I noticed all the thanks from Masa and Maliciel...
The TSPO files are my way of thanking JPH!P for hosting all of Dan's Enka uploads, I already have enjoyed many hours listening to them.
I hope you don't mind if I will post some Skatalites and Baba Brooks Band songs in this thread, I know they are not JP but JA but they are related to and big inspiration of TSPO.
The Skatalites and The Baba Brooks Band were ghost bands of each other, at the end of 1963 members of the Baba Brooks Band went on to form the Skatalites, which existed officially only somewhat over a year (they reformed in 1983 and are still playing ever since, although most of the original members are dead now), it all went sour after Don Drummond shot his girlfriend Anita Mahfood on 1 januari 1965, the reason was that he was paranoid schizophrenic which was amplified by his weed smoking, he had a past already of entering and leaving the asylum. Prince Buster was a very important producer that often combined the 2 bands and many members of both bands played in either. Also the pool of musicians at that time was rather small and most producers had the Motown model of letting all the singers play with the same background musicians, this caused a uniform and recognizable sound.
The difference between The Skatalites and The Baba Brooks Band is sound, The Baba Brooks Band had the Bluebeat/Straight-Forward-Ska sound and The Skatalites put another Jazz layer over that, it was the Jazz sound of the Cecil Lloyd Group in which several members played before setting up The Skatalites.
The Skatalites became the Soul Brothers Band in late 1965, which later morphed into The Soul Vendors end 1966 and The Sound Dimension in 1967. The Baba Brooks Band lasted till 1966 and morphed into The Jets in 1966 and end 1967 when Lynn Taitt moved to Canada they became Gladdy's All Stars and worked under the monikers of The Crystalites with Derrick Harriot, The Dynamites with Clancy Eccles and Beverleys All Stars with Lesley Kong between 1968 and 1971. b.t.w. The Baba Brooks Band and The Jets also were The Beverley All Stars in their era.
I know this sounds all complicated, but that music landscape was very complicated, the producers tend to rip off songwriters and singers so the only way of getting paid was either becoming producer yourself or musical background player in one of these bands. Successful Jamaicans like the musicians that made money went to Canada (Toronto mainly) and the unsuccessful people ended up in Brixton London. The reason of Canada was that successful people became victim of gangs that tried to blackmail them and rip them off, these gangs had departments in Brixton too but not in Canada. This is the same reason why Lee Perry stalled away his master tapes, burnt his Black Ark Studios at the end of the 70's and went to Canada, later to The Netherlands and ended up in Swiss where he still lives. It is also the reason why King Tubby got murdered in front of his house and all his stuff was stolen.
You see the same names over and over again, in the 70's it was the same but mostly different players.
The most prolific musician of that era is Gladstone 'Gladdy' Anderson, he played till far in the 90s, I think he is the most recorded musician of JA ever. The main percussionists of the 60s-80s are Noel ‘Skully’ Simms and Uzziah ‘Sticky’ Thompson, they are not included in the list down here because they played with virtually every band of these era's.
Notable people of these bands in the 60's are:
The Skatalites aka Buster’s All Stars aka King Edwards All Stars
Drums
Lloyd Knibb
Bass
Lloyd Brevett
Lead guitar
Nearlyn 'Lyn' Taitt
Rhythm guitar
Jerome ‘Jah Jerry’ Hines
Richard ‘Jah’ Ace
Piano
Jackie Mittoo
Gladstone Anderson
Trumpet
Johnny Moore
Trombone
Don Drummond
Tenor Sax
Roland Alphonso
Tommy McCook
Alto sax
Lester Sterling
Bariton Sax
Dennis Ska Campbell
Harmonica
Charly Organaire
Vocals
Doreen Shaeffer
Lord Tanamo
Jackie Opel
Tony Da Costa
Prince Buster
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The Baba Brooks Band aka Buster’s All Stars aka Beverley’s All Stars
Drums
Arkland ‘Drumbago’ Parks
Lloyd Knibb
Bass
Lloyd Brevett
Lloyd Spence
Lead guitar
Nearlyn 'Lyn' Taitt
Piano
Gladstone Anderson
Trumpet
Oswald ‘Baba’ Brooks
Trombone
Don Drummond
Tenor Sax
Roland Alphonso
Tommy McCook
Alto sax
Lester Sterling
Bariton Sax
Dennis Ska Campbell
Harmonica
Charlie Organaire
Vocals
Prince Buster
Eric ‘Monty’ Morris
Desmond Dekker
Alton Ellis
Stranger Cole
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The Jets aka The Crystalites aka Beverley’s All Stars
Drums
Joe Isaacs
Winston Grennan
Bass
Bryan Atkinson
Lead guitar
Nearlyn 'Lyn' Taitt
Rhythm guitar
Lynford 'Hux' Brown
Piano
Gladstone Anderson
Organ
Ike Bennett
Trumpet
Bobby Ellis
Tenor sax
Deadly' Headly Bennett
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The Soul Brothers
Drums
Joe Isaacs
Bunny Williams
Bass
Lloyd Brevett
Bryan Atkinson
Errol Walters
Lead guitar
Harry “Sweet Thing” Haughton
Ernest Ranglin
Wallin Cameron
Nearlyn 'Lyn' Taitt
Rhythm guitar
Lynford 'Hux' Brown
Piano
Gladstone Anderson
Organ
Jackie Mittoo
Trumpet
Johnny Moore
Bobby Ellis
Sax
Dennis Campbell
Roland Alphonso
Vocals
Alton Ellis
Ken Boothe
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The Soul Vendors
Drums
Hector Williams
Bass
Lloyd Brevett
Errol Walters
Lead guitar
Ernest Ranglin
Rhythm guitar
Lynford 'Hux' Brown
Piano
Gladstone Anderson
Organ
Jackie Mittoo
Trumpet
Johnny Moore
Bobby Ellis
Tenor Sax
Roland Alphonso
Dennis Campbell
Vocals
Alton Ellis
Ken Boothe
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The Supersonics
Drums
Lloyd Knibb
Hugh Malcolm
Larry McDonald
Bass
Clifton 'Jackie' Jackson
Guitar
George Tucker
Ranny 'Bop' Williams
Nearlyn 'Lyn' Taitt
Piano
Gladstone Anderson
Organ
Winston Wright
Trumpet
Johnny Moore
Trombone
Danny Simpson
Tenor sax
Tommy McCook
Alto sax
Herman Marquis
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Gladdy's All Stars aka The Dynamites aka The Crystalites aka The Harry J All Stars aka The GG All Stars aka Beverley’s All Stars aka The Upstetters (1st Band)
Drums
Winston Grennan
Hugh Malcolm
Bass
Jackie Jackson
Boris Gardiner
Lead guitar
Lynford 'Hux' Brown
Rhythm guitar
Wallace Wilson
Piano
Gladstone Anderson
Organ
Winston Wright
Neville Hinds
Vocals
Alton Ellis
Ken Boothe
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The Sound Dimension aka The Soul Defenders aka The New Establishment aka Brentford Road All Stars aka Brentford Road Disco Set
Drums
Lloyd Knibbs?
Phil Callender?
Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace
Joe Isaacs
Noel Alphonso
Bass
Lloyd Brevett
Festus Walker
Leroy Sibbles
Guitar
Eric Frater
Val Whittaker
Jah Privy
Hux Brown
Ernest Ranglin
Keyboards
Jackie Mittoo
Richard Ace
Robbie Lyn
Pablove Black
Denzil Laing
Lloyd 'Beardy' Richard
Paul Dixon
Roland Richard
Trumpet
Johnny Moore
David Madden
Bobby Ellis
Trombone
Vincent Gordon
Sax
Roland Alphonso
Karl Bryan
Carl McClacking
Ed Bennett
Dennis Campbell
Melodica
Monty Alexander
Vocals
Alton Ellis
Freddie Mckay
Leroy Sibbles
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