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 plan to split my seeds into three
different categories: behind the first eight doors you will find reggae artists who
are rarely featured here on DIME...for some of them it might even be the first time
ever...the mid section of the calendar will present better known bands and singers
with some rather rare or at least special concerts...and as we close in on Christmas
you may 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. Now this particular show might have been

Just like yesterday with JIMMY RILEY, the HEPTONES are one of these reggae artists I personally
only have one live show of. The group consists of Leroy Sibbles, Earl Morgan and Barry Llewellyn
who started (just like all the first generation Reggae greats) at Studio One in the mid 60s before
they moved on to other producers like Joe Gibbs or Harry J. In 1977 they joined forces with LEE
SCRATCH PERRY to record another reggae classic: "Party Time". Soon after SIBBLES left to pursue a
solo career and was replaced by NAGGO MORRIS.

In 1995 the original HEPTONES reunited and released the album "Pressure". And that's where we catch
them, on their subsequent "Reunion Tour". The sound on this 2CD is brilliant, listen to some of the
dub effects on the longer songs.

The Heptones, Los Angeles / CA, House of Blues, 1995-07-17

CD 01

01 Instrumental - MC Roger Steffens - Studio One Instrumental Medley
02 Party Time - Why must I
03 Sweet Talking - My Guiding Star
04 Pure Sorrow
05 Book of Rules
06 Satta Amasagana - Pass the Kouchie
07 Country Boy (snippets: Get up stand up THE WAILERS)
08 Sea of Love - Conquer me (DELROY WILSON Cover)
09 I shall be released (BOB DYLAN Cover)

CD 02

01 I shall be released (BOB DYLAN Cover)
02 Fight it to the Top
03 Equal Rights - Love me Girl
04 Band Introduction
05 Pretty Looks isn't all - Ain't that Loving you (DENNIS BROWN Cover)
06 Love me always (DENNIS BROWN Cover)
07 I love you
08 Choice of Colours (CURTIS MAYFIELD Cover)
09 Give me *
10 I've got the Handle
11 MC Roger Steffens
12 Never give up *
13 Never give up * (cont'd) - MC Roger Steffens


* these songs I could not identify, so they might have a different name, if it was ever published


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"Happy Festivus" (George Costanza)