“Doobie smoker on your Twitter page. Does that set a good example for you and younger people that follow you. Be careful. Social Media can cause problems.”
My sister’s teenage boys are on my feed. So I said maybe they shouldn’t be. I’m tired of the ridiculous conformity against the Seven Leaf.
For 22 years I have spun 3 hours of Spliff Tales on Smile Jamaica. Mainly to celebrate free speech and fight back against the racist drug war. Which was never about safety and all about criminalizing a lifestyle.
So these are all the pics I have put on my Annotated Smile Jamaica Playlists.
4 down, 46 to go!
bless, robt
Check out this parody T-Shirt for Marijuana Zombie, featuring Cheech and Chong from Up In Smoke as zombies. Even after death these guys know how to party. Produced in two different color schemes, for a dark and light shirt. Set up for silk-screening, four colors.
That time of year. Tax payment to Uncle Obama out of the way now is the time to celebrate with 420 Cannabliss in the style and fashion you have come to expect for more than 2 decades on Smile Jamaica.
The past two weeks have been devoted to fund drives at KRCL. (Many thanks if you made a pledge and got a T shirt)
I didn’t put up any live streams during Radiothon, so instead I hunkered down in my Secret Dubratory and harvested (pun intended) 4 hours. 20 minutes. 00 seconds of Spliff Tales.
Complete with herbal soundbytes, stoner movie clips and other fun stunn.
Best of Roots, Modern Roots and Mutant Dub inna Seven Leaf Stylee. So enjoy. Celebrate early, often yet discreetly and responsibly.
And until Pres. Sanders legalizes Cannabis with his first Executive Order of 2017, as I say…..
4 down, 46 to go!
Pres. Sanders will legalize it
bless, robt
Smile Jamaiaca Ark-Ives Digital Dubplate: 4 hours and 20 min. for 420 Playlist
0-30 min.
Black Slate – Legalise Collie Herb; Amigo (Ensign) ’80 UK
Jacob Miller & Ray-I – All I Want For Ismas; Natty Christmas (RAS) ’78 Xmas herb
10 Foot Ganja Plant – Walkey Walk Tall; Hillside Airstrip (ROIR) 2001 Upstate NY
Sister Carol – Herbal Is Natural; Direct Hit! (Catapult) 2001: Live run down of herbal medicinal bennies
Thievery Corporation – .38.45; Sounds From the Thievery Hi-Fi (ESL) ’96 mutant dub DC
Sly & the Revolutionaries feat. Jah Thomas – Rizla; Black Ash Dub (Trojan) ’80 dub: Rizla rolling papers
The Equators – Feelin’ High; Hot (Stiff) ’81 UK ska
30-60 min.
Zion Tribe – Herbissimo; Barre Chords (Zion Tribe) ’97 SLC
Capital Letters – Vinyard; Vinyard (Greensleeves) ’82 UK youth group
Ijahman Levi – Moulding & Version; Are We a Warrior (Jahmani) ‘78
Daweh Congo – Herb Tree; Human Rights & Justice (Roots & Culture) 2000
60-90 min.
Rita Marley – One Draw; Big Blunts vol. 1 (Tommy Boy) 12” mix
Bob Marley & the Wailers – African Herbsman; African Herbsman (Trojan) ’73 Lee “Scratch” Perry prod’n
Elvis Costello – Watching the Detectives; My Aim Is True (Demon) ‘77
The Modern Lovers – Egyptian Reggae; Rock & Roll With the Modern Lovers (Beserkley) ’77 instrumental version of Johnny Clarke’s None Shall Escape the Judgment
Joe Jackson – Fools in Love; Look Sharp! (A & M) ’79
90 min – 2 hr.
Scorpions – Is There Anybody There?; Lovdrive (Mercury) ‘79
Frank Zappa – Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up; Joe’s Garage I (Rykodisc) ‘79
The Ruts – Jah War; The Crack (Virgin) ’79 UK punkdub
The Pretenders – Private Life; Pretenders (Sire) ‘80
The Clash – Justice Tonight/Kick It Over; Black Market Clash (Epic) ’80 EP – Willi Williams Armagideon Time (2 hr.)
Private Life: Played Grace Jones vs. Sly & Robbie version last week
2 hr – 2 and 1/2 Hours:
The Clash – Justice Tonight/Kick It Over; Black Market Clash (Epic) ’80 EP – Willi Williams Armagideon Time
John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him; Double Fantasy (Geffen) ‘80
Took a little excursion. My parents are in the process of becoming Snowbirds: moving from Fort Benton, Montana to Sun City West.
Complete with coyote warnings, a family of bobcats behind the solar array at the end of their block. And warning pamphlets about blackwidows, recluse spiders and Gila monsters.
No doggie doors for I ‘n’ I in Sun City West!
Here’s how you get to my parents place.
Take the exit by the strip mall with the hearing aids shop on the corner
Turn left at the Dementia Care facility
Turn right at the massive Urology complex
Beware golf carts. They share the road
So knowing I would be away for a week, I cooked up what I call a Digital Dubplate show: Strictly out of my Ark-Ives:
Motown inna Trenchtown. All the great soul covers inna Reggae Stylee.
bless, robt
Even year World Series run for my San Francisco Giants. Spring Training vs. the Royals in Surprise, Utah. 2 miles from my parents’ house
0-30 Min
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Sugar, Sugar; Rebel (JAD) ’69 box set (Archies)
Sly & Robbie – Sesame Street; Many Moods of Sly & Robbie (Sonic) ’79 (PBS kids theme)
Mighty Diamonds – Tracks of My Tears; Ice On Fire (Virgin Front Line) ’77 (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
George Faith – Midnight Hour/Ya-Ya; To Be a Lover (Mango) ’77 (Wilson Pickett/Lee Dorsey)
Black Slate – Thin Line Between Love and Hate; Amigo (Ensign) ’80 (the Persuaders)
Ken Boothe & the Iranian Students – Peace Time; Jack Ruby Hi Fi (Auralux) ’79
<Producer Jack Ruby – discovered Burning Spear; 8 sec.>
Sound Dimension & Ernest Wilson – Why Oh Why Version ; Version Dread – 19 Dub Hits From Studio One (Studio One/Heartbeat) Dub Album of the Hour
<Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One labe; 28 sec.l>
Reggae producer Jack Ruby
Set 4:
Peter Tosh – Fight Apartheid; No Nuclear War (EMI America) ‘87
<Tosh Murdered just as I discovered Reggae, Fall ’87>
<Reggae History Lesson: Apartheid and South Africa; 17 sec.>
Ranking Roger & Blue Riddim Band – America and Russia/Selective Service System + Nancy Goes to Russia (ORA International) ’83 St. Louis – Nancy Reagan tune
<Nancy loves fashion but Ron loves money; 24 sec.>
RIP Nancy Reagan
Set 5: Vinyl is Vital
Cimarons – Mull of Kintyre; Reggaebility (MPL) ’82 Paul McCartney cover
<Cimarons love McCartney; 19 sec.>
Niney – My Spliff; Nuclear Jammin’ (Voiceprint) Chicago ’86 herbtune
Jah Thomas – Love and Happiness; Stop Yu Loafin’ (Greensleeves) ’78 UK over Leroy Smart’s cover of Waiting in Vain
Louise Bennett – Funny Names; Yes M’Dear Live! (Island) ‘83
Jimmy Shondell – Snake in the Grass; Hit Me With Music (Trojan) ’73 UK
Busted in Jah-pon: Paul McCartney and the Seven Leaf
Set 6:
Aisha – Someday; There is More to Life (Ariwa) 2005
Capital Letters – Do We Really Need a Government?; Bread and Water (Greensleeves) ’80 7” EP
Barry Brown – Pass Up the Chalice; Rich Man Poor Man (Moll-Selekta) herbtune
Errol Dunkley & Errol Bellot – Live Right + Everything Is Possible; 10” (Reality Shock) 2011
Tassili Players – Interstellar Overdub; Outer Space (Universal Egg) ’96 Mutant Dub Album of the Hour
<Tassili Algeria – Ancient Aliens; 28 sec.>
Ancient Aliens in Tassili Algeria caves
Set 7:
John Brown’s Body – Plantation; Kings and Queens (Esy Star) Upstate NY
Backbeat Soundsystem – Burnin’ Up; Together Not Apart (Easy Star) 2014 Cornwall, England
Rebelution – Fade Away; Count Me In (Easy Star) 2014 Santa Barbara
<Easy Star Records>
Set 8: Mutant Dub UFO-ria
<UFOria>
Dubadelic – Thuds Like Scuds; Bass Invaders (WordSound) ’98: UFOria set – Mutant Dub
African Head Charge & Professor – Stretch; Brother of Reality (ON U Sound) ’98 UK
Chunky air Jah-bruary goes out like the Lamb of Judah into Spring. Selah!
<Bad air Jah-bruary goes out like a lamb; 9 sec.>
Greetings,
After a brutal month of bad/chunky/polluted air in Salt Lake City, it was so nice to have 60 degrees for the last Smile Jamaica of winter (Praise Jah!).
I have lived in SLC for coming up on 30 years. Seems like each winter the Inversion Galore gets worse and worse.
Really vexes me when the weather man talks about “inversion” or “haze”. Yeah, bullflop – it’s smog and pollution.
Thankfully, I don’t have respiratory problems, but even I got hit with a mild dose of bronchitis this month.
Smile Jamaica’s bronchial cure: Allegra-D in the morning, Mucinex at Noon, Flonase whiff before bedtime. As much water as I can slug down.
One thing about Spring: Hay fever. But at least the mornings are lighter and I get to go home in daylight.
Forward ever, backwards never!
bless, robt
2016 Smog Lake City
<High-lights for Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-bruary 27, 2016; 28 sec.>
Set 1:
Michael Prophet – Jah Love; Jah Love (Live & Learn) ’83 DC vinyl
I Kong – Life’s Road (dub); The Way It Is (VP) ’78: Dub Album of the Hour
Bim Sherman – Lamb of Judah; Bim Sherman Meets U Black & Horace Andy in a Rub-a-Dub Style (Original) ‘79
Judy Mowatt – Black Woman; Strictly For Rockers (Mango) ’85 comp.
Aswad – Just a Little Herb; Rebel Souls (Mango) ’84 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
Gregory Isaacs – Slavemaster; Mr. Isaacs (Shanachie) ‘78
The Observers – Zorro/Cutting Sword; 10” (PK) ’79 Niney instrumental
Smile Jamaica’s favorite singer – Bim Sherman & the Lamb of Judah
Set 2: Wailers Family Tree Set
Bob Marley & the Wailers – One Love/People Get Ready; Exodus (Tuff Gong) ’77 Request
<Reggae History Lesson – Exodus: The LP & Bob’s journey; 22 sec.>
Bunny Wailer – Power Strugglers; Crucial! (Shanachie) ’79
Peter Tosh – Mama Africa; Complete Captured Live (EMI America) 8/23/83 Live – Los Angeles
The Wailers – Bend Down Low; Talkin’ Blues (Tuff Gong) Oct. ’73 live at KSAN Radio, San Francisco
<The Wailers live on KSAN Radio; 13 sec.>
Dubblestandart – Holding You Close (Dub); In Dub (Echo Beach) 2014 Austrian; Dub Album of the Hour
Sly Stone – kicked the Wailers of his tour as opening act, 1973
Set 3: Best of 26 Years – Smile Jamaica
Joe Higgs – Songs My Enemy Sings; Life of Contradiction (Micron/Pressure Sounds) ’75
George Faith – Midnight Hour/Ya Ya; To Be a Lover (Island) ’77: Wilson Pickett/Lee Dorsey soul cover; Perry/Black Ark/Upsetters
Mighty Diamonds – Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley; Ice on Fire (Virgin Front Line) ’77: Allen Toussaint New Orleans cover of Robert Palmer tune
So what do I do to soak up the down time? I have been following the Democratic Primary race: Foreman vs. Ali, Jordan vs. Magic, Hillary vs. Bernie.
I’m not voting for either of them. I’m a Jill Steiniac. but I love how competitive it has gotten. Odds on favorite, Hillary, trying to stave off an outsider’s populist counter. In 2008 it was Pres. Peace Prize. Now it’s a 74 year old Jewish Socialist.
Hillary has the elites. Bernie has the 99ers. So out on the Youtube some enterprising media person promoted his candidacy via an awesome mashup of Ben Harper’s Burn one Down synced to Bernie’s “finger in the air, like he just don’t care!” mannerisms
Wave your finger in the air like you just don’t care!
The Harper tune is a nyabinghi ballad with acoustic guitar devoted to the Seven Leaf. As Bern One Down this clip matches the drum chop-chop to Bernie’s finger gestures.
You can’t endorse a candidate on non-commercial Radio, but I thought people would get a kick out of it.
<Bern one Down! 1 min 12 sec.>
Give thanks for all the listens, forwards, reposts and favorites on the Smile Jamaica Mixcloud page. Together we have grown the Mixcloud weekly SJ listens from about 25 three years ago to over 100 now. Forward ever backwards never!
You help me get in the charts of Roots Reggae, Vinyl, Dub and Reggae. Give thankx!
Future Pigeon w/ Mikey Dread – Wicked Man + Version; Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (Record Collection) 2006 LA
Playgroup – The Slither; Epic Sound Battles Chapter 1 (ON U Sound/Cherry Red) ’82 over Singers & Players “Thing Called Love”
Mutant Dub for these End Times
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