Danny and the dressmakers #1

We all know D & the d. No one can beat them.

Here is #1 in an occasional series of artefacts; a commemorative badge from their sell-out 78 tour.

 

Mouldy old music

You really should visit http://www.lieutenantpigeon.co.uk/ in order better to acquaint yourself with the top UK pop group of all time ever.

Here’s the evidence

 

This is they

 

Read here how they did it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and marvel at their achievement.  We shall not see their like again.

 

Lee Perry “Bucky skank” (1973)

A spoken intro drenched in echo; for European ears, meaning unclear, but then again, not: ” ‘ow come you so trigger-’appy?”  Then a simple guitar/bass motif  set against a second guitar glissando; vocal percussion, soon aided and abetted by furious snare drum and hi-hat, tight, edgy, resonant. A playful, childlike vocal, as much rhythmic as it is lyrical or melodic; “do it Hank/do it Frank/from bank to bank/ah-uh, ah-uh, ah-uh”.  A sublime exercise in rhythmic uncertainty and an incisive questioning of what reggae, or indeed music, is. Brian Eno recalls eulogising this recording to UK music journalists in the mid-70s. They laughed at him. Doubtless they all sported red green and gold badges and copies of “Live at the Lyceum” a few years later.

You can find it on this

and on this

Both are packed to the rafters with other examples of singularity.