Note: The expression "Kick The Bucket" means when someone, has died. Long Shot was the name of a racehorse. With the advent of "Long Shot Kick The Bucket" Lee Perry's innovative record producing talents was beginning to shine through, but it wasn't until he set up his own recording studio that he had enjoyed a major British chart smash in the 70's with his studio band, the Upsetters and himself under the name of Scratch on his Upsetter label. In actual fact the record was more of an instrumental stature "Return of Django!" Lee Perry once said: "I see the recording studio must as a living thing, a life itself!" The machine must be live and intelligent. Then I put my mind into the machine and the machine performs the reality. my invisible thought waves is put them into the machine by sending them through the controls and the knobs, and you jack it into the jack panel. Lee Perry went to say: The jack panel is the brain itself, so you got to patch up the brain and make the brain a living entity, enabling the brain to take in what you're sending into it and live!" . | | The story of Lee Perry is more or less the story of Jamaican music on the whole: Beginning from his time at Studio one with Coxsone during the years from 1959 through to 1966 of the Ska era with ska songs like Pussy Galore, Chicken Scratch, Help The Weak and What A Good Woodman, those years with Coxsone Dodd never showed signs of the genius that was to come from Perry. Many of his early work did not established a thematic foundation that Perry would be using for the rest of his livelihood, they were just simply the ska music that record producers on the whole was exploiting! |
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