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<blockquote>Most of the speculation about Perry's madness centers on what Katz terms "the excessive apex and sudden fall of the Ark." After Black Ark opened in December of 1973, Perry entered his most prolific, aesthetically arresting period, resulting in works such as the sizzling future soul of Susan Cadogan's "Do It Baby" and "Hurts So Good," the spirit-infused dub of Super Ape and Augustus Pablo's "Vibrate On," and the defiant sufferah laments of the Congos, the Heptones, Junior Byles, Junior Murvin, and Max Romeo. Perry's sonic innovations were made on outdated, cheap equipment. "Even in the later days of the Ark, the amplifier he was using was this little Marantz home stereo amp. It is astounding what he got out of so little," Katz said. Later Perry added a Mutron Superphaser and the Roland Space Echo, but he left an eight-track TEAC that Island founder Chris Blackwell gave him completely unused, eventually destroying it and burying it in the yard behind the studio. </blockquote> I belive the first Mutron BI-Phase Perry had was a promo of the first edition. K. P.S. <blockquote> used these in the early days of Black Ark (1973-75): - Alice mixer (Scratch: "They weren't professional machines they were only toys") - Grantham spring reverb [er... that's a Grampian, I think] - Roland Space Echo RE201 - Marantz amplifier for instruments - AKG drum mic for vocals - Teac 3340 1/4 inch 4-track recorder - Teac 2-track recorder for mix down In 1975 he added some new equipment: - Soundcraft mixer (replaced the Alice) - Mutron phaser (an early demo model) - better mics - Around 1979 he was given a Teac 1/2 inch 8-track recorder but he didn't like it and almost never used it. [and later buried it in the yard]</blockquote>

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