One of Rocksteady and early Reggae's most prominent producers...topics here:

https://z7.invisionfree.com/PAMA_FORUM/index.php?showtopic=3094&st=0entry4105993

https://www.bloodandfire.co.uk/db/viewtopic.php?t=26383

https://djgreedyg.proboards77.com/index.cgi?board=music8&action=display&thread=1203716187

Produced some top tunes down the years, reponsible for Nicky Thomas's, Dennis Brown's and Althea & Donna's massive UK hits (LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE, MONEY IN MY POCKET and UPTOWN TOP RANKING respectively), took things to another level with Errol T (also passed away a couple of years back) as the Mighty Two and responsible for producing Culture's landmark TWO SEVENS CLASH album (whence punk band the Clash took their name).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gibbs_(record_producer)

https://reggaelicious.pbwiki.com/Joe+Gibbs

Edited February 23, 200817 yr by ZapatootheTiger

VERY SAD

ONE OF MY FIRST LPS WAS AFRICAN DUB VOL 3

shit !...one of my fave mid 70s producers...also taught the wailers all about harmonies when they were at studio one where he also recorded some good vocal tracks...change of plan great track !

Sad to note Gibbo's passing but, really, the credit for just about all of his best known 70s work should go to the late Errol T, a total genius of the soundboard whose mixing skills were what made the African Dub albums - and the sound of Gibbs' productions in general - so compelling.

BTW, Spacehopper, it was Joe Higgs who taught the Wailers, and who recorded "Change Of Plan. Joe Gibbs never had anything whatsoever to do with Studio 1 other than the fact that, like many producers, he used a lot of revivals of S1 riddims in the 70s and early 80s.