“So every Thursday I used to record at Harry J Studios, the whole day. Me also buy Santa a drum kit, but most of the studio like all Harry J have them own drums. Me have some contacts with the licence department, so provided you could read and drive I could get you a licence! Me help whole heap of man get licence, like Lee Perry. After that me buy Robbie a bike, a Honda, and then me buy Robbie him first car, a Triumph. Sometimes me drive round everybody, and then me get a licence for Santa, so him could use my car and pick up the musicians and their instruments in the big Buick. The core musicians then was Robbie, Santa and Chinna (Robbie Shakespeare, Carlton ‘Santa’ Davis, Earl ‘Chinna’ Smith). “So me telephone round the studios and book them, and then organize the musicians. And 4 tracks is enough when you know what you’re doing. That one-inch 4 track tape was cheaper and smaller, so it easier to store and you can carry it overseas. Me love the 4 track tape cos it’s what we have at Tubby’s, even when most everyone else move up to 8 or 16. Them always ready fi work with me when I work, and most times that was night time when it quieter.
When Tubbs stop mix it was me and Philip Smart, Pat Kelly, then Jammys and Scientist. Me record the backing track at the big studios, but then most times me voice and mix at Tubby’s. King Tubby’s Studio was really like my headquarters. Sometimes 7 days a week, day and night inna the studio, daytimes in the main studios and then night times in Tubby’s til daylight come again, and just get an hour’s sleep and then back to the studio again.