Jeremy Porter & The Tucos Christmas song he had written for the annual Suburban Sprawl Music Christmas Compilation. Jeremy recruited drummer and multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Doman (The Hotwalls) and bassist Jason Bowes (The OffRamps, Fidrych, Culture Bandits) to round out the trio for the recording session. The lineup would remain intact for four years. The band's name is based on the character Tuco Ramirez, played by actor Eli Wallach in "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" and was an alternative to a suggestion by original bassist Jason Bowes, who proposed The Mortimers, after the Lee Van Cleef character when the band found that a punk
The Good, the Bad and the Upsetters The Good, the Bad and the Upsetters The Good, the Bad and the Upsetters is a studio album by The Upsetters, released in 1970. Lee Perry had no direct involvement with this album and never considered it an "Upsetters" album. In response to the album's release, Perry released an album in Jamaica using the Trojan artwork but with a completely different track listing. It was only released in small quantities at the time, but it was reissued in January 2014 on Cherry Red Records' Hot Milk label. Produced and directed by Lee Scratch Perry. All tracks composed by Lee "Scratch"