Yeah, Buster is a living legend! There's nothing wrong with having fun and ska in the 80's got too serious... I might have missed it but still waiting for the Bad Manners Christmas LP (that's an album for u kids!) after their legendary performance on NMTB back in the day...
Unreal love the manners, me and my brother owned a landscaping business every year for our Christmas doo we would go sub89 reading we see them was the highlight of the year!!
Bad Manners didnt do it there, Potato Five who did the original with Laurel Aitken were playing, and the crowd were restless because they wanted Bad Manners to go on. Everybody seemed very, very drunk, and then a few things were being thrown, and so Buster jumped up to save the situation and sang Sally Brown, and the crowd went mad for it and him. in fact, he did that a few times with the Potatoes, and then he recorded the Bad Manners cover version quite a few years later.
***** Actually, ska came before reggae. Ska was a precursor for reggae and rocksteady music. So if you want to get technical, reggae is a style of ska. Not the other way around.
The difference between Ska and Reggae? In case you don't know ska's rhythm emphasizes the 2nd and 4th beat or the on beat. Classic Reggae is on the off beat. It heavily emphasizes the 3rd beat in the bar.
Although I am aware of the differences between Ska and Reggae, that doesn't mean it would be impossible for them to have an influence from one another, which was my point- ska is a precursor for reggae. Yes, they are different. When you break it all down, music is evolution. If you trace the tree back far enough, you will find all music has a common ancestor. You don't even have to know the formulas in which ska and reggae's rhythms differ. They both originate from the same country, Jamaica. And both relatively around the same time only being around a decade apart. Reggae is a direct product of ska and rocksteady music. One could even say it is the combination of both styles of Jamaican dance music. Though of course, it has developed as its own genre over the past 50 or so years.
What is a coocoo maka stick? "It's a stick from a tree that grows in Jamaica but it has two meaning, but I can only tell you one meaning...hahaha... the next meaning...you have to find that meaning by yourself (laughs) "
