A Journey To The Black Ark

Reggae Legend Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Is Dead At 85

Lee Perry R.I.P..

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The Bug's Top Ten 'Scratch' Tracks

King Tubby's mixing desk

King Tubby's legendary desk pic.twitter.com/Z3GqDRlmZD

— Howard Jacques (@HowardJacques1) August 27, 2021

‘It was the happiest time’: the Beach Boys on their strange second coming

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Charlie Watts Quintet ft Bernard Fowler - Where Are You? - If I Should Lose You - Someone To Watch Over Me

Charlie My Darling

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Charlie Watts: Later (1993)

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Charlie Watts Talks about Jazz, drumming and the Blues  

He also apparently did a drawing of every hotel room he stayed in while on tour

FUCK! R.I.P. Charlie

Charlie got into smack in the seventies and at one time was revived by Keith 'I fell asleep on the floor [during the recording of] Some Girls and Keith woke me up and said, ‘You should do this when you’re older'. Keith telling me this! But it stuck and I just stopped along with everything else.”

The Keith Richards' dad story... Backstage in 'hospitality' on the Voodoo Lounge tour, KR's dad started tucking into the Champagne whereupon Charlie turned to him: "You want to go easy on that stuff mate, you don't want to end up looking like your son.'

My favourite story tho was when an inebriated Jagger phoned Watts’ hotel room in the middle of the night and asked him, 'Where’s my drummer?'. Allegedly, Watts got up, shaved, donned a suit and tie, put on some freshly shined shoes, descended the hotel’s stairs and punched Jagger in the face, proclaiming: 'Don’t ever call me your drummer again. You’re my fucking singer!' 

I stand by this from a couple of weeks ago

Charlie rerally was the beating heart in the Stones engine room...and consider that he had to stare at Jagger's arse at every Stones gig!

Couldn't resist. Sorry

It didn’t take long for the other members of Hüsker Dü to realise the original guitarist wasn’t going to work out pic.twitter.com/QCdSsykoaW

— TimNib (@exilestreet) August 24, 2021

E.L.K. Stencil Time Lapse

Luke Cornish (E.L.K.): Uncle Jack 2014)

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Jack and myself  

Uncle Jack lives here at Exile Towers and the video above for Augie March's When I Am Old was actually filmed here the week I moved in at the end of 2017. 

Jack really is a national treasure and has lived such an amazing life, not all good of course. 

Here's a piece on him from last weekend's Age/SMH: 

‘Knowing I come from a long line of resilient women makes me proud' 

That piece is written by someone I've known since she was about 14 as when I first came out to Australia we moved to the suburb where her parents have a great menswear store and Jane would sullenly hang around on the pavement outside after school. 

She's done well for herself and I was green with envy when she told me about seeing the reformed Stooges playing Coachella back in 2003. Luckily I did catch both the Ron Asheton and James Williamson lineups when they came out to Melbourne though so that's a 'phew' from me