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Offline usedbustickets

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When I was a lad....
« 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!!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYe9QZHFvE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYe9QZHFvE</a>




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Re: When I was a lad....
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2014, 16:15:21 PM »
Thanks for the link.  I too bought the tighten ups

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Re: When I was a lad....
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2014, 16:50:24 PM »
Reggae? Pah!

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Re: When I was a lad....
« Reply #3 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. 

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Re: When I was a lad....
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2014, 17:16:15 PM »
great mate

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Re: When I was a lad....
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2014, 22:48:29 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

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Re: When I was a lad....
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2014, 08:01:42 AM »
admit it, you bought it because of the album cover!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: When I was a lad....
« Reply #7 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.

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Re: When I was a lad....
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2014, 10:58:53 AM »

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.

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Re: When I was a lad....
« Reply #9 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.   ;)




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