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Hidden Years: Where are they now SAfrican Reissues: Jannie Hofmeyr Brian Finch David Marks Roger Lucey Azumah Bill Knight John Oakley-Smith Colin Shamley Sipho Mchunu News Forum: Mbube - feedback Paul Erasmus Russell Means Music and Censorship Copyright & Media Issues Everything you ever knew about copyright is wrong: Questions or comments? |
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 Roger Resigns - And noseweek puts the brownie on eTV Roger, as ever the professional, refuses to comment about why he left eTV. He is among 19 people who have done so under mysterious circumstances. So we can only speculate. And although Rodge the Dodge may have nothing to do with this noseweek piece - we've taken a barefaced liberty & pinched a few introductory lines from noseweek 39. Quote: Why people don't feel free @ eTV To read the rest subscribe to this amazing magazine now. Call +27 21 671-4809 or eMail [email protected] |
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The Road Is Much Longer
Roger Lucey (1979 to 2001, 3rd Ear 7004) Reviewed by John Sampson in London & borrowed without permission from SA Rock Digest. London-based John Samson gives his own twist on SA music. |
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Roger Lucey - 21 Years Down The Road - almost became 22 years down the gravel path... but at long last the long-awaited double (limited edition ) CD-R of 21 great tunes - the very best of Roger's original "Road is Much Longer / Half Alive & Running for Cover" albums - are now available on line or from 3rd Ear Music. The CD-R's include a host of new tunes recorded in Cape Town over the past 5 years. Roger has composed and performed hundreds of songs over his 25 year on-off-on-off-on again controversial music & live-performance career. 3rd Ear Music have had the unenviable task of trying to choose the best material that could fit onto a 2 CD compilation. Impeccably re-mastered by Peter Thwaites in Johannesburg, with revamped sleeve notes by Andy Mason (who designed the original 'Road' sleeve & the cartoons in 1979). The sleeve was produced by Andy's Artworks company in Durban.
What has the Truth & Reconciliation Commission & music got to do with Roger's 21 Years Down the Road? We have been in touch with Paul Erasmus - the man who was 'obliged' by his Security Police bosses (BOSS) to follow & 'monitor' Roger and other SAfrican & 3rd Ear Musicians, for alleged subversive activities through the 60's, 70's & 80's. Paul Erasmus was granted amnesty by the TRC in November & he has promised to let David Marks have some of the notes from his forthcoming book on his under-cover life in the SAP. We will post a series of these intriguing 'musical' adventures in the next few issues. In the 'miracle' that is the changing of SAfrica, Paul Erasmushad to record Roger's 'subversive' concerts in the late 70's early 80's, but was eventually 'converted' by his music & performances. He may be a radical but he writes great songs, said Paul to his SAP bosses. Not good enough, said his Security Police 'handlers' - you are getting too soft! So it's true what the Nats said: The communists will brain you.....so Paul was transferred - to Soweto & to follow Winnie for 5 years. Listen to what turned Paul on & the BOSS off - together with a few hundred people who did manage to hear Roger's songsthrough those hidden years. All in one country world's apart!
21 Years Down The Road is a 3rd Ear Music Hidden Years Project made possible by a grant from the National Arts Council of South Africa |
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CD 1 1. Windy Days 2:47 2. The Road is Much Longer 4:05 3. Lungile Tabalaza 3:24 4. Thabane 3:21 5. You only need say nothing 4:30 6. Storms and Fires 4:26 7. Crossroads 3:27 8. False Alarms 5:36 9. Hanging round the middle 4:08 10. Spaces tell Stories 2:36 11. The other side of town 7:13 |
CD 2 1. No easy Walk 5:32 2. Cape of Storms 5:48 3. Back in from the anger 4:23 4. The Line 6:06 5. Hunger in your Heart 5:31 6. Running for Cover 5:23 7. Pat and Sally 4:27 8. The night Harry J went to war 4:51 9. If you were in my shoes 5:44 10. I'm alright now 4:40 |
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Musician's Credits - Cd 1 1. Windy Days 2:47 2. The Road Is Much Longer 4:05 3. Lungile Tabalaza 3:24 4. Thabane 3:21 5. You Only Need Say Nothing 4:33 6 **Storms & Fires 4:26 7. Crossroads 3:27 8. False Alarms 5:36 9. Hanging Round The Middle 4:08 10. **Spaces Tell Stories 2:36 11. The Other Side Of Town 7:13 (1-4, 6 & 7) Videosound Randburg |
Musician's Credits - CD 2 1. *No Easy Walk To Freedom 5:38 3. #Back In From The Anger 4:15 4. *The Line 6:14 5. ***Hunger In Your Heart 5:31 6. #Running For Cover 5:23 7. #Pat & Sally 4:28 8. #The Night Harry J Went To War 4:52 9. ***If You Were In My Shoes 5:44 10. ***I'm Alright Now 4:40 (1 - 2 & 4) 3rd Ear-Tusk Studios Durban |
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21 Years Down the Road - A collection of songs by Roger Lucey (p)© 3rd Ear Music 2000
The Folk 'n Jazz troops of the late 50's and 60's had been effectively silenced - forced out of the Sophiatown shebeens & the Hillbrow Coffee-Bars - into the distant & relative safety of exile or the collective comfort of the Suburban Soiree, the odd Liberal Lounge dead poets' society, the occasional campus Free Peoples Concert or FOLK FESTIVAL. Big Abe's Nite Beat in Hillbrow was on it's last legs, the 505 crippled & the collectively run Troubadour down at the black bus rank in Noord Street had just undergone it's 3rd fatal name change - trying its best to hide from the security spotlight. MANGLES in Braamfontein opened just after Totem in Durban closed - both died at 3 years old - and Goodness knows what was happening in Cape Town and the rest of the country. It seems nobody by Boss did! A handful of musicians just kept on blowing their hearts out & their heads off. The 70's did not have much to offer the last remaining revolting (?) Troubadours of the 60's - there were the 3rd Ear / Nusas / Safma Free Peoples Concerts at Wits through which a few Folk singers & Jazz die-hards had the audacity, at the time, to take on the might of the State and the Mediocrity of the Record Industry with full frontal lyrics and licks - Roger Lucey - one of those...Long-hair, torn jeans, attitude... with loaded guitar, a head-full of ideas & a soul full of songs - a threat to the order, safety & security of the state? A tear-a-away from Tekweni in eGoli 1975 - a year before Soweto '76 - joining the growing chorus of decent; blanked-out Rand Daily Mail editorials daring to shout the odds...urging the country to wake-up and stop the nightmare. Extending that dare from Mangles in Braamies into the Market Kuif down in Newtown. The Road remains as long as it ever did before. You Only Need Say Nothing, to have nothing at all to say. Roger is still saying it, singing & performing. Here's a selection of those songs from that time. For further information on Hidden Years Archives Project please keep in touch with 3rd Ear Music Company (Pty) Ltd P.O.Box 50633 The proceeds from the sale of these limited edition CD's will be used for further research into this unique & historic Hidden Years Music Archive Project. |
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