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Shifting locale, the Kingston-born producer vividly recounts how the "Throw Down Your Arms" project took on a global perspective: "[Sinead] called me in Jamaica ... actually a lawyer friend we know in the US called me first and told me that she wanted to do an album with us and I said, 'What kind?' And he said, 'Reggae,' and I say, 'Well all right, it don't matter what type.' I had met Sinead before and to me she is a beautiful person."
Shortly thereafter [Robbie Shakespeare] got a call from Sinead, who told him the names of the 12 tracks she wanted to do: "Throw Down Your Arms," "Jah Nuh Dead," "Marcus Garvey," "Door Peep," "He Prayed" (Burning Spear) "Y Mas Gan" (The Abyssinians), "Curly Locks," "Vampire" (Lee Perry), "Prophet Has Arise" (Israel Vibrations), "Downpressor Man," (Peter Tosh), "Untold Stories" (Buju Banton) and "War" (Bob Marley)."Familyman is my boss," he says proudly. "He's the one 99% who is responsible for what I am today. He was the one who encouraged me. He was the one I saw up close playing a bass and I told him, 'Hey you have to teach me that," he says, "bigging up" the man who taught Bob Marley how to play the guitar. "He's the one who woke me up out of me bed and give me an acoustic guitar and say, 'You say you want to learn, let's begin.' He's the one who gave me my first bass and send me on my way." Robbie gives praise and thanks, adding, "You can't forget the source because once you forget that you are lost."See the full content of this document
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Sly &Amp; Robbie 'Throw Down' with Sinead
"Music is a universal thing right 'round the world. It's free for the ears and for the soul for those who want to absorb it as much as the air you breathe and the water that you drink. It's a life force which is supposed to be free, but people find a way of bottling it and selling it, but...
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