Joe Gibbs & The Professionals ~ No Bones For The Dogs • Dubs From The Mighty Two 1974-1979 [Pressure Sounds, 2002] 320/FLAC

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01. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals – No Bones For The Dogs 3:52
02. The Mighty Two – I Stand Accused 3:15
03. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals – Six Foot Six 3:12
04. The Mighty Two – I Am Not Ashamed Version 3:47
05. The Mighty Two – Su Su Version 3:46
06. The Mighty Two – C/W Burning Version 2:56
07. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals – Roots Kunte Kintye 2:49
08. The Mighty Two – Give It To Jah 3:04
09. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals – The Road Is Rough 2:53
10. The Professionals – No Man's Version 2:51
11. Mighty Two – War 2:44
12. Mighty Two - War Is Over 2:46
13. The Mighty Two – Informer Version 3:25
14. The Mighty Two - Fulfilment 3:33
15. The Mighty Two – Financial Business 3:06
16. The Mighty Two – Alan: Hit By A. Larry 3:24
17. The Mighty Two – Earthquake 3:28
18. The Mighty Two – Baldhead Bridge 6:34



Bass – George 'Fully' Fullwood, Lloyd Parks, Robbie Shakespeare
Drums – Carlton 'Santa' Davis, Leroy 'Horse Mouth' Wallace, Lowell 'Sly' Dunbar
Effects [Special] – Joel 'Joe Gibbs' Gibson
Engineer – Errol 'ET' Thompson*
Guitar – Eric 'Bingy Bunny' Lamont, Winston 'Bo Peep' Bowen, Tony Chin
Mastered By – Dave Blackman
Organ – Harold Butler
Percussion – Ruddy Thomas, Uziah 'Sticky' Thompson
Piano – Ossie Hibbert
Piano, Organ – Franklyn 'Bubber' Waul, Errol Nelson
Saxophone [Alto] – Herman Marquis
Saxophone [Tenor] – Richard 'Dirty Harry Hall, Tommy McCook
Trumpet – Bobby Ellis

'Joe Gibbs grew up in the resort town of Montego Bay in the fifties and in the early sixties, moved to Kingston where in 1966 he opened his first shop on Beeston street. Initially he sold and repaired radio and television sets but he soon started to sell records as well because it helped to draw people into the shop. His electronics background gave him the confidence to move into music production and he built his first recording studio in 1968 in the Duhaney Park area: 'a simple but effective two track studio modelled on the studio at Federal Records'.

Influential and prolific reggae producer, he employed Lee Perry and then Winston 'Niney the Observer' Holness as engineers before forming The Mighty Two, a long-term collaboration with engineer Errol Thompson. The backing for many releases was provided by his studio band The Professionals, whose members included Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare and Earl 'Chinna' Smith.'

one of the most crucial collections ever conceived with emphasis on saturated echo, heady vocal snatches, crumbling riddims & funky 70s blaxsploitation drum n bass vibes. wicked wiccad dope. don't miss african dub owlmighty chapter 3 either, friend

Joe Gibbs & the Professionals ~ African Dub All-Mighty Chap. 3 [1978]

A1. Chapter Three
A2. Rema Dub
A3. Tribesman Rockers
A4. Freedom Call
A5. Jubilation Dub

B1. The Entebbe Affair
B2. Angolian Chant
B3. Zion Gate
B4. Jungle Dub
B5. Dub Three



Arranged By - Errol Thompson , Joe Gibbs
Artwork By - Joe Gibbs
Artwork By [Design] - Trevor Campbell
Bass - Lloyd Parks , Robbie Shakespeare
Drums - Sly Dunbar
Engineer - Errol Thompson
Guitar - Bo-Pee Bowen , Eric Lamont
Organ - Frankie Waul , Harold Butler , Tarzan Nelson
Percussion - Ruddy Thomas , Sticky
Piano - Frankie Waul , Tarzan Nelson
Producer - Errol Thompson
Saxophone [Alto] - Herman Marquis
Saxophone [Tenor] - Tommy McCook
Trombone - Vin Gordon
Trumpet - Bobby Ellis

'Once again, the producing & mixing was done by the great Errol Thompson. This time he used sounds such as buzzers, ringing bells & bird whistling. Don't let that throw you off this set because it is very good indeed. Dub musique had only been around a few years when this album was made & mixers were experimenting with all sorts of sounds, both from the original track & other sources. This was one of the first albums to use a keyboard synthesizer to any real extent & the sound is certainly different. Experimentation was the name of the game,and this is a continuation of it. Players like Sly Dunbar and Lloyd Parks play on most of these tracks and their musical stamp is all over this album. As on previous releases the basic tracks are in the 'rockers' style of music, then currently in fashion. There are versions of tracks by Augustus Pablo, Dennis Brown & Alton Ellis among others. This is another good set of dub, recorded during it's prime, which should be enjoyed by anyone who likes this style of Jamaican music.' ~ ?

another forever favourite. to fully disclose, this is a vinyl rip encoded at 256 kbps. it should be noted that i have access to the remaster at 320 that is [was?] commercially available as a 2-fer along with african dub chapter 4, but i feel like it must have lost the loudness war. it retains none of the subtlety & freshness that makes this album stand out & ends up sounding like uninspired contempo pap, in my humbleness. i'm certain you will agree if you have been privy to the reissue. amazing how something like remastering can literally make a record unlistenable if you're familiar with the original. i have been taking great pains to ensure that i am dropping the definitive versions of these records that can admittedly be found sounding less voluptuous on other blogs [no offense of course!]. to my knowledge, this rip has not been shared elsewhere that i am aware of, so if you have a different version, you might find this one a better way to go & that goes dubble for everything else i have dropped thus far :) since i no longer possess the vinyl that we had to flip to pay for something far less kool, this is the one i & i actually spin now mon. dub week!