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♪ Once I reach into my record box
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♪ Here comes another
Classic selection ♪
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For years, it's been
branded as trouble music.
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There's not been much of it
in the media.
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But as our film shows,
reggae is already adapting itself
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to its British way of life.
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All it asks,
like the people who make it,
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is the chance to be heard,
understood and enjoyed.
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♪ Dim the lights
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♪ Let me thrill your soul... ♪
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In 1966,
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five musicians got together
in Harlesden,
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and straight away,
they were a big hit.
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They played on 90% of the reggae
music made in this country.
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Brothers and sisters,
they're here with us tonight.
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So put your hands together...
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...and give one big
round of applause...
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for... the dynamic Cimarons!
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Onstage, we're not human...
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...we are... invincible.
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After all these years, I didn't think
that we would survive this long.
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Without Cimarons, there'd be
no reggae music in the UK.
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It's like what the Rolling Stones
has done for rock and roll.
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♪ This time, we're having a nice time
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♪ Mood is good, and we feel fine
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♪ Your liveliness is catching
Like wildfire
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♪ Fire, fire
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♪ We're going on as if there is
A riot, riot, riot, riot
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♪ Oh, make we rock, rock, rock, rock
Rock, rock
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♪ To reggae rhapsody...
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It doesn't matter where you go,
in the world,
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if they play reggae music,
you'll hear the name Cimarons.
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♪ ..rhapsody...
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They were the first
to take reggae around the world.
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♪ ..to reggae rhapsody...
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The first time hearing reggae,
it's a mind-blowing thing.
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If people were hearing it live,
in front of them,
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for the first time, hopefully
that struck a chord with 'em.
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I can imagine it must have done.
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♪ One dread done tell ya
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♪ You better lively up yourself
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♪ Another dread say
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♪ You better check
Your money-maker...
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I was amazed when I got out there.
It is ram out.
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What is this?
Wow. We love this! Yes!
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This is an unprecedented feat
for a British reggae band.
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Nobody has done that before or since.
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♪ Let me take you higher, higher
Higher, higher, higher, higher
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♪ Come rock, rock, rock
Rock, rock, rock
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♪ To reggae rhapsody...
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Music back then
is how we found ourselves.
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They're crucial
at that moment in time.
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It takes a spark. They were
the spark that started a big flame
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that is still blazing till today.
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♪ Come rock, rock, rock
Rock, rock, rock
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♪ To reggae rhapsody...
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I don't think they have received
the credit that they should.
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There was definitely racism there.
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We can't get a record deal
or a distribution deal.
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♪ ...
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When I'm onstage, I don't feel it.
I don't feel no pain at all.
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You're in a different world.
Nothing can trouble you up there.
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People have given up everything
for this music.
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I broke down, man. I cried.
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I cried. I'm just hoping...
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that the band will continue.
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♪ They come rock, rock
Rock, rock, rock, rock
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♪ To reggae rhapsody
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♪ Come skank, skank, skank
Skank, skank, skank
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♪ To reggae rhapsody
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♪ They come rock, rock, rock
Rock, rock, rock
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♪ To reggae rhapsody...
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This is part of my heritage,
this is part of my culture.
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They can't stop. They can't stop
until it's time for them to stop.
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♪ Rock...
'And that's not yet.'
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I mean, we're getting older,
but I'm sure the fun isn't done.
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♪ Rock...
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There's more to come.
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♪ Rock ♪
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♪ CIMARONS: Soul For Sale
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So if we trace it back,
they form in the late 1960s.
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And initially, they're all based
around this youth club in Harlesden.
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And they came together
as a group of friends.
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...this building here in Harlesden.
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And this is where the Cimarons
started. We started right here.
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After we mess around,
jamming on guitar,
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we decided to meet here on Friday.
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That rehearsal wasn't really
a rehearsal, it was just a...
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feel out, get together.
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Cos we didn't know many songs,
did we?
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I was learning, he was learning.
So I was teaching him what I knew.
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I learnt from Gichie.
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Cos Gichie could play
the guitar before me.
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And he couldn't teach me nothing
because he didn't know nothing.
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And I learnt from...
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from TV.
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The Kinks. The Kinks.
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And then we decided to say,
yes, go and buy an instrument.
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So work, work, work,
and save up, save up, save up.
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Maurice was here as well
and said he can play drum.
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And then Carl Levy came in,
right here.
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So everyone started right here,
you know?
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I think it was the way that
they meshed together as players.
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Almost immediately,
they started to make an impact.
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On a Friday evening, when we were
rehearsing, it was like a party.
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Everybody would leave
from downstairs, come upstairs.
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Everybody dancing and drinking.
It was like a party every night.
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♪ CIMARONS: Feel Nice
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I'm Popsy, Starlight Records...
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Harlesden.
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This is where, like I said,
this is where it all started.
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Harlesden is a mecca, you know?
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All the producers,
all the manufacturers,
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if they started out somewhere else,
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they always end up in Harlesden.
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Caribbeans coming over went to where
there was a friend, a family member.
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Harlesden, Brent.
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The largest and most diverse,
I think,
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borough in London, was that place.
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Individuals like Delroy Washington,
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one of the first musicians
to write with Bob Marley,
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it's Harlesden, Brent, again.
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And so, you know,
in terms of the Cimarons,
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it's not an accident
that they're from that location.
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That was the place to be.
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♪ AL BARRY & CIMARONS: Morning Sun
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I'm Richie, Richie Johnson,
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originally at Trojan Records
in the early '70s.
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If you wanted something
with that Caribbean flavour,
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Harlesden has always been it.
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I'm General Levy, and I buss in
the same club as the Cimarons did.
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Growing up in
Northwest London, Harlesden,
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in the '70s and '80s,
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it could have been mistaken
for the Caribbean, or even Africa.
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I mean, you could have been
in Coronation Market, Jamaica.
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And you'd also be seeing the people,
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hearing the conversations in
the street, be smelling the food.
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Musically,
there were dances every week.
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House dances, blues dances,
maybe two or three in the area.
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On a Friday, Saturday night,
we'd just get dressed,
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walk down the road,
and we listened.
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And you can hear
a sound system pumping away.
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Because those days,
sound system was really the thing.
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And when you get there,
it's good vibes, you know?
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You can buy a drink, you can buy
food, and then you dance all night.
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In the vinyl days, I mean,
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records used to sell, you know?
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In this area, in the Harlesden area,
there was about four record shops.
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You'd hear from
Hawkeye record shops,
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Starlight record shops,
Orbitone record shops,
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and you'd be hearing Bob Marley,
Dennis Brown.
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On the weekends, you couldn't
get in there - a roadblock.
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Yeah, there's so much people there,
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queuing up to get the records,
you know?
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There'd be people outside, even.
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Soul food, good music,
good marijuana.
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In the air.
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So it was good, man.
Good vibes all around.
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Most of the tracks
that Cimarons actually did,
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my voice is on it.
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Because they were like
the first UK band,
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you know, group of black guys.
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They were learning on the job...
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and doing everything
that they wanted to do,
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until finally,
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they are recording,
they are touring.
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Early on, they...
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were invited to tour in West Africa.
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They were the first British reggae
band to play in West Africa.
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I went to Africa playing...
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with this finger. Remember, Locks?
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With this finger.
When I came back...
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I came back
playing with all of these.
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We went there with a set,
which is one-hour-plus, normal set.
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When we finish,
we would go back into the hotel.
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We started to rehearse more -
more tune, more tune, more tune.
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And this finger become so tired,
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so me have to use these, you know?
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That's when it getting serious.
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It become serious
when we came back from Africa.
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In the aftermath of that, they
started to work with Lambert Briscoe.
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He started the Hot Rod label,
so they became...
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the Hot Rod All Stars -
that was kind of their alter ego.
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And when they performed
at the Q Club in Paddington,
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they attracted the interest of one
of the A&R people at Trojan Records.
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♪ This is the Cimarons! ♪
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Cimarons was the name
of a Western series on TV.
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It was called Cimarron Strip.
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And everybody said,
'Yeah, that sounds good.'
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But then we found out
that the name 'Cimarons'
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actually mean, wild and free.
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I got to know them very early.
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In 1971, I left school,
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I started working at Trojan,
and I think that's where I met them.
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They were the band, you know?
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They were the start of it.
They were the...
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first real live band
that we had contact with.
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Apart from that,
it was always records, of course.
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But this was a live band
really doing the business, you know?
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♪ We are the Cimarons! ♪
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Cimarons is the foundation of
reggae music in the United Kingdom.
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In the Cimarons,
of course, there was...
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Maurice Ellis that plays the drums.
Carl Levy was the organist.
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There was Franklyn Dunn,
he was on the bass.
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There was Gichie, of course.
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Also, there was Carl Bert,
who was the lead singer.
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He was very, very versatile.
He could sing anything.
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He was a very good singer -
two-and-a-half years,
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maybe three years,
he worked with us, and then he left.
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Let's give it up
for the Cimarons!
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There was no superstar
in the Cimarons, yes?
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They were all playing music
the way they love to play it.
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And they had their own sound. They
were different from everybody else.
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They just became...
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hugely in demand as session players.
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They played on countless sessions
that were recorded here in the UK,
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for Trojan, and also
for the Pama group of labels.
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They could go into rock.
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They were known for covers of
soul music early in their career.
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Many of the Jamaican musicians
were jazz,
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soul, then reggae,
and people forget that.
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These are accomplished musicians.
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They've played on countless records.
Their name's not on it.
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There's no mention of them as the
band. It's the name of the singer.
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Once you're not the front person,
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you're invisible -
you're the backing band.
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So you're there,
but you're not there,
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in terms of the press,
the media, how it's reported on.
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This is a band that's...
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you know, been hugely
under-recognised over the years.
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They're part of the records
that popularised reggae.
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They're crucial
at that moment in time.
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When your hear a recording, even
if they are doing a backing track,
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you could say, 'Cimarons that,'
cos you would know...
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by how Maurice played the drum,
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you know by how Gichie play.
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Franklyn how he played -
you just knew.
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Cimarons were just...
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in a class by themself.
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That's all it was.
They were just different.
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♪ Skinheads, mash up London town
Skinheads, oo-ee
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♪ Skinheads, mash up London town
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♪ Skinheads, oo-ee... ♪
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At that point in time,
we've got an audience which...
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is embracing black music,
R&B, within the Mods...
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ska, Jamaican ska.
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And rocksteady, precursor to reggae,
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amongst the first wave of skinheads.
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We started just at the end
of the ska era, into rocksteady -
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and we loved rocksteady -
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and then rapidly, within a year and
a half, we just switched to reggae.
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Switched to reggae so quick.
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Cimarons was the band
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that all the artists
from Jamaica went to.
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It was like a go-to band,
whether it was live gigs or TV.
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We could back any artist,
any artist that came to us,
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Cimarons could back them
because you knew their song.
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Any artists that come
to England to perform,
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naturally, it's got to be
the Cimarons, you know?
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They attracted the likes
of Jimmy Cliff...
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...Ken Boothe.
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There was Bob Marley.
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The Pioneers.
The Maytals.
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There were the Heptones,
Nicky Thomas,
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you name it, they backed them,
you know - they backed everybody.
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Almost every artist
come from Jamaica at that time -
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you have to work with the Cimarons.
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Dennis Alcapone!
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♪ You got to see the man called
Cassius Clay in action
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♪ Tell you
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♪ Huahua, chi-huahua
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♪ Chi-huahua, chi-hu... Huh!
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♪ Huahua, chi-huahua, tell you
Chi-huahua, chi-hu...
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I am one of the Cimarons
who nobody don't know of.
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I'm coming from Jamaica.
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And I see these guys doing...
just working, just working, working.
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You know what I mean? They do
all the concert, all the clubs them.
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We were doing, like,
two shows a night -
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every venue that we went to...
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was packed out!
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And it was mostly white people.
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Mostly.
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At the time, we were young people,
you know what I mean?
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We carried the equipment
round the back,
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and we'd take them up the stairs,
and you know,
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Carl Levy, he'd have a big organ,
that, you know,
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everybody have to put them on
to take it up the stairs. Yeah.
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♪ The man called Cassius Clay
Is comin' back to retain his title...
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First van we had,
Bedford van, there's no heater.
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The windscreen wiper gone,
so one man have to...
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tie a string on one side,
tie a string on the other side.
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You're driving - dry that side,
dry that side, dry that side.
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You know, you're working -
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you're not sleeping properly,
you're not eating properly.
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Time you go to bed at three,
four in the morning,
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you've gotta get up, have breakfast,
go on the road again,
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and it goes on for days and weeks.
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It's like you're in a football team,
you know?
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Them days.
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Thank you!
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If there's a um...
artist from Jamaica...
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want us to do their song,
303
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we'll do exactly like
how them want it.
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But when we are doing our stuff,
it's different.
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It's still reggae...
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but our style.
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When I first hear them,
they had a sound,
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and I think the sound, to me,
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the Cimarons' sound is really
Gichie and Franklyn.
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♪ We're harder than the rock
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♪ We're harder than the rock
This time
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♪ We're harder than the rock
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♪ We're harder than the rock
This time
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Franklyn Dunn, the bass player -
reliable, rock-solid anchor.
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Franklyn, the bass player,
he was a character on the stage.
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Frank is a mad man onstage -
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do some things that you thought,
'Whoa, crazy!'
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Franklyn would do
different things with his bass,
just something out of the ordinary.
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The last time, Franklyn play
with a toothbrush on his bass.
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And it... it sound wicked!
You know what I mean?
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And then you had Locksley Gichie,
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an expressive guitarist,
and someone who's quite a...
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a thoughtful and meditative person.
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Gichie would know what to play
and, you know,
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how to make the music come across.
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♪ We're harder than the rock
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♪ Harder than the rock this time
328
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♪ We're harder than the rock
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♪ So hard
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♪ We're harder than the rock
This time
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♪ When I was a young head
My teacher used to say
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♪ The cow jump over the moon
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♪ Now I've grown up, I'm a man
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♪ I'm sure I can overstand
335
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♪ Mama Africa
336
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♪ Liberation freedom
337
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♪ Mama Africa
338
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♪ Liberation freedom
339
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♪ Lord
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♪ We're harder than the rock
341
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♪ So hard
342
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♪ We're harder than the rock
This time
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♪ We're harder than the rock
344
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♪ So hard
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♪ We're harder than the rock
This time
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♪ Starvation
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♪ Lord
348
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♪ Sufferation
Brutality
349
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♪ Brutality, we know it
350
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♪ Murder
Oh, we got too much of that
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♪ Starvation
352
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♪ We're harder than the rock, yeah
So hard
353
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♪ We're harder than the rock
This time
354
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♪ We're harder than the rock
355
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♪ So hard
356
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♪ We're harder than the rock
This time
357
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♪ We're harder than the rock ♪
358
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As you listen to music today,
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I don't know if you listen
to the radio a lot,
360
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or if you listen mostly
to records, but...
361
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what are things that you see
that you think are good or bad?
362
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I like the thing that happened in
- Jamaica called reggae.
- Excuse me?
363
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There's a music in Jamaica
called reggae,
364
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which has been around for years
under the disguise of ska,
365
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bluebeat, etc, etc, but it finally
formed itself into reggae.
366
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I don't like the word 'reggae'.
I like 'Jamaica music'.
367
00:20:44,325 --> 00:20:46,484
Me have a brethren
called Chilli Dixon,
368
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which is my best friend from,
you know,
369
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when I just came to England -
we link up.
370
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In those days,
we had lots of records,
371
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and everybody's got
their little system and so on.
372
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And he just start playing some
records, and he just start singing.
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And I thought, 'Wow, you can sing.'
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He told me about a band
called Cimarons.
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♪ Surplus food
376
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♪ On wasteland...
377
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Cimarons at the time
was a very big, very popular band,
378
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and they hear
that over in North London,
379
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there was some guy
singing like a bird.
380
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So I went to see them one night.
381
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They were very good, very tight,
very professional.
382
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They sound like Jamaican...
like a Jamaican band.
383
00:21:25,965 --> 00:21:29,684
You know, the sound that them used
to have - used to love them sound.
384
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That sound never change -
385
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that rich, rich, rich,
rich Jamaican sound, you know?
386
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♪ In scorching sun
Or the pouring rain...
387
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I can remember posters saying,
'Just in from Jamaica.'
388
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And we'd believe it.
389
00:21:44,845 --> 00:21:47,805
It's only decades later,
I thought... that was a lie.
390
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But at the time,
it was an inspiration.
391
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The performance - just to see
a Jamaican band play was a big deal.
392
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But when Winston come in, Winston
bring upon a rootsy level now.
393
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♪ Say he who's lost his hoping
394
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♪ No excuse for dreaming... ♪
395
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Cimarons threw me
right in the deep end, really.
396
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So we just have a few rehearsal,
and I was on tour.
397
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Yeah, we went to Japan.
398
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♪ CIMARONS: People Say
399
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Japan.
400
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We set the trend.
I'm proud about that.
401
00:22:38,725 --> 00:22:41,325
You know,
everything moved fast at that time.
402
00:22:42,485 --> 00:22:45,045
♪ The problems of today
403
00:22:47,085 --> 00:22:49,765
♪ Is pretty darn confused
404
00:22:50,965 --> 00:22:52,444
♪ Why's that...?
405
00:22:52,445 --> 00:22:57,124
They ended up
touring Japan and Thailand.
406
00:22:57,125 --> 00:23:00,885
They must be the first reggae band
ever to perform in Thailand.
407
00:23:01,765 --> 00:23:05,644
Yeah, man, Japan really
surprised me, to be honest with you,
408
00:23:05,645 --> 00:23:10,804
cos we did a show in Hibiya Park,
like, in the centre of Tokyo.
409
00:23:10,805 --> 00:23:14,524
Big festival - Japanese band
were all punk, and rock and roll -
410
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they were all rock and roll band.
411
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And we played...
I think it was the Friday night.
412
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And when we played, the place ram!
And we said, 'Whoa!'
413
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They have never heard reggae music
live in their lives. I mean...
414
00:23:26,845 --> 00:23:29,684
'What is this?
Whoa! We love this! Yes!'
415
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They went crazy, man.
416
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♪ People say
417
00:23:34,605 --> 00:23:36,484
♪ People say...
418
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They said,
'Can you come back this Sunday?'
419
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When we came back the Sunday, there
was three times the amount of crowd.
420
00:23:43,125 --> 00:23:44,925
Outside!
421
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Can't get into the venue.
That was serious.
422
00:23:51,285 --> 00:23:56,084
♪ People say... ♪
423
00:23:56,085 --> 00:23:59,844
When everything came together,
that sound -
424
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that was authentic sound
that was there - was unbelievable.
425
00:24:02,925 --> 00:24:06,285
Cimarons done things that,
you know, people weren't doing.
426
00:24:07,205 --> 00:24:09,764
The style of reggae
that they were playing, you know,
427
00:24:09,765 --> 00:24:11,564
people gravitated to it.
428
00:24:11,565 --> 00:24:13,524
Cimarons was a fantastic live band.
429
00:24:13,525 --> 00:24:16,004
You had to have the live band
to take it to the people.
430
00:24:16,005 --> 00:24:18,325
And that's where Cimarons came in.
431
00:24:20,045 --> 00:24:24,005
The energy that the Cimarons brought
on the stage was magnificent.
432
00:24:29,125 --> 00:24:32,525
You know, and their show
was a show that... was entertaining.
433
00:24:39,645 --> 00:24:42,364
They were different
from everybody else -
434
00:24:42,365 --> 00:24:44,925
their outfits,
just the way they performed.
435
00:24:50,245 --> 00:24:52,444
When I'm onstage,
436
00:24:52,445 --> 00:24:54,684
you're not here, you're not there.
You're...
437
00:24:54,685 --> 00:24:57,044
on cloud nine,
or whatever you want to call it.
438
00:24:57,045 --> 00:25:01,124
You're invincible, like I said.
You're enjoying yourself.
439
00:25:01,125 --> 00:25:03,444
And when you see the people
them enjoying themself too,
440
00:25:03,445 --> 00:25:05,845
it give you more again to push on.
441
00:25:07,245 --> 00:25:09,245
Brilliant.
442
00:25:18,565 --> 00:25:20,924
They were one of the first...
443
00:25:20,925 --> 00:25:23,324
to really take reggae
to certain countries in the world.
444
00:25:23,325 --> 00:25:27,325
♪ We've got to keep on moving on up
445
00:25:28,165 --> 00:25:30,165
♪ We've got to keep on
Moving on up... ♪
446
00:25:31,165 --> 00:25:33,324
I remember
when we went to Spain -
447
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place was absolutely jam-packed.
448
00:25:36,045 --> 00:25:39,084
And I went back, and I says,
'Ram - place ram out.'
449
00:25:41,165 --> 00:25:44,605
'Same thing in Holland.'
450
00:25:46,245 --> 00:25:48,565
Cimarons took reggae music
throughout the world.
451
00:25:49,805 --> 00:25:52,644
First reggae band
to play in West Africa,
452
00:25:52,645 --> 00:25:56,564
then the first reggae band
to play in Thailand and Japan.
453
00:25:56,565 --> 00:25:59,004
I'm thinking about Africa...
454
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Japan, Ireland.
455
00:26:02,165 --> 00:26:05,404
It's a long way
to Tipperary.
456
00:26:05,405 --> 00:26:08,004
It's a long way to go.
457
00:26:08,005 --> 00:26:11,644
Without your mother.
It's a long way to Tipperary.
458
00:26:11,645 --> 00:26:14,924
To the sweetest girl I know...
459
00:26:14,925 --> 00:26:16,484
One, two...
460
00:26:16,485 --> 00:26:18,485
♪ CIAN FINN: Rosie Dubh
461
00:26:20,725 --> 00:26:23,364
If you think about it,
it makes perfect sense
462
00:26:23,365 --> 00:26:26,524
that the Cimarons would be the
first reggae band to play in Ireland,
463
00:26:26,525 --> 00:26:28,525
because they have
that history of that.
464
00:26:29,925 --> 00:26:32,564
♪ We don't want to fight no more
465
00:26:32,565 --> 00:26:36,284
♪ We just want to live and love you
466
00:26:36,285 --> 00:26:39,204
♪ We don't want to fight those wars
467
00:26:39,205 --> 00:26:41,964
♪ We just want to sing songs to you
468
00:26:41,965 --> 00:26:44,564
♪ Sweet Rosie Dubh
469
00:26:44,565 --> 00:26:46,604
♪ Let me kiss and hug you
470
00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:48,964
♪ You know I love you...
471
00:26:48,965 --> 00:26:51,125
Rosie Dubh...
472
00:26:59,245 --> 00:27:01,405
♪ Rosie Dubh
473
00:27:02,725 --> 00:27:08,405
♪ Know you're loved ♪
474
00:27:16,805 --> 00:27:20,164
There's a hurt in the music,
and there's a soulful release.
475
00:27:20,165 --> 00:27:23,204
And there's a...
there's a therapy in singing it.
476
00:27:23,205 --> 00:27:26,164
With the Cimarons coming here
in the '70s...
477
00:27:26,165 --> 00:27:28,684
you know, this soulful rebel music...
478
00:27:28,685 --> 00:27:32,044
in the wilds of West Cork,
in Macroom, like, in Ireland...
479
00:27:32,045 --> 00:27:34,684
...there was just nothing
people had ever seen before.
480
00:27:34,685 --> 00:27:40,765
♪ We want freedom
481
00:27:42,325 --> 00:27:44,325
♪ Oh, yeah...
482
00:27:45,685 --> 00:27:47,764
Yeah, we were
the first reggae band...
483
00:27:47,765 --> 00:27:49,884
yeah, we were the first reggae band
to go to Ireland.
484
00:27:49,885 --> 00:27:52,324
The first time the Cimarons
came to Ireland was to play...
485
00:27:52,325 --> 00:27:54,565
at a festival in Macroom.
486
00:27:55,645 --> 00:27:58,764
They'd been playing at something
like T In The Park or one of those,
487
00:27:58,765 --> 00:28:01,284
and then they were flown
in this little plane to Macroom.
488
00:28:01,285 --> 00:28:05,484
Eight-seater plane.
Eight-seater to fly us in.
489
00:28:05,485 --> 00:28:09,124
The pilot could hardly see
the plane - pure smoke!
490
00:28:09,125 --> 00:28:11,604
He was a policeman.
491
00:28:11,605 --> 00:28:14,964
It was massive, man. It was big, man.
First festival in Cork.
492
00:28:14,965 --> 00:28:18,164
Walking through the crowd
with a spliff in my hand.
493
00:28:18,165 --> 00:28:20,444
Policeman come up
and ask me, 'What's that?'
494
00:28:20,445 --> 00:28:23,924
I say, 'I don't know. Somebody just
give it to me in the crowd, man.'
495
00:28:23,925 --> 00:28:26,244
And I just kept walking.
496
00:28:26,245 --> 00:28:29,764
They were blown away
by the reception they'd got.
497
00:28:29,765 --> 00:28:32,644
People went absolutely berserk
for it.
498
00:28:32,645 --> 00:28:34,724
They loved it.
499
00:28:34,725 --> 00:28:36,685
People first time hearing reggae...
500
00:28:39,245 --> 00:28:41,484
...it really blew their mind.
It's like, 'What the fuck?
501
00:28:41,485 --> 00:28:43,244
That was great.'
502
00:28:43,245 --> 00:28:45,485
'Who are these guys?' You know?
503
00:28:46,525 --> 00:28:49,164
♪ Just stoop over the horizon
504
00:28:49,165 --> 00:28:51,005
♪ And see the sun
505
00:28:51,845 --> 00:28:54,004
♪ Shining down on you...
506
00:28:54,005 --> 00:28:56,165
We have
some serious experience in Ireland.
507
00:28:57,045 --> 00:29:00,604
♪ Ship ahoy, ship ahoy
Ship ahoy, ship ahoy...
508
00:29:00,605 --> 00:29:04,405
I was doing a show
in Queen's University in Belfast.
509
00:29:07,285 --> 00:29:10,125
IRA bombing up, bombing up.
510
00:29:17,565 --> 00:29:20,285
When Winston came on stage, Winston
said, 'No, no, no, no, no, no.'
511
00:29:23,885 --> 00:29:26,044
You see them take time
coming together.
512
00:29:26,045 --> 00:29:28,085
Everybody start to mix them.
513
00:29:28,925 --> 00:29:31,364
And before that, they was fighting
each other on the street.
514
00:29:31,365 --> 00:29:34,044
Bombing up, fighting because
that one there Protestant,
515
00:29:34,045 --> 00:29:36,084
that one there's Catholic
or whatever.
516
00:29:36,085 --> 00:29:38,444
And the crowd went absolutely mad.
517
00:29:38,445 --> 00:29:41,164
And I dived... I dived in the crowd.
518
00:29:41,165 --> 00:29:43,644
Them start enjoying themself
when the music played.
519
00:29:43,645 --> 00:29:45,804
Them forget about...
520
00:29:45,805 --> 00:29:47,844
all that rubbish.
521
00:29:47,845 --> 00:29:49,804
But then after the music's gone...
522
00:29:49,805 --> 00:29:52,005
come tomorrow,
they gone back to normal.
523
00:29:52,885 --> 00:29:55,684
So music can carry you in.
524
00:29:55,685 --> 00:29:58,644
Music can carry you in.
525
00:29:58,645 --> 00:30:00,524
The Irish really love reggae, man.
526
00:30:00,525 --> 00:30:03,564
Reggae's popular all over Ireland,
but I think Cork is the spiritual...
527
00:30:03,565 --> 00:30:05,684
home of reggae -
it's rebel music, isn't it?
528
00:30:05,685 --> 00:30:08,124
Rebel music for the rebel county.
529
00:30:08,125 --> 00:30:11,244
Cimarons have a song
called Ship Ahoy.
530
00:30:11,245 --> 00:30:14,484
Ship Ahoy - the O'Jays record
that dealt with the...
531
00:30:14,485 --> 00:30:16,444
transatlantic slave trade.
532
00:30:16,445 --> 00:30:19,564
Ship ahoy, ship ahoy,
ship ahoy...
533
00:30:19,565 --> 00:30:21,724
♪ Ship ahoy-oy-oy... ♪
534
00:30:21,725 --> 00:30:24,564
When you play Ship Ahoy in Cork,
it mashed on the place.
535
00:30:24,565 --> 00:30:27,284
The place gone mad!
536
00:30:27,285 --> 00:30:31,004
Because of the tribulation
that we've been through...
537
00:30:31,005 --> 00:30:34,325
Irish was slave also in Jamaica,
you know?
538
00:30:35,685 --> 00:30:37,964
It's not just black people
are known as slave.
539
00:30:37,965 --> 00:30:41,564
Irish was slave too.
So them feel it like us.
540
00:30:41,565 --> 00:30:43,604
Who were they,
these first Irish settlers?
541
00:30:43,605 --> 00:30:45,564
A great number
of the Irish immigrants
542
00:30:45,565 --> 00:30:48,604
were either indentured servants
or prisoners.
543
00:30:48,605 --> 00:30:51,564
Because real recognise real.
It's pain. It's pain, you know?
544
00:30:51,565 --> 00:30:53,404
A lot of people who have been
through pain
545
00:30:53,405 --> 00:30:55,724
can recognise other people
who have been through pain.
546
00:30:55,725 --> 00:30:59,044
♪ Ship took us away
547
00:30:59,045 --> 00:31:01,245
♪ From Africa
548
00:31:03,005 --> 00:31:08,444
♪ They took us away from Africa...
549
00:31:08,445 --> 00:31:11,364
Ireland and the Caribbean -
550
00:31:11,365 --> 00:31:15,164
reggae, racism -
have always been bedfellows.
551
00:31:15,165 --> 00:31:17,044
No blacks, no dogs, no Irish.
552
00:31:17,045 --> 00:31:19,604
That's really...
To see that sign there, you know?
553
00:31:19,605 --> 00:31:23,004
So we've been bagged, you know,
554
00:31:23,005 --> 00:31:27,085
in the same category of 'human'
by the English.
555
00:31:27,925 --> 00:31:31,884
England was sold as the motherland
to all its colonies -
556
00:31:31,885 --> 00:31:33,924
oh, it's gonna be some warm place
that they get to.
557
00:31:33,925 --> 00:31:37,244
I was just 20 years old
when I first come to England.
558
00:31:37,245 --> 00:31:40,964
And, you know, the shock of it
is like, 'Wow,' you know?
559
00:31:40,965 --> 00:31:43,644
How much chimney
I've seen when I come?
560
00:31:43,645 --> 00:31:46,484
You know what I mean - smoke
coming out of the top of the house.
561
00:31:46,485 --> 00:31:49,684
The closeness of the Irish
and Caribbean communities in general
562
00:31:49,685 --> 00:31:52,524
in England
is quite a testament to how...
563
00:31:52,525 --> 00:31:55,764
similar the two places are,
the two cultures are.
564
00:31:55,765 --> 00:31:57,564
You must always remember, you know,
565
00:31:57,565 --> 00:32:00,284
where we were living,
there was mostly Irish round there,
566
00:32:00,285 --> 00:32:02,724
you know what I mean -
Queen's Park, Maida Vale.
567
00:32:02,725 --> 00:32:04,444
You know what I mean?
Kilburn was Irish.
568
00:32:04,445 --> 00:32:07,924
There was no separation
between these communities...
569
00:32:07,925 --> 00:32:10,244
on a certain level, and so...
570
00:32:10,245 --> 00:32:13,764
some of the biggest supporters of
reggae has been the Irish community.
571
00:32:13,765 --> 00:32:18,204
I've always had a strong connection
with a lot of Jamaican artists.
572
00:32:18,205 --> 00:32:20,284
And I do feel like
there's an element of that
573
00:32:20,285 --> 00:32:25,004
that comes back to the similarity
between Ireland and Jamaica.
574
00:32:25,005 --> 00:32:26,924
Yes, yes, yes, yes, Ireland.
575
00:32:26,925 --> 00:32:29,204
Definitely, man.
There's Irish people in Jamaica,
576
00:32:29,205 --> 00:32:31,164
There's a strong connection.
577
00:32:31,165 --> 00:32:34,604
That's why the Guinness is so
popular as well, I think, you know?
578
00:32:34,605 --> 00:32:36,644
The traditional music in Ireland...
579
00:32:36,645 --> 00:32:38,764
compared to the traditional music
in Jamaica,
580
00:32:38,765 --> 00:32:41,404
and the history of it, sonically
might be slightly different.
581
00:32:47,325 --> 00:32:50,165
At the core of it, the message...
582
00:32:51,045 --> 00:32:53,444
...is quite similar, and
the storytelling is quite similar.
583
00:32:53,445 --> 00:32:55,364
A lot of the songs
are about oppression,
584
00:32:55,365 --> 00:32:58,084
a lot of songs are about,
you know, upliftment, as well.
585
00:32:58,085 --> 00:33:01,524
A lot of the songs make you
feel like, 'Don't worry,
things are gonna get better.'
586
00:33:01,525 --> 00:33:04,364
There's a reggae community
in Ireland now, with the Cimarons...
587
00:33:04,365 --> 00:33:06,804
bringing reggae to Ireland
for the first time...
588
00:33:06,805 --> 00:33:10,644
you know, paved the way
for this incredible Caribbean music.
589
00:33:10,645 --> 00:33:14,884
♪ Ship took us away
590
00:33:14,885 --> 00:33:17,324
♪ From Africa ♪
591
00:33:20,925 --> 00:33:24,364
So the Cimarons would have been
in Ireland probably...
592
00:33:24,365 --> 00:33:27,125
two years before Bob Marley played.
593
00:33:37,965 --> 00:33:41,964
And he says,
'Yo, fellas, this is Bob Marley.'
594
00:33:41,965 --> 00:33:44,044
We said, 'Bob Marley?'
He said, 'It's Bob Marley.'
595
00:33:44,045 --> 00:33:47,325
I said, 'What are you talking about?'
He said, 'This is Bob.' Bob said...
596
00:33:52,245 --> 00:33:55,164
We said, 'Yeah, we know his songs.'
Bob said, 'Which song do you know?'
597
00:33:55,165 --> 00:33:57,204
We said, 'Duppy Conqueror.'
598
00:33:57,205 --> 00:34:00,364
So we start playing Duppy Conqueror,
and Bob couldn't believe it.
599
00:34:00,365 --> 00:34:04,845
Bob said, 'Why?!' and ended up
swearing, 'Bloodclaat!'
600
00:34:11,885 --> 00:34:15,044
Bob wanted to do the live gigs -
it was his first time in England.
601
00:34:15,045 --> 00:34:19,364
So we did Bob Marley's first gig
in England, at the Apollo Club.
602
00:34:19,365 --> 00:34:21,844
A week after we did...
603
00:34:21,845 --> 00:34:24,084
the Bouncing Ball in Peckham.
604
00:34:24,085 --> 00:34:27,524
That went down crazy, man. Bob
really did work the show, you know?
605
00:34:27,525 --> 00:34:32,084
And then a week after,
we did The Bamboo Club in Bristol.
606
00:34:32,085 --> 00:34:35,684
We did two nights. They billed it
as Bob Marley and the Wailers.
607
00:34:35,685 --> 00:34:37,844
Bob Marley and Cimarons,
it should have been.
608
00:34:37,845 --> 00:34:40,285
You know? That's history.
609
00:34:41,205 --> 00:34:44,044
It was at the carnival -
Notting Hill Carnival.
610
00:34:44,045 --> 00:34:45,764
And Bob said to Gichie,
611
00:34:45,765 --> 00:34:50,084
'I notice you guys licking over
a lot of other people's music,
612
00:34:50,085 --> 00:34:52,724
but you no lick no Wailers?'
613
00:34:52,725 --> 00:34:55,364
So we went and do Talking Blues,
614
00:34:55,365 --> 00:34:57,644
and it went to number one
in Jamaica.
615
00:34:57,645 --> 00:34:59,964
♪ CIMARONS: Talking Blues
616
00:34:59,965 --> 00:35:03,764
I'd like to be able to claim that
we had the session from the Cimarons
617
00:35:03,765 --> 00:35:05,884
before they'd actually
made a commercial record.
618
00:35:05,885 --> 00:35:09,284
But that'd be manifestly untrue -
they've already had
a number-one record in Jamaica
619
00:35:09,285 --> 00:35:11,405
with Talking Blues.
620
00:35:12,485 --> 00:35:14,844
♪ Talking blues
621
00:35:14,845 --> 00:35:18,124
♪ They say your feet
Is just too big for your...
622
00:35:18,125 --> 00:35:21,644
Now, Talking Blues
was a pretty obscure record,
623
00:35:21,645 --> 00:35:24,244
but their recording
that they made up here
624
00:35:24,245 --> 00:35:27,364
became a chart-topping success
in Jamaica.
625
00:35:27,365 --> 00:35:32,885
♪ They say your feet
Is just too big for your shoes
626
00:35:33,725 --> 00:35:35,725
♪ Yes...
627
00:35:37,685 --> 00:35:41,164
This is an unprecedented feat -
for a British reggae band...
628
00:35:41,165 --> 00:35:44,964
to go to Jamaica and have
a number-one hit on the charts
629
00:35:44,965 --> 00:35:48,284
with a cover of
a Bob Marley and the Wailers record?
630
00:35:48,285 --> 00:35:51,444
Nobody has done that,
really, before or since.
631
00:35:51,445 --> 00:35:54,405
♪ ..on the rock for so long
So long...
632
00:35:55,285 --> 00:35:57,884
So he come and check us now
to play a game of football.
633
00:35:57,885 --> 00:36:00,245
So he come up to me,
and he look, and he says...
634
00:36:02,205 --> 00:36:04,325
...'So you're the youth
who sing my song.'
635
00:36:05,325 --> 00:36:07,764
So me say, 'Yes, Bob.'
And he said, 'Sound alright.'
636
00:36:07,765 --> 00:36:11,124
If Bob Marley tell you
that your thing sound alright,
637
00:36:11,125 --> 00:36:14,085
sounds good, isn't it?
638
00:36:18,325 --> 00:36:20,124
You couldn't do that,
you know?
639
00:36:20,125 --> 00:36:22,204
Cimarons was my baby.
I couldn't give it up.
640
00:36:22,205 --> 00:36:24,284
No regrets.
641
00:36:24,285 --> 00:36:27,644
I just feel good to know that I knew
the great man and work with him.
642
00:36:27,645 --> 00:36:30,005
To me, that's enough. I knew Bob.
643
00:36:33,325 --> 00:36:37,324
And through that success,
they came down to Jamaica,
644
00:36:37,325 --> 00:36:39,884
and they recorded
their magnum opus -
645
00:36:39,885 --> 00:36:42,005
an album called On The Rock.
646
00:36:52,405 --> 00:36:55,365
♪ We're all on the rock, Jah say
647
00:36:55,885 --> 00:36:58,085
♪ We're all on the rock, Jah say
648
00:36:59,005 --> 00:37:01,805
♪ We're all on the rock, Jah say
649
00:37:02,605 --> 00:37:04,484
♪ We're all on the rock, Jah say
650
00:37:04,485 --> 00:37:08,805
♪ On the rock
651
00:37:10,645 --> 00:37:13,725
♪ On the rock
652
00:37:18,805 --> 00:37:21,565
♪ Wake up, Jah-man-can
653
00:37:25,525 --> 00:37:28,125
♪ Wake up, roots man
654
00:37:31,925 --> 00:37:36,525
♪ Get yourself together
Together
655
00:37:38,085 --> 00:37:40,844
♪ Try to know your brother
656
00:37:40,845 --> 00:37:42,605
♪ And sister
657
00:37:44,725 --> 00:37:47,965
♪ Critical has got other plans
658
00:37:51,405 --> 00:37:54,284
♪ By undermining the weaker minds
659
00:37:54,285 --> 00:37:57,365
♪ With false hopes
660
00:37:58,445 --> 00:38:03,924
♪ Can't you see critical is using
Jah name in vain?
661
00:38:03,925 --> 00:38:07,444
♪ Them use it in court as a joke
662
00:38:07,445 --> 00:38:11,044
♪ Them use it in church as a curse
663
00:38:11,045 --> 00:38:12,844
♪ Them use it in a
664
00:38:18,685 --> 00:38:21,765
♪ We're all on the rock, Jah say
665
00:38:22,445 --> 00:38:25,165
♪ We're all on the rock, Jah say
666
00:38:25,405 --> 00:38:28,325
♪ We're all on the rock, Jah say
667
00:38:28,885 --> 00:38:30,964
♪ We're all on the rock, Jah say
668
00:38:30,965 --> 00:38:34,005
♪ On the rock
669
00:38:37,125 --> 00:38:41,245
♪ On the rock
670
00:38:45,005 --> 00:38:48,164
♪ Wake up, Jah-man-can...
671
00:38:48,165 --> 00:38:51,364
They're a classic, original,
roots reggae band,
672
00:38:51,365 --> 00:38:55,844
and when they did their own stuff,
I love it, absolutely love it.
673
00:38:55,845 --> 00:38:58,324
My best Cimarons album
is On The Rock.
674
00:38:58,325 --> 00:39:00,204
♪ Let us be free...
675
00:39:00,205 --> 00:39:02,644
I think that album
was very interesting.
676
00:39:02,645 --> 00:39:05,924
You know, in Jamaica,
they played these significant gigs
677
00:39:05,925 --> 00:39:09,364
around the island, and they made
a tremendous impact there.
678
00:39:09,365 --> 00:39:12,804
And they were working
at Channel 1 and Randy's,
679
00:39:12,805 --> 00:39:15,284
and also at Lee Scratch Perry's
Black Ark,
680
00:39:15,285 --> 00:39:18,045
where they made some exceptional
music together with Scratch.
681
00:39:23,045 --> 00:39:25,924
Wow, actually in Black Ark Studio,
682
00:39:25,925 --> 00:39:29,084
with the great Lee Perry -
he's energetic.
683
00:39:29,085 --> 00:39:31,644
He said to Frank,
'Oh, man. Play the bass, man.'
684
00:39:33,805 --> 00:39:36,845
He's very, you know...
He'll tell you what he wants.
685
00:39:38,925 --> 00:39:41,765
♪ Wake up, Jah-man-can
686
00:39:45,525 --> 00:39:48,165
♪ Wake up, roots man
687
00:39:51,445 --> 00:39:54,405
♪ Wake up, Jah-man-can
688
00:39:55,205 --> 00:39:57,365
♪ We're all on the rock, Jah say
689
00:39:58,325 --> 00:40:01,564
♪ We're all on the rock, Jah say
On the rock
690
00:40:01,565 --> 00:40:03,925
♪ We're all on the rock, Jah say
691
00:40:04,645 --> 00:40:07,604
♪ We're all on the rock, Jah say
On the rock
692
00:40:07,605 --> 00:40:10,245
♪ We're all on the rock, Jah say
693
00:40:11,045 --> 00:40:13,405
♪ We're all on the rock, Jah say
694
00:40:14,845 --> 00:40:18,084
♪ We're all on the rock, Jah say
695
00:40:18,085 --> 00:40:25,765
♪ We're all on the rock ♪
696
00:40:28,885 --> 00:40:31,405
♪ CIMARONS: Paul Bogle
697
00:40:37,965 --> 00:40:40,484
♪ Call his name out loud
698
00:40:40,485 --> 00:40:43,084
♪ Everybody, yeah
699
00:40:43,085 --> 00:40:45,324
♪ Paul Bogle...
700
00:40:45,325 --> 00:40:47,764
They did produce,
throughout their career,
701
00:40:47,765 --> 00:40:50,604
some really hardcore roots reggae
702
00:40:50,605 --> 00:40:53,924
that was very interesting
and very innovative -
703
00:40:53,925 --> 00:40:56,564
I'm thinking of songs
like Paul Bogle,
704
00:40:56,565 --> 00:41:00,085
which celebrated one of
the Jamaican national heroes.
705
00:41:01,365 --> 00:41:04,125
Paul Bogle.
706
00:41:05,445 --> 00:41:09,124
♪ Was the leader of our strife...
707
00:41:09,125 --> 00:41:11,924
And then the 12-inch
has this wonderful toast,
708
00:41:11,925 --> 00:41:14,524
this kind of hardcore
Jamaican toasting.
709
00:41:14,525 --> 00:41:16,444
You know, when you hear
songs like those,
710
00:41:16,445 --> 00:41:19,484
you just think,
'Wow, this is phenomenal.'
711
00:41:19,485 --> 00:41:21,885
♪ England needs a leader...
712
00:41:24,765 --> 00:41:26,484
♪ We need a leader
713
00:41:26,485 --> 00:41:28,685
♪ Leader like Paul Bogle... ♪
714
00:41:34,365 --> 00:41:37,565
The music we have done over the
years, we haven't had no great hits.
715
00:41:38,405 --> 00:41:40,444
What we did was a lot of albums.
716
00:41:40,445 --> 00:41:43,844
We did a live album -
we did Live At The Roundhouse.
717
00:41:47,645 --> 00:41:50,364
We got a deal with Polydor Records,
and...
718
00:41:50,365 --> 00:41:53,204
when we brought the live album
to them, they loved it.
719
00:41:53,205 --> 00:41:55,964
I believe it was the first reggae
band to be signed by a major.
720
00:41:55,965 --> 00:41:58,764
Polydor in the '70s.
721
00:41:58,765 --> 00:42:02,284
And then we ended up doing
an album called Maka.
722
00:42:02,285 --> 00:42:04,685
♪ CIMARONS: Loosening Out
723
00:42:08,725 --> 00:42:10,884
Maka was an experiment.
724
00:42:10,885 --> 00:42:15,125
Frank always come up with some...
some mad professor ideas.
725
00:42:21,565 --> 00:42:24,164
Because in those days, we used
to like one or two rock group,
726
00:42:24,165 --> 00:42:26,284
like Cream and...
727
00:42:26,285 --> 00:42:29,525
T-Rex and Fleetwood Mac.
728
00:42:35,685 --> 00:42:38,164
So we decided to use
a bit of rock sound,
729
00:42:38,165 --> 00:42:40,604
add a bit of rock sound
to the reggae,
730
00:42:40,605 --> 00:42:43,324
and at the same time,
create a new sound.
731
00:42:43,325 --> 00:42:47,324
So we decided to go to Pebble Beach.
Tony Platt was the engineer.
732
00:42:47,325 --> 00:42:50,764
Well, my first interest,
really, in reggae music
733
00:42:50,765 --> 00:42:54,925
started because
I was working at Island Studios.
734
00:42:55,845 --> 00:42:59,085
I was asked to work on
the Catch Fire album.
735
00:43:06,125 --> 00:43:08,844
My introduction to the Cimarons...
736
00:43:08,845 --> 00:43:11,884
the first day in the studio
was the first time that I met them.
737
00:43:11,885 --> 00:43:13,684
When you work as a studio engineer,
738
00:43:13,685 --> 00:43:17,124
you're kind of thrown in at the deep
end at the beginning of a session.
739
00:43:17,125 --> 00:43:19,804
That's what we did for two weeks -
there was no distraction.
740
00:43:19,805 --> 00:43:22,764
No distraction - just wake up
in the morning, have breakfast.
741
00:43:22,765 --> 00:43:25,244
Bang - studio all day until about...
742
00:43:25,245 --> 00:43:27,284
two o'clock in the morning.
743
00:43:27,285 --> 00:43:29,884
These guys weren't necessarily
used to...
744
00:43:29,885 --> 00:43:34,084
a sleepy little Sussex coastal town.
745
00:43:34,085 --> 00:43:36,365
♪ High up...
746
00:43:37,445 --> 00:43:39,644
I can remember, in the studio,
747
00:43:39,645 --> 00:43:41,365
smoking a lot of the weed.
748
00:43:42,325 --> 00:43:46,044
♪ High up, not below...
749
00:43:46,045 --> 00:43:48,285
Well, we call Maka, 'weed'
750
00:43:49,365 --> 00:43:51,645
It was weed.
751
00:43:53,645 --> 00:43:57,684
I think we was experimenting...
the sound.
752
00:43:57,685 --> 00:44:01,004
I think they were very much
receptive to other...
753
00:44:01,005 --> 00:44:03,964
other ideas and other influences,
that's for sure.
754
00:44:03,965 --> 00:44:07,164
And so the ideas we came up
with, we can hear it now.
755
00:44:07,165 --> 00:44:09,404
You watch a lot of reggae band
playing live,
756
00:44:09,405 --> 00:44:11,204
you can hear the rock sound.
757
00:44:11,205 --> 00:44:13,324
Gichie's one of the first one
who bring this rock...
758
00:44:13,325 --> 00:44:16,564
...onstage. Mad.
759
00:44:16,565 --> 00:44:18,804
They're all playing the...
760
00:44:18,805 --> 00:44:20,525
We started that.
761
00:44:23,885 --> 00:44:26,325
♪ I will take you higher
762
00:44:27,845 --> 00:44:31,844
♪ Way up there, way up there... ♪
763
00:44:31,845 --> 00:44:34,124
I think anywhere a Jamaica group is,
764
00:44:34,125 --> 00:44:37,684
it will always...
the environment and the condition...
765
00:44:37,685 --> 00:44:41,204
of the particular country will
always come over in their music.
766
00:44:41,205 --> 00:44:43,884
Cimarons is an English-based group.
767
00:44:43,885 --> 00:44:46,564
Their music is very influenced by...
768
00:44:46,565 --> 00:44:49,124
the roots of Jamaica,
769
00:44:49,125 --> 00:44:52,924
and also a British rock sound.
770
00:44:52,925 --> 00:44:55,924
Even though they're very rootsy,
but living in England,
771
00:44:55,925 --> 00:44:58,484
I think that's rubbed off
on their music.
772
00:44:58,485 --> 00:45:02,724
And then that inspires
a whole other generation
773
00:45:02,725 --> 00:45:06,205
of successive waves
of other British reggae bands.
774
00:45:08,645 --> 00:45:10,764
We were very aware
of the Cimarons.
775
00:45:10,765 --> 00:45:12,924
There were two bands
that we were very aware of,
776
00:45:12,925 --> 00:45:14,924
back then,
as Jamaican bands in Britain -
777
00:45:14,925 --> 00:45:17,124
one was the Cimarons,
the other was Matumbi.
778
00:45:17,125 --> 00:45:19,884
And in every case, we thought
they were better than us,
779
00:45:19,885 --> 00:45:21,964
because they sounded Jamaican.
780
00:45:21,965 --> 00:45:25,004
That was the aspiration -
to sound Jamaican.
781
00:45:25,005 --> 00:45:28,604
We were making fucking reggae.
Who else do you wanna sound like?
782
00:45:50,565 --> 00:45:53,284
Well, they have a phrase saying...
783
00:45:53,285 --> 00:45:57,364
'A king is not being recognised
in his own country,' is it?
784
00:45:57,365 --> 00:45:59,885
So them don't recognise us
in England.
785
00:46:00,725 --> 00:46:03,444
Their time as a band,
when they were in their prime,
786
00:46:03,445 --> 00:46:06,484
there was a passion
for anything that was Jamaican.
787
00:46:06,485 --> 00:46:10,004
Things that were English,
and if you were based in England,
788
00:46:10,005 --> 00:46:12,684
were not regarded as authentic.
789
00:46:12,685 --> 00:46:15,684
At a point where your identity
is also being formed,
790
00:46:15,685 --> 00:46:19,284
the location in which you live
is saying, 'You're not from here.
791
00:46:19,285 --> 00:46:23,444
You're still not quite 100% British
or 100% Jamaican.'
792
00:46:23,445 --> 00:46:25,884
The thing I find
with Jamaican musicians,
793
00:46:25,885 --> 00:46:31,124
Jamaican musicians can play soul
as good as the Americans.
794
00:46:31,125 --> 00:46:35,364
Jamaican musicians can play pop
as good as the Englishman.
795
00:46:35,365 --> 00:46:38,404
But neither the Englishman
nor the American...
796
00:46:38,405 --> 00:46:40,924
can play the reggae
as good as the Jamaican in Jamaica.
797
00:46:40,925 --> 00:46:45,204
Authentic Jamaican artists,
that's what you looked for.
798
00:46:45,205 --> 00:46:47,164
There was no such thing
as black British reggae.
799
00:46:47,165 --> 00:46:49,084
You had Jamaican reggae,
800
00:46:49,085 --> 00:46:52,524
and then you had... shit.
That was it.
801
00:46:52,525 --> 00:46:55,804
Yeah, that's Jamaica. Jamaica...
802
00:46:55,805 --> 00:46:57,964
Forget Cimarons - Jamaica is a...
803
00:46:57,965 --> 00:46:59,804
trendsetter.
804
00:46:59,805 --> 00:47:01,844
Cimarons were authentic.
805
00:47:01,845 --> 00:47:04,604
They were just in a different place.
They grew up in Jamaica.
806
00:47:04,605 --> 00:47:06,924
They understood that.
They understood the sound.
807
00:47:06,925 --> 00:47:09,724
But they're now located in England.
808
00:47:09,725 --> 00:47:12,204
Yeah, they set a precedent that...
809
00:47:12,205 --> 00:47:15,524
here is a band based in Britain
810
00:47:15,525 --> 00:47:20,084
that's playing reggae that can be
just as good as a Jamaican band.
811
00:47:20,085 --> 00:47:24,044
It provided that bridge that
brought us closer to the music -
812
00:47:24,045 --> 00:47:27,124
you know, that we can make reggae
here in England as well.
813
00:47:27,125 --> 00:47:29,404
♪ ..Africa
814
00:47:29,405 --> 00:47:33,645
♪ You're the mother of all creation ♪
815
00:47:42,725 --> 00:47:46,484
I think, one of the things
that's very important is...
816
00:47:46,485 --> 00:47:51,364
when you're being introduced
to reggae, not to expect anything.
817
00:47:51,365 --> 00:47:53,764
Do you know? Go there
with a completely blank mind.
818
00:47:53,765 --> 00:47:55,724
And then the things
will come out to you.
819
00:47:55,725 --> 00:47:58,964
Music, back then...
820
00:47:58,965 --> 00:48:01,684
is how we found ourselves.
821
00:48:01,685 --> 00:48:04,004
It was like a newsreel for us,
822
00:48:04,005 --> 00:48:06,004
the Caribbean news, you know?
823
00:48:06,005 --> 00:48:09,684
That's how you kept up to date,
cos often, the mainstream radios...
824
00:48:09,685 --> 00:48:11,684
didn't really give us
that information.
825
00:48:11,685 --> 00:48:15,404
Reggae had low status in this
country. It wasn't recognised.
826
00:48:15,405 --> 00:48:20,124
In fact, it was ridiculed on the BBC
on a regular basis.
827
00:48:20,125 --> 00:48:24,084
It was the accent,
it was the subject matter,
828
00:48:24,085 --> 00:48:28,284
it was the rhythm, it was people
who looked like my parents.
829
00:48:28,285 --> 00:48:30,484
It was people who looked like me.
830
00:48:30,485 --> 00:48:34,084
♪ So get ready up a Harlesden
831
00:48:34,085 --> 00:48:37,324
♪ Yeah, get ready
Round a Willesden... ♪
832
00:48:37,325 --> 00:48:39,684
In England, right, you come up...
833
00:48:39,685 --> 00:48:42,044
against a class structure.
834
00:48:42,045 --> 00:48:45,124
And there's also
a racial structure as well.
835
00:48:45,125 --> 00:48:47,164
There came a time where...
836
00:48:47,165 --> 00:48:50,204
racial tension was a bit tight -
in those days, very, very tight.
837
00:48:50,205 --> 00:48:52,604
You know, most communities
who ended up coming over here
838
00:48:52,605 --> 00:48:54,764
had to deal with, you know,
839
00:48:54,765 --> 00:48:59,044
the backlash of prejudice,
and racism, and being the outsiders.
840
00:48:59,045 --> 00:49:01,204
We come from Jamaica, not knowing...
841
00:49:01,205 --> 00:49:04,204
what the word 'prejudice' means -
we don't know what prejudice mean.
842
00:49:04,205 --> 00:49:06,204
I went to school in East London,
843
00:49:06,205 --> 00:49:09,805
so I saw a bit of the Teddy Boys
and the National Front.
844
00:49:10,605 --> 00:49:13,564
We grew up during a point
in British history
845
00:49:13,565 --> 00:49:15,844
where I think, politically,
it was OK to be...
846
00:49:15,845 --> 00:49:18,004
overtly, openly...
847
00:49:18,005 --> 00:49:19,804
vocally racist.
848
00:49:19,805 --> 00:49:25,804
♪ Racemongers are spitting out words
Abomination... ♪
849
00:49:25,805 --> 00:49:30,084
Up until his diatribe,
he was a hero.
850
00:49:30,085 --> 00:49:32,364
His performance
was born out of black music,
851
00:49:32,365 --> 00:49:36,324
and he covered our hero's song -
I Shot The Sheriff.
852
00:49:36,325 --> 00:49:40,604
And so anyone that helped promote
reggae... we were a fan of.
853
00:49:40,605 --> 00:49:44,004
And all these people
wrote in to New Musical Express,
854
00:49:44,005 --> 00:49:45,724
Sound On Sound, Melody Maker.
855
00:49:45,725 --> 00:49:48,324
There was a huge groundswell
of letters
856
00:49:48,325 --> 00:49:50,724
that came into these magazines,
857
00:49:50,725 --> 00:49:52,964
which gave rise
to Rock Against Racism.
858
00:49:52,965 --> 00:49:56,804
♪ Rock against racism
Adopting make a schism
859
00:49:56,805 --> 00:49:59,205
♪ What about the children? ♪
860
00:50:00,125 --> 00:50:02,684
To me, the Asians, the West Indians,
861
00:50:02,685 --> 00:50:04,564
all these other immigrants
coming in...
862
00:50:04,565 --> 00:50:07,004
is an added plus
to the English society.
863
00:50:07,005 --> 00:50:10,924
And the sooner they realise this is
the better it is, better it will be.
864
00:50:10,925 --> 00:50:14,844
- Where have you been?
- I'm sorry I
couldn't make it this morning, bwana.
865
00:50:14,845 --> 00:50:17,764
But I had to go
to Heathrow, meet my cousin.
866
00:50:17,765 --> 00:50:20,284
Oh, bloody marvellous, eh?
They're flying them in now.
867
00:50:22,365 --> 00:50:24,685
What's the hurry?
Couldn't he get on a banana boat?
868
00:50:25,525 --> 00:50:28,564
It also appealed to my white mates.
869
00:50:28,565 --> 00:50:30,924
It was like, 'Yeah,
we're in the same boat, mate.'
870
00:50:30,925 --> 00:50:33,124
Well, not really,
but I get where you're coming from.
871
00:50:33,125 --> 00:50:36,285
♪ The oppression, the oppression... ♪
872
00:50:44,925 --> 00:50:49,244
In this country,
there was a lot of sufferation
going on at that time.
873
00:50:49,245 --> 00:50:52,324
Reggae music, it mixed in with
the punk thing because it was like...
874
00:50:52,325 --> 00:50:54,924
chanting, the same kind of thing.
875
00:50:54,925 --> 00:50:57,364
Try to break down the same barrier,
you know?
876
00:50:57,365 --> 00:51:00,044
Fighting and looting
went on well into the night.
877
00:51:00,045 --> 00:51:03,604
Only a quarter of a mile away,
the bands were still playing.
878
00:51:03,605 --> 00:51:06,604
♪ It was a riot, riot in the city
879
00:51:06,605 --> 00:51:09,484
♪ Riot, riot in the town...
880
00:51:09,485 --> 00:51:11,964
At the time, the Cimarons was doing
881
00:51:11,965 --> 00:51:15,485
most of the universities and college
circuits - we are the headliners.
882
00:51:16,285 --> 00:51:19,285
Most of the bands used
to support Cimarons, like UB40...
883
00:51:21,725 --> 00:51:23,084
Tom Robinson.
884
00:51:23,085 --> 00:51:26,405
I remember doing a gig one night
with Sham69.
885
00:51:28,125 --> 00:51:30,085
You know,
the guy came out and said...
886
00:51:35,285 --> 00:51:38,364
So that relationship
between punk and reggae...
887
00:51:38,365 --> 00:51:42,164
was not as distant as the press
often made it out to be.
888
00:51:42,165 --> 00:51:44,244
The only difference
is maybe the music.
889
00:51:47,605 --> 00:51:51,364
But we're the same. A band is a band,
you know? We all love each other.
890
00:51:51,365 --> 00:51:54,044
We're in the same dressing room.
We don't see nobody different.
891
00:51:54,045 --> 00:51:58,204
♪ And there's a riot
Riot in the city...
892
00:51:58,205 --> 00:52:01,524
That audience
were already embedded -
893
00:52:01,525 --> 00:52:06,164
wedded to reggae
as much as they were to punk.
894
00:52:06,165 --> 00:52:08,964
It was the lyrics...
895
00:52:08,965 --> 00:52:11,644
and that political resistance
to the state.
896
00:52:11,645 --> 00:52:15,044
That was loud, that was
right in your face within reggae.
897
00:52:26,565 --> 00:52:30,484
If they were a white band
or a rock band, you understand,
898
00:52:30,485 --> 00:52:32,764
they'd have got a lot further
than where they are today.
899
00:52:32,765 --> 00:52:35,644
You know, people would
still be hailing them out now,
900
00:52:35,645 --> 00:52:39,364
you understand, and their journey
would have just been continuous.
901
00:52:39,365 --> 00:52:42,164
Everybody after Bob Marley
had to have...
902
00:52:42,165 --> 00:52:46,044
a kind of sexy kind of appeal
and that kind of stuff.
903
00:52:46,045 --> 00:52:49,044
The original appeal was not about
that, it was a rebellious thing.
904
00:52:49,045 --> 00:52:51,604
I think that bands
like The Cimarons who...
905
00:52:51,605 --> 00:52:55,604
maintain the original fundamental
message of the reggae music,
906
00:52:55,605 --> 00:52:59,244
may have been seen as too raw,
and then the majors got involved.
907
00:52:59,245 --> 00:53:01,124
And then they wanted
to change the direction.
908
00:53:01,125 --> 00:53:03,004
And I think that it got diluted.
909
00:53:03,005 --> 00:53:05,805
♪ Mull of Kintyre...
910
00:53:06,765 --> 00:53:10,804
There's not too many
reggae artists who can...
911
00:53:10,805 --> 00:53:15,044
say they were asked to create an
album by Paul and Linda McCartney,
912
00:53:15,045 --> 00:53:17,004
but the Cimarons can say that.
913
00:53:17,005 --> 00:53:19,725
♪ Oh, Mull of Kintyre...
914
00:53:20,525 --> 00:53:24,604
We was in Chalk Farm Studios,
and the Engineer said,
915
00:53:24,605 --> 00:53:26,444
'Um... Guys.
916
00:53:26,445 --> 00:53:29,284
Paul McCartney is on the phone.
He wants to talk to one of you guys.'
917
00:53:29,285 --> 00:53:31,524
Paul McCartney?
This man is a crazy man!
918
00:53:31,525 --> 00:53:35,164
Paul and Linda McCartney
are long-standing reggae fans.
919
00:53:35,165 --> 00:53:38,844
Paul McCartney has spoken at length
about hearing reggae,
920
00:53:38,845 --> 00:53:42,084
and the effect it had on him, and
travelling to Jamaica in the '70s.
921
00:53:42,085 --> 00:53:45,444
Well, about nine... ten years ago,
we were in Jamaica,
922
00:53:45,445 --> 00:53:47,324
a place which I liked very much.
923
00:53:47,325 --> 00:53:50,044
Linda was really a nice person.
Linda was down to earth, man.
924
00:53:50,045 --> 00:53:52,564
Linda loved reggae music to the max.
925
00:53:52,565 --> 00:53:56,004
And listening to RJR,
which is a radio station there,
926
00:53:56,005 --> 00:53:58,164
and all they played at the time
was reggae music,
927
00:53:58,165 --> 00:54:00,444
and I just
fell madly in love with it.
928
00:54:00,445 --> 00:54:03,804
♪ Mull of Kintyre...
929
00:54:03,805 --> 00:54:05,884
So, in the early 1980s,
930
00:54:05,885 --> 00:54:11,364
the Reggaebility album began as
a... a command performance, really -
931
00:54:11,365 --> 00:54:14,844
Paul and Linda McCartney recruiting
the Cimarons to make this album.
932
00:54:14,845 --> 00:54:17,564
♪ Oh, Mull of Kintyre... ♪
933
00:54:17,565 --> 00:54:20,204
Even though we were singing
mostly roots songs before but...
934
00:54:20,205 --> 00:54:22,164
you're gonna try things.
You never know.
935
00:54:22,165 --> 00:54:24,604
You might get a crossover
and end up in the charts, you know?
936
00:54:24,605 --> 00:54:32,244
♪ Big girls, they don't cry...
937
00:54:32,245 --> 00:54:34,484
♪ My girl...
938
00:54:34,485 --> 00:54:37,444
I thought this would be
a big breakthrough for Cimarons.
939
00:54:37,445 --> 00:54:40,124
It was supposed to be
their ticket to the big time,
940
00:54:40,125 --> 00:54:42,364
but it was basically a flop.
941
00:54:42,365 --> 00:54:45,084
We were really hoping Big Girls
Don't Cry would have hit the chart,
942
00:54:45,085 --> 00:54:46,725
which it didn't.
943
00:54:49,165 --> 00:54:53,324
They had a lot staked
on a breakthrough,
944
00:54:53,325 --> 00:54:56,444
and it just must have been
a huge disappointment.
945
00:54:56,445 --> 00:54:59,084
There was a kind of
loss of direction,
946
00:54:59,085 --> 00:55:02,205
and things began to collapse.
947
00:55:09,725 --> 00:55:12,085
♪ CIMARONS: Reality
948
00:55:17,245 --> 00:55:19,724
After the Paul McCartney project,
949
00:55:19,725 --> 00:55:22,004
we continued for about a year after,
I think,
950
00:55:22,005 --> 00:55:25,444
but then things got really, really
slow - nothing was happening for us.
951
00:55:25,445 --> 00:55:29,244
The punitive nature
of the music industry is such,
952
00:55:29,245 --> 00:55:33,724
and especially in reggae, that it's
very, very hard to earn a living.
953
00:55:33,725 --> 00:55:36,204
I remember when Maurice
said him was going to stop playing.
954
00:55:36,205 --> 00:55:39,444
There was some discrepancy
about funds.
955
00:55:39,445 --> 00:55:42,124
I said to him, 'Yeah, boy,
you can't stop right now.'
956
00:55:42,125 --> 00:55:44,964
Him say, 'Yeah.' Me say,
'What you gonna do with your drums?'
957
00:55:44,965 --> 00:55:48,324
Him say, 'No, no.' Him not gonna get
rid of them. Him gonna find a job.
958
00:55:48,325 --> 00:55:51,324
Carl Levy, the keyboard player,
he went to off to America.
959
00:55:51,325 --> 00:55:55,244
Winston got lucky
and broke out as a solo artist.
960
00:55:55,245 --> 00:55:57,484
And I had to go and do a 9-5.
961
00:55:57,485 --> 00:55:59,324
I wasn't very happy about that.
962
00:55:59,325 --> 00:56:02,084
I remember Franklyn Dunn,
in those years,
963
00:56:02,085 --> 00:56:05,164
was driving a minicab
to make ends meet.
964
00:56:05,165 --> 00:56:08,244
You know, a lot of musicians
went through that here in the UK.
965
00:56:08,245 --> 00:56:10,364
A lot of reggae musicians
were forced...
966
00:56:10,365 --> 00:56:14,364
they cannot rely
on just being musicians,
967
00:56:14,365 --> 00:56:17,604
regardless of high-calibre
international touring
968
00:56:17,605 --> 00:56:19,844
and success abroad.
969
00:56:19,845 --> 00:56:22,284
Even though you're working,
and you're on the move, but...
970
00:56:22,285 --> 00:56:24,164
you're not earning a lot of money.
971
00:56:24,165 --> 00:56:26,044
You're still under pressure
in a way,
972
00:56:26,045 --> 00:56:28,404
but you don't see it that way
when you're doing it.
973
00:56:28,405 --> 00:56:30,604
But financially,
you're still under pressure.
974
00:56:30,605 --> 00:56:32,604
So we're always breaking records,
975
00:56:32,605 --> 00:56:34,444
always breaking records.
976
00:56:34,445 --> 00:56:37,444
First one to do this, first one
to do that, first one to do that.
977
00:56:37,445 --> 00:56:39,324
Always the first.
978
00:56:39,325 --> 00:56:42,484
We was the last one to get that...
get that...
979
00:56:42,485 --> 00:56:44,644
I need some of that now.
980
00:56:44,645 --> 00:56:46,964
Need some retirement money now.
981
00:56:46,965 --> 00:56:50,524
Only thing that was wrong
with the whole situation is that...
982
00:56:50,525 --> 00:56:54,684
there was no representative
to represent us.
983
00:56:54,685 --> 00:56:57,244
They didn't have
the professional management...
984
00:56:57,245 --> 00:57:00,484
to ensure that their contracts...
985
00:57:00,485 --> 00:57:02,604
would pay dividends.
986
00:57:02,605 --> 00:57:05,045
No management - we manage ourself.
987
00:57:06,005 --> 00:57:08,204
But I reckon that was a mistake.
988
00:57:08,205 --> 00:57:10,124
I reckon that was a mistake.
989
00:57:10,125 --> 00:57:12,044
We should have a manager,
but we didn't.
990
00:57:12,045 --> 00:57:15,924
They're not getting royalties.
They've made all this music.
You might say, why don't we know...
991
00:57:15,925 --> 00:57:17,804
more about the band?
992
00:57:17,805 --> 00:57:20,564
And from day one, they weren't
as I said, getting the publicity.
993
00:57:20,565 --> 00:57:23,884
They never had the press coverage.
They never made videos.
994
00:57:23,885 --> 00:57:28,444
There's a lack of photography,
even, to support that they existed.
995
00:57:28,445 --> 00:57:31,804
They just sort of...
disappeared out of view, really.
996
00:57:31,805 --> 00:57:34,404
I think that was very disappointing.
997
00:57:34,405 --> 00:57:37,324
Major record labels
were a little intimidated
998
00:57:37,325 --> 00:57:40,724
by the idea
of trying to market that music.
999
00:57:40,725 --> 00:57:42,884
You know, well,
'Where's our audience?
1000
00:57:42,885 --> 00:57:44,924
Who are we aiming this at?'
1001
00:57:44,925 --> 00:57:47,044
We love the music, so...
1002
00:57:47,045 --> 00:57:49,804
we went into it for the music,
not for the business.
1003
00:57:49,805 --> 00:57:53,084
We didn't have the knowledge
of the business side of things.
1004
00:57:53,085 --> 00:57:56,044
Once you believe in a certain thing,
you know,
1005
00:57:56,045 --> 00:57:59,684
it doesn't really matter too much
about how much money you're making.
1006
00:57:59,685 --> 00:58:02,844
Yes? That was the attitude we had.
1007
00:58:02,845 --> 00:58:05,124
We just wanted to do music.
1008
00:58:05,125 --> 00:58:07,684
Yes? That's all we wanted to do.
1009
00:58:07,685 --> 00:58:10,525
We never trust anybody.
We still don't trust anybody.
1010
00:58:11,845 --> 00:58:14,484
And there's a lot of promoter
in England...
1011
00:58:14,485 --> 00:58:16,604
who owe Cimarons money.
1012
00:58:16,605 --> 00:58:20,405
A lot of them - some of them
die now - owe Cimarons money.
1013
00:58:21,405 --> 00:58:24,204
I find it so distressing, really,
1014
00:58:24,205 --> 00:58:28,164
when you hear certain songs playing,
1015
00:58:28,165 --> 00:58:30,884
and you say,
'Yes, that's one of my songs.'
1016
00:58:30,885 --> 00:58:33,324
What have you got to show? Nothing.
1017
00:58:33,325 --> 00:58:36,325
Nothing. You got nothing to show.
1018
00:58:53,925 --> 00:58:58,004
♪ Harder than the rock
So hard
1019
00:58:58,005 --> 00:59:00,204
♪ Harder than the rock
1020
00:59:00,205 --> 00:59:03,805
♪ So hard
Harder than the rock this time
1021
00:59:04,965 --> 00:59:07,445
♪ Harder than the rock
1022
00:59:08,605 --> 00:59:10,684
♪ Harder than the rock this time
1023
00:59:10,685 --> 00:59:14,044
♪ So hard
Harder than the rock
1024
00:59:14,045 --> 00:59:15,804
♪ So hard
1025
00:59:15,805 --> 00:59:19,565
♪ Harder than the rock, rock, rock
Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock... ♪
1026
00:59:24,725 --> 00:59:27,124
We were planning to start again
in March this year.
1027
00:59:27,125 --> 00:59:30,884
And we started rehearsing.
We had a couple of gigs lined up.
1028
00:59:30,885 --> 00:59:33,925
And then COVID took over
and just stopped everything.
1029
00:59:39,925 --> 00:59:41,884
It's all about relaunching the band,
1030
00:59:41,885 --> 00:59:44,084
making the people know we're here,
and we're ready.
1031
00:59:44,085 --> 00:59:45,884
Here to go.
1032
00:59:45,885 --> 00:59:50,564
That same authenticity is still
there, you know, so they can't stop.
1033
00:59:50,565 --> 00:59:53,204
That's why they keep going now,
1034
00:59:53,205 --> 00:59:57,444
when they're far beyond
a standard age of retirement -
1035
00:59:57,445 --> 00:59:59,564
they're not just
going through the motions.
1036
00:59:59,565 --> 01:00:01,524
They're doing it
because they have to do it.
1037
01:00:01,525 --> 01:00:05,445
They can't stop until it's time for
them to stop. And that's not yet.
1038
01:00:06,245 --> 01:00:09,604
Winston Reedy, he's been doing
his own thing as a solo artist.
1039
01:00:09,605 --> 01:00:12,844
He couldn't really find his space
and time to fit in with us.
1040
01:00:12,845 --> 01:00:16,764
So we bought in a new singer
by the name of Michael. Michael Arkk.
1041
01:00:16,765 --> 01:00:19,044
♪ Yeah
1042
01:00:19,045 --> 01:00:21,844
♪ Paul Bogle
1043
01:00:24,965 --> 01:00:29,164
♪ Was the leader of our strife
1044
01:00:33,005 --> 01:00:38,005
♪ He travelled a long, long way
Across the valley...
1045
01:00:40,485 --> 01:00:43,165
My name is Michael Wright.
1046
01:00:44,005 --> 01:00:46,204
AKA Michael Arkk
1047
01:00:50,365 --> 01:00:53,564
♪ Paul Bogle, oh, lord... ♪
1048
01:00:53,565 --> 01:00:58,044
When I first came to London,
I've never seen anything like it.
1049
01:00:58,045 --> 01:01:00,164
At school, we heard of...
1050
01:01:00,165 --> 01:01:02,964
London Bridge
is burning down, burning down.
1051
01:01:02,965 --> 01:01:06,364
I didn't know I would
have seen it for real.
1052
01:01:06,365 --> 01:01:09,004
I couldn't bear it at first.
1053
01:01:09,005 --> 01:01:11,405
I didn't like it at all.
1054
01:01:12,325 --> 01:01:15,524
In Jamaica,
I know everybody in my community.
1055
01:01:15,525 --> 01:01:18,004
But here, nobody gives a...
1056
01:01:18,005 --> 01:01:19,924
gives a biscuit about you.
1057
01:01:19,925 --> 01:01:22,004
But as time goes by, you know...
1058
01:01:22,005 --> 01:01:24,244
you know, you adjust...
1059
01:01:24,245 --> 01:01:28,205
and accept that this is the reality
of this city living.
1060
01:01:31,165 --> 01:01:34,564
My friend Charles,
he called me one day and said,
1061
01:01:34,565 --> 01:01:37,324
'There's this band
that needs a singer.'
1062
01:01:42,485 --> 01:01:45,844
He brought me over to Harlesden
1063
01:01:45,845 --> 01:01:48,164
to meet up with Cimarons.
1064
01:01:48,165 --> 01:01:50,404
I've never heard of Cimarons before.
1065
01:01:50,405 --> 01:01:53,164
Never heard of Cimarons before.
And...
1066
01:01:53,165 --> 01:01:55,684
from the time I met them,
1067
01:01:55,685 --> 01:01:58,324
it's as if I knew them.
1068
01:01:58,325 --> 01:02:01,364
I felt as if I went to school
with these guys.
1069
01:02:01,365 --> 01:02:06,324
And when I saw them, the spirits
between us was so cordial that,
1070
01:02:06,325 --> 01:02:08,804
you know, I think they say,
'Yeah, man.
1071
01:02:08,805 --> 01:02:11,884
Brother, ya...
Brother, you're alright.'
1072
01:02:11,885 --> 01:02:14,044
They were wild and free.
I'm wild and free.
1073
01:02:14,045 --> 01:02:16,204
So we gelled.
1074
01:02:18,085 --> 01:02:19,885
♪ Was the leader of...
1075
01:02:20,925 --> 01:02:23,884
♪ The leader of our strife, yeah...
1076
01:02:23,885 --> 01:02:26,404
I can't remember
them interviewing me or...
1077
01:02:26,405 --> 01:02:28,124
asking me to sing anything.
1078
01:02:28,125 --> 01:02:31,004
We just started. Right there
and then, we just started.
1079
01:02:31,005 --> 01:02:34,085
And, you know, it's been like that.
1080
01:02:35,525 --> 01:02:38,004
♪ Cimarons are saying...
1081
01:02:38,005 --> 01:02:40,044
Kind of give me
a bit of a funny feeling,
1082
01:02:40,045 --> 01:02:42,364
though, but... yeah.
1083
01:02:42,365 --> 01:02:46,764
Because I like Michael - he's got
the character that suits the band.
1084
01:02:46,765 --> 01:02:50,164
It's not a competition thing, but...
1085
01:02:50,165 --> 01:02:53,524
having to follow
in Winston's steps...
1086
01:02:53,525 --> 01:02:56,804
it's not easy. It's not easy.
1087
01:02:56,805 --> 01:02:59,724
Very different from me
in a certain way.
1088
01:02:59,725 --> 01:03:02,204
I'm aggressive. I'm like, you know...
1089
01:03:02,205 --> 01:03:06,004
I'm like early Tyson - I just knock
you out in the first round, man.
1090
01:03:06,005 --> 01:03:08,044
Me no partial.
1091
01:03:08,045 --> 01:03:10,124
But he's more cool.
1092
01:03:10,125 --> 01:03:13,684
It's not an easy shoes to fill.
Not an easy shoes to fill.
1093
01:03:13,685 --> 01:03:15,565
But I'm trying my best.
1094
01:03:16,405 --> 01:03:18,405
Yeah, I hope Mikey um...
1095
01:03:20,285 --> 01:03:22,284
...likes what he's doing.
1096
01:03:22,285 --> 01:03:25,645
I hope... How am I gonna say this?
1097
01:03:26,605 --> 01:03:28,524
I hope we grow on him.
1098
01:03:28,525 --> 01:03:30,724
We have to grow on each other.
1099
01:03:30,725 --> 01:03:34,484
♪ Oh, yeah, oh, yeah ♪
1100
01:03:34,485 --> 01:03:36,925
♪ CIMARONS: Rock Reggae Rhapsody
1101
01:03:38,525 --> 01:03:41,404
♪ Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock
1102
01:03:41,405 --> 01:03:43,445
♪ In reggae rhapsody
1103
01:03:45,165 --> 01:03:47,844
♪ Rock, rock, rock
Rock, rock, rock... ♪
1104
01:03:47,845 --> 01:03:50,164
Over the years, I've had to...
1105
01:03:50,165 --> 01:03:54,884
subsidise my musical... desire.
1106
01:03:59,205 --> 01:04:02,204
So I had to find work. So um...
1107
01:04:02,205 --> 01:04:04,525
I became...
1108
01:04:06,085 --> 01:04:07,565
...a cleaner.
1109
01:04:17,485 --> 01:04:21,685
I say I do cleaning, but I've
never seen myself as a cleaner.
1110
01:04:27,565 --> 01:04:32,484
And hoping that Cimarons now...
we will grow to the stage where...
1111
01:04:32,485 --> 01:04:35,004
we don't... I don't have
to have the side hustle.
1112
01:04:35,005 --> 01:04:38,005
That hasn't happened yet,
but I can see it happening.
1113
01:04:40,445 --> 01:04:43,244
♪ Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock
1114
01:04:43,245 --> 01:04:45,405
♪ In reggae rhapsody... ♪
1115
01:04:58,685 --> 01:05:01,205
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
1116
01:05:02,565 --> 01:05:05,085
This is where
the magic really happens.
1117
01:05:13,845 --> 01:05:17,364
We are lucky to have
the legendary Cimarons...
1118
01:05:17,365 --> 01:05:19,964
back for one...
1119
01:05:19,965 --> 01:05:24,125
...back by public...
no, by my demand or their demand.
1120
01:05:25,685 --> 01:05:29,404
Recording new tracks
for their forthcoming LP.
1121
01:05:29,405 --> 01:05:32,644
♪ Words of wisdom, wisdom
1122
01:05:32,645 --> 01:05:34,604
♪ Spoken in parables...
1123
01:05:34,605 --> 01:05:39,444
This is a Neumann U47.
1124
01:05:39,445 --> 01:05:41,484
Ella Fitzgerald.
1125
01:05:41,485 --> 01:05:43,684
Oh, right, this is the one they used?
Yeah.
1126
01:05:43,685 --> 01:05:45,924
And this is my little studio.
1127
01:05:45,925 --> 01:05:47,724
Well, I say it's mine.
1128
01:05:47,725 --> 01:05:50,564
It was built by a couple
of elderly Jamaican fellows.
1129
01:05:50,565 --> 01:05:53,964
So it was built
as a reggae studio, originally.
1130
01:05:53,965 --> 01:05:55,924
♪ Spoken in parables... ♪
1131
01:05:55,925 --> 01:05:59,605
Which is why it actually suits
these guys down to the ground.
1132
01:06:02,605 --> 01:06:05,724
You know, look at these speakers -
they're built into pods like that...
1133
01:06:05,725 --> 01:06:09,245
to get as much sort of...
of that dub-y sort of bass sound.
1134
01:06:10,125 --> 01:06:13,564
- Not very well labelled.
- No.
It's all over the fucking shop.
1135
01:06:13,565 --> 01:06:16,244
All over the place, yeah, yeah.
Typical Frank.
1136
01:06:16,245 --> 01:06:18,764
We took them off Frank's hard drive,
1137
01:06:18,765 --> 01:06:23,444
and he probably labels things how
he thinks they should be.
1138
01:06:23,445 --> 01:06:26,404
Well, it would help if he was here.
1139
01:06:26,405 --> 01:06:28,684
Because he probably knows
where he's...
1140
01:06:28,685 --> 01:06:30,964
hidden them all, but...
1141
01:06:30,965 --> 01:06:33,924
So we rang him,
and he was in a garden in Jamaica.
1142
01:06:33,925 --> 01:06:36,564
Chop down Babylon.
1143
01:06:36,565 --> 01:06:39,404
And I was jealous. Very jealous.
1144
01:06:39,405 --> 01:06:41,804
♪ Green is the colour of the grass
1145
01:06:41,805 --> 01:06:44,404
♪ That grows so wild...
1146
01:06:44,405 --> 01:06:46,404
Yeah, yeah,
I think it's different, yeah...
1147
01:06:46,405 --> 01:06:49,284
a mixture of rocksteady -
you can hear the rocksteady
1148
01:06:49,285 --> 01:06:51,124
and the reggae mixed together.
1149
01:06:51,125 --> 01:06:54,484
It's where we started from - roots.
You know, more roots-y.
1150
01:06:54,485 --> 01:06:56,485
I can hear you now.
1151
01:07:00,725 --> 01:07:03,844
To be working with these guys is...
1152
01:07:03,845 --> 01:07:06,364
is something I never,
ever dreamed of.
1153
01:07:06,365 --> 01:07:11,084
This is a little bit
short of a miracle.
1154
01:07:11,085 --> 01:07:13,084
Yeah, well, it's just, you know...?
1155
01:07:13,085 --> 01:07:15,044
It's a good feeling, though,
- isn't it?
- Yes.
1156
01:07:15,045 --> 01:07:17,164
What is yours is yours -
the rest, it don't matter.
1157
01:07:17,165 --> 01:07:21,044
At the end of the day, yeah,
the path leads here, you know?
1158
01:07:21,045 --> 01:07:23,284
♪ Gold is the colour of the sun
1159
01:07:23,285 --> 01:07:26,204
♪ That shines so free
1160
01:07:26,205 --> 01:07:28,124
♪ For you and for me
1161
01:07:28,125 --> 01:07:31,285
♪ And for all living things...
1162
01:07:52,165 --> 01:07:54,245
♪ Gold is the colour of the sun... ♪
1163
01:08:18,325 --> 01:08:20,525
That's how life is, you know...
1164
01:08:21,485 --> 01:08:24,525
...one day you're here,
and the next day you're nowhere.
1165
01:08:35,845 --> 01:08:37,845
Alright.
1166
01:09:15,565 --> 01:09:17,565
Sorry, I can't...
1167
01:09:30,605 --> 01:09:34,004
Drum and bass, bass and drum -
I'm always where Maurice is.
1168
01:09:34,005 --> 01:09:36,724
We don't have to say anything.
We understand each other.
1169
01:09:36,725 --> 01:09:39,044
Drum and bass -
I'm always where Maurice is.
1170
01:09:39,045 --> 01:09:41,085
I don't think Maurice's family...
1171
01:09:42,045 --> 01:09:44,204
...knew him like I knew him.
1172
01:09:44,205 --> 01:09:46,165
I miss him.
1173
01:09:54,925 --> 01:09:56,325
Sorry.
1174
01:09:57,245 --> 01:09:59,564
Frank and Maurice was really,
really close,
1175
01:09:59,565 --> 01:10:02,164
because they live just five minutes
away from each other.
1176
01:10:02,165 --> 01:10:04,444
A year before, Frank lost his dad.
1177
01:10:04,445 --> 01:10:08,605
And at the end of the year,
end of 2019, he lost his mum.
1178
01:10:09,525 --> 01:10:12,644
So he took his mum
home to Jamaica to bury her,
1179
01:10:12,645 --> 01:10:15,164
and while he was in Jamaica,
hear that Maurice pass.
1180
01:10:15,165 --> 01:10:17,964
So it was a double blow for him.
He took it really hard.
1181
01:10:17,965 --> 01:10:21,564
For days, he was shattered.
You know? Shattered.
1182
01:10:21,565 --> 01:10:25,684
I phoned his brother, Johnny,
1183
01:10:25,685 --> 01:10:27,724
to find out what was happening.
1184
01:10:27,725 --> 01:10:31,844
And Johnny said to me,
'Why, it don't look too good'
1185
01:10:31,845 --> 01:10:34,284
But even up to that point,
1186
01:10:34,285 --> 01:10:36,604
I was still, you know,
1187
01:10:36,605 --> 01:10:39,604
believing that
it wasn't all that bad...
1188
01:10:39,605 --> 01:10:42,484
until Johnny phoned me
a second time and said,
1189
01:10:42,485 --> 01:10:44,364
'Boy, Dego.
1190
01:10:44,365 --> 01:10:48,364
It doesn't look like Maurice
is gonna pull through, you know.'
1191
01:10:48,365 --> 01:10:51,925
Shock. It's more like a disaster.
1192
01:10:52,765 --> 01:10:55,925
But the shock of hearing
that he was ill...
1193
01:10:57,005 --> 01:11:00,004
I know it takes a short time,
1194
01:11:00,005 --> 01:11:02,684
and then he's... he's gone, you know?
1195
01:11:02,685 --> 01:11:05,125
I broke down, man. I cried.
1196
01:11:06,045 --> 01:11:07,804
I cried.
1197
01:11:07,805 --> 01:11:11,525
♪ You say you gonna leave me...
1198
01:11:13,285 --> 01:11:16,605
Maurice, he's the master drummer.
1199
01:11:21,125 --> 01:11:24,365
Oh, Maurice was
one of the best drummer.
1200
01:11:25,365 --> 01:11:27,364
There's something about that guy.
1201
01:11:27,365 --> 01:11:30,644
At the time,
when Maurice was really going...
1202
01:11:30,645 --> 01:11:32,724
He could... a press roll...
1203
01:11:32,725 --> 01:11:36,524
Do you know what a press roll is? A
press roll is...
1204
01:11:36,525 --> 01:11:39,645
On a snare drum, he could hold that
for about an hour and a half.
1205
01:11:40,445 --> 01:11:42,124
Unbreakable.
1206
01:11:42,125 --> 01:11:44,804
He was a very talented drummer.
Very, very talented.
1207
01:11:44,805 --> 01:11:48,604
And the thing about Maurice that...
he just didn't know how good he was.
1208
01:11:48,605 --> 01:11:51,964
Maurice never knew
how talented he was as a drummer.
1209
01:11:51,965 --> 01:11:55,204
Yeah, I would say he was
the most talented one of all of us -
1210
01:11:55,205 --> 01:11:56,884
Maurice was way ahead.
1211
01:11:56,885 --> 01:12:00,724
He was one of the best...
best drummers, like I was saying.
1212
01:12:00,725 --> 01:12:02,525
One of the best.
1213
01:12:03,365 --> 01:12:06,764
Every drummer used to come and check
him. Everybody come check Maurice.
1214
01:12:06,765 --> 01:12:10,444
Everybody come and check Maurice...
to see what we're up to.
1215
01:12:10,445 --> 01:12:13,564
How Maurice was licking the sound,
you know, licking the drum -
1216
01:12:13,565 --> 01:12:17,844
I said to him,
'You sound like a yard drummer.'
1217
01:12:17,845 --> 01:12:19,724
Compared to now,
I don't hear a drummer
1218
01:12:19,725 --> 01:12:22,284
who lick them skin hard
like Maurice.
1219
01:12:22,285 --> 01:12:25,804
Making the skin bawl
like a goat, you know?
1220
01:12:25,805 --> 01:12:27,924
He didn't get
much recognition for it,
1221
01:12:27,925 --> 01:12:30,124
but he was a top drummer in the UK.
1222
01:12:30,125 --> 01:12:33,524
He played on a lot of stuff
that you don't even know.
1223
01:12:33,525 --> 01:12:35,604
You're dancing
to all these records for years,
1224
01:12:35,605 --> 01:12:37,684
and you don't know that -
it was Maurice Ellis.
1225
01:12:37,685 --> 01:12:40,004
He would love going onstage
and playing.
1226
01:12:40,005 --> 01:12:43,524
And we have to continue
because of Maurice, too, also.
1227
01:12:43,525 --> 01:12:45,564
We can't just stop.
1228
01:12:45,565 --> 01:12:47,764
Do you feel like
- it's what he would want?
- Yes.
1229
01:12:47,765 --> 01:12:49,564
Yes, yes, yes.
1230
01:12:49,565 --> 01:12:54,164
On the drums... put your hands
together for Maurice Ellis.
1231
01:13:11,048 --> 01:13:14,165
One, two, three...
1232
01:13:19,485 --> 01:13:21,604
We are African, but we are...
1233
01:13:21,605 --> 01:13:24,284
Caribbean people.
But we are African.
1234
01:13:24,285 --> 01:13:26,844
Some of us don't recognise that.
1235
01:13:26,845 --> 01:13:29,444
But I do. We do.
1236
01:13:29,445 --> 01:13:31,525
♪ Ethiopian romance
1237
01:13:33,045 --> 01:13:35,365
♪ Ethiopian romance
1238
01:13:36,885 --> 01:13:39,485
♪ Ethiopian romance
1239
01:13:40,685 --> 01:13:43,125
♪ Ethiopian romance...
1240
01:13:45,845 --> 01:13:48,484
Reggae music
is an experience.
1241
01:13:48,485 --> 01:13:50,684
It's a feeling, it's a love.
1242
01:13:50,685 --> 01:13:54,005
When you're involved,
nothing else matters.
1243
01:13:57,965 --> 01:14:04,084
♪ Ethiopian romance...
1244
01:14:04,085 --> 01:14:07,244
Some people say
reggae all sounds the same,
1245
01:14:07,245 --> 01:14:09,724
but if you get it, it just...
1246
01:14:09,725 --> 01:14:12,085
I don't know, it just does
something to me - it moves me.
1247
01:14:17,965 --> 01:14:21,924
It's something that reaches right
down to the depths of the soul -
1248
01:14:21,925 --> 01:14:23,884
that's what reggae is all about,
1249
01:14:23,885 --> 01:14:26,004
and that's what
the Cimarons were all about.
1250
01:14:26,005 --> 01:14:29,044
♪ I'm in love with Jah
1251
01:14:29,045 --> 01:14:33,284
♪ And his loving ways
1252
01:14:33,285 --> 01:14:35,445
♪ I'm in love with Jah
1253
01:14:36,285 --> 01:14:39,524
♪ And his loving ways
1254
01:14:39,525 --> 01:14:42,685
♪ Ethiopian romance
1255
01:14:43,565 --> 01:14:45,805
♪ Ethiopian romance
1256
01:14:46,885 --> 01:14:52,604
♪ Ethiopian romance...
1257
01:14:52,605 --> 01:14:55,964
Look how many generations
in popular music that
1258
01:14:55,965 --> 01:14:58,364
that's come back in
and been relevant, that sound...
1259
01:14:58,365 --> 01:15:00,284
that was created in the '60s.
1260
01:15:00,285 --> 01:15:02,724
And people still
search for that now, you know,
1261
01:15:02,725 --> 01:15:04,604
40-50 years beyond that,
1262
01:15:04,605 --> 01:15:06,644
because it's the purity
of the storytelling,
1263
01:15:06,645 --> 01:15:10,004
the purity of the sound that never,
you know, goes out of fashion.
1264
01:15:10,005 --> 01:15:12,604
It's impossible to listen to it
without actually...
1265
01:15:12,605 --> 01:15:14,564
feeling the music come through.
1266
01:15:14,565 --> 01:15:17,684
I mean, I used to come out of reggae
sessions with my stomach aching,
1267
01:15:17,685 --> 01:15:20,844
because I'd been kind of grooving
in the chair behind the desk.
1268
01:15:20,845 --> 01:15:24,165
♪ Africa
1269
01:15:24,325 --> 01:15:27,125
♪ Africa
1270
01:15:27,405 --> 01:15:34,285
♪ Africa...
1271
01:16:30,725 --> 01:16:34,524
Reggae music is part of my heritage,
it's part of my culture, you know?
1272
01:16:34,525 --> 01:16:36,804
It's just like me as a black person,
1273
01:16:36,805 --> 01:16:39,084
me can't be white -
me have to be black.
1274
01:16:39,085 --> 01:16:40,965
So reggae is my thing.
1275
01:16:48,885 --> 01:16:51,364
Reggae have my heartbeat right now,
1276
01:16:51,365 --> 01:16:53,565
right now, right now - my heartbeat.
1277
01:16:57,205 --> 01:17:00,325
♪ Africa
1278
01:17:00,765 --> 01:17:04,005
♪ Africa
1279
01:17:04,165 --> 01:17:06,965
♪ Africa
1280
01:17:07,285 --> 01:17:13,964
♪ Africa... ♪
1281
01:17:13,965 --> 01:17:17,604
Reggae is humane music - it's
humanity singing about human issues.
1282
01:17:17,605 --> 01:17:21,284
It's a music that expresses
the problems...
1283
01:17:21,285 --> 01:17:23,604
of the Jamaicans who created it,
1284
01:17:23,605 --> 01:17:26,204
but it has that universality.
1285
01:17:26,205 --> 01:17:28,044
He says,
'I'm singing about my problems,
1286
01:17:28,045 --> 01:17:30,604
but I'm singing about
your problems too.'
1287
01:17:30,605 --> 01:17:34,684
It's a warm vibe,
and it's a warrior vibes.
1288
01:17:34,685 --> 01:17:36,484
And it's soulful,
1289
01:17:36,485 --> 01:17:39,805
and... rebellious.
1290
01:17:47,165 --> 01:17:48,764
It's a big force, man.
1291
01:17:48,765 --> 01:17:51,004
It means a lot to me.
1292
01:17:51,005 --> 01:17:53,005
It carry me, teach me.
1293
01:17:53,805 --> 01:17:55,565
Make me feel happy,
make me feel sad.
1294
01:17:57,205 --> 01:17:59,245
Long live reggae music.
1295
01:18:02,885 --> 01:18:06,444
Well, Cimarons' destiny
is just to be themselves...
1296
01:18:06,445 --> 01:18:08,364
and get back into the thing.
1297
01:18:08,365 --> 01:18:10,724
You know what I mean?
They've lost their drummer.
1298
01:18:10,725 --> 01:18:13,845
And I'm sure...
I'm sure that none of them...
1299
01:18:14,725 --> 01:18:17,685
...wants to stop playing music.
1300
01:18:25,885 --> 01:18:29,325
We should start rehearse tomorrow,
and go back on the road.
1301
01:18:30,645 --> 01:18:32,245
Basically.
1302
01:18:33,405 --> 01:18:35,644
Go on through, young boy.
1303
01:18:35,645 --> 01:18:39,684
Go onstage, make people enjoy
themselves, make me enjoy myself.
1304
01:18:39,685 --> 01:18:42,204
I miss that. I would...
1305
01:18:42,205 --> 01:18:45,005
I would do that now - right now -
even though me have a bad back.
1306
01:18:46,405 --> 01:18:49,005
But when you go onstage,
you don't feel no pain.
1307
01:18:50,045 --> 01:18:52,284
You don't feel no pain at all.
1308
01:18:52,285 --> 01:18:56,805
That's the best painkiller you can
get - go onstage and play music.
1309
01:19:00,005 --> 01:19:02,565
♪ Ethiopian romance... ♪
1310
01:19:05,245 --> 01:19:08,924
Yeah, Westbourne Rehearsal Studio.
Yes, in the basement.
1311
01:19:08,925 --> 01:19:11,844
In the basement, where we can't
get no place to park.
1312
01:19:11,845 --> 01:19:15,004
If we all get the tune, them
sharpen up like irons, you know?
1313
01:19:15,005 --> 01:19:17,804
Yeah, ready to go to battle and...
1314
01:19:17,805 --> 01:19:20,164
you know, bring forth Jah message.
1315
01:19:20,165 --> 01:19:21,764
You know?
1316
01:19:21,765 --> 01:19:25,524
It's not a big thing
if they don't play for
two or three months, or even a year.
1317
01:19:25,525 --> 01:19:28,244
But when you call them,
they're ready.
1318
01:19:28,245 --> 01:19:32,365
Because they know exactly
how to play with each other.
1319
01:19:33,285 --> 01:19:36,164
Simple as that. Yes, simple as that.
1320
01:19:36,165 --> 01:19:39,764
All they need is a couple of
rehearsal. They're ready to go, man.
1321
01:19:39,765 --> 01:19:41,924
Trust me, ready to go.
1322
01:19:43,845 --> 01:19:46,164
We did our final rehearsal
last night,
1323
01:19:46,165 --> 01:19:49,244
and the gig will be tomorrow -
1324
01:19:49,245 --> 01:19:52,565
tomorrow at Hootananny in Brixton.
1325
01:19:54,605 --> 01:19:57,324
Good people, good afternoon.
Bless up, bless up.
1326
01:19:57,325 --> 01:19:59,365
I'm alright, thanks, I'm alright.
1327
01:20:00,245 --> 01:20:03,444
I'm not good, but I'm alright.
1328
01:20:03,445 --> 01:20:07,124
We're gonna go and visit Dego,
who is, unfortunately, not too well.
1329
01:20:07,125 --> 01:20:09,044
He's in hospital.
1330
01:20:09,045 --> 01:20:12,604
He's so upset that he won't
be able to be a part of it. You know?
1331
01:20:12,605 --> 01:20:15,884
Cos he's been a great help,
his songwriting ability.
1332
01:20:15,885 --> 01:20:18,444
We've done two of his songs
on the album.
1333
01:20:18,445 --> 01:20:22,004
His harmony is brilliant. We won't be
able to use his harmony so...
1334
01:20:22,005 --> 01:20:23,965
yes, we pray that he'll be OK.
1335
01:20:25,085 --> 01:20:27,124
We don't know
what's happening on Sunday.
1336
01:20:27,125 --> 01:20:29,884
We'll just get up
and go down and go set up.
1337
01:20:29,885 --> 01:20:32,804
Me, you, everybody go set up.
1338
01:20:32,805 --> 01:20:35,164
Just like what Michael Jackson do.
1339
01:20:35,165 --> 01:20:38,005
Soundcheck, rehearse,
dress rehearsal, soundcheck.
1340
01:20:39,645 --> 01:20:43,164
- Have a smoke, have a drink.
- All in
all, it's a celebration of Cimarons.
1341
01:20:43,165 --> 01:20:45,205
Yes. Yeah, the return.
Yeah.
1342
01:20:46,245 --> 01:20:49,964
Time flies so fast. We lost Maurice
about two-and-a-half years ago,
1343
01:20:49,965 --> 01:20:53,044
and that was a shock for us.
1344
01:20:53,045 --> 01:20:55,805
I want to start some gigs
before we lose any more members.
1345
01:21:12,285 --> 01:21:14,644
Pandemic came along
and everything fell apart.
1346
01:21:14,645 --> 01:21:18,284
So it's over three, four years we've
had to wait now for this moment.
1347
01:21:18,285 --> 01:21:20,884
It's a tough place to start,
1348
01:21:20,885 --> 01:21:25,844
because the London audiences are as
critical as the Jamaica audiences.
1349
01:21:25,845 --> 01:21:29,204
They know music,
so we just have to be good.
1350
01:21:29,205 --> 01:21:33,964
It's like a crucible, but then um...
1351
01:21:33,965 --> 01:21:37,605
...if you're any good,
you've got to go through the fire.
1352
01:21:43,965 --> 01:21:46,404
It is the calm before the storm -
1353
01:21:46,405 --> 01:21:48,844
only that we are
in control of the storm.
1354
01:21:48,845 --> 01:21:52,765
We're in control of the winds,
the temperature and the pressure.
1355
01:21:54,285 --> 01:21:56,204
Just wanna make sure
everything goes right.
1356
01:21:56,205 --> 01:21:59,084
We would have loved
to have Dego with us tonight.
1357
01:21:59,085 --> 01:22:02,804
Because Dego has, like... always
been around Cimarons from the '70s.
1358
01:22:02,805 --> 01:22:05,004
So I miss him. Yeah.
1359
01:22:11,285 --> 01:22:13,484
When I look at my drummer
on my right,
1360
01:22:13,485 --> 01:22:16,045
I'm seeing Carl, but that's Maurice.
1361
01:22:17,525 --> 01:22:20,524
I'm gonna see... but it's Maurice.
He's there with me.
1362
01:22:20,525 --> 01:22:22,125
In spirit.
1363
01:22:23,525 --> 01:22:25,484
In thoughts.
1364
01:22:25,485 --> 01:22:27,805
Yeah, he'll be there.
1365
01:22:29,645 --> 01:22:31,564
Playing this, playing reggae music,
1366
01:22:31,565 --> 01:22:33,684
has always been my life,
you know what I mean?
1367
01:22:33,685 --> 01:22:35,964
So when I'm up here,
I'm playing, it's like...
1368
01:22:35,965 --> 01:22:38,964
freedom. Yeah. Freedom, yeah.
1369
01:22:38,965 --> 01:22:41,084
But it's also...
1370
01:22:41,085 --> 01:22:43,644
the love of it,
you know what I mean?
1371
01:22:43,645 --> 01:22:47,884
From 1971, I've been with these
guys. They're bona fide friends.
1372
01:22:50,245 --> 01:22:53,004
Honestly, a sense of nervousness.
1373
01:22:53,005 --> 01:22:55,324
You prepare your best you can,
1374
01:22:55,325 --> 01:22:58,124
but when you get out there,
and the atmosphere...
1375
01:22:58,125 --> 01:23:00,364
and the vibe hits you,
1376
01:23:00,365 --> 01:23:03,004
you give, you know, everything.
1377
01:23:03,005 --> 01:23:04,884
Sing close to the microphone,
please -
1378
01:23:04,885 --> 01:23:08,124
gonna make the difference, you know?
You're gonna be more comfortable.
1379
01:23:08,125 --> 01:23:10,644
Closer.
1380
01:23:10,645 --> 01:23:14,084
Are you ready?!
1381
01:23:14,085 --> 01:23:17,084
The first band
to take reggae music to Japan.
1382
01:23:19,445 --> 01:23:23,204
The drum beat of Africa,
Ghana, Asia.
1383
01:23:23,205 --> 01:23:26,484
The first reggae band in Europe.
1384
01:23:29,245 --> 01:23:31,644
Ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls...
1385
01:23:31,645 --> 01:23:34,564
Yeah, man.
...are you ready for...
1386
01:23:34,565 --> 01:23:36,964
Are you ready?
Yes, man.
1387
01:23:36,965 --> 01:23:39,924
...the return of...
1388
01:23:39,925 --> 01:23:42,445
Cimarons!
1389
01:23:43,925 --> 01:23:46,085
Michael Arkk.
1390
01:24:04,245 --> 01:24:06,245
Yeah!
1391
01:24:22,005 --> 01:24:27,845
♪ This time we're having a nice time
1392
01:24:29,245 --> 01:24:34,045
♪ Mood is good and we feel fine
1393
01:24:35,525 --> 01:24:40,124
♪ Your liveliness
Is catching like wildfire
1394
01:24:40,125 --> 01:24:41,924
♪ Fire, fire
1395
01:24:41,925 --> 01:24:47,604
♪ We're going on as if there is
A riot, riot, riot, riot
1396
01:24:47,605 --> 01:24:50,284
♪ Make me rock, rock, rock, rock
Rock, rock
1397
01:24:50,285 --> 01:24:52,604
♪ To reggae rhapsody...
1398
01:24:52,605 --> 01:24:55,804
Playing together is
just like we just know exactly...
1399
01:24:55,805 --> 01:24:59,284
how the sound go -
we still can do it, innit?
1400
01:24:59,285 --> 01:25:01,564
You know,
put a guitar in Gichie hand,
1401
01:25:01,565 --> 01:25:04,244
and a guitar in my hand,
and you hear music.
1402
01:25:04,245 --> 01:25:06,524
♪ To Reggae Rhapsody...
1403
01:25:06,525 --> 01:25:10,244
When I'm surrounded
with music, I'm fully alive.
1404
01:25:10,245 --> 01:25:14,404
I feel like I'm at home, you know,
I feel, definitely, like I'm at home.
1405
01:25:14,405 --> 01:25:17,364
♪ One dread come tell ya
1406
01:25:17,365 --> 01:25:19,844
♪ You'd better lively up yourself...
1407
01:25:19,845 --> 01:25:23,484
Yeah, we are all one -
we can just use eyes contact,
1408
01:25:23,485 --> 01:25:26,444
and we know what's happening,
and we go from there.
1409
01:25:26,445 --> 01:25:28,604
Beautiful onstage.
1410
01:25:28,605 --> 01:25:30,765
Onstage, we're not human.
1411
01:25:31,565 --> 01:25:34,364
We are... invincible.
1412
01:25:34,365 --> 01:25:38,764
♪ Come rock with me
Let me take you higher, higher,
1413
01:25:38,765 --> 01:25:40,644
♪ Higher, higher, higher, higher
1414
01:25:40,645 --> 01:25:43,684
♪ Come rock, rock, rock, rock, rock
Hey!
1415
01:25:43,685 --> 01:25:46,205
♪ To reggae rhapsody
1416
01:25:47,125 --> 01:25:50,284
♪ Come choke, choke, choke
Choke, choke, choke
1417
01:25:50,285 --> 01:25:52,045
♪ To reggae rhapsody...
1418
01:25:54,725 --> 01:25:58,205
You feel light,
you feel... rewarded.
1419
01:25:59,885 --> 01:26:01,005
Me feel blessed.
1420
01:26:02,645 --> 01:26:04,684
You feel special. You feel...
1421
01:26:04,685 --> 01:26:07,364
'Thank you, Father, for giving me
this moment, because...
1422
01:26:07,365 --> 01:26:10,604
not a lot of people
can experience this sort of moment.
1423
01:26:10,605 --> 01:26:12,804
♪ Cimarons...!
1424
01:26:12,805 --> 01:26:16,805
When the whole crowd is going mad,
you're crazy in your head, and...
1425
01:26:18,485 --> 01:26:20,125
...and everything is still together.
1426
01:26:20,925 --> 01:26:23,965
You sort of miss each other -
as friends.
1427
01:26:24,805 --> 01:26:28,164
As a brethren,
missing togetherness and playing.
1428
01:26:28,165 --> 01:26:30,484
You do miss it.
1429
01:26:30,485 --> 01:26:32,204
Yeah, you do miss it.
1430
01:26:32,205 --> 01:26:34,604
♪ Come make me rock
Come make me rock
1431
01:26:34,605 --> 01:26:37,124
♪ To reggae rhapsody
1432
01:26:37,125 --> 01:26:41,044
♪ Boy, come make me rock
Come make me rock
1433
01:26:41,045 --> 01:26:43,325
♪ Ay! To reggae rhapsody
1434
01:26:44,405 --> 01:26:46,364
♪ Come make me rock ♪
1435
01:26:51,165 --> 01:26:54,084
Still, I miss my original singer.
1436
01:26:54,085 --> 01:26:56,405
I don't want to belittle anyone.
1437
01:26:57,565 --> 01:27:00,645
But my Reedy is my singer.
1438
01:27:01,445 --> 01:27:04,084
Winston Reed is my singer.
1439
01:27:04,085 --> 01:27:06,764
Not to put down Mikey or anything,
1440
01:27:06,765 --> 01:27:09,284
because from Mikey
coming in the flock...
1441
01:27:09,285 --> 01:27:11,004
he is my singer.
1442
01:27:11,005 --> 01:27:13,204
It is said to me that...
1443
01:27:13,205 --> 01:27:17,724
..the man whose
position I'm standing in tonight...
1444
01:27:17,725 --> 01:27:20,924
the great Winston Reedy,
is somewhere around.
1445
01:27:23,325 --> 01:27:25,124
Yes!
1446
01:27:25,125 --> 01:27:26,964
Respect due.
1447
01:27:26,965 --> 01:27:29,444
Yeah.
1448
01:27:29,445 --> 01:27:31,445
This is the man.
1449
01:27:32,965 --> 01:27:35,164
You're giving me the mic,
my brother?
1450
01:27:35,165 --> 01:27:37,445
Yeah, man. Say something.
Oh, my God, I'm humbled.
1451
01:27:38,525 --> 01:27:40,605
I'm feeling humbled.
1452
01:27:41,485 --> 01:27:43,724
What can I say about this band here?
1453
01:27:43,725 --> 01:27:45,605
This band here teach me everything.
1454
01:27:46,565 --> 01:27:48,765
Carry me all over the world.
1455
01:27:49,565 --> 01:27:52,684
Bless you, Cimarons,
for teaching me everything.
1456
01:27:52,685 --> 01:27:57,764
Harder Than The Rock. Um...
How it go again?
1457
01:27:57,765 --> 01:28:00,565
This we never plan, you know?
No rehearsal.
1458
01:28:25,685 --> 01:28:27,725
♪ We're harder than the rock
1459
01:28:28,925 --> 01:28:31,445
♪ We're harder than the rock
This time
1460
01:28:32,805 --> 01:28:34,885
♪ We're harder than the rock
1461
01:28:35,765 --> 01:28:38,445
♪ Harder than the rock, this time
1462
01:28:41,285 --> 01:28:43,285
♪ Oh, yeah...
1463
01:28:45,605 --> 01:28:46,724
Winston.
1464
01:28:46,725 --> 01:28:49,084
♪ Harder than the rock
So hard
1465
01:28:49,085 --> 01:28:52,004
♪ We're harder than the rock
This time
1466
01:28:52,005 --> 01:28:54,805
♪ So hard
Harder than the rock
1467
01:28:56,205 --> 01:28:59,005
♪ We're harder than the rock
This time
1468
01:29:37,765 --> 01:29:43,924
♪ Cimarons ♪
1469
01:29:43,925 --> 01:29:48,685
Thank you!
1470
01:29:50,005 --> 01:29:52,004
Put your hands together...
1471
01:29:52,005 --> 01:29:55,164
for the great Winston...
1472
01:29:55,165 --> 01:29:57,844
Reedy!
1473
01:29:57,845 --> 01:30:00,765
Thank you, sir! Yeah.
1474
01:30:02,565 --> 01:30:04,084
Cimarons is out now, yeah?
1475
01:30:04,085 --> 01:30:06,044
There's nothing can stop them.
1476
01:30:06,045 --> 01:30:09,884
Those people that were there,
they are all Cimarons fans.
1477
01:30:09,885 --> 01:30:12,605
Yes, yes, yes.
And it's a blessing, man. Rastafari.
1478
01:30:14,245 --> 01:30:16,724
Blessings, blessings, blessings,
1479
01:30:16,725 --> 01:30:19,004
Listen. Irie. Irie.
1480
01:30:19,005 --> 01:30:21,444
Ah, cricket.
1481
01:30:21,445 --> 01:30:24,804
Mmm. Yes, yes.
1482
01:30:24,805 --> 01:30:28,524
I was so well-prepared for the gig.
1483
01:30:28,525 --> 01:30:31,084
I just became very ill.
1484
01:30:31,085 --> 01:30:33,204
And ended up in the hospital.
1485
01:30:33,205 --> 01:30:36,524
I was in there for about...
two weeks.
1486
01:30:36,525 --> 01:30:38,564
I was so...
1487
01:30:40,245 --> 01:30:42,364
I was angry.
1488
01:30:42,365 --> 01:30:44,924
But... you know what them say?
1489
01:30:44,925 --> 01:30:47,284
Every disappointment is for a good.
1490
01:30:47,285 --> 01:30:49,404
But I'm hoping...
1491
01:30:49,405 --> 01:30:51,524
you know...
1492
01:30:51,525 --> 01:30:54,044
future gigs...
1493
01:30:54,045 --> 01:30:56,124
I might be able to be there.
1494
01:30:56,125 --> 01:30:58,164
You know?
1495
01:30:58,165 --> 01:31:00,205
♪ CIMARONS: Rock Reggae Rhapsody
1496
01:31:07,005 --> 01:31:08,884
♪ Well...
1497
01:31:08,885 --> 01:31:11,884
♪ Come we rock, rock, rock
Rock, rock, rock
1498
01:31:11,885 --> 01:31:14,045
♪ To reggae rhapsody...
1499
01:31:19,645 --> 01:31:21,565
♪ To reggae rhapsody...
1500
01:31:23,765 --> 01:31:26,164
Yeah, man. Here we are.
Rototom time. That's it.
1501
01:31:26,165 --> 01:31:28,604
Come to mash up Spain.
Come to tear Spain down.
1502
01:31:28,605 --> 01:31:31,405
That's it.
1503
01:31:32,925 --> 01:31:36,444
♪ To reggae rhapsody, yeah...
1504
01:31:36,445 --> 01:31:38,364
Come we rock.
1505
01:31:38,365 --> 01:31:42,764
Come we rock to reggae rhapsody.
Yeah!
1506
01:31:42,765 --> 01:31:46,764
♪ Come we rock...
1507
01:31:46,765 --> 01:31:48,805
Alright! Alright! Alright!
1508
01:31:49,965 --> 01:31:52,044
Massive day for the Cimarons.
1509
01:31:52,045 --> 01:31:54,444
Massive day for Cimarons.
1510
01:31:54,445 --> 01:31:56,484
Massive, beautiful day.
1511
01:31:56,485 --> 01:31:58,684
Back in Spain.
1512
01:31:58,685 --> 01:32:01,764
First reggae band ever in Spain,
and back in Spain now.
1513
01:32:01,765 --> 01:32:04,444
It's... It's cosmic.
1514
01:32:07,925 --> 01:32:10,325
The cosmos must have
something to do with this.
1515
01:32:11,165 --> 01:32:13,605
So I'm looking forward to tonight.
1516
01:32:14,565 --> 01:32:16,725
It has to be good, you know?
1517
01:32:28,725 --> 01:32:30,364
Yes, Rasta.
1518
01:32:30,365 --> 01:32:33,765
I'm glad I come back,
and the sun shining like Jamaica.
1519
01:32:35,925 --> 01:32:38,164
Rototom is the biggest
reggae festival in Europe.
1520
01:32:38,165 --> 01:32:42,924
All the top acts from Jamaica
has played Rototom over the years.
1521
01:32:42,925 --> 01:32:45,724
For us to be part of Rototom,
to me, it's a big thing.
1522
01:32:45,725 --> 01:32:47,844
I wasn't thinking about it.
1523
01:32:47,845 --> 01:32:50,084
I was thinking about going home.
1524
01:32:50,085 --> 01:32:52,725
Sun. Ganja weed.
1525
01:32:53,525 --> 01:32:55,204
Coconut water.
1526
01:32:55,205 --> 01:32:59,085
But... I'm not complaining.
1527
01:33:00,085 --> 01:33:02,924
Yeah, I hope to have a nice time.
1528
01:33:02,925 --> 01:33:05,804
If I enjoy myself,
the crowd should enjoy themselves.
1529
01:33:05,805 --> 01:33:08,844
Hopefully. Yeah. What about you?
1530
01:33:08,845 --> 01:33:11,804
I am elated, over the moon,
1531
01:33:11,805 --> 01:33:15,564
ecstatic to be among the legends.
1532
01:33:15,565 --> 01:33:18,444
Well, one word - irie.
1533
01:33:18,445 --> 01:33:20,564
From the UK...
1534
01:33:20,565 --> 01:33:24,084
the first band touring Japan,
1535
01:33:24,085 --> 01:33:25,924
Africa...
1536
01:33:25,925 --> 01:33:28,964
please, welcome onstage...
1537
01:33:28,965 --> 01:33:31,724
From 1967 until these times,
1538
01:33:31,725 --> 01:33:34,244
the Cimarons from the UK.
1539
01:33:43,485 --> 01:33:45,005
Good to go.
1540
01:33:46,485 --> 01:33:48,125
♪ Ethiopian romance
1541
01:33:49,525 --> 01:33:51,685
♪ Ethiopian romance
1542
01:33:52,605 --> 01:33:56,045
♪ Ethiopian romance
1543
01:33:56,285 --> 01:33:58,844
♪ Ethiopian romance
1544
01:33:58,845 --> 01:34:00,884
♪ Africa...
1545
01:34:00,885 --> 01:34:02,684
Everybody have a destiny.
1546
01:34:02,685 --> 01:34:05,684
It doesn't matter how long
you take to get there. Yes?
1547
01:34:05,685 --> 01:34:09,164
But you have a destiny.
And it will come.
1548
01:34:09,165 --> 01:34:11,485
Cos that's how
the Father prepare it.
1549
01:34:12,445 --> 01:34:15,524
♪ Africa...
1550
01:34:15,525 --> 01:34:18,644
One morning, my dad said
we should tell God what we want.
1551
01:34:18,645 --> 01:34:20,925
I told God I wanted to be a singer.
1552
01:34:21,725 --> 01:34:25,204
My most happy moments
is since meeting Cimarons.
1553
01:34:25,205 --> 01:34:28,764
Because I am experiencing
what I dreamt about.
1554
01:34:28,765 --> 01:34:32,124
♪ What did I say?
Ethiopian romance...
1555
01:34:32,125 --> 01:34:34,364
The steps of a righteous man
is ordered by the Lord.
1556
01:34:34,365 --> 01:34:36,045
You could take out
the righteous bit.
1557
01:34:37,565 --> 01:34:41,685
But the steps of this man
was ordered by the Lord.
1558
01:34:46,445 --> 01:34:48,605
♪ Ethiopian romance...
1559
01:34:49,565 --> 01:34:52,044
Gichie, Maurice...
1560
01:34:52,045 --> 01:34:54,085
them are my life.
1561
01:34:55,485 --> 01:34:59,444
They are my life, my musical friend,
and my musical family.
1562
01:34:59,445 --> 01:35:02,165
♪ Africa
1563
01:35:02,405 --> 01:35:05,845
♪ Africa
1564
01:35:06,765 --> 01:35:08,685
♪ Africa
1565
01:35:09,485 --> 01:35:12,244
♪ Africa...
1566
01:35:12,245 --> 01:35:15,925
Reggae music is alive and well
and will never die.
1567
01:35:16,765 --> 01:35:20,725
And reggae music, it's part of Earth,
part of nature, part of creation.
1568
01:35:22,245 --> 01:35:24,765
And that can never die.
It will always be there.
1569
01:35:26,245 --> 01:35:30,605
Reggae music is one of the parents
of modern pop music.
1570
01:35:31,405 --> 01:35:34,164
My generation of musicians -
and just people -
1571
01:35:34,165 --> 01:35:37,604
stand on the shoulders
of bands like the Cimarons.
1572
01:35:37,605 --> 01:35:39,524
♪ Cimarons...!
1573
01:35:39,525 --> 01:35:43,884
Do your thing. Yeah, do your dream.
1574
01:35:43,885 --> 01:35:46,604
Thirty years,
we've been waiting for this.
1575
01:35:46,605 --> 01:35:48,604
It's nobody's dream but your dream.
1576
01:35:48,605 --> 01:35:52,404
Cimarons have a dream and Cimarons
never allowed the dream to die.
1577
01:35:52,405 --> 01:35:54,644
♪ Ethiopian romance...
1578
01:35:54,645 --> 01:35:56,364
Jah be praised, you know?
1579
01:35:56,365 --> 01:35:58,964
♪ Ethiopian romance...
1580
01:35:58,965 --> 01:36:01,244
It takes a spark -
they were the spark...
1581
01:36:01,245 --> 01:36:03,164
that started a big flame.
1582
01:36:03,165 --> 01:36:05,644
And often,
when the big flame takes over,
1583
01:36:05,645 --> 01:36:07,844
people forget about the spark,
but the Cimarons...
1584
01:36:07,845 --> 01:36:10,924
are definitely a spark
that started...
1585
01:36:10,925 --> 01:36:13,084
a big, big, big, big fire -
1586
01:36:13,085 --> 01:36:15,204
a big flame, positive flame.
1587
01:36:15,205 --> 01:36:16,925
And it's still blazing
till this day.
1588
01:36:21,845 --> 01:36:24,444
Thank you!
1589
01:36:24,445 --> 01:36:26,564
Thank you!
1590
01:36:26,565 --> 01:36:29,084
Tonight, we are the Cimarons.
1591
01:36:31,725 --> 01:36:33,925
Ganja weed and music, yeah...
1592
01:36:34,925 --> 01:36:39,804
...number one -
ganja weed, music and food, girls.
1593
01:36:39,805 --> 01:36:43,204
That's... showbusiness.
1594
01:36:44,925 --> 01:36:46,804
Every good thing...
1595
01:36:46,805 --> 01:36:49,644
has a place to begin
and a place to end.
1596
01:36:49,645 --> 01:36:52,764
♪ CIMARONS: Ship Ahoy
1597
01:36:52,765 --> 01:36:54,965
Rototom!
1598
01:36:56,725 --> 01:36:58,925
Cimarons!
1599
01:37:00,605 --> 01:37:02,085
Thank you!
1600
01:37:08,045 --> 01:37:10,804
♪ Ship ahoy, ship ahoy, ship ahoy
1601
01:37:10,805 --> 01:37:13,244
♪ Ship ahoy-oy-oy
1602
01:37:13,245 --> 01:37:17,644
♪ Ship ahoy, ship ahoy, ship ahoy
1603
01:37:17,645 --> 01:37:20,125
♪ Ship ahoy-oy-oy
1604
01:37:21,885 --> 01:37:24,404
♪ Far
1605
01:37:24,405 --> 01:37:27,125
♪ As your eyes can see
1606
01:37:28,885 --> 01:37:31,204
♪ Men, women and baby slaves
1607
01:37:31,205 --> 01:37:34,405
♪ Going to a land called liberty
1608
01:37:35,365 --> 01:37:40,325
♪ But life, you see, is already made
1609
01:37:42,645 --> 01:37:45,124
♪ So young and so strong
1610
01:37:45,125 --> 01:37:47,525
♪ You're just waiting to be saved
1611
01:37:48,485 --> 01:37:51,165
♪ Lord, I'm so tired
1612
01:37:51,965 --> 01:37:54,205
♪ And I know you're tired too
1613
01:37:55,925 --> 01:37:58,484
♪ Look over the horizon
1614
01:37:58,485 --> 01:38:00,364
♪ And see the sun
1615
01:38:00,365 --> 01:38:03,004
♪ Shining down on you
1616
01:38:03,005 --> 01:38:05,444
♪ Yeah
1617
01:38:05,445 --> 01:38:08,204
♪ Ship ahoy, ship ahoy, ship ahoy
1618
01:38:08,205 --> 01:38:10,324
♪ Ship ahoy-oy-oy
1619
01:38:10,325 --> 01:38:15,204
♪ Ship ahoy, ship ahoy, ship ahoy
1620
01:38:15,205 --> 01:38:17,445
♪ Ship ahoy-oy-oy
1621
01:38:19,005 --> 01:38:21,724
♪ Ship ahoy, ship ahoy, ship ahoy
1622
01:38:21,725 --> 01:38:23,805
♪ Ship ahoy-oy-oy
1623
01:38:25,325 --> 01:38:28,485
♪ Can you feel
The motion of the ocean?
1624
01:38:31,885 --> 01:38:35,644
♪ Can you feel
1625
01:38:35,645 --> 01:38:38,684
♪ The cold winds blowing by?
1626
01:38:38,685 --> 01:38:42,444
♪ Ship took us away
1627
01:38:42,445 --> 01:38:44,485
♪ From Africa
1628
01:38:45,925 --> 01:38:48,844
♪ Ship took us away
1629
01:38:48,845 --> 01:38:50,605
♪ From Africa ♪
1630
01:39:03,085 --> 01:39:05,404
Jah!
1631
01:39:05,405 --> 01:39:07,605
Rastafari.
1632
01:39:21,365 --> 01:39:25,365
We wanna thank you all for watching.
1633
01:39:26,245 --> 01:39:28,805
I hope to see you all next time.
1634
01:39:29,845 --> 01:39:31,884
So, from Cimarons...
1635
01:39:31,885 --> 01:39:34,405
and to all of you,
I wanna say peace and love...
1636
01:39:35,365 --> 01:39:37,365
Thank you very much.
1637
01:39:42,365 --> 01:39:46,165
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