What does your family/friends think about your reggae love?

[Jaydubbinn]

My Mom tells me what are you gonna do with all those records when I get older, I tell her their going in my grave with me. A few of my friends love it, one of my brothers enjoys it but not as much as I do. Its a wonderful feeling to know that I own bits n pieces of Jamaican history, in the form of music of course. This is my passion!

[kalcidis]

My girlfriend isn't too fond of it. She likes melodic vocals but has problems listening to deejays. Especially monotonous deejays like Early B. Since I listen to monotonous deejays almost 80% of the time I think I can say that she's tired of it. Still I can hear her every now and then sing »The doctor style, the doctor style, it's wicked and wicked and wild!« when taking a shower or when she might finish a sentence with »as I would seh!«. I'll probably manage to convert her in due time though. Her favorite track is Horace Ferguson - Touch the General. An excellent choice in my opinion.

My parents do like the rhythms but have an aversion to the music as they think it might influence me to smoke marijuana and such. If you haven't done it when younger than twenty I think there's a minimal chance of doing it when 23 though so I believe that their worrying is unnecessary.

[leggo rocker]

My wife loves it (otherwise I would not have married her - just kidding)

Why is that kidding? Surely if she didn't like reggae marrying her would have been a really bad idea!

[leggo rocker]

My Mom tells me what are you gonna do with all those records when I get older, I tell her their going in my grave with me.

If I outlive you, I'll make sure to find out where they bury you Jaydubbin (for Jah's sake please DON'T let them cremate you!!!)

Can't say I really advocate grave robbing but this has to be an exception...

[Jaydubbinn]

I think I'm gonna need three different graves, one for me one for my music and a third one just in case.......

Can't say I really advocate grave robbing but this has to be an exception... LEGGO ROCKER

[leggo rocker]

Sounds like you need a pyramid!

[DUDLEY 1NE]

Well my parents are into the 60's to early 70's like john holt [first choice] dennis brown, gregory issacs, paragons, heptones, melodians etc. but they know i'm muzikally krazee anyway [ nuff said ] as for my sweet love she's into steel pulse and a couple of the modern artist. but she'll listen to my selections and ask questions on who's this / who's that. but she's in the junior level but she's willing to learning about late 70's early 80's roots / lovers / dub / etc.

[matty]

My MOM and Dad both got me into Roots at an early age, so of course they both love it. My sister likes some of it mostly Gregory Isaacs and Steel Pulse though, her boy friend likes it some of the time, but at family get togethers I've heard him say "enough is enough" I think he's just jealous cause I don't share it with him, and my lady of course loves it or she probably would have left me by now, and the neighbors have'nt moved yet, so I guess the mighty bass riddims don't bother them to much

[MightyZ]

Being a Peruvian guy living in New York, had always been asked for my reggae/rasta obsession. The other night went to a big dance in Jamaica, Queens, and the bouncer asked me, do you know where you going?, thinking that I was at the wrong place!
JAH Bless
RasFelipe

Had similar and quite unpleasant experience in Brixton - being one of the only three white people going to see Eek A Mouse! Never really thought I'd get a bad reaction as I'd only been to Reggae nights where the atmosphere was as cool as it could be! On the way we were asked if we were in the right place 'shouldn't you be goin' down de road' they asked (this was insulting as there was a skinhead band (second wave of skins in the late 70's early 80's) playing down the road and I was not into that stuff at all. As I went to present our tickets, they were snatched from my hands by a kid who disappeared into the crowd - clearly it was not wise to chase under the circumstances! I guess I experienced how many black people are treated in white dominated areas - it was an eye opener. Thankfully in 27 years of Reggae appreciation, this was the only bad experience!

MightyZ

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[leggo rocker]

I used to go to (reggae) Blues Nights in Bristol and Bath. They were generally very tight all-black scenes (with the exception of the few big blonde laydeez with very short skirts, loads of makeup, little handbags and high-heeled boots. They were always hanging around with the guys with the very sharp suits and lots of gold on show so I suspect they were actually 'ladies of the night'!)

We were in a small group, maybe 5 or 6 of us very young white guys and girls. We always felt like we had crashed someone's private party!

But we were into the scene and determined not to be excluded from our passion, reggae music played loud pon de sound system.

We would always bring, or score a likkle weed there and get the challice ablaze as soon as possible.

Then we would dance, dance and dance and try to ignore the stares.

Of course, they were probably looking at our stiff white attempts at winding our waist as it was quite obvious too me that we simply weren't as good at it as the black guys and agirls who seemed to have limbs and joints made of reggae rubber!

Eventually, the massive seemed just to ignore us. But no one ever, ever came up to chat with us (except to offer to sell us more weed at inflated prices).

In places like Portsmouth and parts of London, where the racial mix was more general, it wasn't so bad and the segregation didn't exist so strongly.

However, I never joined MightyZ on any of his Brixton ventures as having lived in Clapham down the road, I'd learned that indeed, certain places were best avoided with my skin colour.