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said “I have to develop myself<br />
if I want to stay in this business”.<br />
I started working on<br />
patterns and beats and taking<br />
ideas from them.<br />
Give me an example of how<br />
you re-imagined the past...<br />
Like if you listen to [the Mighty<br />
Diamonds] Right Time Come -<br />
Lloyd Knibbs was the first person<br />
I think who played it because<br />
I cut the pattern away<br />
from one drop to a song called<br />
Addis Ababa for Skatalites and<br />
a couple of other songs. I listened<br />
to him a lot and said “I<br />
am playing reggae right now.<br />
I can play a pattern like this”.<br />
So when I played Right Time<br />
like this right through people<br />
just couldn’t believe it because<br />
drummers then just played<br />
one drop - they might accidentally<br />
play a little thing different<br />
and then come back to the one<br />
drop. I was playing the pattern<br />
right through and then JoJo<br />
from Channel One gave me the<br />
go ahead to pursue that so I<br />
started doing a lot of this.<br />
How does the actual music<br />
you’re playing on inspire you?<br />
A lot of people see me and<br />
don’t know the inspiration<br />
I’m getting when I’m playing<br />
this thing. Sometimes the inspiration<br />
is coming from the<br />
bassline or sometimes from<br />
the singer. Because I’m playing<br />
a song and playing a part of it<br />
not as a drummer but even as a<br />
keyboard player would play it.<br />
Listening for the pattern or the<br />
kind of beat I could flip in the<br />
chorus. There is a song called<br />
How Could I Leave by Dennis<br />
Brown where I played on the<br />
original take. When I came<br />
back from tour Errol [Thompson]<br />
said I had to dub all these<br />
drums over saying “It’s not<br />
rocking” meaning there was no<br />
groove in it. I thought it was ok<br />
but they said “No “. So I went in<br />
the Friday morning they put on<br />
the track, I said “This is what<br />
I’m feeling” and they said “Play<br />
anything you want!” (laughs)<br />
Because they knew I wasn’t going<br />
to play the one drop so they<br />
said “Play anything” to make it<br />
groove. I started playing and<br />
the whole studio jumped up,<br />
saying “That’s it! The whole<br />
song is finished!” But I was just<br />
grooving to the bassline and<br />
the melodies Dennis was singing.<br />
Then there is another song<br />
I did which a lot of people don’t<br />
know I did which is Punky <strong>Reggae</strong><br />
Party for Bob Marley.<br />
stay in this business”. I started<br />
working on patterns and beats<br />
and taking ideas from them.<br />
Give me an example of how<br />
you re-imagined the past...<br />
Like if you listen to [the Mighty<br />
Diamonds] Right Time Come -<br />
Lloyd Knibbs was the first person<br />
I think who played it because<br />
I cut the pattern away<br />
from one drop to a song called<br />
Addis Ababa for Skatalites and<br />
a couple of other songs. I listened<br />
to him a lot and said “I<br />
am playing reggae right now.<br />
I can play a pattern like this”.<br />
So when I played Right Time<br />
like this right through people<br />
just couldn’t believe it because<br />
drummers then just played<br />
one drop - they might accidentally<br />
play a little thing different<br />
and then come back to the one<br />
drop. I was playing the pattern<br />
right through and then JoJo<br />
from Channel One gave me the<br />
go ahead to pursue that so I<br />
started doing a lot of this.<br />
How does the actual music<br />
you’re playing on inspire you?<br />
A lot of people see me and<br />
don’t know the inspiration<br />
I’m getting when I’m playing<br />
this thing. Sometimes the inspiration<br />
is coming from the<br />
bassline or sometimes from<br />
the singer. Because I’m playing
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