![]() It was like a high school gym, with three sets of bleachers. We were among the first people to get in the venue and as I walked in, I saw a soundboard right in the middle of a dance floor. While we were there, Bob was playing two shows at the Santa Cruz Civic, so we got tickets for both of them, which was in July of ’78. We rented a gorgeous A-frame on a mountaintop in Big Sur, looking right down towards the ocean. Roger: In 1978, I was hired by a couple of Hollywood screenwriters to novelize two of their screenplays. ![]() That was 44 years ago, and it’s been on that trod ever since. That’s a turning point it just completely shifted my interests and my life. Right from the first notes of the first song, “ Catch a Fire“, and then “ Concrete Jungle.” The next night at that little tiny revival movie theater on the north side, I saw The Harder They Come and bought the soundtrack on the way home. I’ve never heard anything like that before. I found a used copy of Catch a Fire for two and a quarter, the one that opened up like a Zippo lighter, and took that home. ![]() on Shattuck, a used books and record store. I was living in Berkeley, so I went down to Shakespeare and Co. Oh? Okay! I’ve got to find this right now! Roger: I discovered it in in ‘73 through an article in Rolling Stone by a gonzo journalist named Michael Thomas from Australia, who said that reggae music crawls into your bloodstream like some vampire amoeba from the psychic rapids of upper Niger consciousness. ![]()
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