{"id":689,"date":"2005-08-18T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2015-07-07T09:49:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T09:49:30","slug":"buster-he-sold-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/buster-he-sold-the-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Buster, he sold the heat\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“I was a punk before you were a punk” – The Tubes<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cCoxsone, Duke Reid \u2013 they didn\u2019t think it was good music at all. After I cut tunes like Humpty Dumpty, They Got To Come My Way, Time Longer Than Rope <\/em>and African Blood<\/em> \u2013 and they were big hits on my soundsystem \u2013 they used to talk about how people were following \u2018Buster\u2019s little boop boop beat\u2019. They scorned <\/em>it. When I arrive at JBC studios with Count Ossie to cut Oh Carolina<\/em>, Duke Reid was there and he see Ossie with his lickle drum in his hand and he laughed<\/em>… They were jazz people at heart and here I was a lickle youth, coming up with what they thought was simple music.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“I was mod before you was a mod” – Television Personalities<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to stop at a [London] snack bar late at night to get a cup of tea and there were two or three English boys standing around it. The other people in the car didn\u2019t want to stop in case there was trouble but I\u2019m a friendly sort of person and don\u2019t see why I can\u2019t walk anywhere. I got out and these guys approach me, look me up and down and tell me I must be OK because I\u2019ve got on the same narrow foot pants as they have. Then I went on tour and there was this same group of white kids at every show, in front of me. Everywhere I went they would make sure everything was alright. They\u2019d ride along all around my car on their scooters like I was royalty.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Prince Buster interviewed by Lloyd Bradley in the \u201cQ Classic” Bob Marley & The Story of Reggae<\/em> issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I was a punk before you were a punk” – The Tubes \u201cCoxsone, Duke Reid \u2013 they didn\u2019t think it was good music at all. After I cut tunes like Humpty Dumpty, They Got To Come My Way, Time Longer Than Rope and African Blood \u2013 and they were big hits on my soundsystem \u2013 …<\/p>\n

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