Thanks Simon for posting this. I will read your three-parter at AudioCulture in due course. But I did spend a couple of hours watching most of the Roger Perry Celebration video. Hopefully I’ll have more to say about it once I’ve had a chance to absorb it. But I will say this: my strongest memory of Roger—brought back from the photo montage—was the one from 1985 when I first saw him and Tony DJ-ing at Zanzibar. He made such a big impression because we were in such awe of his talent and musical knowledge. So that era of Roger is just imprinted on my brain.
That's a year or so before I saw him DJing. I met Roger in Whakatane in August 1982 when I was touring The Screaming Meemees and Dance Exponents and a couple of kids approached me asking about the tracks on the tapes I used to make - lots of indie stuff and also early hip-hop and no wave etc. It wasn't until years later that Roger told me that was him and Tony.
Thanks Simon for posting this. I will read your three-parter at AudioCulture in due course. But I did spend a couple of hours watching most of the Roger Perry Celebration video. Hopefully I’ll have more to say about it once I’ve had a chance to absorb it. But I will say this: my strongest memory of Roger—brought back from the photo montage—was the one from 1985 when I first saw him and Tony DJ-ing at Zanzibar. He made such a big impression because we were in such awe of his talent and musical knowledge. So that era of Roger is just imprinted on my brain.
That's a year or so before I saw him DJing. I met Roger in Whakatane in August 1982 when I was touring The Screaming Meemees and Dance Exponents and a couple of kids approached me asking about the tracks on the tapes I used to make - lots of indie stuff and also early hip-hop and no wave etc. It wasn't until years later that Roger told me that was him and Tony.