Dr.Alimantado-I Am The Greatest Says Muhammed Ali

Dr Alimantado, born Winston Thompson, also known as The Ital Surgeon (Kingston, 1952-) is a Jamaican reggae singer, DJ and producer.

He started to record very young under various names (Prince Winston, Winston Cool or Youth Winston). His first recordings were for Lee "Scratch" Perry and Bunny Lee - "Place Called Africa Version 3" and "Maccabee Version". He returned to Lee Perry in 1976, recording the DJ portion of Devon Irons 12" "Ketch Vampire". Between 1971 and 1977 his singles were unreleased outside Jamaica, only being available in the UK on import. He built his reputation with tunes such as "Oil Crisis" ( versioning Horace Andy's "Ain't No Sunshine"), "Sons of Thunder", (toasting over Jackie Brown's "Wiser Dread"), "Gimme Mi Gun" on Gregory Isaacs' "Thief a Man" and "Poison Flour", on a recut of the Paragons "Man Next Door" rhythm. He mainly met success in the mid to late 1970s, with his best known album being Best Dressed Chicken in Town (1978), a Greensleeves Records collection of tracks recorded in the mid-70s, featuring Alimantado toasting over singers such as John Holt, Gregory Isaacs, Jackie Edwards and Horace Andy. His tunes mixed his Rastafarianism with commentary on events then going on in his community; "Poison Flour" referenced a recent incident when a number of local Kingstonians had been poisoned by eating bread made with contaminated flour. Alimantado became popular with punk rockers in the '70s following Johnny Rotten praising him in an interview. He was mentioned in The Clash song Rudie Can't Fail in the line "Like the doctor who was born for a purpose".

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[kingkonut]

The version sampled on 'Poison flower' is the Horace Andy version.

I thought poison flower was about heroin

[red777photo]

@kingkonut "Poison Flour" referenced a recent incident when a number of local Kingstonians had been poisoned by eating bread made with contaminated flour.

[kingkonut]

@red777photo why do they call for it every hour on the hour?

[red777photo]

@kingkonut "Every hour on the hour you hear of someone falling from poison flower----------- In my neighbourhood a man died through poisin flower"

A man could die if he eat a dumpling made from the poison flower

[rist64]

Más Box :3

[OscarSarcastro]

@kingkonut Well you're right to be confused as it's spelled differently - the 'flour' in that track is not in reference to the 'flower' in the title. Fortunately what the Jamaicans of that era lacked academically they more than made up for musically.

[kingkonut]

@red777photo oh I see now how I completely misheard - which is why I thought it was about heroin (which is made from a flower) I thought it was 'every hour on the hour you hear someone calling for poison flower' (which would be addiction) but obviously I was wrong

[kingkonut]

@italrel yes I realise that now - some story about a bad batch of bread that went out and made people ill or something? I can't remember exactly...

[italrel]

@kingkonut It's about flour, like in bread.

[teamkilloor]

id say one of the best raggee actors and you could name him together with bob marley