Roots Overground Artist - General Plough

Greetings,

un link pour vous faire découvrir cet artiste que j ai eu la chance de
rencontrer dans mon voisinage à Oracabessa.

http://zionkeep.free.fr/plough.htm

La video est une soirée organisé par UMIJAM une association (enieme) qui tente de fédérer la musique jamaiquaine sur la base du clustering et grace à des fonds européens (premiere) : le but étant entre autre de repertorier les "ayants-droits" et leur proposer un portail de vente sous format mp3 (on essaye de monter un serveur ici en Jamaique).

Le General étant de passage on lui a tendu le micro pour une reprise improvisée et une version pour soundman (mon bredren Ingo Da Bilda Sound a kiffé !).


Les photos sont celles de l amménagement d un restaurant/maison d accueil, une partie de son sound system et la collection de vinyls 45 tours ammassée sur plus de 30 ans (celle que l on vends avec mon selector pierroots) et ayant connue les 3 tempêtes de l ile ainsi que des 33 tours séléctionnés par lui meme et Mutabaruka pour l emission "cutting edge" d irie fm.

Les pochettes de l album ont été tirés du site roots-archives.com et j ai mis en lien écoutable le morceau eponyme tiré de l album.


Je ne connaissais pas cet artiste (comme bcp d autres en Jam) avant d arriver sur l ile et d ecouter cet LP.

Pour moi c est du bon roots limite rub a dub et comme il me l a raconté, il n a pas eu la chance d etre entendu massivement, et d avoir rencontré les bonnes personnes. Il reste néanmoins sans concession vis à vis des morceaux qu il enregistre et promotionne et se base sur sa qualité de musicien et son experience dans le reggae (il trainait avec Marley et Tosh quand il était petit et a beaucoup de respects et de sympathie pour eux). Il bénéficie à ce titre d une apparition sur le LP de King Tubby meets reggae masters et possède un killer cut sur le cuss cuss envié par bcps de sounds.


Bref, mais histoire de contribuer un peu à la vibes reggae.


Je pense faire un interview du man ainsi qu une session d enregistrements dubplate pour le week end du 20 janvier - pour toutes questions contactez moi sur [adresse retirée] ou [adresse retirée]

Redlion Dj

Guidance

yes, thanks.

Je connais que tres vite fait General Plough. Mais il y a une tune de lui que je surkiffe c'est River To Cross! BIIIIIIG!

Toughest > big bad tune !!!!!!!!
très belle rencontre
guidances

Petit début de discographie:
general plough - back biter - t. elliott (Musical ambassador 79 MA003 DSR0723)
general plough - this society - t. elliott (Musical ambassador 80)
general plough - golden chalics - e. truman & b. gayle (Dynamic saint's recordings, inc. 85 12 inch DS001B)
general plough - i need your love (King culture 12 inch KC749A)
general plough - I'm The Toughest (Black Originator 7" - 1983)
general plough - the roughest and the toughest - e. truman & j. philibert (Fresh rock records 12 inch 390B)
general plow - i remember - delroy standbury (Jwyanza J28)
general plough - The Ten best (GGs 12" 1982)
general plough - One More River (Black Originator 7" - 1981)
general plough - Oh Jean (Jam Rock 7" - 1983)

Cap

bah voilà manquait plus que notre national Rub-a-Dub expert pour une p'tite disco.

"anything that u can do he can do with better 'cause he's the master the french rub-a-dub ambassador"

Big Up Cap'

General Plough - The Raindrops - Originator 7" ORIG.

http://www.reggae-museum.com/shop/index ... ts_id=1872

Il a aussi recutté son "thoughest" sur le Cuss Cuss de Shocking Vibes en 96-97 si ma mémoire est bonne

je connais pas bien cette artist mais je kiff trop sa voix

j'ai "this society" (Musical ambassador) et je cherche a mort (comme tout monde) "I'm The Toughest".

"jah ago tear down the powers of babylon and set nattydreadlocks freeee

one more river to crooosss"

alala cte tune de fou

Irie Spirit a écrit :"jah ago tear down the powers of babylon and set nattydreadlocks freeee

one more river to crooosss"

alala cte tune de fou

Clair. Enorme Découvert sur un mix de Disciples, ca m'avait retourné !

The Captain a écrit :
general plough - Oh Jean (Jam Rock 7" - 1983)

Cap

Elle donne quoi celle ci?

Mana a écrit :

Irie Spirit a écrit :"jah ago tear down the powers of babylon and set nattydreadlocks freeee

one more river to crooosss"

alala cte tune de fou

Clair. Enorme Découvert sur un mix de Disciples, ca m'avait retourné !

pareil pour moi
dailleur parfois jmecoute une session au hasard je connai aucun tune ds le tracklist et boom tu decouvre toujours des gro gro cut

faaat artist !!!!

big up !!

"Oh Jean why won't you come back to meeeeeeeeeeeee"
Gal Plough ls Jim Naphtaly > Jam Rock - DSR6709

"rougher than rough & tougher than tough"
Big Up

yes sir - avant tout big up aux massive qui ont laissé un feedback - g pu montrer le sujet au general et il était content de voir que des soundman connaissent sa musique et se passionnent pour la diffuser.

Je vous poste "l interview" qui a suivi (en anglais pas proper uniquement pour le moment)

Greetings General


Greetings my friend


I'm going to ask you a few questions to make the people know more about your experience in reggae music.

Let's begin with how you did start with ?


Allright my friend.It all began thanks to my aunt : Moley Isachar, please quote her name and make the people know about her doings for the community because this woman is an angel. I was hanging around her place while a youth because i never knew my mother (she died while I was 6 months old and I saw her only on a picture - she is the most beautiful woman to me still ) and father, so my grandma and people from my family used to take care of me.My aunt is a member of the twelve tribe and a cook : so she used to cook, bake cakes and prepare ital juices for the whole community living in the neighborhood of trenchtown (she still takes care of her other place in kings house road). The wailers used to play ball not far from there and when they needed force again that's where they used to gather round : that's how I got into music ! I was around 7 at that time and was interested in what they were doing. They used to like my voice so they were willing to teach me how to sing. At that time they were not really big and it meant singing in candence cans to add echo voice or use buckets and cheese pans for drums. The wailers were not the only people I learned from.
Amongst the people that used to come by my aunt there were many soundmans : like E.T, Bob Andy, Marcia Griffith, Jacob Miller.
Jacob Miller is the next man I learned from : he was also a member of the twelve tribe and bigger than Bob Marley at that time.
Even Bob used to sing using his band : Inner Circle. Jacob Miller taught me to sing and same time he liked to sing the songs I was writting : one of them got a big hit : "jolly joseph". I was going to get opportunity to sing for his band as well but he left us same time. After him I linked with Larry Marshall in the same community around barbican. He is, my friend, the first reggae writer, singer and star in jamaica : i'm giving it to you like it is : the truth.
With Larry Marshall I had the opportunity to learn play guitar. And those are basically the people that made me come into music and that I used to work with in my beginnings.


Where does your name come from ?

Well that name came later on when the wailers moved from trenchtown to hope road (thanks to Chris Blackwell). I was then the youngest element of their camp. I used to be there and learning from them. One day they were building a fence in the back yard. People like familyman, ranglin, frayta (that man had shaking hands and mimics but he was a wicked guitarist) were around.
I was between 7 and 9 and I grabbed a big metal bar to dig a hole like I saw them doing.Tosh said "wha - the likkle man can plough the ground - so gwaan plough man". I never did it before and the metal was so heavy that I just fell down with the bar upon me. Tosh gave me a hand and started to call me plough from that day ironically. At the same time he had much affection for me. I asked him why he kept on calling me plough after a while : he told me "because you re just like that :
P for people - L for love - O for observation - U for unity - G for generation (I was the next one) - H for the healing of the nation ."

From that day on I honored that name.


What are your first recordings ?


My first recording is back biter for musical ambassador in 1979 I was between 7 and 9. And this first tune hit the charts ! It took me some time to be able to record my first tune but it finally paid. I recorded then a next tune : "this society" ! It hit the charts again but they banned it from the radios because of its content. It was still allright because i made a buzz allready and lots of producers were willing to work with me. I recorded "armagedeon war" for aquarius (herman chin), "she's gone" : 2 big hits for the label, Golden chalics : produced and released on 45 and 12 inch. " I need your love" produced by myself and distributed by King culture in Canada. I had many international links : like Clappers that did release one of my LP.


That is allmost the same as Midnight Rock - Can you talk about that CD ?


Yes : that is the first LP I recorded - I was 9 at that time .


But you look older on the cover ?


You'll see an actual picture of me on the other side . That is an artwork of Jah Wise the brother from Cornell Campbell and the man that helped me get this album all together.
Lot of people helped me at that time and that was my real beginning. I was the next generation from the wailers camp. That's how I show them a tribute with a picture of Bob Marley on every LP that I make (u can notice the one cartoon representing Marley on this LP). And with the cover of bob marley's tune : "keep on moving". I was there when he recorded that tune. Junior Murvin was the guitarist when Bob began to sing that song. I was young and could not get the meaning of that tune but I was feeling like really moved by that tune. It has been my motto after Bob and many other friends left us.


What have you been doing next ?


Well like I told you I was really close to people like Jacob Miler and Bob Marley. Those are the people that were to push me forward. But unfortunately they disappeared some times after I began to step in the place.My songs remained 6 months in charts and were taken off by Black Uhuru with "shine eye gal". I still then kept on recording and working with the same Michael Rose from Black Uhuru for example but things went slower. I could have linked up with somebody like Chris Blackwell during Bob's time but I never wanted to show disrespect to the Wailers and was waiting for my time. I still had the opportunity to work in the music businness and did allmost whatever I could do because of my knowledge of this music. That made me keep on working with Peter Tosh at Dynamics, Beres Hammond, Sly and Robbie at Channel One studio : Jojo and Ernest Hoo Kim gave me access to all their materials to build riddims for people like Barry Brown, Brent Dowe, Michael Prophet, Sugar Minott, Sammy Dread, Philip Frazer, Max Romeo, Peter Ranking and General Lucky...


What are the outstanding songs of your repertoire ?


Hmm. I have allready quoted "armagedeon war" that is a dubmaster. I think about "Oh Jean" : big hit written by another person (i dont remember his name) and me. "One more river to cross" recorded at tuff gong (thanks to the Marley family) for Black Originator Label. It was owned by me and Mr Epp : I wished I could see him again and that he never died.A true friend. He was giving me help when I got my first baby.
I was working with my friend Anthony Blackwood and Larry Marshall for him. And that's under this label that I recorded my other dubmaster : "the toughest".


Cut on the cuss cuss riddim when you became "the toughest" at that time ?


I'm still the toughest my youth. Yes sly and robbie built that riddim. It has been recut lately for Dave Kelly under Shocking Vibes. That tune remains but a cultural tune for me. I still represent the next generation at that time. It was to show the youth how strong you can be and how far the almighty can make you reach.
It has been covered many times but mine is the original !


What are you doing right now ?


Well As you can see it's 2008 and i'm still there doing my things. I've done many things during the while : I helped to build several places (bars, restaurants). I built my own sound system : ruckus sound and I kept on recording. I finally managed to get in touch with musical ambassador my first label in order to release a LP called the "great hits" (the greatest hits to follow). I intend to write a book about my history in reggae music.

And like you see i'm still building a next place with these youths.I Plough the soil and plant a lot of food. That is great my friend.


Give thanks General