The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry Film Trailer
March 27, 2011 ⋅ Culture ⋅ by L. Ruano ⋅ 52 Views

The Upsetter tells the fascinating story of Lee “Scratch” Perry, a visionary musician and artist from poor rural Jamaica who journeyed to the big city in the late 1950s with dreams of making it in the burgeoning record industry. Lee Perry burst on the scene with a brand new sound, inventing a genre of music that would come to be called reggae, while mentoring a young Bob Marley and gaining international recognition as a record producer and solo artist. The Upsetter charts 70 years in the life of Lee “Scratch” Perry in his own words through an exclusive interview given to American filmmakers Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough in Switzerland in 2006. It is equally a documentation of 30 years of Jamaican music and culture as it is a study of one of the most creative and inspiring human beings of all time. The film is narrated by Academy Award winner Benico Del Toro. Screening dates are available here.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LOF2ZENNNLHAIREPFPSZTB36M4 lordkoos

    Scratch did not invent reggae, but otherwise, you don’t know as much as you think you do. 

  • Anonymous

    You’re dumb.

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  • Anonymous

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  • Anonymous

    I suppose people like you sittin’ around in your PJ’S, at your computer, poppin’ zits, eatin’ sugar all the while being aggressively attended to by dad, really have nothing to say. Except to comment. Get in the game. Loser.

  • Anonymous

    I suppose people like you sittin’ around in your PJ’S, at your computer, poppin’ zits, eatin’ sugar all the while being aggressively attended to by dad, really have nothing to say. Except to comment. Get in the game. Loser.

  • Anonymous

    I suppose people like you sittin’ around in your PJ’S, at your computer, poppin’ zits, eatin’ sugar all the while being aggressively attended to by dad, really have nothing to say. Except to comment. Get in the game. Loser.

  • Anonymous

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  • Anonymous

    I suppose people like you sittin’ around in your PJ’S, at your computer, poppin’ zits, eatin’ sugar all the while being aggressively attended to by dad, really have nothing to say. Except to comment. Get in the game. Loser.

  • Anonymous

    I suppose people like you sittin’ around in your PJ’S, at your computer, poppin’ zits, eatin’ sugar all the while being aggressively attended to by dad, really have nothing to say. Except to comment. Get in the game. Loser.

  • Anonymous

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  • Anonymous

    I suppose people like you sittin’ around in your PJ’S, at your computer, poppin’ zits, eatin’ sugar all the while being aggressively attended to by dad, really have nothing to say. Except to comment. Get in the game. Loser.

  • Anonymous

    I suppose people like you sittin’ around in your PJ’S, at your computer, poppin’ zits, eatin’ sugar all the while being aggressively attended to by dad, really have nothing to say. Except to comment. Get in the game. Loser.

  • Anonymous

    I suppose people like you sittin’ around in your PJ’S, at your computer, poppin’ zits, eatin’ sugar all the while being aggressively attended to by dad, really have nothing to say. Except to comment. Get in the game. Loser.

  • Anonymous

    I suppose people like you sittin’ around in your PJ’S, at your computer, poppin’ zits, eatin’ sugar all the while being aggressively attended to by dad, really have nothing to say. Except to comment. Get in the game. Loser.

  • Anonymous

    I suppose people like you sittin’ around in your PJ’S, at your computer, poppin’ zits, eatin’ sugar all the while being aggressively attended to by dad, really have nothing to say. Except to comment. Get in the game. Loser.

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    stupid as fuck

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  • Anonymous

    I can assure you SCRATCH did NOT invent Reggae music. With all due respect if you understood the inflections in PATOIS you would know in the clip that he says: He is going to MAKE music, spiritual music that they call REGGAE. I grew up listening to Scratch and although I haven’t seen the film I am sure it can’t do his life Justice. Along with MANY talented Jamaican Artists, SCRATCH was DUB, SKANK, and ROCKERS. Reggae was developed from the African spirituals sung by Jamaicans as well as the MENTO, the rhythm of the people. Men like SCRATCH stretched the Genre. He is LEGEND. NOT the inventor.