Fücking hell!
The saddest of news.
Friday evenings in the 80s, compulsory viewing in our house
Check out the bass line on this
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Live @ The Tube 1986) (Remastered) - YouTube
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Sad news and far to young
Barbarism off the same performance,is one of my favourite bass lines ever. So funky
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That whole song is genius: wailing white boy jangle funk!
AR’s influence on their sound is huge and underrated. I have been quite sad today when I have thought about him passing. 
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I watched this for a couple of minutes before realising it wasn’t a really long intro.
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It is sad to hear about the death of Lester Ska Sterling. He was the last of the original members of my favourite band, the Skatalites. He played many alto Saxophone.
He was one of the founder members of the group. They were the foundation of Jamaican music. As as well as the Skatalites, he played with Byron Lee & The Dragonaires, Tommy McCook & The Supersonics, Clue J & The Blues Blasters, and many more. Going from Jamaican Rhythm & Blues to ska, to Rocksteady to Reggae, he helped to shape the development of the music, helping it to become a worldforce and influence.
He played on many of my favourite tunes. Many from my childhood.
RIP Lester SKA Sterling
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Martin Amis
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Never heard of them before, recognise a few of the songs from the Specials but they are really mellow and funky.
@SCIDB is there any chance you could start a thread on ska or twotone as I’m clueless to it but all the stuff you post is interestingl?
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Wow that is quite some loss to literary world, his oeuvre a mixed bag in my (very) humble opinion but some of the early works were seminal.
Also quite fucking depressing that a literary giant like him hasn’t knocked Philip Schofield off the main headline…
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Who?
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…Gives a fuck?
she might win
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Looks like she already has.
I only have a couple of SKA albums but Lester Sterling appears on both of them.
Will give them a play tomorrow
As Pink Floyd said - A Night Pair said
Ray Manzarek.
"He simultaneously had to lock into a repetitive bass pulse with his left hand and support Jim’s lyrics playing chord changes with his right. To do this, he said, he thought of playing boogie-woogie bass lines that he learned as a kid in Chicago. If that wasn’t enough, he occasionally came up with the most memorable keyboard hooks (musical segues) in popular music.” - John Densmore
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Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of his death.
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Hi,
I can and will. Watchout over the next day or two.
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That’s an ‘oops.’ 
And not just me - I vaguely sensed déjà vu but not enough to check. The source I had has posted an acknowledgement of being 10 years out of date too.
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