R.i.p Prince Buster

[-Talbot-]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prince-buster-dead-ska-rocksteady-pioneer-dies-78-1580417

78 though isn't a bad innings.

[fiction-factory]

Brings back many memories of The Specials and Madness and then i went back and discovered some of the great ska originals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDfvXrMnJu0

[Buenchico]

Blue Beat at its simplest and best . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZC6Ot1MLP0

[mushroom25]

"Big Five" (q/v) was always a favorite of over-sexed teens in the 1970s......

[Togo]

Prince Buster will always be the Torch Tunstall for me,1965 to 68. Rip, the real Prince.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ukZmiFKzog

[Togo]

For mushroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ukZmiFKzog

[Togo]

Sorry it didn't dump the old link. For mushroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6s2pVugi2c

[Togo]

I know ff already posted this song, but there is a great dance routine with this copy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaDx6_-WbLs

[Garaman]

I used to go to blue beat clubs in the 60s and Al Capone was one of the first tracks I heard. True legend of the genre, RIP.

[fiction-factory]

I remember Judge Dread's Big Six etc (banned on radio ) but didn't realise that Big 5 by Prince Buster was as explicit as this!

[Peter Pedant]

o heavens I thought this was Buster Bloodvessel
whose one hit was 'can you can-can?'

[fiction-factory]

Great video for Al Capone, Togo.
Do you know if that dance was filmed specifically for that song or was it one of those wonderful Old Grey Whistle Test - type productions where they found and manipulated old dance footage to fit in with the music

[Peter Pedant]

FF the first Togo viddie looks like
wilson and keppel's sand dance ( with betty )

very popular in the thirties - my how we laughed !

reconstructed here

[Peter Pedant]

sorry reconstruction here

[fiction-factory]

yes I know the sand dance one PP- hadn't seen that video on the link. I suspect the Al Capone one is also taken from some old footage

[Togo]

No ff the dance routine was purloined and put with the tune, probably a Busby Barkley routine from the 30s. PP was right it is Wilson Betty and Kepple given the same treatment. There are a lot of old dance routines from the movies linked up with old tunes. Particularly Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers with Northern Soul songs. Tony av is yer man when we go there.

[Peter Pedant]

yes or no
I gave an analysis of the bar tap dance
hence the quadruple time as an example of what there ... wasnt

but it disappeared behind the viddie

and that is was probably American ( lots of back taps and no triples )
O and you cant hear the taps - o and it is 4/4 time I thought .....

great hand movements tho

[-Talbot-]

Bad Manners had more than one hit and Buster Bloodvessel always toured with a great band and always gave good value at his concerts. Douglas is also a great bloke to have a drink with.

[fiction-factory]

I loved the Led Zep Trampled Underfoot one that used something like Busby Berkely. Looks great when they get it right.
Anyway, Prince Buster was a really influential artist and i enjoyed his stuff- but to be honest i had lost touch and until i read this thread I hadn't realised he had still been around for the last 20 years

[Togo]

The thing is ff we have a bit of an inkling about him from the people he influenced in the UK. But his influence on what came after him in the West Indies was massive. Lee Perry, Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliffe, Bob Marley etc etc all knew and were in awe of him.