Bunny Lee & Friends – Tape Rolling
One balmy summer night in June 1972, a large American car pulled up outside a small one storey house in the Waterhouse ghetto of Kingston. At the wheel was producer Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee, and the car was overflowing with singers and musicians.
Bunny Lee: “I had a big Buick from in the early days, I buy it from Dynamic Studios. And you could fit a lot of people in there. One night we had about 20-odd people in that car, and some man lay down pon the bonnet, and some man lay in the trunk. We always driving around at night, and we used to know most of the policeman so we didn’t have no problem, cos we were music people not lawbreakers.”
The house they entered belonged to sound system owner King Tubby, and housed a little makeshift studio in a spare bedroom. At this stage it had only been used for cutting dubplates and mixing down the occasional master, including ‘Just A Dream’ by Slim Smith.