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So then now, when him leave we did still need a third person. But then now, at the same time he was doing some work with the Wailing Souls, but then Wailing Soul them start bus’ with ‘T’ings & Time’ an’ them tune deh, so Garthie kinda move on. Well, Garthie did a sing with we now, before. So Errol say, “Bwoy, me waan go gwaan do fe me t’ing”, so we no bother say nutten, we jus’ mek Errol gwaan fe do him t’ing, an’ we try find another third singer, me an’ Duckie.ĭid you have anyone in-between Errol and Puma at the time? So we no bother say nutten, ca’ up to now Errol is still dealing with the Jayes, y’know. And then now, after we record the firs’ album deh with Jammys deh now, y’know, we never get no money an’ Errol never get too pleased an’ Errol say, bwoy, man a continue with the Jayes t’ing, a fe him t’ing. Puma (Sandra Jones) was in Jamaica now a do some, whe you call it, she a do some volunteer t’ing, social work or peace corps, I don’t know, somet’ing. And the Black Uhuru t’ing we rehearse an’ we jus’ try mek it work. And so we end up a record fe Jammys, and so on, and so on. With Niney? No, the t’ing now whe you have with Niney now, after I record up them tune deh with Niney an’ so on, it’s like Dennis Brown did get whe big time, remember Dennis Brown was the big act, yunno? Them time deh you have ‘Westbound Train’ an’ Niney did busy, so me have to have a try fe get my kettle o’ fish them a gwaan somewhe, you know wha’ me a say? Yes, a so it go.
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So you felt the best way to reach somewhere, after the records for Niney didn’t take you anywhere, that was to form a group. Ca’ them time deh, a the only lickle opportunity them time deh fe deal with music an’ we loved it, yunno. Roberta Flack used to come a Jamaica an’ them t’ing deh an’ we used to sing fe her an’, y’know, them vibes deh. And you used to have a man whe named Cappo, used to go dung a Cappo.
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A brethren name Bullseye used to keep it, him used to have a sound deh named Heatwave, the name Heatwave, him now them used to keep some stage show, and a so now them used to, yeah, me used to sing like Dennis Brown them time deh, you understan’. Patrick school, them used to keep t’ings for summertime an’ them used to have, like, stage show. Me never even tell all this, ca’ over the school, used to have a lickle school them use to go them time name St. Inna the seventies, yunno, between ’75 an’ ’76, them time deh, or about ’74, somewhere there.īecause the same neigborhood we live in, and we would be like the only lickle one them whe round deh so, an’ we a deal with music, y’know. Don did more look like, him more did waan do somet’ing fe himself, him an’ Gold, ca’ you remember Don Carlos & Gol’? So actually, I break the name Black Uhuru, like international, y’know. Don Carlos never used to be inna the group when me deh-deh, them used to do some backyard singin’ t’ing an’ some, but them did have a one tune name ‘Folk Song’, right. But, actually, when me did done the North Coast t’ing now, that a the time now we link up with Duckie an’ Garthie, we used to see Don Carlos.
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They used to sing, yunno, me used to see them and so on. Did you know the original line-up of Don (Carlos), Garth (Dennis) and Duckie at the time? They made a couple of records as ‘Uhuru’ for Dynamic, Randy’s, and so on. WATERHOUSE WAILINGīack to the formation of Uhuru again, how that came to be. In the second part of the interview Michael Rose talks about Black Uhuru, the solo albums and stream of singles, the farming, the reunion with Duckie Simpson, the collaboration with Ryan Moore and much more.