Robbie Shakespeare

With regards to reggae bass playing, nobody comes near getting the influence of Robbie Shakespeare. As you fifty percent of the Riddim Twins, a studio room duo that he stocks with drummer Sly Dunbar, Shakespeare offers played on an extremely long set of albums. Furthermore to documenting and/or generating albums for reggae performers including U-Roy, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Tradition, Burning up Spear, Dennis Dark brown, Gregory Isaacs, Jimmy Cliff, Mighty Gemstones, Sugars Minnott, Pablo MoSes, Chaka Demus and Pliers, Augustus Pablo, Yellowman, and Dark Uhuru, he and Dunbar possess provided their rhythmic and studio room experience to albums by such pop and rock and roll celebrities as Mick Jagger, Joan Armatrading, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, Yoko Ono, Elegance Jones, and Ian Dury. Making use of their have albums, they arranged the typical for scaled-down, bass and drum dubbing. A experienced of such program rings as Bunny Lee’s Aggrovators, Shakespeare 1st collaborated with Dunbar as users of Route One Studio home music group, the Revolutionaries. Determining to try their fortune like a duo, in 1974 they created an independent creation organization and record label, Taxi cab Records. Their 1st creation, “Murder She Wrote” by Chaka Demus and Pliers was a significant hit and arranged them off on the path of achievement that has however to abate. Shakespeare offers continuing to expand the options of his bass playing. Known for his innovative use of consumer electronics and production results, he and Dunbar documented an electro-reggae recording with imaginative DJ Howie B. Shakespeare and Dunbar possess created the soundtracks for a number of films including Golf club Pardise, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Poetic Justice, as well as the all-time greatest grossing Jamaican film, UNDER-DEVELOPED Cop.