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I've always thought the name "Massive Dread" was one step heavier & tuffer.

been a while since i posted, anyone have any links to recordings of his soundsystem work? would love to hear him live in action!

Here is a nice quality radio broadcast of Ranking Dread in action at the Moondogs in the Netherlands that I found online.... tape rip

http://www.mediafire.com/?jnzyq2wwhwm

anyone know where robert blackwood is you would never think this man was a criminal he is articulate,polite and can play a good game of soccer

yeah blackwood is real he is articulate polite i spent many hours making license plates and playing soccer out in the yard any word on how he is doing

i am an od friend please let me know if he is still around

the word is he died in prison in Kingston (i would guess either the Gen. Pen. in Rae Town or South Camp aka the Gun Court Prison) in 1996. there have been some "Elvis sightings" allegedly, but i think the popular consensus is he is well and truly dead.

there's never been much more detail other than that re: how he died - he either was poisoned, or "worked out too hard" and expired..... take your pick. Jamaican jail isn't a hard place to die in, consider Tivoli don Jim Brown - he "spontaneously combusted" at the South Camp prison in 1992.

According to some sources Jim 'Coke' Brown is not the same person as dj Jim Nastic.

the DJ Jim Brown allegedly did change his name to Jim Naustic so as not to be confused with the nickname of the slightly more infamous Lester Coke.

maybe not such a good career move to confuse fans, but definitely a good health insurance move.

jah tubbys world sound have some bad ranking dread dub an cornell campbell 'memba me tell yuh...mickey rose