That was me at the Hollywood Ska and Reggae Festival last Sunday...as I said in my last post, I can die happily now...it was an amazing show!The line up was as follows, from first to last:
- The Kingston Ska Collective (GREAT Skatalites cover band...Korey Horn, former drummer of the Aggrolites was drumming for them!)
- Owen Gray (backed by Kingston Ska Collective)...he sounded as great as ever, and he looked really healthy! It was a shame his set was so short...
- Dennis Alcapone (backed by the L.A. Allstar Revue). He was the most classy dressed person that night, and he was damn amazing as well! My first time seeing an artist like him (a toaster), and the fact that the L.A. Allstar Revue were so damn good certainly helped...at the end of his set, he had the band play Guns of Navarone
- Derrick Morgan (backed by L.A. Allstar Revue)...out of all the artists that night, he was the most frail...he was also blind...but HOT DAMN HE WAS AWESOME. He was excited when he heard the size of the crowd...he played all the classics....Blazing Fire, Tougher than Tough, Housewives' Choice (Persephone of Ocean 11 is such an awesome singer), and at the end of his set...he did a boogie woogie version of Fat Man! That was awesome. He came out for an encore and did...the song all the skinheads were waiting for...the MOON HOP!
- Pat Kelly (backed by the Expanders)...oh man, I'm not too familiar with all his stuff, but hot damn, he was awesome, such a great voice...at the end of his set, Owen Gray and Dennis Alcapone came out and they all did a song together.
- Alton Ellis (backed by the Expanders)...DUDE!! He was AWESOME, he sounded just like he does in 1968, and he was so awesome...the band did a medley of his songs first, and he started singing Willow Tree from the backstage...the crowd went nuts! He even brought his son, Chris Ellis, out, and they sang some songs together. The only sucky part of his set was when he started talking about peace and how we needed to love each other...some skinheads suddenly got into a fight...that was kinda lame! But anyways, definately the HIGHLIGHT of my night was when Owen Gray and Dennis Alcapone came out (Derrick Morgan was too frail to come out, otherwise, I bet he would have came out too), and sang SHANTYTOWN/007!!!!!! Oh man.....
Next up, the Man from Wareika...
