{"id":256,"date":"2008-08-16T15:37:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T19:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2008-08-16T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T19:37:23","slug":"mutabaruka-may-25-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Mutabaruka,  May 24 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockinrochester.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/mutaflier.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[256]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-821\" title=\"mutaflier\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rockinrochester.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/mutaflier-268x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of My Favorite Shows &#8211; Mutabaruka,  May 25 1983<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jamaican dub poet, Mutabaruka, came to Rochester in support of his first album,&#8221;Check It&#8221;. His band was a collection of crack JA session players led by noted drummer Benbow Creary.<\/p>\n<p>His style was a bit confrontational, lecturing the chattering audience between songs on subjects like apartheid &amp; slavery, but as the sound clip will show, it was the real deal roots-wise.  Paul reminded me that he entered the club &amp; walked up onto the stage barefoot.<\/p>\n<p>Personal Effects opened the show and Mutabaruka&#8217;s keyboard player borrowed Peggi&#8217;s keyboard.  The track offered here is a killer version of &#8220;Angolan Invasion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Scorgies was a great sounding room for reggae as the clip will show.  Its a pity more of the Jamaican acts passing by to Toronto didn&#8217;t get in there.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has good pix of the show, email them to me &amp; I&#8217;ll post &#8217;em  info@click2vu.com<\/p>\n<p>Duane<\/p>\n<p>Mutabaruka Live at Scorgies<br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.click2vu.com\/scorgieMp3s\/AngolanInvasion.mp3] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of My Favorite Shows &#8211; Mutabaruka, May 25 1983 Jamaican dub poet, Mutabaruka, came to Rochester in support of his first album,&#8221;Check It&#8221;. His band was a collection of crack JA session players led by noted drummer Benbow Creary. His style was a bit confrontational, lecturing the chattering audience between songs on subjects like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[70,135,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}