Aswad on Black on Black

[jason]

Here's a rare clip the brilliant Aswad (before they found pop hell) on Pauline Black's TV series Black on Black. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWTjgAKNc7E&t=859s 

[Wally]

Funny you should post that interview, I just watched it the other week.

Here's a similar one. Ranking Roger interviewing UB40 about the 30th anniversary of Signing Off...

https://youtu.be/BcrMI3tv8zA

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Here's a rare clip the brilliant Aswad (before they found pop hell) on Pauline Black's TV series Black on Black. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWTjgAKNc7E&t=859s 

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[jason]

Great interview.  As good as Signing Off was, for me Present Arms was the album they never matched again.  It's also good to hear them speak fondly of 2 Tone.  For years they tried their best to distance themselves from it.  

Hard to believe that Brian Travers, Astro and Ranking Roger are all now dead.

[Matt Appleby]

Interesting how they acknowledged the influence of jazz early on, as well as the obvious dub

I loved that early sound, was still enjoying them at UB44, and then didn’t even mind some of the mid 80s pop-reggae for what it was 

But after that, I literally can’t listen to a single track 

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[jason]

Van Morrison thought they had taken slightly too much influence from his track Moondance when they wrote Burden of Shame. He took them to court and won. 

[Wally]

Very interesting! I didn't know that. When you hear them back-to-back you can hear it alright, but the feel of the songs is clearly very different.

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