Doctor Dread - The Half Thats Never Been Told: The Real-Life Reggae Adventures of Doctor Dread

Doctor Dread, 1954- author

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Doctor Dread has been a very serious contributor to the global value of this great reggae music... Doctor Dread to I is a brother."

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BUNNY WAILER, from the introduction

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BUNNY WAILER

THE REAL-LIFE REGGAE ADVENTURES OF DOCTOR DREAD

BY

DOCTOR DREAD

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Published by Akashic Books 2015 Doctor Dread

ISBN-13: 978-1-61775-290-2

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014938693

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Grateful acknowledgment is made for the right to reprint some of the lyrics to Its Alright, Ma (Im Only Bleeding) by Bob Dylan on page 196 of this volume. Copyright 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction by Bunny Waiter 11

Foreword 15

Gregory Isaacs 19

Oh, Jamaica 29

Fatis 48

South America 65

RAS Records

Real Authentic Sound 95

Peter Broggs 99

Freddie McGregor 102

Melodians 103

Don Carlos and Michigan & Smiley 104

Eek-A'Mouse 110

Brigadier J erry 112

Black Uhuru 114

Coxsone Dodd 117

Mad Professor/Ariwa 119

Eddy Grant/Ice Records 120

Live and Learn, Sky High, and Gong Sounds 121

Charlie Chaplin 123

Inner Circle 125

Tiger 126

Dancehall Consciousness 128

Tenor Saw 130

Rastafari Elders 132

Joseph Hill/Culture 134

Augustus Pablo and Hugh Mundell 135

The Marleys 137

Afterwords 252

I and I Give Thanks 254

The truth is an offense, but not a sin ... from Jah Live by Bob Marley & the Wailers

INTRODUCTION

liV BUNNY WAILEK

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I first met Doctor Dread in 1981 after the passing of my brother Robert Marley. This was around the time I released the Rock n Groove album, ended my licensing and distribution relationship with Island Records/Chris Blackwell, and moved with my brethren in developing Cash and Carry Records. We developed a close relationship with Doctor Dread through his respect for the culture of Rastafari. He has been and still is a favorite brother of I, Bunny Wailer, apart from being a favorite distributor of the great reggae music, and also a producer of great standards.

Doctor Dread is one of the few international producers to travel to Jamaica and engage the singers and musicians not only in business, but also as a unique people of Jamaica. He bought a home in Portland to extend that relationship. So I have always had a good feeling about him as a person, not just taking out and away but giving back.

Doctor Dread has been a very serious contributor to the global value of this great reggae music. RAS Records has been and somehow still is the record label responsible for so many of the talents, including myself, who have been established coming from Jamaicaand his eloquence surrounding this great music is enormous.

Our relationship is built on a trust in consigning and licensing records and grew toward our most major project, that of the Bob Marley Hall of Fame box set, for which we won a Grammy. Outside of the record business that Doctor Dread eventually sold to Sanctuary Records in 2003, we established a publishing agreement that keeps us in business today.

Apart from being a serious businessman, Doctor Dread to I is a brother, a father figure of two sons, and a family man with his wife Debbie running the publishing arm. As a couple they work well together. Doctor Dread has also been my road manager on tours of great memories along with Count Ossies band and Capleton, also several shows involving my nephews such as Ziggy, Steve, Ky-Mani, Julian, and Damian Marley (the Marley Clan). Doctor Dread once took us all to his home and we cooked a memorable feast.

During one of his most significant challenges related to his health, Doctor Dread reached out to me and we had many important reasonings on life where he deepened his faith in Rastafari.

Myself and Doc have never had any quarrel or financial problems working together for more than thirty years and even up until now, as he is still active as my publisher. Any difference of opinion has always been brought out in the open and worked through, such is the confidence of always aiming to do the right thing.