Incredible footage here from 1977 doc Roots Rock Reggae of producer “Prince” Tony Robinson (working at either Joe Gibbs or Harry J, reggaenuts will tell me) as well as scenes shot at a JA pressing plant and the legendary Randy’s Records (“You Name It We Have It”).
Highlight for me: The Gladiators laying down the vocals for Jah Works, stand-out track on their album Proverbial Reggae.
I first came across the song on the same year’s great budget comp Your Last Chance…The Front Line II, which sports this uncompromising Jamie Reid/Cooke Key artwork:
steve finnerty
May 4, 2011 at 8:42 pmIm so happy i found someone else who has heard/got/bought
‘The front line , your last chance’.. this lp changed everything for me,
and im still not quite sure where /how I got it…
Nice One
steve…
Paul Gorman Author
May 5, 2011 at 7:10 amIt is a great album isn’t it Steve? There’s some real peculiarities on there as well. Think My fave outside of Looks Is deceiving is Al;thia & Donna’s Hey Mr Bassie – yrs?
chris
December 9, 2011 at 8:54 pmi could be wrong, but that looks an awful lot like Randy’s Studio, the console looks to be the same one that was in there and the claustrophobic control room seems to be the same. Prince Tony used to use Randy’s a lot back when it was the most popular studio in Kingston.
Paul Gorman Author
December 13, 2011 at 10:22 pmThanks for sorting that out, Chris. Best P.