LEE SCRATCH PERRY ON MYSPACE : A WARNING

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I have a 3 or 5 part Lee Scratch Perry special coming up, but before i post episode 1, please take notice of this warning from Perrys wife...

Thank you for your statement on your website about the person running myspace.com/leeperry.

This man, Gaius Al Davis, was tour manager for our American tour in 2006 until we found out how criminal he was. He was ripping us off, stealing our money, and tricking and lying everywhere he could to make profit for himself. Therefore, we fired him.

Now we discover that this Davis is still acting on Lee Perry's behalf and claims publicly at myspace.com/leeperry that his contact information leads to Lee Perry personally. He has started to book shows again in Lee Perry's name without our authorization and is cashing down payments. There is no contractual agreement between Gaius Al Davis and Lee Perry and we wonder how local promoters and agencies never asked for legitimation and have trusted him. This is causing us a lot of trouble and losses, but in order to not disappoint Lee Perry's fans we are forced to do the shows.

Because of this situation, we have to announce that this Gaius Al Davis is not allowed to act in any way on Lee Perry's behalf or to represent him in whatever capacity.

Could you please publish this message at your website to help us solving the problems he has caused. Many people and artists are asking via myspace.com/leeperry for collaborations with Lee, but we don't know what answers they get from Davis. We are sorry about the fans using myspace.com/leeperry believing that this site is official. Therefore we decided to launch our own website for everybody to be able to reach Lee Perry. The site will be finished very soon and can be found at www.leeperry.de.

Peace and Love from Lee and Mireille

Mick Sleeper

Currently listening : From the Secret Laboratory By Lee Scratch Perry Release date: By 13 June, 2006

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	Grinning Ape	Good luck to size="3">Gaius sifting through all those requests from MySpace based "artists" requesting collabs. Posted by Grinning Ape on Friday, May 18, 2007 at 13:59 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Sixshot	I saw Lee Perry at the Belladrum Festival last year, great set and fantastic band. Its a shame that someone has been getting away with ripping a lot of people like that. Posted by Sixshot on Friday, May 18, 2007 at 17:04 [Remove] [Reply to this]

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Yep....It seems par for the course for more or less every decent act...I think part of the genius of creation is being mostly oblivious to the importance of money.... Posted by The Paul Giovanni Music Blog... on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 12:55 [Remove] [Reply to this]