Brings me back to the Reggae clubs/Reggae nights in New Orleans a decade ago. Sometimes the place would get raided and they'd find more guns than people. Sometimes people would be rolling spliffs up on top of the bar all night with no interruption. Sometimes there would be a shooting, sometimes it would be great vibes all night and every little thing would be irie. Eventually one of our favorite joints got shut down; if memory serves me right (it doesn't always with the memories from those days) "Butlers" in the 17th ward was one of those places.
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Sounds like u had a wicked time king. I never knew N.O. had a reggae scene.
It's down on the gulf, and the gulf is full of those islands, like Jamaica. I even saw Steel Pulse and Toots and the Maytals down there before I left.
oh toots is ROOTS!!!
Yeah, I did a lot of that old school reggae and I'm glad that a few are still around to see in person. I had made some T shirts for STEEL PULSE (just a homemade gift of some original artwork) and they actually came off their tour bus looking for me after the concert. I remember how wild the clubs would get down in NOLA for songs like "Uptown Top Ranking" by Althea & Donna, "Stepping Razor" by Peter Tosh, "Police in Helicopter" by John Holt, and "Broader than Broadway (Here I Come)" by Barrington Levy.
I know there were lots of others too, but some places would go crazy wild over the ones I mentioned. With 24 hour bars & clubs down there, some parties never really seemed to end. You'd head out after work to relax and realize a half day later that it was time to go back to work...