Written by Bob Marley biographer Timothy White and published in Musician magazine on October 1, 1989, “Days of Dying” is one of the best, most well-researched articles ever written about the tragedies of the Wailers.

Bob Marley and the Wailers kick off the U.S. leg of their Kaya tour on May 18, 1978 in Ann Arbor, Michigan with The Imperials.  Over the next few weeks they visit several college towns in the mid-west, playing mid-sized music halls and theaters.  They play the Orpheum Theater in Madison, WI on May 25, 1978.  Madison is home to a rather huge university – University of Wisconsin, Madison.

The Orpheum Theatre is a live performance and musical theater in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, located at 216 State Street, one block from the Wisconsin State Capitol building.

This review of the show was featured in VARIETY on June 7, 1978.

DOWNLOAD AUDIO FILE OF SHOW HERE!

Domestic bliss on board. I-tal forever puts Painesville, Ohio on the reggae map with their premium debut, the majestic & soaring “Rockers” contained herein. Burning Spear is about to make his west coast debut in San Francisco so 33 years ahead Midnight Dread drops the foot long forty five of his masterwork “Civilized Reggae” to spark the show brightly. The Mexicano gets the dready Eddy Grant treatment in his “Trial By Television” 12″ while Channel One Bunny Control King Tubby. Scarce selections from Black Slate, Johnny Osbourne, Roland Al, The Specials, Wailing Souls round out the curation. Largely unheard ever since its original dreadcast here’s its online resurrection, freshly digitized & mastered. Another outstanding conscious time capsule live & positive from a few weeks before a crucial Jamaican election set for Oct. 30th 1980 & the Carter/Reagan showdown a week later stateside. Bob Marley, still alive, sings “Real Situation” and exclaims “Bye bye” just before it fades. Stevie Wonder’s “Masterblaster Dub” 12″ gets a Midnight Dread mashup at midnight. Reggae music from the US heartland is joined by M. Al Azeem leading Session in Oakland CA backed by Sly Dunbar in a fiery track “Tell Me” from their initial album just out that month:

Dreadcasting over the air since 1979 & online since 1996 dreader 21st Century Midnight Dread programs air daily at 12am including replays often heard in his Best of All Worlds high noon slot and where one can also become conscious at 6am with the indigenous sounds of Native Son Rising, all curated by Doug everyday, all times Pacific. Many more Midnight Dread sights & sounds here and on this blog’s Midnight Dread page. Go deh. All of dem.

As revealed in this February 28, 1981 article by Vivian Goldman, rumors were swirling that Bob Marley and the Wailers would make a comeback at Rita Marley’s scheduled performance at the Carnival of Caribbean Arts.  It seems that nobody knew how sick Bob was at the time as Goldman speaks of a “possible relapse of his recent illness.”

Needless to say, the rumors were wrong and he did not appear as the surprise guest alongside wife Rita.

Big up DUBWISE GARAGE for posting these legendary shows.  CLICK HERE to see what I wrote about the shows in a previous post.

These big changes intensified dread. The 1980 Jamaican elections were held on October 30th. The USA followed suit 30 hours after this radio show. Read it in the news. The JA article linked above mentions the possible political connection to the terrible Eventide Fire. With DJ reports like Trinity’s “Eventide Home” & its horrific dub “Massive Fire” rockers music reveals it. Midnight Dread feels it. Radio antidotes it. This unheard since original broadcast freshly digitized edition starts with Bob Marley setting the captives free just before another Tuff Gong related item, the Top Ranking labeled fiery Devon Ians cover of George Clinton’s “One Nation Under A Groove” calls out against a rising tide of fear & loathing by seeking unity across the nations with groovy uptempo reggae sounds:

Jacob Miller has only been gone a few months leaving his last album MIXED UP MOODS to debut in his wake, a deep foray into then modern roots reggae with stunning vocals, way stronger than anything Inner Circle did for Capitol Records in that era as the title track reflects the needless passive/aggressive badness in a Babylon shitstem:

Jacob “Killer” Miller’s orange pressing shone like an October pumpkin pumping vitality into vinyl singing “False leaders rise everyday, show us their evil ways, prophecy say that they will have their day… mixed up moods & attitudes won’t work, don’t work.” Following Rico’s 2 Tone “Sea Cruise” excursion Rita Marley’s first solo lp, the just released Who Feels It Knows It, gets another track premiered, the evocative “Easy Sailing” following the play the previous week of “The Beauty Of God’s Plan” & “Jah Jah Don’t Want”:

In the Reggae Beat report Stevie Wonder’s upcoming December 7th ‘Hotter Than July Masterblaster’ concert at The Cow Palace in San Francisco is announced. Behind the scenes this indicates that the proposed Marley & Wailers/Wonder tour is off & stories of Bob’s ill health probably correct. Meanwhile, to help top things off thematically Mikey Dread’s first Dread At The Control foot long forty five outside Jamaica, the heavy bass ‘cranial cracking sounds’ of “Break Down The Walls / Wall Street Rock” unwinds, its righteous lyrics occupy inspiration for the 99%, counteracting the likes of Maggie, Eddie, Ronnie, and their International Monetary Fund 1% defenders & connivers:

The most fortune-telling proved-too-true tune of this midnight hour is the entrance of Leonard Dillon’s “When Will Be The End” masterpiece from the just out Studio One long player EVERYTHING CRASH:

“what is wrong with this current generation,
can’t they stop living in total desperation,
what is the meaning of this all,
when will the weather be making its last call,
when will be the end of it all,
now that our back is against the wall

hatred & scorn has torn us apart,
sufferation has left some with a broken heart,
corruption is slowly making lots of progress,
because mankind has been living in a mess,
corruption is tearing us to pieces today,
corruption is taking the world away,
sufferation is playing amok,
and mankind is getting stuck”

Last week’s 33 years ahead program. Dreadcasting over the air since 1979 & online since 1996 dreader 21st Century Midnight Dread programs air daily at 12am including replays often heard in his Best of All Worlds high noon slot and where one can also become conscious at 6am with the indigenous sounds of Native Son Rising, all curated by Doug everyday, all times Pacific. Many more Midnight Dread sights & sounds here and on this blog’s Midnight Dread page. Go deh. All of dem.

Thanksgiving 1980. Thatcher & Reagan gear up their voodoo pon economy & society as they gleefully prime the greed pump. Kiss a strong middle class goodbye. System cream them. Media go off topic & stay there. Classic conscious progressive roots reggae stands firm. By 2013 working poor sufferers offer insight into what it’s like to be a human cork that finds itself in an economic dysfunctional whirlpool where those on top can’t muster the willpower to control themselves or even toss a life saver. Midnight Dread does lifeline though & never stops. This freshly digitized unheard since original broadcast fires off many new releases beginning with Zap Pow’s adept admonition “Be Cool” and its dub “Cooler Cool”:

Listen up for a radio mix of “Draw Your Brakes” plus Gregory’s “Slave Driver”, The Selecter’s “Train To Skaville” re-up, The Ovations & Mikey Dread’s massive “Shy Girl” & Bobby Floyd’s cover of the Sam Cooke chestnut “You Send Me” backbeated into super shape. After the Reggae Beat Calendar tells of upcoming local San Francisco Bay Area shows with The Mighty Diamonds, Joe Higgs, Earl Zero & others The Diamond’s latest 45 paves the airwaves with “Don’t Want War” which starts a set of hunger pangs for communion & food including Tetrack & A. Pablo’s “Let’s Get Together / Black Ants Lane Dub” JA footlong before there’s a “Belly Full” of chuckin’ to Jah music with Bob, I-3s, & Wailers leading into Familyman-plays-all-instruments productions like Nadine Sutherland’s “Hungry Dub” & Fam’s JUVENILE DELINQUENT Clappers lp featuring Sena’s “Natural Woman”:

A hungry man is an angry man so dance to Jah music. The Gladiators also know all about the “Ease Squeeze”. The I Threes’ new single “Precious World” spins hope before Rocking Horse hard-knocks I & I up with their five star skank “Hard Time” which Toots amens with the anthemic Maytals masterpiece “Time Tough”. Plus Don Drummond, Roy Shirley, Slim Smith, The Uniques, & LKJ – just another set of mindful sufferahs speaking uncomfortable truths to the commoners & the compliant complacent whose bank accounts & protruding stomachs are always…

33 years ahead Midnight Dread gives thanks. Reggae gives the people what they want. Blessings up.

Last time’s 33 years ahead program. Dreadcasting over the air since 1979 & online since 1996 dreader 21st Century Midnight Dread programs air daily at 12am including replays often heard in his Best of All Worlds high noon slot and where one can also become conscious at 6am with the indigenous sounds of Native Son Rising, all curated by Doug everyday, all times Pacific. Many more Midnight Dread sights & sounds here and on this blog’s Midnight Dread page. Go deh. All of dem.

Here you will find a review of this show by Mike Davies which was published in Melody Maker on July 1, 1978.  To read more about this show please check my previous post.

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Here are four great photos that appeared in the July 26, 1975 issue of Melody Maker.  The photos, taken by photographer Robert Ellis, depict Marley onstage at London’s Lyceum.

Wonder coming to town! Where’s Bob? Masterblaster staying alive. The Cimarons march down Ken Boothe’s “Freedom Street”. Sly Dunbar plays “Mr. Music” and the thundering herd gets spooked sparking a runaway riddim flight complete with Aswad’s latest “Dub Charge” remix 12″ and Don Drummond with Drumbago pounding out another serious kind of “Stampede”. A starkly strange stereo mix (on Maroon Records) of “Stand Alone” (“There You Are”) from Bob Marley & The Wailers Upsetter period keeps hope lively upped. It clears the way for Alton’s “Still In Love” and the brand new Mikey Dread masterwork with Edi Fitzroy “Moonlight Lover” / “Freelancer” where Mikey references his radio operator skills amidst his custom Midnight Dread drops that pepper alla its programs. Jamaican born lead singer M. Al Azeem drops in to reason and preview several tracks from his new lp recorded in Oakland CA with Session, a foundational San Francisco Bay Area reggae band formerly known as Legs. Their first lp’s called “See Up Azeem” and features Sly on a coupla tracks:

After the Azeem interview and sounds and just before Jah Minstrels sing ‘Itality!’ ending Part One of this radio aircheck in their latest tune “African Roots” Peter Broggs gives major drum & bass thanks & praises with his landmark “Never Forget Jah”:

Yes I. Not only is Stevie Wonder coming to the Cow Palace but Culture’s coming to The Key Stones and Joe Higgs & The Mighty Diamonds are due at the Old Waldorf in North Beach. Early December 1980 is a glorious time. Travel there through audio and catch the vibe.

Last time’s 33 years ahead program. Dreadcasting over the air since 1979 & online since 1996 dreader 21st Century Midnight Dread programs air daily at 12am including replays often heard in his Best of All Worlds high noon slot and where one can also become conscious at 6am with the indigenous sounds of Native Son Rising, all curated by Doug everyday, all times Pacific. Many more Midnight Dread sights & sounds here and on this blog’s Midnight Dread page. Go deh. All of dem.

Here is a rarely circulated print interview with Bob Marley which appeared in the February 11, 1978 issue of Melody Maker.  The interview was conducted by music journalist Chris Brazier.  Photos by Barry Plummer.

Click any image to read the interview at ISSUU.

Tabby adds live vocals to the dub of the Who’s Gonna Bodyguard Mr. “Bodyguard” 12″ as midnight strikes with The Mighty Diamonds in the radio studio when the fateful day of December 8th, 1980 began. Earlier in the program I spun Bob Marley’s ‘many more will have to die’ “Natural Mystic” since Stevie Wonder was playin’ the Cow Palace without him as planned that week & true rumors were spreadin’ like wildfire Bob was near death. If you haven’t seen the brilliant doc “The US vs. John Lennon” this week might be a good time. John was part of the highly sabotaged generation. Read the book “Season of the Witch” on rampant bay area subversion, also by the FBI, dating back to the 50s for further details. John Lennon, one of the four men most responsible for actually undermining the Soviet Union to the point of collapse, is harassed for years while being made afraid to release any more ‘political’ music by the very type of police state mechanism that failed so miserably in its fight with, or even predicting the fall of, communism. (Several recent documentaries show exactly how The Beatles did it.) It was going to be a week full of easy tears, especially when listening to the radio hearing lots of Lennon’s great music no one could freely play except in a small window of time just after he was dead. When someone finally aired Lennon’s “Woman Is The Nigger Of The World” I completely lost it… yes for John, Yoko, & Sean; but mostly, quite frankly, for the huge loss radio suffered when mergers & half wit decisions ruined free form. I knew I would never hear that song aired again commercially. Get up, stand up.

Judge, Bunny, & Tabby know how to fight the power. Listen up for the scarce early Mighty Diamonds single produced by Derrick Harriott “Mash Up” as well as their first hit “Shame & Pride” plus “Have A Little Mercy” and recent smokin’ 45s including “Don’t Want War”, “Identity” and the footlong version of “Heads Of Government”.

It was a time when reality bit hard. The Gladiators sing brilliantly about “Naturality” where style trumps design. The me-cology of the 70s was going on steroids for the 80s. Linton Kwesi Johnson penetrates the folly with his tough & tight “Reality Poem”. If only we could turn back time…

Last time’s 33 years ahead program. Dreadcasting over the air since 1979 & online since 1996 dreader 21st Century Midnight Dread programs air daily at 12am including replays often heard in his Best of All Worlds high noon slot and where one can also become conscious at 6am with the indigenous sounds of Native Son Rising, all curated by Doug everyday, all times Pacific. Many more Midnight Dread sights & sounds here and on this blog’s Midnight Dread page. Go deh. All of dem.

Here is a rare promo 7″ that Roger Steffens gave to me featuring “Could You Be Loved” in mono on the A-side and the same tune in stereo on the B-side.  The best thing about this one though is that it is autographed by Aston “Family Man” Barrett.

Many thanks to our good friend Ras RoJah for “paying it forward.”

“Love We A Deal With” sing The Rastafarians featuring Haile Maskel, Vision Walker (of the original Wailers), Herb Daly et al as the Santa Cruz based roots masters fire up this radio program answering Moses’ Musical Desire. Mikey Dread chimes in with World War III. It’s the very best of 1980, fresh & frantic, don’t panic. Level vibes. Foot long forty fives. Roger Steffens of KCRW’s Reggae Beat joins Doug Wendt on Midnight Dread’s Part 2, all in all totaling over 6 hours of 33 years ahead new music and discoveries on commercial rock station KTIM. Bunny Wailer’s massive rocker “Crucially Crucial” bellows before Bob Marley draws “Bad Card”, Jamaican mix seven inch-wise. Colt 45! Then Duppy live mixes Stevie Wonder’s new hit “Master Blaster” with subdivided 12″ dubs of dynamite radio dimensions clearing the skies for the Jamaican disco 45s to cloudburst the sounds, 1980 shot after shot. Like Badoo toasts for New Year’s Eve with his “Rocking Of The Five Thousand”

Sly & Robbie carry the swing with production after production scoring in the top ranks of the very best singles of the year. Row-Jah calls the new decade “the weighty eighties” and their Taxi songs signal the dawning of the new tech-knowledgely. The Clash, Matumbi, & other UK bands as well as Lovers Rock are well-charged and represented. Then some great new compilations tell the history of Jamaican music. “Whatever happened to bluebeat, ska, & rock steady?” goes one tune. It’s all here in just the first 80 minutes of this three hour+ extravaganza. Happy New Year! Fire it up and wail. Fourward in Fourteen.

Last time’s Best of 1980 Part One 33 years ahead program. Dreadcasting over the air since 1979 & online since 1996 dreader 21st Century Midnight Dread programs air daily at 12am including replays often heard in his Best of All Worlds high noon slot and where one can also become conscious at 6am with the indigenous sounds of Native Son Rising, all curated by Doug everyday, all times Pacific. Many more Midnight Dread sights & sounds here and on this blog’s Midnight Dread page. Go deh with alla dem.

Midnight Ravers at midnight with Ras Michael live has a certain ring to it for the New Year. It’s the best of the rest of 1980 plus new 1981 releases from Hugh Mundell, Augustus Pablo and others. Special request and popular demand without apology with the apogee. Who wants to keep their versions straight? “The sun shines hotter in the winter time” sings Johnny Osbourne. Icy love rain down and reign without borders:

Melt away. Bob flashback to when he produced “There You Are” with Martha Velez at Tuff Gong. Toots tweets “Just Like That”. Jacob Miller belts out “Baby I Love You So”. U-Roy & The Paragons are “not the kind of man who gives up just like that. Oh, no!” Yet “The riders – they cover their face; So you couldn’t make them out in smokey place; In that musical stampede, where everyone is doing their thing; Musical stampede – people swingin’; People, ride on! Keep a-ridin’! Ride on! Midnight ravers!” So it go. Raiders on the storm. Paul’s plot ripped off and taken away:

Last time’s 33 years ahead program. Dreadcasting over the air since 1979 & online since 1996 dreader 21st Century Midnight Dread programs air daily at 12am including replays often heard in his Best of All Worlds high noon slot and where one can also become conscious at 6am with the indigenous sounds of Native Son Rising, all curated by Doug everyday, all times Pacific. Many more Midnight Dread sights & sounds here and on this blog’s Midnight Dread page. Go deh with alla dem.

Toots & The Maytals start this scorcher radio program live in London from the previous September in this vital vintage Midnight Dread encored here for the first time since its original broadcast out of San Rafael, just north of San Francisco. Local greats The Titans and The Rastafarians have their boss skanking new albums featured. Tamlins, I-Roy, Joe Higgs, Jimmy Cliff, Black Eagles, Dillinger, Prince Buster, The Beat, Desmond Dekker, Doctor Bird, Capital Letters, Mikey Dread backed by The Clash, Bob Marley, & Generals add their massive talents to the mighty mix.

“I go to bed but sleep won’t come
Get up in the night
I couldn’t fight my feelings
Early in the morning
It’s just the same situation
Here comes the landlord just a knocking upon my door
I’ve got four hundred/month rent to pay
And I can’t find a job
Let me tell you time tough
Everything is out of sight, it’s so hard”

In early 1981 Ras Midas is in trouble town bay area for his first series of shows. I-Roy says “Right On!”. Meanwhile Mikey Dread is in Clash town triple lp SANDINISTA! area with his lyrical levitation “Living In Fame”:

“When you living in a fame
you gotta live up to your name
or you die in shame
it’s all in the game“

(the original SANDINISTA! album’s large fold out insert partially shown after Ras Midas):

Same song everyday. 33 years on the new New York mayor with roots in Sandinista takes charge. Having just watched the top flight THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN documentary on Joe Strummer it seems The Titans with Ron Rhoades (who are interviewed in Part 2 of this show, which will be made available later) may have also told a bit of Strummer’s story when doing Ron’s song “Johnny Rocker” which ends this portion of another freshly mastered and digitized radio diary.

Last time’s 33 years ahead program. Dreadcasting over the air since 1979 & online since 1996 dreader 21st Century Midnight Dread programs air daily at 12am including replays often heard in his Best of All Worlds high noon slot and where one can also become conscious at 6am with the indigenous sounds of Native Son Rising, all curated by Doug everyday, all times Pacific. Many more Midnight Dread sights & sounds here and on this blog’s Midnight Dread page. Go deh. All of dem.

I was just informed by my friend and Wailers tour manager Rich Allis that the Wailers will be touring 2014 to mark the 30th anniversary of the release of Bob Marley LEGEND compilation album.  At each show, they will play the LEGEND album from start to finish.

Click on Family Man’s Fender Jazz bass to access tour dates!

There is also a rumor that TUFF GONG will release the 30th anniversary edition of LEGEND  to mark the 30th anniversary of the world’s most popular reggae album of all time.  Have not confirmed that but it is being kicked around…a lot.

BOB MARLEY LEGEND is a greatest hits collection of singles in its original vinyl format, and the best-selling reggae album of all-time, with over 14 million copies sold in the United States and approximately 25 million copies sold globally.  In 2003, the album was ranked number 46 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

It contains all ten of Marley’s Top 40 hit singles in the UK up to the time,^[4] plus three songs from the original Wailers with Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston in “Stir It Up,” “I Shot the Sheriff,” and “Get Up, Stand Up,” along with the closing song from the album Uprising, “Redemption Song.” Marley enjoyed fewer chart hits in the United States, “Exodus,” “Waiting in Vain,” “Could You Be Loved” and “Buffalo Soldier” the only ones included on this collection.  Of the original tracks, only four date from prior to the Exodus album.

LEGEND holds the distinction of being the second longest-charting album in the history of Billboard magazine. Combining its chart life on the Billboard 200 and the Top Pop Catalog Albums charts, LEGEND has had a chart run of 992 non-consecutive weeks,^[9] surpassed only by The Dark Side of the Moon at 1574 weeks.  In 2012, 31 years after the passing of Bob Marley, the album peaked on the chart at #18.

Most Marley heads will agree that his best material was left off the album, replaced instead by the clichéd, feel-good, la-la-la, herb-smoking drivel that frat boys sing while drinking themselves to death.  This of course was an intentional move by Chris Blackwell and Dave Robinson of Island Records, and a brilliant one at that.  While many fans, including myself, pan this album and it’s soft-edge approach to marketing Marley while suppressing his true essence, it is the ONLY reason that the man’s message of One Love has reached every corner of the globe, making Marley one of the world’s most recognizable figures.  Had it not been for this album, and this album alone, most of us wouldn’t know the first thing about this groundbreaking artist who is, in my humble opinion, the greatest artist and live performer of the 20th century.

Here is an interesting mix of “Waiting in Vain” alternate versions (everyone loves “Waiting in Vain” right?).

The night “Rockers Arena” bats lead, Bunny Sings The Wailers debuts, Derrick’s lengthy “Lollipop Girl” unreels, Robbie & Mao “Hold Me Tight” like nobody’s business, Rockers get traces, and importantly The Rastafarians new debut album is ready and they are on the way to the San Rafael radio studio from Santa Cruz several hours south. John Blackwood has just published “The Rastafari Handbook” on Kariba Press and Doug reads from its intro for part of his. What is Rasta? It’s all inside this Midnight Dread radio-active reggae rink.

Ace and echo-able Chicago-based harmonica player Jimmy Becker adds another layer to the psyche-your-delic train Derrick Harriott’s engineering along with The Tamlins and Bionic Steve. Midnight Dread adds dread bits galore to the Arena & Pop footlongs like a fourth of July boomshot display. The Wailers “Rastaman Chant” joins Bunny’s “Rastaman” for the rootical foundation before a Rudie interruption gets Lollipopped and we hold tight to our radio receptacles for Blackbeard & The Beat tuning, in, turning out, dropping out-side the pop box. Vision Walker from the Wailers joins Satta Crucial’s Rastafarians to complete the circle of foundation. Jah guides us back to earth.

The Rastafarians arrive just as Part One runs out of room and their new song “Seek H.I.M.” premiers. Haile Maskel, Wolde Manfesskiddus, Binghi, Herb Daly, Vision, Tony Moses, Elias Negash, & Gary Smith are immortalized on vinyl album at last. Part Two with more of their debut and now much sought after and revered classic ORTHODOX along with the full KTIM 1981 interview will soon come more time. Freshly digitized, mastered and made available for the first time since the original airing, Midnight Dread #54A. 1981 is looking up.

Last time’s 33 years ahead program. Dreadcasting over the air since 1979 & online since 1996 dreader 21st Century Midnight Dread programs air daily at 12am including replays often heard in his Best of All Worlds high noon slot and where one can also become conscious at 6am with the indigenous sounds of Native Son Rising, all curated by Doug everyday, all times Pacific. Many more Midnight Dread sights & sounds here and on this blog’s Midnight Dread page. Go deh. All of dem.

Listen up

“Now everywhere is War!”

“It’s up to you to not heed the Call Up!”

“Come on all Rude Boys unite
Stop That Train because
every morning you meet at the Bus Stop
but you know not where you’re goin’
or what you’re doin’
’cause you only see the clock on the wall
because you have to go to work
to work for your boss
who rule you and use you for a wage
from 9 to 5 Monday through Friday
all over the world
livin’ in fear of losin’ your job
because you don’t know the value which is in you
therefore you become somebody’s tool
so come on Rude Boys
let’s catch that Train To Skaville!”

The Beauty of God’s Plan, Happiness, No Woman No Cry, Jah Children Cry*, Cry Tough, Zappata*, The Call Up Version*, Rude Boy Train, Walk The Proud Land*, Stop That Train, Train To Skaville*, Fidel Castro, If You See My Mary*, Up On The Roof Strictly Roots*, I Need A Roof, Doorkeeper*, Jumping Masters*, War, Live Right*, Gates of Zion*

Radio Mixes, Sanity Fixes, Raver Pixes

The Hoovers versus Skanking Babylonians at the Savoy Tivoli’s Superbowl Skank-Off in San Francisco’s North Beach with Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band along with The Sir Douglas Quintet nearby at the Old Waldorf. A new album from Mikey Dread milks one amazing rhythm. The dread bits mash it up and flow freely. Monday morning looms. Just another anxious night in the early Reggaeighties… and things are about to get even dreader

*MD debuts

Last time’s 33 years ahead program. Dreadcasting over the air since 1979 & online since 1996 dreader 21st Century Midnight Dread programs air daily at 12am including replays often heard in his Best of All Worlds high noon slot and where one can also become conscious at 6am with the indigenous sounds of Native Son Rising, all curated by Doug everyday, all times Pacific. Many more Midnight Dread sights & sounds here and on this blog’s Midnight Dread page. Go deh. All of dem.

“Duppy can’t frighten duppy!” The more you live is the more you learn. Rude boy ska. Coming in from the cold dub. Keep on moving. Mash it down material world. Old broom. Do good. The tide is high. You’re my people. Natty screw face. Screwface.

Screwface underground. Some guys have all the luck. Barnabas Collins. Vampire. Dracula. Babylon system. 5 nights of bleeding. “Outside the rebels were freezing cold.”

Desmond Dekker. Gladiators. Bob Marley. Bunny Wailer. Jimmy Cliff. The Arrows. Freddie McGregor. Gregory Isaacs. Judy Mowatt. Yvonne Harrison. The Wailers. Toots & The Maytals. Junior Tucker. Lone Ranger. Peter Tosh. Linton Kwesi Johnson. “We’ve been taken for granted much too long. Rebel.”

Appearing for the first time since the night of its original broadcast. Featuring quotations from Carl Gayle’s Jah Ugliman plus music including The Screwface Trilogy and a Midnight Attack of The Vampires as well as the debut of Bob’s new “Coming In From The Cold Dub” 7″ and Judy Mowatt’s best single ever “You’re My People”. Tell the children the truth. Radio is the messenger.

Last time’s 33 years ahead program. Dreadcasting over the air since 1979 & online since 1996 dreader 21st Century Midnight Dread programs air daily at 12am including replays often heard in his Best of All Worlds high noon slot and where one can also become conscious at 6am with the indigenous sounds of Native Son Rising, all curated by Doug everyday, all times Pacific. Many more Midnight Dread sights & sounds here and on this blog’s Midnight Dread page. Go deh. All of dem.