Toots another great able to see. Wish I could have seen Desmond, Morgan, and Aitken (too many more to list. Alton.......)
Hopefully going to see Mr. Symarip himself Roy!
The song concerned was : Small axe
I heard after he burned the Black Arc down he was seen walking backwards striking the ground with a hammer. Glad he got some off his marbles back. His albums with Mad Professor and the Orb were brilliant ✌️
He burned the studio down to remove himself from a protection racket, and when people asked him why he said 'Somebody stole my favourite rubber ball', which I think is pretty cool.
He actually did a good thing by bootlegging the Wailers. It’s was free exposure across seas.
nice timeline of events (but I see there are errors noted in the comments) also: I think it would have been helpful if you mentioned the “I Know A Place” sessions Perry did with Bob Marley, which (I may be wrong?) seemed to bury the hatchet between the two greats if any animosity had still existed. Also, it is a fabulous bunch of tunes - I Know A Place and Who Colt The Game plus their dubs are top quality. I personally rank Lee Perry as the #1 Jamaican producer (original tune only) then: #2 Coxsone Dodd #3 Joe Gibbs #4 Duke Reid #5 Sonia Pottinger #6 Justin Yap. King Tubby is not on my list there becuase he only did dubs, but obviously Tubby is a category of one, himself (and engineered a bunch of Perry classics, including some on Blackboard Jungle Dub, the best, in my opinion, Dub LP) thanks for the video. I love reggae music. Aka music, rock steady music and dub music. Peace and music ✌️
He was a genius
You can walk into any record shop in the UK and so many parts of the world and see so many different variations of wailers compilation albums full of music from their scratch perry era, with only Bob's picture on the front. This is because scratch sold the rights to this music to merchants in the UK without consulting any of the wailers. Scratch went back to JA and paid Bob, bunny and peter peanuts. They nearly beat him to death when this happened.
L,Z SO, YOU SEE WHY ONLY BOB'S PICTURE WAS ON THE FRONT? WELL NOW YOU KNOW WHY. DID YOU KNOW WHAT WE FROM TRENCH TOWN WHO LIVED THE HISTORY KNOW? THIS WAS BECAUSE ISLAND RECORDS , COXSONE, PERRY, AND OTHERS WERE RECORDING OUR MUSIC AND SELLING THEM ON VINYL TO SHOPS IN THE UK WITHOUT OUR KNOWLEDGE, AND STEALING OUR ROYALTIES NOT PAYING US ANYTHING. THEY STOLE OUR TRENCH TOWN PEOPLE MUSIC. THIS TRUTH IS WIDE AND DEEP. RAS CARDO WHO CREATED REGGAE AND OWNS THE EXCLUSIVE COPYRIGHTS(SEE IT ONLINE) IS FROM TRENCH TOWN. HE/WE HAVE THE TRUE HISTORY.**DO YOU REALLY WANT THE FULL TRUE DETAILED STORY?** DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHO GAVE ORDERS TO KILL WHO AND WHY? WE KNOW!!!
True. 🤦🏾♂️ 😂. Him shouldn’t have done that 🌟 😂
For real, they recorded the beating and sent it to his wife. If I'd grown up in the ghetto of Trench Town having had to learn to fight, and saw making it big in music as my ticket out of poverty, my way of telling the world about what was happening to my people, and my spiritual calling as well, I'd have got angry and potentially beat him up as well, they had a lot of reasons to.
@@timothydraper3687 LOOOOOL I dont know about that first part but i feel you my g
@@LZ-dm8co I'm a pacifist more or less, but I reckon that's because I've had the luxury to be, had I had their lives I may have done the same in their place. I can't help thinking 'Fair enough'.
top claSS
The 1
Guys ever seen his full documentary The Upsetter narrated by Benicio Del Toro, ✌️
Can you make a bio Jamaican chinese history. Tnx
ÑOTED ⭐
The Lee Scratch Perry That Was At Studio One To Joe Gibbs, Is A Totally Different Lee Perry After Leaving Joe Gibbs,,,,🏆🇯🇲 Mr. KeenObserVatioN 🇯🇲🏆
Yes imo his Black Ark work was some of his best.
he seen it all.
i loved your video, rad content, you do a good job and it added to my day, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Jah Jah
Unfortunately, a another self destructive story in the world of reggae, with such talent. So sad.
Nothing sad, kept performing, reached respectfully age, genius albums. Nothing self-destructive, self providing.
🙏🙏🙏
This was fantastic, so good to learn more the reggae genius. What was the song playing through out the documentary? I really like this too.
🔥
Joe Gibbs Beat The Shit Out Of Lee Perry For Doing So, And That Terrible Beating Affected His Psyche Since, That Beat Down By Joe Gibbs Was Brutal,,,,🏆🇯🇲 Mr. KeenObserVatioN 🇯🇲🏆
I'm hoping Ras does a video about Augustus Pablo...
Will do. Many thanks for watching
Oh dear GOD. THE KING OF THE MELODICA ....: MANLEY AUGUSTUS BUCHANON aka AUGUSTUS PABLO. He was in a league of his own. LEGENDARY
No the legal name of Augustus Pablo was Horace Swaby. And Manley Augustus Buchanan is the legal name of Big Youth.
@@oleeivindhansen5647 you are right.
Reminds me of George Clinton of Parliment Funkadelic,,,,,,,,,Genius Architects of sound.
Clinton cannot even step in his shadow.
@@josephnuttn3600 YOU ARE RIGHT.....HE HAS IS OWN SHADOW.....!
Scratch was deep. But I was disapointed to hear what he said about Bob in the very beginning...like really?? C taught Bob a lesson? Nah thats cold mon....caan say dat....especially since they find out how he catch it... dat was cold scratch
I know of this music being born in Jamaica during that era. This guy was a known nutcase. Brilliant musically nonetheless.
When are you going to do Burning Spear?
He was a G. Rip
Dam he got beat up ? We need a movie
Steupzzzz
I'm with The Wailers. You taught me the most but I don't care for your voice lol✌️. Reggae Appreciation Society is my favorite channel. He knows his stuff well like you but has the yardie accent. Anyway nuff respect Ras D.❤️💛💚🤙
Big up! Many thanks for your thoughts.
I liked Perry but not all his dogs were barking. Seriously. RIP Rainford Hugh Perry aka Lee Perry
There's a thin line between lunacy and genius
@@ianthompson9942 indeed. In the recording studio he was GOD HIMSELF. BUT.... and that's the part that everybody was afraid of
The dogs didn't bark but the lions roared... A producer and a vet.... U don't believe go watch "Marley and me"... Tell the vet u have a psychological problem which causes you to see the bad side of great people...
@@leeperry8819 Perry was great, Marley was greater. I didn't assume or say he was bad. Upstairs he had some, if not, a lot of issues.
Who is the greatest banality@@cedrickross9025 ? Go down all amateur psychiatrists, burn in hell all professional ones. Hail the only true psychiatrist Haile I Selassie I, Rainford Hugh Perry!
please add subtitles
Hush people he lost it what he said is of one of unsound mind
May Allah bless his soul
anyone know that first killer dub
Salute what’s the name of intro & outro song
What song is playing throughout the video?
Could've mentioned 1987 album Time Boom X De Devil Dead with Ade Sherwood & Dub Syndicate. But that (arugably) his best of the latest albums Rainford (2019) and the dub companion Heavy Rain is not mentioned I truly consider a lack of knowledge/investigation. Makes me wonder how 'well' the rest of his career has been investigated...
Yes, I've noticed that this short documentary fails to mention some crucial albums and stuff, and overlooks Lee's genius.
Performed by the Wailers but actually Bob's composition... Allegations rather unlikely 'cos Perry was such an eccentric oddball you couldn't tell whether he was telling the truth or not..🤣🤣🤣 And What?? From the Secret Laboratory.. Perry's Best ever album?😳😳 Oh.... Come on..!!!!
You said it, Secret Laboratory not even in the top ten!!!! Police and Thieves, Soul Revolution, Super Ape, Panic in Babylon..........................................................
Put down that pipe, Lee. Too much herb!
Lol ...😆
Scratch Perry was an enigma 🤔🤔🤔🤔.
Lee Scratch Perry the one who started the fukry wit deh Wailers, dont joke with the Wailers Rude Bwoy dem trash scratch rass him to damn theif and sell out the Wailers to UK Music Label, Lucky dem let him live.
He was not a rasta he was a rascal
Telly tale
Y on Jah's Earth wld he torch🔥the Blak Ark Studio & ALL its master tapes????👀
It beats logic completely! As a foremost record producer he shldve known better!
Did he say Cancer teach him a lesson. That ah some seriously ridiculously cold hearted shit, or the ramblings ofva mad man.
You don't get it. Shame.
@@josephnuttn3600Damn foolishness.
Lee perry robbed them
he produced the "the heart of the congos". and that fact alone makes him the best producer of all times. and in his case ... spaces too!
“Big fish your sprat” not scratch
Big fish OR sprat
@@bollockchop501 seen true
'No want you fi galang so',,,,'you want come cold i up'...'but you can't come cold I up'..'cause we are grooving '
😂😂😂smh
Drinking petrol ? He wouldn't have reached this age. Bollocks.
You talking bullocks bout trenchtown rock. Cedric myton was one big bad vibe. Like bunny wailer.
I thought rastas didn't believe in dying their hair
Exactly 💯
Does not make you anymore or any less righteous it's from the heart
@@raslion78 true. But RASTA is RASTA.
Everyone fall short to the glory of jah so let jah be the judge 🙏🏾
@@raslion78 trust me when I say this RAS.. I DONT GROW LOCKS...IN THE PIBLE IT SAYS EVERYTHING AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE PIBLE IS. you as A RAS. People call me half cast but I am not. JAH created me as I am and am proud. JAH BLESS
Another Misinformation, As Great As Lee Perry Was, He Didn’t Buss The Wailers,Their Catch-A-Fire Album Did The Trick For The Wailers With Huge Credits Going To Chris Blackwell, Who’s Input Was Valuable,,,,Historical Facts,,,,🏆🇯🇲 Mr. KeenObserVatioN 🇯🇲🏆
Is this a virtual narrator? He's pronouncing some of these words wrong....
Very funny.
Which words?
No Bwoy!!! Many thanks for watching
Lee can't be trusted here.
Lee is always getting some attention by whatever hook or crook or evil doings he comes up with. Hes not a good rasta in my view.
Leave all judgement to the Most High... Bob Marley's revolutionary singing style wash Scratch's. It is said Scratch invented Reggae... It is said, he invented dub the forebearer of Dancehall, Hip Hop, Dubstep, Reggeton, EDM, Tropical House, Afro beats.... Him bad no rahtid
@@leeperry8819 musically hes was all that and then some. But spirituality is an entirely different matter, my friend.
Crazy from the get go , got crazier as he got older.
Nope. Nothing crazy. Genius. Excentric. Non dogmatic. A madman but not crazy. Surviving them all.
Drinking petrol ? He wouldn't have reached this age. Bollocks.