How did you discover Reggae?

[Vlad]

Share your story!



Here is mine: 1984, on a tape, Pioneers: Pusher Man; Couldn't do notin' but listen to it for 1 year in Walkman. Then came Mighty Diamonds: Changes, and there you go. 25 years later I still love & discover every week!

[ras jah g]

1977,i was working for a record distributor.there was a dread named Jacob also woking there.we shared a little herb.i turned him on to Coltrane,Miles,Mingus,"Bird",Santana,The Dead,and the blues.Jacob turned me on to The Wailers,Pablo,Culture,"Scratch,Ras Michael,dub,and Count Ossie"Groundation 3 L.P.set(i still have it!).i've been on the "roots train" ever since.Respect,Love,Peace,and Happiness-namaste' ras jah g

[I-Lion Tafari]

My neighbour washed his old french car and was listening to a reggae mix tape. A lot of Black Ark stuff, some I-Roy, U-Roy, Jazzbo, Bob, Spaer, Culture, Dennis Brown,...

The music really got me. Was 8 or 9 years old. I loved it that much that I wanted more and more.
Used to listen to some rock before which was nothing compared to reggae.

I´m a little older now :)and the love for reggae music ist still there and I´m really happy with it.

One Love!

[aabey]

My sister brought me a pre-island wailers cd from the library when I was 14. It really changed me.

[stepping razor]

Hope someone says Roots Archives!!

peace

[stepping razor]

The environment in inner London in the 1970`s reggae was all around. Sound Systems playing in the streets in the summer, pirate radio. Walking down the street and hearing reggae music playing out of peoples houses. And the Notting Hill Carnival.

peace

[suzifan]

Turned left at Miami

[mr mountain]

Sandinista!
then got ahold of Mikey Dread & he linked me up with some great stuff

[6anbatte]

Previous thread here - **["How did you first get into reggae music?"](http://www.roots-archives.com/forum/rea ... 021,page=1)**

[super ape]

well,
i had been listening to lots of classic rock records that i was "handed down" from my mom and brother...dead, who, stones, traffic, beatles, etc...
then sometime in 81 or 82 i got turned on to some black uhuru. and i liked it!
i heard some bob, uhuru, etc here and there and liked it. bought my first reggae record in 83, a new copy of legalize it.
then sometime around 85 i was outside of a party, in my friend's car, smoking, and he put on this on-u-sound dub tape. that was it- i was done for. a few days later i was enjoying my new purchases "african anthem" and "cry tuff dub vol 1."
i have never been the same since.
and i like it that way.

love up!