When I dropped them off at his shop, he was in prison but he at least got one of them, which he played for years. It was my favorite sound system, so naturally I recorded two specials for him the one based on “Little Jimmy” was called “Shaka A Serious Warrior” for him. It was originally a dubplate I had produced for Jah Shaka. It was never recorded at Mad Professor’s but on Easy Street, with some members of the Regulars, Aba Kush, and Aquizm. Yes, I went to jail on July 7th, 1977, for 7 weeks.ĭid the song “Little Jimmy” come out of that?Ī bit later, actually, in 1982. Letter from Jail is based on a personal experience? It’s been 19 years and I have never earned one cent from those two albums. So I made God of Love and Letter from Jail for him, but he could never bear the fact that I was still in between two countries because he always wanted me to be in his studio. The deal was that I would make two albums for him, and in exchange, he would give me some work with live shows. You actually went on to make two albums for him? That is when we were taken up by Mad Professor, who was launching Ariwa. We then worked with Peter Tosh and even Bob Geldoff, but we ended up separating. One year after having made “Black Star Liner” for Greensleeves, we were given the opportunity to make an album for CBS but the production was disappointing. After having done some backing vocals for the Morwells around 1978 – thanks to Castro Brown, Trevor’s cousin – our first record was also Greensleeves’ first release, a tune called “Where is Jah.” At that point, they were playing in a band called Safran, but when I arrived we brought in Flea and did a bit of a clean, then Tony Benjamin joined us, and it went from there. I met Drummie and Trevor Salmon of the Regulars through some of the members of Power Cut. Yes, after having spent some time with Precious Wilson. Kingpin is also what you call someone at the head of an organization, so I ended up keeping the nickname. The kingpin is what connects the handlebars to the body of the bike. My name is Alan King, and when I was in secondary school my friends and I would tinker with our bikes. We only played one gig together but it was really successful.ĭid you already have the nickname Kingpin by that point? I started my first band when I was 17 it was called Power Cut because the electricity used to always cut out where we lived. I was born in England but my parents moved back to Jamaica when I was five years old, and then came back here five years later. Have you always been between England and Jamaica?
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