anyone read Adrock on Lee Perry in Rolling Stone

[CatchaGroove]

or DMC on the Beastie Boys..."100 Immortals"

link to some other wrtie-ups

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7235505?pageid=rs.News&pageregion=single2&rnd=1113161719062&has-player=true&version=6.0.11.847

[CatchaGroove]

needed to "check my head"

[Taco Zip]

Have you got a copy that issue of Rolling stone?
I'd appreciate if you scan or type out those comments and post them here.

[jennyb]

Maybe I'm just tired and didn't read everything, but it says...

100)Lee 'Scratch' Perry by Adam Horovitz

but then you click on The Voters (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7235503)

And no Horovitz to be found... but one Adam Yauch is listed. :confused:

[Saffy]

The voters decide who should be included in the list, and then once they have the list, they find somebody to write an essay about each person.

[jennyb]

Ahhhh, I see!

[SwimFinFan]

This is what Adrock wrote about Lee Perry:

Lee “Scratch” Perry
By Adam Horovitz

There are only a handful of producers who can make a band sound interesting and different no matter who they are, and Lee “Scratch” Perry is one of them. He was behind dozens and dozens of classic reggae and dub songs in the Sixties and Seventies, but even more important, he was the first mad -scientist producer.

Scratch could do gorgeous, straight-ahead songs, but he would also toss away verse-chorus-bridge structure. What matters are the emotions and ideas you get from the sound. If someone else was making a song about the city, he might add traffic noise, but Scratch would add a baby crying; he captures what’s behind a song. One thing the Beastie Boys do when we are finishing tracks is make sure that there’s a Lee Perry part: some weird detail that’s not supposed to be there but somehow makes sense.

The early Bob Marley and the Wailers songs that Lee Perry produced, like “Mr. Brown,” sound like punk records. They’re truly raw – both shitty and beautiful at the same time, like a Modigliani painting. That’s why punk rockers like the Clash wanted to work with him, because they can relate to the sparseness of the production.

I have videotapes of him in the studio. He’s bugging out: screaming at the bass player, turning knobs, banging things. He blows smoke into the microphone so that the sound of the weed gets into the song. And, yes, that’s stupid, but it’s not. It’s part of his ritual, and being in the studio is a ritual.

I had the pleasure of meeting Lee Perry a couple of times. The first was in Hong Kong. We were on tour, and for some reason he was there. He’s a very little guy, like your craziest grandfather. He had on a shiny outfit with little things taped all over him: notes, a lot of pictures, studs, mirrors and bottle caps. Each thing had a meaning to it. He also had a video camera and was taping everything – the sky, the buildings, all of us – except he had no videotape in the camera.

We convinced him to play the second Tibetan Freedom Concert, in New York. Right after you played, there was this press tent where everybody would go and say their little something about the cause. Some journalist asked him, “Do you believe in Jesus Christ?” Lee Perry pulled down his pants and said, “Here’s Jesus Christ!” Now that’s punk rock.

[alexandra]

[PaddyBoy]

Thanks SwimFinFan (y) .

[Taco Zip]

thanks for posting that!
I like Lee Perry a lot and the Beasties got me into him.

[Rock]

Noice. I want to see the Lee Perry videos. I, like Taco Zip, was shown the way by the Beatsies. Now I have a substantial "Scratch" collection that I've been building up since 1994.

[Taco Zip]

Noice. I want to see the Lee Perry videos. I, like Taco Zip, was shown the way by the Beatsies. Now I have a substantial "Scratch" collection that I've been building up since 1994.

What albums do you have?

[Freedom Toast]

Some journalist asked him, “Do you believe in Jesus Christ?” Lee Perry pulled down his pants and said, “Here’s Jesus Christ!” Now that’s punk rock.


awesome.

[dave790]

This is what Adrock wrote about Lee Perry:

Lee “Scratch” Perry
By Adam Horovitz

He also had a video camera and was taping everything – the sky, the buildings, all of us – except he had no videotape in the camera.


:)

[CatchaGroove]

Buller...Bueller?

thanks

[saml]

what about DMC on the Beasties?

[ragdoll_92]

Thats in another thread. IN the photos section cuz theres a picture of them in it. Its a good read

[SwimFinFan]

Here's the link. (http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=48497)

[CatchaGroove]

DMC is still a supercool cat after all these years