So I reckon my number one spot is Michael Jackson. Yeah, I was loving pop music and “Take out those papers and the trash, or you won’t get no spending cash.” I am a lover of pop music. Well, I liked “Charlie Brown,” like pop music. Were there songs in your family before you went off to Kingston, music that you liked? Lee Scratch Perry: I grew up with revolution in my brain, revolution in my leg, and revolution in my head. But if you go to /takenote right now, you’ll be able to read along with the transcript. Oh, also, another thing to warn you about: This interview was done via What’sApp, so the quality suffers a little. I mean, is anything traditional anymore? For instance when I ask him …. So do not expect a traditional episode of the Music Is My Life podcast. What I decided to do instead is to interrupt every now and then to give you some context. The conversation that you are about to hear takes a lot of twists and turns and some of his answers were so different from the questions I asked that I was tempted to dub in some alternate questions. He sings a song called “I Am a Madman,” and a lot of people who have worked with him would agree with that. One other thing about Lee “Scratch” Perry and the reputation that precedes him. He collaborated with the Clash, with the Beastie Boys, with George Clinton, with Keith Richards, and so many more. His musical influence is not limited to reggae either. It’s possible he also invented sampling, using the sound of a crying baby to begin his song “People Funny Boy” in 1968, a scathing song against one of his rival producers. He was Bob Marley’s mentor, producing some of his first recordings. As a music producer, he arguably invented reggae in the late 1960s and early 70s, and he inarguably invented dub in the mid 1970s at his famed Black Ark Studio in Jamaica. What follows is a transcript of the very surreal interview.Īt 84 years young he has enough laurels to rest on, but he still keeps creating. We were fortunate enough to interview the Upsetter in 2020, for the 50th episode of the Music is My Life podcast. Lee “Scratch” Perry passed away on August 29th. Photos of Lee “Scratch” Perry by Frederik Ranninger of Pit Pony Photography ( © pitpony.photography / CC-BY-SA-3.0)
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