“What a character! Totally ageless! Extremely creative, with a memory as sharp as a tape machine! A brain as accurate as a computer! We travelled the world together…Japan, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, All over the USA and Canada…and many more places.
“The end of an era! We first worked in the early eighties, recording several tracks and doing tours, having many laughs, sharing many dreams… we spoke together with his wife a week ago…,” the British-Guyanese dub producer wrote Sunday on Facebook. Mad Professor, a longtime collaborator of Lee “Scratch” Perry who recorded prolifically with the producer over the past three decades, penned a tribute to the dub visionary following news of Perry’s death Sunday at the age of 85.