Rock legend Bruce Springsteen still plays to the audience
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Rock legend Bruce Springsteen still plays to the audience
USA Today – Feb 27, 2008
He doesn’t stand with me. He’s usually in the mosh pit or something. Younger son Sam 14 “likes reggae music and tends to be more of a classic rock guy” while daughter Jessica 16 “is into top 40 so I’ll hear a lot of Rihanna and Mary J. There’s actually an enormous amount of good music in the top 40 these days well-written songs and well-made records. Springsteen is more ambivalent about downloading. “I hate to see record stores disappear and I’m old-school in that I think you should pay for your music.
Industry reacts to Joe Gibbs’ death
Jamaica bserver – Feb 27, 2008
And the fact that he had a studio band the Revolutionaries says a lot” thinks Amon Saba Saakana. Saakana who is Trinidadian and was born Sebastian Clarke was speaking to the bserver after his presentation at the Global Reggae Conference where he spoke about the presence of reggae in the UK and Europe. He made an extremely good contribution to the development of Jamaican music whether he himself was a creator is not relevant. The fact (is) that he offered a space and he backed it up by investing his money in Jamaica. he stayed here and made a contribution to the development of Jamaica’s popular music… For that alone he should be honoured” continued Saakana who in 1980 published the world’s first book on Reggae entitled Jahmusic. Jamaican musicologist Garth White also had nothing but glowing comments about Gibbs. “I know that his contribution has been substantial to our music if only for the fact that at one point he was one of the major producers for Dennis Brown. And his studio engineer the late Errol Thompson was one of the best in the business when reggae blossomed. So we owe Joe a tremendous amount of gratitude. And he’s also responsible for some of Culture’s music too I can’t remember all of the others.
n reggae and dancehall
Jamaica Gleaner – Feb 27, 2008
Yes I am often disappointed when the music encourages young Jamaicans to mistrust and kill each other but this is how our society was conditioned by the ‘divide-and-conquer’ strategy of the European colonialists. Maybe Europe has been successful in pitting Ian Boyne and others against the working class of Jamaica. There must be more constructive ways to address the ruthless violence and degradation of women in the music. Calling dancehall a betrayal of reggae is something I would expect of Willie Lynch. What I have resolved in my mind is that we have a prominent journalist who sidelined his own objectivity for the sake of pushing his agenda. Let us remember that reggae suffered a similar persecution in its time.
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