Talk:King Tubby

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I suggest an important change in the first few lines : "Tubby's innovative studio work, which saw him elevate the role of record producer to a creative height previously only reserved for composers and musicians". Tubby was NOT a "record producer" (not until the end of his life anyway) but a sound engineer who recorded vocals and mixed both songs and dubs. He worked FOR producers such as Lee Perry (to whom he taught what he knew), Glen Brown, Bunny Lee and others, and definitely invented remix, which he practised as early as 1969, as can be heard on Duke Reid productions from that time. So this line should go :"Tubby's innovative studio work, which saw him elevate the role of sound engineer to a creative height previously only reserved for composers and musicians." Please change this, as it is a major mistake. Besides, I agree with the remarks below. Doc Reggae

[edit] King Tubby's influence

The article is better with "enormous" because it is more informative. There have been plenty of influential people in the development of dub music, but King tubby is above and beyond probably anyone else. He is enormously influential. Without that word, he is perceived as no more influential than a thousand other early dub artists. If you want a cite, I'll go dig one up, but it shouldn't go in the first sentence because it would disturb the flow. Tuf-Kat

"King Tubby is to this day synonymous with dub." (allmusic.com and rollingstone.com)
  • "Tubby invented dub." (vh1.com)
  • (King Tubby is, among two others,) "a principle architect of the emergent dub style of the early '70s" (popmatters.com)
  • "The Dub Pioneer and remix Godfather. In the 70s Tubby's sonic science transformed the way music was made and listened to in Jamaica and around the world. Studio boffins everywhere are in his debt." (BBC music profile)

Regarding my edits: I'll be more thorough next time. --Twisturbed Tachyon 14:34, 6 August 2005 (UTC)