![]() ![]() Pat Healy: And what was it that grabbed you about it? ![]() Sly Dunbar: The first thing I heard, where I realized that I wanted to be a musician, is a band in Jamaica called the Skatalites. Featured Photo by Wonder Knack for Mideya © 2007. Collaborators included Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Black Uhuru, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Madonna, Grace Jones, Sinead O’Connor, Serge Gainsbourg, No Doubt, Britney Spears, and probably a million more. Sly and Robbie got their start as the rhythm section for Peter Tosh in 1976, and after touring with him for a number of years started Taxi, where they would produce other artists and/or act as their rhythm section. As one half of Sly and Robbie-a duo dubbed the Riddim Twins-Sly says he’s probably played on a million songs. If you’ve heard any reggae music in your entire life then you’ve heard Sly Dunbar’s drumming, or at the very least, his influence. ![]()
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