Tenor Saw RIP
JayGee
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If he hadn't been killed in Texas in 1988 Tenor Saw would have celebrated his 40-year-birthday today, february 12.This thread is meant as place to remember and honor one of the greatest reggae artists of all time.
R.I.P. Clive Bright 1966-88
R.I.P. Clive Bright 1966-88
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Believe it or not...
My family and I were at the Star of Ethiopia restaurant when Tenor Saw a few minutes before Tenor Saw was murdered. The owner is/was a good family friend and possibly the best Jamaican cook ever. I ended up working for the owner in high school. Now, even he is missing and no one, not even his wife, knows where he is.
We had noticed that Stanley, the owner, has wisked away all the customers through the front door until just my family and a lone, very depressed looking man (who at the time, I didn't recognize) were left. When we were finally ushered out the door, I noticed (my other family members were oblivious) that a man in a red sweatsuit (who I also didn't recognize) sitting on the hood of a mercedes was holding a glock (the first time I had seen one in person). He just sat there staring really hard into the restaurant. When we drove off, I looked back and saw him walk into the front doors. I guess the rest is all history.
Later that day, Stanley had called my mom and told her the whole story.
I'm waiting on a call from a famous local dread, another good friend of the family, who incidentally is the father of Karamo (yes homo) from the Real World. He has the story of the entire beef which culminated the day before the murder at a soundclash here.
true story.
RIP.
He could be right, I doubt it though since the story I know is cooberated with other people's accounts.
And no one has said that the shooter was nitty gritty.
didnt supercat kill nitty gritty in a record store ?
maybe kev in canada will have this info
I thought it was a bodega, but I too would defer to K.
"With such a promising start to his career, it seemed Tenor Saw would be around for quite a long time; sadly, his life was cut short in August 1988, when he was hit by a car in Houston, TX, and killed."
sluggy ranks was also there
tenor saw was offical hit & run but long time
rumors were that more was involved..........
believe it or not.....
saw was in dc cutting some tunes for us,
he was way paro & dry on lyrics,
peter broggs was helping him out with them
on exiting the old lion & fox studios in ne dc,
saw spies a tripped out caddy with personalized tags......
t.saw
dude freaked, talk about lots a signs,
checked out of the hotel
flew to tx the next day
2 weeks later we hear that his body was found by the side of the road/hwy
in tx, in the weeds, a few days after a "hit & run"
always a heap of foul play rumours
"run come call me" is his hardest, i love that tune & dub
nuff dances use to rock that song
i also remember as ring tghe alarm was hitting
dudes started requesting this "golden hen" tune,
all new style
a week later we got it from jet star
but run come call me is the joint !
No shit? I always assumed that was just a crazy rumor. More details, please!
no big secret
some dancehall beef involving sluggy & cat's bro (jrcat?)
from a previous dance/girl/disrespect boiled over when
super & sluggy met up at the record shop
story goes that sluggy's mate gritty
(great singer but pure ruffneck gangsta)
pulls a gun out, aims but it jams
cat draws his licensed gun
& shoots nitty dead
straight up self defense
(check for super cat's "license gun" or
sluggy's "water in mi eye" tunes for their
respective views)
Damn, I've been holding onto to that memory since the beginning of time because I thought it was so significant. I wonder who did get killed that day. I specifically remember it being over a soundclash the day before.