Had a great week cratedigging in Vegas during the Thanksgiving Holiday. Enjoy this Best of Smile Jamaica out of the Ark-Ives collection while I was off air.
bless, Bobbylon
0-30 min.
Rita Marley – I Know a Place; Sings Bob Marley and Friends (Shanachie) ’91
UB40 – Folitician (Remix); UB44 (DEP) ’81
Lloyd Parks & Hugh Brown – Into the Night (extended mix): Music Works vol. 2: Lovers Dancehall (Ambassa) ’81 Benny Mardones pop cover
Tena Stelin & Sound Iration – Jah Powers + Dub Seal (Part 3); Wicked Invetion + In Dub (Mr. Modo) ’89
30-60 min.
Blood Sisters – Ring My Bell; Hustle! (Soul Jazz) ’79 disco cover of Anita Ward
Let us give thanks from the road. I am on assignment. Cratedigging in the land of 10 down 40 to go. Enjoy this 3 hour dub extravaganza cooked up in the Smile Jamaica Secret Dubratory
bless, Bobbylon
0 – 30 min.
The Wailers – Smile Jamaica Version; In Dub vol. 1 (Tuff Gong) ‘77
No matter where you come down on the election: from Blue Wave to Purple Puddle, cannabis did well at the polls. Took 3 out of 4.
Green Wave at the ballot box:
<Green Wave: 19 sec.>
Michigan legalized the Seven Leaf
Utah medical marijuana
Missouri medical marijuana
10 legal + DC + all of Canada
33 states medical marijuana
<Without seeds; 23 sec.>
Had a great conversation with my window installer this summer. He was a young Mormon man with a family. We got to talking based on my Reggae/cannabis menagerie of posters up in the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives.
He has excruciating pain in his back. None of the official pain meds were tolerable: gave him terrible constipation and nightmares. His wife was offered pharmaceutical anti-nausea medication while pregnant. Later the drug was found to cause birth defects.
Both of them relied on cannabis for pain and nausea relief. Not CBD. Cannabis. Smoked not eaten. My Dad uses it for neuropathy and carpal tunnel in Arizona. It’s a medicine. Congrats to Utahans for exercising their free agency.
Utah’s Prop 2 legalizing medical marijuana
So what will 2020 bring?
I’m predicting these states go for it:
Wisconsin
Ohio
Illinois
New Jersey
Florida
Montana (my homeland!)
New Mexico
Arizona (second try)
Hawaii? (they should be no brainer)
10 down, 40 to go! Maybe Pres. 45 will legalize it nationally if he wants to get re-elected?
Wow. That was quite the election without objection. Say what you want about Pres. 45, he motivates people to the polls. Although 5 billion dollars seems like quite a squandering of resources for such lack of choice.
But listening to Reggae for 3 plus decades, I learned to give the Hairy Eyeball to the isms and schisms.
So, this Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives delves into the real politik. And the same thing for breakfast.
I also think The Cream has it on the money too….
<Same thing for breakfast & The Cream’s Politician; 85 sec.>
The Cream – Politician
I’m a political man And I practice what I preach I’m a political man And I practice what I preach So don’t deny me, baby Not while you’re in my reach
I support the left Though I’m leaning, leaning to the right I support the left Though I’m leaning to the right But I’m just not there When it’s coming to a fight
The Cream – I support the left, but I’m leaning to the right aka “The Same Thing for Breakfast”
Best outcome for I ‘n’ I
Michigan legalized the collie weed
Missouri medical MJ
Utah Proposition 2 – Medical Marijuana puff puff passed
Since nearly the very beginning I ‘n’ I have harvested all the various Halloween tunes found in Reggae music.
<25+ Years of Jah-loween on 29 Years of Smile Jamaica; 24 sec.>
Over the 3 decades of Reggae Radio my Devil’s menagerie has grown to 2 60-CD suitcases, a crate full of vinyl, a box full of 7″.
About a decade ago, I started hacking up horror bytes, movie trailers and Jah-loween intros. Then like Dr. Frankenstein in his laboratory, I hunker down in my Secret Dubratory and stitch it all together.
It’s alive! It’s alive!
So now enjoy this look back to all Hallow’s Eve and admire how Horror Reggae fits the Season. 11 sec.
Roll a lickle spliff wif di papyrus. Smoking sensimenia inna Mesopotamia!
Jah-tober 20th Smile Jamaica, livicated to the late great Peter Tosh – born Oct. 19, 1947.
Jah-tober is Jah-loween on Smile Jamaica,
Peter was at the pinnacle of the masses of Reggae songs devoted to the Halloween menagerie: vampires, ghosts (duppies in Jamaica), witches, mummies, anti-Christs, zombies and general evil. I and I have hundreds of Jah-loween tunes on CD, black wax: LP, 12″, 10″ and 7″.
Peter’s additions to the canon?
Dracula
Vampire
Mark of the Beast – about his brutal beating at the hands of Jamaican cops
Jumbie Jamboree – ska update of a classic soca song about the cousin of the duppy – jumbies.
With the Wailers: Mr. Brown (who drives around in a coffin) and Duppy Conqueror.
There is one more….
My very first Reggae LP was Peter Tosh – Wanted Dread & Alive; Christmas 1981. Thanks mom!
It was only after I got into Reggae that I discovered that was not the intended track list.
For European markets: lose Poor Man Feel It, Cold Blood and That’s What They Will Do. Substitute: Rok With Me, Guide Me From My Friends and Oh, Bumbo Klaat.
Peter’s tale of how a Jamaican spirit (Duppy) had him paralyzed. The only way to free himself from malevolent possession was to scream the Jamaican equivalent of Mother F******: Oh Bumbo Klaat
Bum: coarse word for our four letter “c” word. Klaat as in cloth – menstrual rags, not to be indelicate.
Such a foul epithet would horrify Jamaicans to hear uttered anywhere. But Peter mustered all his energy and burst out: OH BUMBA KLAAT
The duppy was so shocked at hearing such an utterance that he let go of Peter and the Stepping Razor broke free of his paralysis:
<Smile Jamaica story on Peter’s possession: Oh Bumbo Klaat; 102 sec.
[Verse 4] One night, an evil spirit held me down I could not make one single sound Until Jah told me, “Son, use the word” And now I’m as free as a bird
I was very happy to be cratedigging in SLC, at Get In Here Records I scored the above 12″ black wax aboved.
Tosh’s tragic end belied an “Omen”. I had just got into Reggae bigly as 45 would say around Sept. ’86. A year later I was working at Graywhale CD and used my employee discount to buy 2 CDs:
Ramones – Halfway to Sanity
Peter Tosh – No Nuclear War.
I think the Tosh album dropped on Sept. 3, 1987. On Sept. 12, I remember going to the SLC airport to pick up my sister off the plane. On page 2 of the paper that morning:
Reggae singer Peter Tosh killed in Jamaica.
Peter Tosh dead on, …wait for it: Sept. 11.
The other 9/11 tragedy
Peter the mystic did not go quietly to Jah’s Heavenly Choir. He got his “revenge” on his birthday that year: Oct. 19, 1987:
<Peter Tosh murder: Sept. 11, 1987. Black Monday – Oct. 19, 1987; 75 sec.>
Black Monday was the worst stock market collapse since the Great Depression. Only, since, eclipsed by the Great Recession of 2008.
Dow Jones stock market lost 22.6% of its valuation in one day. Peter Tosh exacted his revenge against the “shystem” in A-sad-ica. Because for the poor there is nothing “merry” about America.
Happy Birthday to the Stepping Razor: #PeterTosh. Murdered on 9/11 '87. Crashed the stock market from beyond on his birthday. 10/19/87 #BlackMonday. Chanting down the shytstem in A-sad-ica b/c for the poor, there is nothing "merry" in America pic.twitter.com/QjNWMBvwse
While raising kasheesh for your station that rules the nation, KRCL, I hunkered down in my Secret Dubratory and cooked up a 3 hour Digital Dubplate tis the season.
Halloween? No Jah-loween. All my ripped audio from my Horror DVD collection trailers followed by vampires, ghosts, demons and duppies.
Boo-tiful, Bobbylon
Digital Dubplate Jah-loween 2018 Halloween movie trailers included:
Halloween
Frankenstein
The Mummy
War of the Worlds
Wolfman
Creature From the Black Lagoon
Village of the Damned
Carnival of Souls
Fearless Vampire Killers
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Deranged
Young Frankenstein
It’s Alive
To the Devil a Daughter
Nosferatu (1979)
Humanoids From the Deep
Motel Hell
Thriller
The Hunger
Toxic Avenger
Lifeforce
Beetlejuice
Night of the Creeps
0-30 min.
Max Romeo – Horrorzone; Horrorzone (Nu Roots) 2016
Little Roy – Frankenstein; Longtime (ON U Sound) ’96
Future Pigeon – The Mummy; Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (Record Collect) 2006 LA
Lucky Dube – Dracula; Prisoner (Shanachie) ’90
Funky Porcini’s Zombie – Flesheater Boulevard; Jerry von Rooyen Remixes (Crippled Dick Hot Wax) 2000
30-60 min.
Scientist – Night of the Living Dead; Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (Greensleeves) ’81
David Lindley & El Rayo-X – Werewolves of London; Very Greasy (Elektra) ’88
It was October 2003. My bredrin Grizzlite and I headed up to Park City to catch one of my favorites from the 90’s: Lucky Dube. Terrific South African roots singer in the era of apartheid.
A huge favorite with the Pacific Islander community, the club was packed. Everyone singing along on a cool fall night in the mountains.
Grizz and I got a beer and angled ourselves and positioned ourselves on the patio with a view of the stage. Everyone bumping along to Lucky’s melodic Peter Tosh-esque vocals.
All of a sudden the packed dance floor scattered and the music screeched to a halt. A youth had been shot. Later I found out it was a gang assassination. Tribal war in the Polynesian community. Assassins were dispatched from California. They knew their target would be out in the open and vulnerable at a must see event: Lucky Dube is on a par with Bob Marley among the Island community.
Before we knew it, the paramedics had wheeled the victim pass Grizz and I on a gurney. One of the EMT’s was straddling his chest doing CPR. Right next to me, a massive Island dready stepped up and punched the dying man in the face, caving in his nose.
Listen to this incredible tale of Alien revelation that the Deep State tried to squelch but a woman revealed through her Facebook page of all places
<Sunspot 2018 Alien incident; 3 min.>
In a nutshell: several solar observatories, who were routinely monitoring the Sun, were staggered by what they saw on their deep space video feed:
A gigantic Mother Ship flanked by dozens of UFO’s!
Mother Ship sighting in front of the Sun, Sept. 8 2018Photo captured by Maria Hill of Salem, Indiana and posted to her Facebook feed
The Sun is 93 million miles from Earth. Neither the United States nor the Russians have any space craft that could approach anywhere near the Sun without burning up.
So to bury the truth and shut down the video feed, several other observatories in Hawaii, Chile, Pennsylvania, Australia and Spain panicked.
Yet, it was a woman in Indiana who was taking photos of the Sun on her Iphone who showed us what the Deep State fuckers tried to keep hidden from We the People.
Facebook/Earth’s citizens 1
Deep State 0
***
So now that we have established the Highly Probable likelihood that Aliens exist and can travel the galaxy at will, are they headed our way?
They power their Spacecraft with energy from the Sun. We use the much more inefficient jet propulsion system of space travel.
I have a theory on why they have emerged. They will not let Donald J. Trump weaponize space through his Space Force.
<Aliens coming to stop the Space Force; 78 sec.>
The Anunnaki are coming to wipe that smirk off Trump’s face
So even though General Giorgio of Ancient Aliens fame has tapped I ‘n’ I to be Minister of Lunar Agriculture, I think the Aliens are coming to shut us down…..
…with Heavy Manners
It’s a pity, I was about to bring in the first Harvest of Space Dust
bless, Bobbylon
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Sept. 22, 2018 Annotated Playlist; 2 min.
Set 1:
Mystic Youth feat. I-Skeeda & Irie Ites – Jah Rastafari; Best Wishes (Sunship) vinyl mid 80’s SF youth group w/ female vox
Lee “Scratch” Perry & the Upsetters – Cloak and Dagger; Cloak and Dagger (Black Art) ’72 UK vinyl dub album of the hour
Keith Hudson – Rasta Communication; Greatest Hits (Sky High) ‘78
Barry Brown – Come We Dub Tonight; Far East (Hitbound) ‘81
Horace Andy – Oh Lord, Why Lord; Best of (Studio One) ‘72
Cha Cha – One Day You’ll Know; 10” EP (Above Rock) 2010 UK – female singing in Chinese, rock steady
Ronnie Davis – Kaya; Sings Hits From Studio One (Rhino UK) ’78 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement (1) Bob cover vox
Big Joe – World Wide Kaya; At the Control (Jackpot) ’78 (2) deejay
Agrovators – Kaya Dub; Kaya Dub (Justice) ’78 JA vinyl (3) dub
Chinese Rock Steady singer
Set 2:
Prince Far I – Under Heavy Manners; Reggae Nuggets (Mojo/Trojan) Mojo magazine pays tribute to Trojan Records 50 years
Joy White – It Dread Out Deh; Holding Up Half the Sky (Shanachie) ’78 roots dawta comp
Dennis Alcapone – The Flying Machine (The Sky’s the Limit); Guns Don’t Argue (Trojan) ‘72
The Toyes – Waiting For the Aliens; Strange Animals (CD Tunes) ‘99
Nicky Thomas – Doing the Moonwalk; Love of the Common People (Trojan) ‘70
Thievery Corporation – Stargazer; Culture of Fear (ESL) 2012 DC dubbers w/ female vox
The Mighty Sparrow – Russian Satellite; Radio Radio Theme Time Radio Hour vol. 5 (Mischief Music) ’59 calypso song about Laika the Soviet Space dog; 56 sec.
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Greetings,
Let us give thanks from the road. I am on assignment. Cratedigging in the land of 10 down 40 to go. Enjoy this 3 hour dub extravaganza cooked up in the Smile Jamaica Secret Dubratory
bless, Bobbylon
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60-90 min.
90 min. – 2 hr.
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