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Saturday, December 25, 2021

Playlist - 25th December 2021 - Scratch On the Wire - Retrieved, re-mastered and Re-edited

 

 

 This programme was originally broadcast on BBC Radio Lancashire on 23rd October 1993 as a special On the Wire and as part of our long series of reggae and dub shows. Only now existing as a cassette copy, the audio has been retrieved, re-mastered and re-edited for a reappearance on Christmas Day 2021 as the first part of a tribute series in honour of our old friend Lee “Scratch” Perry who sadly passed earlier this year. More parts will be coming from Noel Hawks, Mick Sleeper, Adrian Sherwood and hopefully David Katz and Steve Barrow. The story behind this recording is that Adrian Sherwood and I planned to record Scratch “as DJ” when he made one of his irregular trips to London. One morning Adrian called me to let me know Scratch would be in the studio later in the day, so I literally had just a couple of hours to list the tunes. I shouted the titles down the phone, Adrian called them out to Scratch who then improvised the links and introductions. I got a DAT sent up to Blackburn and edited the show together. It obviously could have been a better selection and sequencing, but time was short then and we know more now! 


Thanks to Andrew Smith for tape recovery, Adrian for the liaison and voicing recordings, Jethro for his longtime stalwart support especially these days with his unending construction of the On the Wire archive site, Jim Ingham for all his work on getting shows on the air and on the net and last of all to the magical, mystical and far from mad Lee Perry for his unique take on music and life itself ….
 

Steve Barker
December 2021

 

 Dub Syndicate - Ravi Shankar Pt1 - Leghorn
The Congos - Congoman / Congoman chant - Black Swan
Upsetters - Bucky Skank - Downtown
Lee Perry the Upsetter - Freak Out Skank - Justice League
Leo Graham / Upsetters - News Flash / Flashing Echo - Underground
Max Romeo - Norman the Gambler - Black Art
Upsetters - Blackboard JungleDub (Ver.1) - Upsetter
Upsetters - White Belly Rat - Upsetter
The Congos - Nicodemus/version - Upsetter
Lee Perry - Roast Duck - C and N Records
Winston Prince & Junior Byles - Place called Africa version 3/version - Justice League
U Roy - Double Six - Trojan
Debra Keese & the 5 Black - Travelling - Upsetter
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Small Axe - Upsetter
The Heptones - Mystery Babylon - Hep Hep
Prince Jazzbo - Croaking Lizard - Island
Junior Delgado / The Upsetters - Sons of Slaves / Sons of Dub - Black Art
Lee Perry - City Too Hot/version - Upsetter
Lee Perry - Bionic Rats/version - Upsetter
Dave Barker & the Upsetters - Shocks of Mighty - Trojan
Dave Barker - Set Me Free - Trojan
Lee Perry - Soul Fire - Upsetter
George Faith - Midnight Hour - Island
Lee Perry - Baffling Smoke Signal - Black Art
Lloyd & Devon / The Upsetters - Wolf Out Deh / Shepherd Rod - Black Art
Augustus Pablo - Vibrate On - Black Art
Lee Perry & Dub Syndicate - Train to Doomsville - On U Sound
Lee Perry Message live On the Wire 16th December 1984
Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves - Island
Lee Perry - Welcome Aboard - Heartbeat
Raphael Green & Dr. Alimantado - Rastaman Train - Upsetter
King Scratch - Dread Lion - white
Lee “Scratch” Perry - Seven Devils Dead - Island