NEW YORK WAS BUBBLING WITH ANTICIPATION OF
BERES HAMMOND'S 30TH ANNIVERSARY BASHMENT
FEATURING
BERES 
,
BUJU
BANTON 
,
SIZZLA 
,
MARCIA GRIFFITHS,
MAXIE PRIEST , WAILING SOUL AND MIKEY JARRET.
THIS CALIBER OF TALENT IS UNPARALLELED IN REGGAE MUSIC AND WE KNEW IT. THAT 'S WHY MASSAPAN AND I (AND HIS FANS) PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR BERES AND FRIENDS EVERY TIME !
THE SHOW WAS HOSTED BY SEVERAL DJ'S FROM WLIB 1190 AM NY BUT IT WAS PAT MCKAY WHO SHINED ALONGSIDE THE IMMORTAL SOUND, STONE LOVE WHO KEPT THE VIBES GOING BETWEEN THE BAND CHANGES.
THE SHOW OPENED WITH
CHOPPER RANKS DOING SOME GOSPEL REGGAE FOLLOWED BY THE JAMAICAN AND
AMERICAN NATIONAL ANTHEMS SUNG BY A LOVELY GIRL CHILD, SUPACHILE, MIKEY
JARRETT AND WAILING SOULS
WERE ALL GOOD .
BUT BEFORE
THEM ANOTHER
YOUTH 
CAME OUT TO SING "LADY IN RED" AND THE COLISEUM WENT WILD !
WHEN
MARCIA GRIFFITHS
TOOK THE STAGE TRUE
ADMIRATION GREETED HER AND SHE
TOOK US BACK 
TO OUR ROOTS WHEN WE 
DID SING
!
THEN,
BUJU BANTON
ENTHRALLED NASSAU
COLISEUM AND TOOK THE VIBES TO ANOTHER LEVEL
WITH HIS UNIQUE STYLE
THAT HAS MADE HIM
A FAVORITE TIME AND
TIME AGAIN.
THEN, THE BIG MAN
CAME OUT,
BERESFORD
HAMMOND, AND LOVE 
JUST ERUPTED ALL AROUND ME
AND LIFTED ME UP!
THE MASSES POURED LOVE 
ALL OVER
BERES FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TO
"GOOD" REGGAE MUSIC ! LIKE THEY
GONNA TALK, TEMPTED TO TOUCH
OR SHOULD I HAVE, CONFESS
TO YOU, AND COME BACK HOME
!
BERES
INTRODUCED BUJU BANTON 
FOR SOME REAL FUN WITH THEIR 
DUETS BY REVERSING
THEIR ROLES ! IS IT BERES
OR BUJU ?
BERES INTRODUCED
MARCIA GRIFFITHS TO DO THEIR DUET. THEN, BERES INTRODUCED " THE
LITTLE ENGLISHMAN, 
MAXIE PRIEST " THE
MASSES WERE STUNNED AND GRATEFUL TO HAVE BEEN THERE.
AS I HAVE ALWAYS SAID " BERES IS THE GODFATHER OF LOVE". SO LETS MAKE SURE HIS NEXT ALBUM ( IN STORES NOV. 25TH) BRINGS HIM THE GRAMMY !
SIZZLA,
OH YEAH, I FORGOT SIZZLA 
!
WELL HE
CAME OUT AFTER BERES (VERY BIG MISTAKE, SIZZLA). SIZZLA ALLOWED
HIS ARTIST, TURBULENCE, TO OPEN FOR HIM (BIG MISTAKE BIG WASTE OF
TIME)
THE ELDERS IN THE CROWD LEFT (THEY CAME FOR BERES) BUT US YOUNG BLOODS STAYED TO SEE SIZZLA PERFORM. WE WATCHED THE LIGHTS COME UP, THE SONY BIG SCREEN TURN OFF AND THEN SIZZLA'S MIKE WENT DEAD (UNION RULES).
WELL, BERES HAMMOND CAME OUT AND SAVED HIM FROM UTTER HUMILIATION.
BERES TOLD HIM TO
GIVE US " THE BIG TUNE" 
AND
THE MIC WENT DEAD AGAIN (UNION RULES) AND I RAN OUT OF MEMORY SPACE
!
BLESSED LOVE TO BERES HAMMOND,
GIVE US ANOTHER 30 YEARS OF LOVE,
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