giamaica Archive

  • Interview with Keith Smith

    Interview with Keith Smith

    [Translate] Bob performed two shows in Trinidad on December 9 and 10, 1979 The Wailers played a show at Queens Park that saw hundreds of ticketless fans charge into the stadium. There was a riot at the concert and at the end of the show...

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  • Interview with Paul Alessandrini

    Interview with Paul Alessandrini

    [Translate] Paul Alessandrini is one of the best rock critic journalist in France. In the 70s he worked for “Rock and Folk” magazine, for french radio and television.”I first met Bob Marley in Amsterdam, in 1976. He was not very tall but he had an...

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  • Intervista a Roger Steffens

    Intervista a Roger Steffens

    [Translate] BMM: Possiedi la più vasta collezione al mondo di musica reggae. Come è iniziata questa passione? RS: Sentii parlare per la prima volta di musica reggae grazie ad un articolo di Michael Thomas sulla rivista Rolling Stone del luglio 1973. La dipinse in termini...

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  • Interview with Janne Schaffer

    Interview with Janne Schaffer

    [Translate] We were able to find guitar-player Janne Schaffer, one of Sweden’s most highly regarded musicians. Janne was born in Sweden in 1944; his career started in the sixties with Sleepstones pop group: “My musical roots were swedish folkmusik, blues, rock and a little bit...

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  • Interview with John “Fluteman” Reader

    Interview with John “Fluteman” Reader

    [Translate] BMM: Please, describe your life and yor career. I am 48 with a beautiful wife and three young kids, I am a professional geoscientist for a large Australian resource company. The name I prefer is FlutemanJohn the Fried Piper, Wailer 2000-2001, but my friends...

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  • Interview with Elsa Mamone

    Interview with Elsa Mamone

    [Translate] The contact is the right one: Ivan Serra from Torino, a friend of mine, sends me precoius copies of old newspapers and I discover that the Bob Marley italian concerts promoter was called Franco Mamone. I’m speaking in the past because, unfortunately, Franco (excuse...

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  • Intervista a Fabrizio Laganà

    Intervista a Fabrizio Laganà

    [Translate] 1) quando hai conosciuto musicalmente Bob? Il primo giorno che ho ascoltato Bob,era un pomeriggio del settembre 1977,quando Davide un mio amico,mi consigliò di ascoltare un LP di un certo Bob Marley And The Wailers, “EXODUS” il titolo rosso con la copertina tutta di...

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  • Interview with Marco Basso

    Interview with Marco Basso

    [Translate] After the one issue including the interview with Elisa Mamone (wife of the promoter of Bob’s italian concerts), our magazine will be examinig in particular the Turin Concert, held on 28 june 1980. Ivan Serra and Marco Virgona spoke to the journalist Marco Basso,...

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  • Interview with Red Ronnie

    Interview with Red Ronnie

    [Translate] In the tentative to reconstruct exactly all the stages of the Bob’s stay in Italy, our magazine is glad to publish an interview with Red Ronnie, journalist and one of the most skilled music critic, showman of the famous TV program “Roxybar”. In June...

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  • Interview with Fikisha Cumbo

    Interview with Fikisha Cumbo

    [Translate] Fikisha Cumbo is an artist who had the previlege to meet Bob Marley and Peter Tosh in the 70s. Now I have the previlege to indroduce Fikisha to you. Fikisha was born in Houston Texas though many people think she is from Jamaica. She...

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  • Interview with Ilse Marie Issels

    Interview with Ilse Marie Issels

    [Translate] Marco Virgona: Bob Marley stayed in your Bavarian Clinic from november 1980 to May 1981: what kind of patient was he? Ilse Marie Issels: I saw him as a very religious man, very charismatic, with a positive attitude towards life and towards the treatment...

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  • Interview with Bernard Purdie

    Interview with Bernard Purdie

    [Translate] Marco Virgona: 1 – Dear Mr Bernard Purdie, we know that you performed with Bob Marley and The Wailers in spring 1968 for producers Danny Sims, Johnny Nash and Arthur Jenkins. Did you ever meet Bob personally in Jamaica? Yes, I played and recorded...

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