Spaghetti western's influence on Lee Perry
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"Like you're Billy the Kid ... Why are you so trigger-happy?"--"Bucky Skank" (1973) by Lee Scratch Perry "I would like to add Lee Perry also had inspiration from Kung Fu movies as in songs like ‘Enter the Dragon’, ‘Black Belt Jones’, ‘Fingermash’, (Lee Perry and the Silvertones), ‘Iron Fist’, ‘Hold Them Kung Fu’, ‘Theme from Hong Kong’, to name a few. We can look for influences in the significante Chinese population in Kingston and in particular, a number of Chinese producers in the 1970’s. Thank you." --Kerrie via [1] |
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As Daniel & Seth Nelson first noted in the late 1990s in on-line magazine Perfect Sound Forever, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, the imagery of spaghetti westerns was of influence to Jamaican reggae musician Lee Perry.
Albums Perry recorded with The Upsetters such as Clint Eastwood, Eastwood Rides Again, The Good, The Bad & The Upsetters and song titles such as "For a Few Dollars More" and "Return of Django", all suggest western movie themes.
Most of the songs were instrumentals, the band was therefore free to name the songs and they chose to base their material on strong, cowboy heroes. Sonically too, these works hint at sounds from the Old West: cowbells mimicking horse hooves, organs imitating the "Western" music, gun shots and yelping. Visually, the covers of these albums portray people with cowboy clothes, brandishing guns, and featuring settings of desert-like area.
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