News : The Boys of Birmingham - Steel Pulse motors on in the face of reggae adversity

[FLEURETTE VAN GULDEN]

Hinds may well have issues with his walking the lines throughtout his music career. But his voiced opinion regarding racisism and 400 years of slavery---his but an insult to Jamaicans. Perhaps he should know the history, is roots and of Jamaican music before he attempted to test it. Hinds we in Jamaica know about slavery. Hello England entered here 1655 apprenticed us 1831 with a rediculous stipendary magistrated system. Slavery ended in Jamaica 1834 but England continued on as Crown Colony until 1962. 307 years we've had them.

I personally loved, bought and played your music. Hunger twice to see you in Atlantic City for a show that never appeared. Loving your music had nothing to do with Reggae, the color black nor oppression. It was the music arrangement and its beat; all blended well as a product. Musicains however must always decided waht and where they are going with their tool. Bob Marley is a true example. He just wanted to sing he finally reached an audienceand was fullfilled---"ME BELLY FULLY BUT ME HUNGRY" music filled him---blessed are the weak for they shall "inherit the world"

03/2008

[FLEURETTE VAN GULDEN]

Get in the action, go to Reggae's BIRTHPLACE and spend some time. Even today's publisher's and writer's do. I recall Adrian Booth a young Brit who came to Titxhfield High and never left his camera. Smart he came as a commonwealth teacher-in sciences and walked away a Publisher of one of the first releases on Bob