Paul Morley talks to Jerry Dammers

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  • @georgethebear1812
    @georgethebear1812 6 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    jerry dammers, the man responsible for the ska revival , and the start of 2tone as we know it. Legend

    • @BillyJango
      @BillyJango 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      hear hear !

    • @roberttruman8444
      @roberttruman8444 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He also made a significant contribution to the Western anti-aparteid movement.

  • @bainsk8
    @bainsk8 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Jerry Dammers = Genius. Wish there were more JD interviews, I could listen much longer than 21 minutes to what he has to say.

  • @Fractalite
    @Fractalite ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dammers is a very knowledgeable guy about music and music history , endearing and smart. Top notch revealing interview and great interviewer.

  • @stevepercival4774
    @stevepercival4774 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    God bless you Jerry ,
    changed my musical tastes forever

  • @anthonychappell9409
    @anthonychappell9409 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Genius is a word that gets chucked out there quite a lot. I think in this case it's perfectly apt.

  • @MakinMovies7
    @MakinMovies7 10 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Great, intelligent, talented, fascinating, erudite bloke.

  • @theonlyantony
    @theonlyantony 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wonderful. An innovator and archaeologist- a cultural catalyst and archivist. A visionary as much as Sun Ra ever was. And there’s the rub! X

  • @jordanjordan9022
    @jordanjordan9022 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Good interview. Morley connects well with Dammers the eternal dreamer.

  • @djmylesmatisse
    @djmylesmatisse ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I wish Paul Morley had spent time talking directly with Jerry about The Specials, why they broke up, why he's not a part of the reunion and what would it take for him to reunite with his other 6 band mates. One of the biggest disappointments in modern music is the fact Jerry didn't reunite with the other 6 Specials when they reunited. Just a damn, damn shame.

    • @Fractalite
      @Fractalite ปีที่แล้ว

      I read that they couldnt agree on some major things. Jerry wanted to do a massive Coventry reunuon show, make the songs reinterpretations in different styles, and maybe didnt want to go on long tours. Given that he wrote mosy of the songs I can understand why he didnt want to be part of a tribute band . Specials had allready moved past Ska after the first album, but it remains center in the nostalgia movement.

  • @interplanetarymusic7929
    @interplanetarymusic7929 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Finally visited Coventry Music Museum this weekend and its fair to say there's a decent section on Jerry 🤣🎶 always been a massive inspiration. Great interview

  • @sofiaplatini1148
    @sofiaplatini1148 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I really had a crush on him in 1979/80.. I still adore the specials

  • @podlou9939
    @podlou9939 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Watching this in July 2020 from the current perspective of western culture imploding. This interview a decade old. Fascinating.

    • @ichbin4122
      @ichbin4122 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ginger Spice...where is she?

    • @davidlinehat4657
      @davidlinehat4657 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's 2023 and it still hasn't happened. I hope you're not holding your breath

  • @Bri-254
    @Bri-254 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Knows his onions does Jerry.
    Legend.

  • @williamolsen20
    @williamolsen20 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I discovered Sun Ra because of my love of P-funk, and Bernie Worrell was a devotee as well. I had about 30 Sun Ra albums, unfortunately I had a heroin problem, and had to sell them. 30 records is just the tip of the iceberg with Sun Ra his output was so prolific. Jerry made a good point about timelines, something you thought was done in the 60's was done in the early 50's. Sun Ra should be more well known.

  • @johnross7679
    @johnross7679 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    jerry get back in the specials its the missing link,, 2019 come on bro

  • @trevoralcock1517
    @trevoralcock1517 9 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    How shallow some people are going on about his lack of teeth .the man a genius and a proper cov kid

    • @cronulla70
      @cronulla70 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      he's the Shane MacGowan of 2 tone

    • @kianucollis3929
      @kianucollis3929 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      erm....he hasn't got any front teeth, is an objective comment about a factual observation shallow....Mohammed Ali was black....or is that me being racist...?? BUT I'd prefer to focus on Morley's unfortunate lack of a chin....I know he has a strange protruberance below his mouth, but sadly no actual chin or jawline...fascinating....Toothless versus Chinless...FIGHT !!!

    • @dewexdewex
      @dewexdewex 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's annoying, that's true. I saw an interview with some teeth once, where people in the comments were droning on and on about the teeth's lack of a Jerry Dammers. You should have seen the enamel on them! Fantastic! There's no pleasing some idiots.

    • @jasonph2522
      @jasonph2522 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah but come on- in this day and age you can get your teeth fixed- not to be a vain twat but for health and presentation- Dammers is a great man but he looks like a fucking tramp at a bus station.

    • @williamolsen20
      @williamolsen20 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cronulla70 Jerry seems pretty sober, and mentally cohesive. Shane is a mess, at least every time I have seen him.

  • @dixgun
    @dixgun 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Does Jerry create library music?
    Good point about the importance of and influence of Les Baxter and Exotica on Sun Ra and Reggae! 🙏
    Hope Jerry writes a book and releases an audible version of it with him reading it.

  • @geoffjoffy
    @geoffjoffy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    He's 56 years old here and looks healthy and young.

    • @thesound-chameleonman3580
      @thesound-chameleonman3580 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      only looks in his early 40s.

    • @drexlspivey5828
      @drexlspivey5828 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I noticed that as soon as I seen the thumbnail, he appeared on Channel Fours Top 100 Number Ones in 2001, 10 odd years before this, and he looked absolutely dreadful, looked about 70, so I don't know if he maybe went through a bad booze period, but what a difference in this interview

  • @valuetraveler2026
    @valuetraveler2026 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We need to celebrate our greats like JD more

  • @marknorman8133
    @marknorman8133 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    guys a legend

  • @MrJacksonentzulo
    @MrJacksonentzulo ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I get it. Maybe. Jerry Damners put together The Specials, wrote the songs and therefore he didn't want (need) to revisit it in 2007...but other six guys did. Terry Hall needed it...

  • @elmorevandodewaard544
    @elmorevandodewaard544 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Jerry Dammers, a true legend

  • @gudlaffy
    @gudlaffy 12 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    always an inquisitive musician

  • @worldcoup
    @worldcoup 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Genius at work. Simple as that.

  • @whi5tler_1337
    @whi5tler_1337 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    _older than his years... genius_ 🎉

  • @glenngastonjonsson7954
    @glenngastonjonsson7954 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wish there were fewer drunken interviews with JD becase he was brilliant.

  • @TheSquirrelRCchannel
    @TheSquirrelRCchannel 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    honoured to know him!

  • @trevorhurd2554
    @trevorhurd2554 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Jerry is quality...a visionary...;o)

  • @paulfolkard2493
    @paulfolkard2493 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    only ever seen that bloke with his shades on - 'shit man, looks completely different and yes he was responsible for the 70's ska revival. big up the specials for enlightening us all throughout our lives.

  • @StratsRUs
    @StratsRUs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Evergreen interview

  • @xwsftassell
    @xwsftassell 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These are great these Morley things. *****.

  • @cashus68
    @cashus68 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just cant stop seeing him as the guy in that video , your girlfriend , thats you 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @hugohugo2832
    @hugohugo2832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good to see a fellow public schoolboy make it in rock

  • @Dave-em9im
    @Dave-em9im 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great interview.

  • @davebates506
    @davebates506 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    what a legend, who needs front teeth anyway? what exactly do they do....

  • @nuwavegurl
    @nuwavegurl 12 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    30 years later and still no teeth, Jerry? No worries, I still love ya!

  • @troygaspard6732
    @troygaspard6732 ปีที่แล้ว

    Free Nelson Mandela became one of the anthems of the 80's. Dammers will always be one of my favorite artists.

  • @RobertMcQuillan-my3du
    @RobertMcQuillan-my3du หลายเดือนก่อน

    Legend ✌️

  • @AceFurley
    @AceFurley 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    For some reason, an obscure reference to "The big book of British smiles", (from an old Simpsons episode) keeps coming to mind???

  • @lucalittler
    @lucalittler 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What happened to Jerry state of him jeez he needs to come back to the specials

  • @14bonkyb
    @14bonkyb 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Terry Hall has stated that they want to record new material, but logistically are having problems finding the time to get everyone together . Another problem is the guys have now differing musical tastes and don't all live in Coventry anymore, there are still disagreements about how to proceed with new material. Apparently new stuff has been written but on-ones been able to get into a studio as a group . If you want to see what they stand for, buy the SPECIALIZED cd, which they were involved in.

    • @musicloverUK
      @musicloverUK ปีที่แล้ว

      Well they managed it eventually, after a legal battle apparently.

  • @markriding1267
    @markriding1267 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Strange how people don't comment on so called celebrities with their plastic teeth.....still keeping it real Mr.Dammers 🤘

  • @bruetenn666
    @bruetenn666 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a legend

  • @wyrda222
    @wyrda222 11 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    "music is dead, as you know, but its fun to stick electrodes in the corpse and watch it twitch"

  • @harrypalmer3481
    @harrypalmer3481 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Jerry Dammers, the Man is a Cat! Paul Morley's not too shabby either.

  • @nicky20201
    @nicky20201 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Maestro Jerry Dammers!

  • @katoness
    @katoness 12 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    If Jerry was with the Specials now there would definitely be a new album, as such there's not with the now reformed one. Sadly, they seem to be in it for the money and not the creativity. It takes away everything they stood for.

    • @andrewroberts9802
      @andrewroberts9802 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Encore lol

    • @leemorris2924
      @leemorris2924 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@andrewroberts9802 Yeah and its shit.

    • @stumagoo2395
      @stumagoo2395 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@leemorris2924 The only decent Specials albums are the one's on 2 Tone records, all the rest are crap.

    • @leemorris2924
      @leemorris2924 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stumagoo2395 I agree.

    • @devillehall6171
      @devillehall6171 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Encore was a great LP and whats wrong with making some money...?!

  • @MrHarney
    @MrHarney 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    top bloke

  • @hodgey7183
    @hodgey7183 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How on earth did it get from Joe Meek, searching for the blue note to landing on the moon? Can’t find a coherent link

    • @hodgey7183
      @hodgey7183 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just watched the Sun Ra documentary. Now I understand how it got from blue note to moon landing.

  • @xwsftassell
    @xwsftassell 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That's a proper 1971 post-suedehead fevva cut. Knows his oats does old Jerry.

  • @patrickkanne
    @patrickkanne 9 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    8:44 "when people threw out religion they also threw out the baby with the bathwater"
    omg.. It's like hearing myself speak... don't get me wrong, we can do without theism, but religion was more then believe in a deity and by throwing it out wholesale we also threw out things we probably shouldn't have...
    Glad I'm not the onlyone thinking along those lines.. Hearing my teenage hero echo these exact same words sure is a good thing...

    • @shanelevene4864
      @shanelevene4864 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Absolute fucking bullshit. You're thinking on a very ignorant level.

  • @shaunfoley858
    @shaunfoley858 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We have no right to inflict our view of what someone should look like we are not sheep

  • @MrHairyNeck
    @MrHairyNeck 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Jerry Dammers is like an older version of David Beckham. And he sounds just like him.

    • @BillyJango
      @BillyJango 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      hey, he does actualy sound like him ! never noticed that before.

    • @animaction65
      @animaction65 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      david Beckham can barely string three words together...you're a joker

    • @dewexdewex
      @dewexdewex 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Beckham has a huge management team to get him through a day; Dammers has a brain.

  • @plutoloco2378
    @plutoloco2378 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I worship the specials and Jerry Dammers by extension.

  • @animaction65
    @animaction65 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How can a man of such intelligence come out of such silly country?

  • @sirtinycreep
    @sirtinycreep 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Dammers looks good for 56. I'm not gay but he has good skin for a guy his age.

  • @jamesdond614
    @jamesdond614 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You'd have thought with the money Jerry earnt he would get his nashers fixed. Up the Sky Blues.

  • @raymondgill9796
    @raymondgill9796 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Remember the Bob Hope quote when America Landed a man on the moon. "It just goes to show that our German rocket scientists are better than Russia's German....."

  • @vashna3799
    @vashna3799 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You'd think he could afford some false molars but he seems happy enough without em

    • @paultrewin2808
      @paultrewin2808 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      its his look,he is more recognised as "the guy out the Specials" without them,.......

    • @stevemcniel5513
      @stevemcniel5513 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Paul Trewin he is the specials.

  • @shaunlodwig
    @shaunlodwig 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    to call Jerry Dammers a legend would be underrating him. If there were official t-shirts with Dammers as the subject i'd wear them with pride.

  • @BioDieselEstate
    @BioDieselEstate 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Watching this, knowing the history of Dammers, et al, The Specials, The Special AKA - it is hard for me to believe that Dammers (as some of the other band members allege) is so difficult to work with. Dammers comes across as a fairly easy going kind of chap. Perhaps that is the effect of time. Age can mellow some folks out quite considerably. Then again, look what happened with the reunion of The Specials in the late 2000's & again with the new album last year. Sigh. Maybe some people are more mellow than others...

    • @stumagoo2395
      @stumagoo2395 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think the other band members (managed by Simon Jordan) just wanted overall control and make a nice little earner. Jerry wasn't stupid, he met with Jordan at the Grosvenor Hotel in London 2004 (as Jordan was desperate to get the band reunited), and was apparently offered a £1 million contract. In 2005 Jerry then trade marked "The Specials" name with EUIPO (he obviously sussed what was going to happen), which mean't they could only use the name for gigs/concerts but not release any new material using "The Specials" name (without Jerry's consent). The new management were completely unaware of this for a few years and it was only when they looked into the possibility of releasing new material they discovered they couldn't use "The Specials" name. The matter went legal between 2012-2018 (under the guise of Windrush Aka v Dammers), Jerry eventually settled out of court (it was said he was was worried about the escalating costs and financial implications had he lost the case) and the reformed band are now able to use "The Specials" brand on new material (CD's, downloads, videos, publications etc) they release. I think Dammers was treated badly by the current line up and the jibes/mocking of him (particularly from Terry Hall) was totally unnecessary.

    • @roberttruman8444
      @roberttruman8444 ปีที่แล้ว

      Greatness comes at a cost. Typically those that have such a clear vision and drive won't compromise much and tend to employ rather than collaborate.

  • @thesound-chameleonman3580
    @thesound-chameleonman3580 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He does facially look a bit David Beckham in the face here, handsome bloke if he had front teeth. Apparently he lost them in a fight? poor bloke. Great band.

  • @chrisgiles8068
    @chrisgiles8068 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Sorry Gerry nobody went to the Moon.

    • @hodgey7183
      @hodgey7183 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      chris giles sun Ra came from space

  • @gazriley624
    @gazriley624 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Birmingham is well bigger than manchester! whats he on about?

  • @mancinoist
    @mancinoist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'd love to watch him try to eat corn on the cob

  • @georgewellstone6145
    @georgewellstone6145 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wouldn't classify myself as a Jazz musician there was great band at that time the Lounge Lizard who you kow invented this thing called fake Jazz so that meant i felt like oh I can never go as well there isn't and in some ways they although it was fake, it was more jazz than real jazz.
    Jazz(real) is the search for the blue known or the unexpected known in asolo you know that's what and also the unexpected music so you know the great jazz musicians always push him forward into the next . it the art of the unexpected that was what it was anyway you could say that no hundred years into it. Jazz musicians mixed jazz with European electronic music .316
    Itr actually goes back along ...if you want to get into deep that it goes back a long way to him the whole thing a carnival ...the carnival was a day where the slaves were allowed to mock their masters in dance and dress you know i think a lot of that tradition actually carried right though black music and culture and dressing that was always a part of it . Duke Ellington had danced the bands always look right ....

  • @jennbeth1
    @jennbeth1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Implants. Bridge. Veneers. Dental. Now. Please?

  • @liverpoolpictorial
    @liverpoolpictorial 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dammers has aged a lot better than Morley.

  • @pauledmonds3249
    @pauledmonds3249 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dentist required

  • @TribeOfJuanMusic
    @TribeOfJuanMusic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cut your hair and get a shave, you magnificent genius bastard. x

  • @megadora1969
    @megadora1969 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    この人がいなかったら、スカパラも生まれなかったんだろうな・・・

  • @steevemarie8329
    @steevemarie8329 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Donkey !!!you are the Best !!! IN town ?? no ! no ! no ! Over world !!

  • @davidlinehat4657
    @davidlinehat4657 ปีที่แล้ว

    His outer space comment is hilarious! yes, jerry, nothing came from the space program... there definitely weren't any technological advancements that came from it at all... Ok, well, you created the Specials, so you're forgiven

  • @digdoug1979
    @digdoug1979 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I think Jerry goes to the same dentist as Shane McGowan. No disrespect to either of these legends but bloody hell those teeth!

  • @Geshreeyeh
    @Geshreeyeh 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Czech Neck Morley

  • @ShaneRaw1
    @ShaneRaw1 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Total bollocks regarding Manchester .......yep they have had great artists, but Birmingham and the west mids have had the most diverse and most memorable in uk music history..

  • @Panthera0nca
    @Panthera0nca 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My god it looks like Morley has took pity on him and offered him a coffee and a warm place to doss.

  • @rudy81
    @rudy81 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dammers is the man but c'mon no wonder how the other Specials members did not want to partner with em - totally different views in music ;)

    • @devillehall6171
      @devillehall6171 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly....why take sides anyway ? You can love what Terry Hall does, what Roddy Radiation does with Skabilly and Jerry with his Arkestra.....or not .

  • @MsBirdylady
    @MsBirdylady 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    BIG UP SPATIAL AKA!

  • @SuperBagshot
    @SuperBagshot 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Trouble with purists is they tend to disappear up someone else's backside

  • @terrymurray4335
    @terrymurray4335 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You don't need teeth to be talented

  • @gudlaffy
    @gudlaffy 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    after birth ?

  • @leosmokeh6408
    @leosmokeh6408 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lindjo

  • @broken1394
    @broken1394 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    dammers is a dude

  • @uiruu
    @uiruu 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    teeth

  • @rudy81
    @rudy81 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    WTF!!

  • @TT-th3lv
    @TT-th3lv 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Does he eat with a straw ?

  • @kenmills30
    @kenmills30 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jerry's teeth seem to have improved since 1979, he wouldn't be Jerry Dammers without those teeth, I'm disappointed they don't seem as crooked as of yore.

  • @MirekK
    @MirekK 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For God's sake, where does he have teeth?

  • @schwinnbike18
    @schwinnbike18 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    All that fame and fortune should = a new grill!