Comments on: Getting Back To That Podcasting Thing…

By: Mike Masnick

Mike Masnick — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:54:25 +0000

Ha! That beats my Toots story by a *wide* margin. I saw him play a show back when I was doing the radio show. He went on for 2.5 hours, despite having a soar throat… Afterwards, me and my co-dj went backstage to hang out with him, and see if we could get him to do a bumper (“you’re listening to…”) and he says sure he’ll do it. So we write the call letters, show name and our names on the back of a napkin, and hand it to him with the tape recorder. He holds both up to his face… and… we wait. Nothing happens. My co-dj Jon and I start exchanging looks and it occurs to both of us that maybe he’s illiterate? But we don’t know what to do. So we wait. And wait. And all of a sudden, he leans back and shouts into the microphone:

“GIVE IT TO ME *ONE* TIME! You’re listen’ to ska and reggae on the radio with John and Mike… and ME! Toots!.”

It was awesome. But not as awesome as your story.

By: Charlie Dahan

Charlie Dahan — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:40:10 +0000

Oh – here is a story I wrote about driving Toots Hibbert for the Hi Bop record:
http://indieuniverse.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/tooting-my-horn-for-toots/

By: Charlie Dahan

Charlie Dahan — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:30:31 +0000

I am there, I love talking about the Skatalites – plus, I figure I owe you for all the class time I used showing your MIDEM speech this semester (and test questions I wrote from it).

By: Mike Masnick

Mike Masnick — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:12:03 +0000

Wow. Now that’s a story. If we ever get around to doing some more of these, maybe we can get you “on air” to tell some of the old stories. :)

By: Charlie Dahan

Charlie Dahan — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:58:05 +0000

They all hated and loved each other. One night Lloyd Brevett got into an argument with Lloyd Knibb at a restaurants. He was so mad he got up and left the table. After dinner no one knew where Brevett was so they wento to look for him. They found him asleep under the van holding a knife – I guess he was waiting to bumrush Knibb and stab him, but fell asleep waiting.

By: Mike Masnick

Mike Masnick — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:00:46 +0000

Oh man. I’d heard rumors like that, but didn’t know it was true. When we had Roland on the radio, I remember someone telling us that the reason Tommy didn’t make the trip was because Roland threatened to kill him or something. Don’t remember all the details, but did hear that they couldn’t stand each other.

By: Charlie Dahan

Charlie Dahan — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:52:32 +0000

Hi bop was one of the craziest records I ever made. If we ever meet up I will tell you about when Roland challenged Tommy to a race to the death. They fought about everything.

By: Mike Masnick

Mike Masnick — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:06:55 +0000

Nice! I still think Hi Bop is one of the best ska albums ever. Anyway… unfortunately, no, I don’t know any software for downloading/recording video. Sorry. :(

By: dahancb

dahancb — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:13:33 +0000

Cool – I did Skavoovee, Hi Bop Ska and Greeting From Skamania (which I got to title) with them. Hey, did you mention in one of your blogs the name of the software you could download and record any video you want off the internet? Or do you know the names of them – cbdahan@gmail.com

By: Mike Masnick

Mike Masnick — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:00:38 +0000

Hey Charlie,

Cool. I saw the Skatalites a bunch of times in the 90s, and even got to hang out with them and have Roland on the radio in college in ‘96 or so. Somewhere in a shoebox I have photos of me hanging out backstage with Roland, Doreen and the Lloyds…