reggae legends or celebrities

[daCENSOREDone]

i opened this topic to know who you met and who you talked to...
just curious if I am really lucky...

[jah sky]

As an ex-free-lance-journalist in the 70s I was able to meet/hang out/interview:
Jimmy Cliff
Bob Marley (3 times!)
Carlton Barrett
Peter Tosh
The Black Eagles
Sly & Robbie...
...and Max Romeo's conga player (name forgotten)

[biscomassive]

Eek-a Mouse, Steel Pulse and most importantly Winston Rodney
oh i almost forgot Mad Professor

[daCENSOREDone]

As an ex-free-lance-journalist in the 70s I was able to meet/hang out/interview:
Jimmy Cliff
Bob Marley (3 times!)
Carlton Barrett
Peter Tosh
The Black Eagles
Sly & Robbie...
...and Max Romeo's conga player (name forgotten)

waw! I guess you won!

i met alton ellis, lee perry, lone ranger, horace andy during the last two years! not bad too uh!?

[pisces]

don carlos
junior reid
gold
winston hussey
little john
errol dunkley
leroy sibbles
john holt
pinchers
mikey boo richards
cornell campbell
philip frazer
half pint
linval thompson
trevor elliott
osbert maddo

this is as far as i can remember so far. i was a photojurnalist at one time for a magazine and others becuase they were either someone i interviewed for the magazine or because they were my client because i am also a freelance graphic artist. others i met over the years by pure luck.

all were quite memorable.

pisces

[kenpoman]

I've met a lot most are cool:

Gregory Isaacs (gave me and my wife free tickets to his show)
Jimmy Cliff
Morgan Hritage
Luciano
Cat Coore, Bunny Rugs, Ritchie Daley (Third World)-Gave us free passes to the show
Steve Nesbett, Selwyn Brown(steel Pulse)
Don Carlos
Sugar Minnot
Horace Andy
Pat Kelly
U- Roy
Freddie McGregor
Alton Ellis
Yellowman
Sugar Minnott
Justin Hinds
Santa Davis
Garth Dennis
Ansell Collins-Super cool
Astro & Brian TRavers (UB40-Gave us back stage passes
Stephen, Ziggy, Rohan, Damian, Julian, Cedella, Sharon Marley
Linval Thompson
Dean Fraser
Mikey General
Keith Porter-Itals
Flabba Holt
Nambo Robinson
Chico
Mighty Diamonds
Skelly + Wiss-Israel Vibration
Mutabaruka
Lucky Dube
Bread-Wailing Souls
Maxi Priest
JOe Higgs
Joseph Hill
RAs Shiloh
Beenie Man
Wayne Jobson-Native
Rodger Steffens
Twnikle Brothers
Marcia Griffiths
Barrngton Levy
Leroy Sibbles
Tinga Stewart
Ken Lazarus
Ken Boothe

[leggo rocker]

I chatted with Rico, Tan Tan and Winston Francis a couple of years ago backstage after a gig. Really cool guys - Rico is a musical God.

[RasFelipe]

www.myspace.com/rasfelipe
JAH Bless
RasFelipe

[fadel diagne]

jahsky
it's nice that you had such an opportunity meeting with vintage reggae artists such as bob peter jimmy cliff and most of all carly barrett.iam particularly interested in carly's interview if you ever recorded it.he hasn't gotten many interviews as he was oftentimes dubbed as a cool and maybe not that talkative.
did you have his interview or your reasoning on audio tape?
fadel

[gunosantos]

Well, in these few years I've been a reggae addicted, I didn't met many Legends, mostly because they don't come that often to brazil. But still there are a few nice reggae stars wich I had the pleasure to meet:

- Albert Griffths, Gallimore Sutherland, Earl "Bagga" Walker, Rudlowe "Ruddy" (The Gladiators - First time in 2001 @ Trade Roots Reggae, SD)
- Edi Fitzroy @ Trade Roots Reggae - 2001
- Al Griffths, Anthony Griffths, Vernon Sutherland, Gallimore Sutherland, David Madden (The Gladiators - Second Time in june 2007 @ Porto Alegre, Brazil)
- Clinton Fearon (October 2007 @ São Paulo, Brazil)

And most recently:

- Wiss, Skelly, Flabba Holt & Style Scott (Israel Vibration & Roots Radics - Exactly 2 days ago here @ Porto Alegre, Brazil)

My biggest dream was to someday meet the "maestro" Augustus Pablo. I know he was a very introspective person, often not seen in public and still mysterious in some way.

Unfortunately, he passed away in 1999 and I couldn't meet him in this journey, but I'd be very pleased to hear any stories of someone who might have known him personally.

I know this forum has a whole heap of *connoisseurs* so someone here must have met the man Augustus Pablo, IMHO one of the greatest artists and musician of the whole Jamaican History, and a true Rastafarian that never left his roots.

Blessings,