01-05-2023, 07:19 PM
Sweet photo! Sorta neat how you can get close to a reggae artist from a small island nation when that would be much less likely I presume with famous singers of more popular music genres.
I've seen Cliff perform three or four times, but never from the front row! I still have my ticket stubs so I'll try and dig them out.
In my mind the top three reggae stars of all time are Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, and Peter Tosh. Not sure how anyone could argue with that.
My next tier would include Steel Pulse, Third World, UB40, and Gregory Isaacs.
Got to party one night backstage with The Wailers at First Avenue in Minneapolis. Had hoped to get a post performance autograph and that turned into a situation where Family Man was talking to fans about the early Wailers. None of them could recall many of the names of the earliest members aside from Peter Tosh and Rita Marley so I piped up and rattled off a bunch of names including Junior Braithwaite, Beverly Kelso, Tyrone Downie, Earl Wire Lindo, Chinna Smith, Al De Costa, Junior Marvin, Al Anderson, Judy Mowatt, Carly Barrettt and Family Mans face lit up with a huge smile. He then motioned for me to come with him into the Green Room saying "The band needs to meet you." A couple minutes later I reprised my list to much acclaim. Someone said something about 'dis white boy' and everyone laughed so I smiled. Hung out for about an hour before they boarded their bus.
I've seen Cliff perform three or four times, but never from the front row! I still have my ticket stubs so I'll try and dig them out.
In my mind the top three reggae stars of all time are Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, and Peter Tosh. Not sure how anyone could argue with that.
My next tier would include Steel Pulse, Third World, UB40, and Gregory Isaacs.
Got to party one night backstage with The Wailers at First Avenue in Minneapolis. Had hoped to get a post performance autograph and that turned into a situation where Family Man was talking to fans about the early Wailers. None of them could recall many of the names of the earliest members aside from Peter Tosh and Rita Marley so I piped up and rattled off a bunch of names including Junior Braithwaite, Beverly Kelso, Tyrone Downie, Earl Wire Lindo, Chinna Smith, Al De Costa, Junior Marvin, Al Anderson, Judy Mowatt, Carly Barrettt and Family Mans face lit up with a huge smile. He then motioned for me to come with him into the Green Room saying "The band needs to meet you." A couple minutes later I reprised my list to much acclaim. Someone said something about 'dis white boy' and everyone laughed so I smiled. Hung out for about an hour before they boarded their bus.
