Dubtember 27 - The Tradition of Musick

Veering away from Dub for this pair. Tradition are a United Kingdom-based reggae band. They were active in the late 1970s until 1983. They reformed more than twenty years later. 

 

Tradition started out in Brent, North West London in 1976 originally known as Special Brew. The original line-up was Grace Reed - vocals, Michael Johnson - guitar, Paul "Echo" Thompson - keyboards & vocals, Chris "Buff Head" Henry - bass guitar, & Tony "Drummie" Matthews - drums. Both Reed & Johnson left early on & were replaced by Les McNeil & Paul Dawkins. In 1977 the band signed to Venture Records. 

 

Tradition - Moving On, Venture Records VNLP8877, 1978.
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Side One -
Every Little Beat of My Heart
Rastafaria
You Walked on By
We- Wah to Go Zion
Prediction

Side Two -
(Africa) Our Forefather's Land
You Ran Off
Movin' On
Jamaica Land is Zion
Rainy Day
Six Million Dollar Baby

 

 

 

 

They were one of the headline acts on the Anti-Nazi League's ''Rock Against Racism'' tour. Paul Dawkins left to pursue a solo career in 1979. He was replaced by Shakeel Khan. 

 

 

Tradition - Runaway Love, RCA PL25273, 1980.

A Side -
Don't Know
Mash Down
I am so Glad
La-La-La-La
Time

B Side -
Music
Runaway Love
I am Thinking
African Queen
True What I Man Say

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

In the Ol’ Family Tradition

One of our neighbors found three abandoned new-born kittens (about two weeks old) in the crawlspace under his porch. Black Dahli opened her humongous heart & volunteered us to foster one of the little suckers. So now we're bottle feeding Dusty Crusty Punk (we determined he was a small black male after we removed dust-balls bigger than he from his filthy coat - the name just appeared). This is a round the clock task for BD, Lao Elanya, & moi, so I haven't had any time for this here web-log. That said, here's the Dub I'm Dubbin' at the Casa Nada at the present.

This here is the 1980 re-release of the 1977 smash hit Tradition in Dub. Only the names had been changed to bend your mind a bit. Trillin’!

Tradition here are: Les McNeil - vocals; Chris "Buff Head" Henry - guitar; Paul "Echo" Thompson - keyboards & vocals; Paul Dawkins - bass; & Tony "Drummie" Matthews - drums.

Recorded at Gooseberry Sound Studio. Produced by David Tyrone

Tradition - High Risk Dub, Venture Records CUT 6, 1980.

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The In Side -

Groove One - Entrance Fee
Groove To -  Nasal Passage
Groove Tree - Intermediate Level
Groove For - Caucasian Occasion
Groove Sink - Tea Time

The Out Side -

Groove Sicks - There a Lot of it About
Groove Severn - Not as Easy as it Seems
Groove Ate - It Wasn’t Quite what I Expected
Groove Nein - All Comes Out in the Wash
Groove Off - I Thought it Would Never End

Dub fer the week-end,
NØ