Dub Side of the Moon
With the Arlenes gig now over in the UK, I obviously have nothing else to plug. Or so I thought. Stu had sent me his latest album and I have put an entry in about it below. What I didn't say was that he also had sent me over another couple of cd's of things that I may like. One of them was an album called Dub Side of the Moon by the Easy Star All Stars. Basically this is a reggae reworking of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon (see previous entry about DOTM as well!). Last night I finally got around to listening to it and was blown away as to how good it was. Not as good as the original but still very good, and I don't even like reggae music.
I would urge you to try and get a copy of this and sit back and relax.
One reason I don't like reggae is that two friends of mine were in a band called The Tinners, and the played pubs in Cornwall and Devon, primarily doing cover versions. The were musical prostitutes and were happy to play any style of music in order to appease a crowd. So far so good. Occasionally they would play Bob Marley's, "No Woman, No Cry", until one fateful night in The Two Bridges in Saltash they were forced to play the song 17 times in a row by the landlord, who had just contracted a fatal disease, received the final divorce papers from his wife and had criminal charges brought against to him due to an incident involving a shot gun, a bridge and 12 construction workers (legally I can't go into any more details). My brother & I heard it the first 3 times and departed and I have never liked reggae music since. Pete who sang the song that night still gets a look of fear in his eyes whenever anyone mentions it, and Ian who played guitar still wakes in a cold sweat with his fingers bent in the shape of the c minor cord but that is for another reason altogether.
I would urge you to try and get a copy of this and sit back and relax.
One reason I don't like reggae is that two friends of mine were in a band called The Tinners, and the played pubs in Cornwall and Devon, primarily doing cover versions. The were musical prostitutes and were happy to play any style of music in order to appease a crowd. So far so good. Occasionally they would play Bob Marley's, "No Woman, No Cry", until one fateful night in The Two Bridges in Saltash they were forced to play the song 17 times in a row by the landlord, who had just contracted a fatal disease, received the final divorce papers from his wife and had criminal charges brought against to him due to an incident involving a shot gun, a bridge and 12 construction workers (legally I can't go into any more details). My brother & I heard it the first 3 times and departed and I have never liked reggae music since. Pete who sang the song that night still gets a look of fear in his eyes whenever anyone mentions it, and Ian who played guitar still wakes in a cold sweat with his fingers bent in the shape of the c minor cord but that is for another reason altogether.
posted by Nick at 2:25 PM
2 Comments:
You didn't mention that he still had the shot gun upstairs. Those crazy days, that gig was nearly as bad as the new years eve one where you broke an old womans heart by murdering her favourite song (YMCA). Oh and tell them about when you managed to cut out our entire sound in the middle of a song by fiddling with the sound desk.
M
p.s. No Woman No Cry's in C, not C minor.
I seem to remember also murdering House of the Rising Sun that New Year's. As for the sound desk I have no comment apart from guilty.
PS Why did you never play it in C then?
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