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General Topics => Music => Topic started by: usedbustickets on January 09, 2014, 13:00:01 PM

Title: When I was a lad....
Post by: usedbustickets on January 09, 2014, 13:00:01 PM: When I was a lad, who had just entered his teenage years in 1969, I bought the LP 'Tighten Up Volume 2' for 14s 6d. It was the start of my love affair with reggae, long before the middle class record buyers locked on via Marley. Indeed BM (Before Marley) many people were ultra sniffy about the virtues of reggae, I wonder how many of them would own up to that today?

Anyway a nice person has put the record in its entirety onto Youtube, so others can enjoy it as much as I did the first time I heard it and still do today. So please enjoy it, and take a good look at that iconic LP cover ... wow!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYe9QZHFvE
Title: Re: When I was a lad....
Post by: Harmless on January 09, 2014, 16:15:21 PM: Thanks for the link. I too bought the tighten ups
Title: Re: When I was a lad....
Post by: Colwyn on January 09, 2014, 16:50:24 PM: Reggae? Pah!
Title: Re: When I was a lad....
Post by: 160606 on January 09, 2014, 17:04:05 PM: This album started my love of reggae music, couldn't let my mother see the cover though, she'd have had a heart attack, or would have spent her time praying for the poor girl's soul. Ha ha.
Title: Re: When I was a lad....
Post by: scot on January 09, 2014, 17:16:15 PM: great mate
Title: Re: When I was a lad....
Post by: chris35 on January 09, 2014, 22:48:29 PM: Quote from: 160606 on January 09, 2014, 17:04:05 PM
This album started my love of reggae music, couldn't let my mother see the cover though, she'd have had a heart attack, or would have spent her time praying for the poor girl's soul. Ha ha.

Good job you weren't into Jimi Hendrix then, or where you?

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4816338923880923&pid=15.1

;D ;D
Title: Re: When I was a lad....
Post by: AOK on January 10, 2014, 08:01:42 AM: admit it, you bought it because of the album cover!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: When I was a lad....
Post by: tiggsy on January 10, 2014, 08:21:15 AM: Brought up on Prince Busters FABulous greatest hits album. Desmond Dekker and the Aces plus the Trojans.
Title: Re: When I was a lad....
Post by: usedbustickets on January 10, 2014, 10:58:53 AM: Quote from: chris35 on January 09, 2014, 22:48:29 PM

Good job you weren't into Jimi Hendrix then, or where you?

Naked Ladies aside, I was into Hendrix. Some time after acquiring Tighten Up Vol. 2 I purchased a Back Track LP for approx 19s 6d, one side was the Who and on the other was Hendrix, another musical love affair that continues to today.
Title: Re: When I was a lad....
Post by: chris35 on January 10, 2014, 13:04:11 PM: The backtrack albums were also my first introduction to Hendrix and The Who. What fantastic value they were. I think in the end I collected about 8 of them, sadly I sold my turntable years ago and also that collection of albums. If I remember correctly they turned out to have been a great investment. ;)
Title: Re: When I was a lad....
Post by: Kevin Sowten on January 10, 2014, 17:21:06 PM: Quote from: chris35 on January 10, 2014, 13:04:11 PM
The backtrack albums were also my first introduction to Hendrix and The Who. What fantastic value they were. I think in the end I collected about 8 of them, sadly I sold my turntable years ago and also that collection of albums. If I remember correctly they turned out to have been a great investment. ;)
Crikey ! I'd forgotten that Who/Hendrix Backtrack album. Started me on long Who affair.
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