On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Chris Fahey wrote:
o}For classic dub, Lee "Scratch" Perry is the shit. He's got about 50 dub
o}records going back to the 60's. Mad Prof's a protege of his. Check out
o}Lee Perry/Mad Professor collaboration "Experryments at the grassroots of
o}Dub" to bridge the gap.
speaking of which, i saw lee perry live last weekend, backed by
the robotiks, with mad professor on the mixing board. i went to the show
a bit skeptically, given that 1) perry is 61 years old, and i haven't
really dug his recent albums, and 2) dub seems to be such a studio
creation that i doubted its impact live. within moments of perry
appearing on stage, my doubts disintegrated. he is an extremely
charismatic performer (the only comparison i can think of is dylan when
he's on) as well as exceedingly strange--i found my self believing that he
actually is a space alien as he claims, if not then he is the spryest old
man ever, dude did a 3 hour show and jumped around all night. dub is also
*incredible* live--watching the drummer solo and gradually hearing his
solo mutate until it seems unrelated to his movements is wonderfully
disorienting... plus i was sitting right behind mad p. and so got a lesson
in knob-twiddling magick. quite an experience...
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