Seasonal greetings from germany!

Some of oyu will remember that little “project” of mine I started last year...
I called it “German Advent Calendar Goodies” (or GACG), with reference to a
German tradition which goes by the same name...to make it short: by end of
november little kids here in Germany are presented so called “advent calendars”...
usually these are pre-manufactured cardboard boxes that contain 24 little pieces
of chocolate hidden behind 24 tiny little cardboard doors...starting with December
1st the kids may open one door a day, thereby counting down the days until on the
24th, Santa or what we call him, the “Christkind” or the “Weihnachtsmann” comes
and brings the “real” presents...obviously there are no limits when you want to
alter this tradition, a lot of parents (including my wife) make the effort and
create their own unique calendar, taking little canvas bags, attach the numbers
on them and then not only hide chocolate but other goodies, too big to put in
a thin cardboard box...now, my own “virtual” advent calendar last year could
potentially be “opened” by roughly 102,000 people...all you nice (well, most
of them) folks in this community! It contained Reggae music, something I have
been collecting for almost thirty years now. A few months ago I broke through
the “1,000 live shows” barrier. Obviously in these days I could easily double
that number but since I still have the ambition to listen to everything I download
at least once I started to concentrated on quality, rather than quantity, especially
since I am old school when it comes to Reggae... all these “modern” reggae artists
just don’t do it for me and even most of the “original” guys have either disappeared
or taken the commercial road (can’t blame them, though).

Anyway, I got some real nice and warm responses last year so I decided to stick to
the tradition and create another reggae calendar for 2008. In 2007 I did not start
until December 12th or so, this year it will be “the real deal”: 24 shows for
24 days. And since 24 easily divides into 8, I planned to split my seeds into three
different categories: behind the first eight doors you found reggae artists who
are rarely featured here on DIME...for some of them it might even have been the first time
ever...the mid section of the calendar presented better known bands and singers with
some rather rare or at least special concerts...and as we now close in on Christmas you can
expect a “simple” best of complation, nothing rare, nothing special (at least not for
the die hard collectors), just great musicians with great shows in superb (for Reggae
standards) quality.

Today, as per request, you will find the complete BLACK UHURU show in Reseda, in comparison
the chunga's seed from earlier this month it feaures the encore with an additional 20
minutes or so.

In 1982 BLACK UHURU were certainly at their peak of popularity and so were SLY & ROBBIE, their
congenial backing band. In August they were on tour to promote their then current album "Chill out"
and most likely did four shows in Reseda. They then went on to perform in Soledad Prison,
another very popular show circulating amongst reggae fans. The line up of the group still
featured PUMA JONES who would only a few years later would die from breast cancer at the age of 36.


BLACK UHURU 1982-08-06 Reseda, CA, Country Club (SBD)

CD 01

01 MC Roger Steffens
02 Shine Eye Gal
03 Plastic Smile
04 Puff she puff
05 I love King Selassie
06 Mondays
07 Youth of Eglington
08 Chill out

CD 02

01 Darkness
02 Happiness
03 World is Africa
04 Sponji Reggae
05 Sensimilla - MC Roger Steffens
06 MC Roger Steffens
07 Guess who's coming to Dinner
08 Abortion


SBD recording -> analogue casette -> digitised -> EAC -> FLAC front end

sorry, no lineage info, but knowing where my tape copy comes from, it should be close to the
original board tape



"Happy Festivus" (George Costanza)