the caribs documentary (powerpoint)
TRANSCRIPT
© Lloyd Dewar 2007
the greatest untold story in rock’n’roll?
four young Australian musicians
four young Australian musicians
one young Australian studio technician
four young Australian musicians
one young Australian studio technician
and the birth of the Jamaican sound
THE CARIBSTHE CARIBSAUSTRALIA’S REGGAE PIONEERS
THE CARIBSTHE CARIBSAUSTRALIA’S REGGAE PIONEERS
starring
Jamaica’s first studio band
DENNIS SINDREY
born: Camberwell, Victoria
resides: Boca Raton, Florida
LOWELL MORRIS
born: Albert Park, Victoria
resides: Albert Park, Victoria
PETER STODDART
born: Adelaide, South Australia
resides: Kingston, Jamaica
and
reggae’s first recording engineer
GRAEME GOODALL
born: Caulfield, Victoria
resides: Atlanta, Georgia
filmed in high-definition digital widescreen
on location in:
Miami, Florida
Melbourne, Australia
Atlanta, Georgia
Kingston, Jamaica
including interviews with ska and reggae greats
MONTY ALEXANDER
CARLOS MALCOLM
LLOYD BREVETT
LESTER STERLING
DERRICK HARRIOTT
MONTY NAISMITH
in 1958, a Gold Coast cabaret band took a one-way trip to Kingston, Jamaica
at the Glass Bucket Club, they mixed with Hollywood actors, jet-setting models and
British aristocrats
and they met a radio technician from Melbourne
together, they unwittingly created the sound behind Jamaican music’s most important
early recordings
