in 2012. “When I saw him playing his thing I said, ‘Wait.’ Because I was always attracted to bass, you know. … The sound from the bass that time there hit me and I said, ‘.’ I said to him, ‘I want to learn how to play this thing. You haffi teach me.’ Then the next morning he woke me up and started giving me some bass line lessons.”
When Barrett joined the Wailers, Shakespeare took his place in the Hippy Boys and also played with the Aggravators, another local band. In 1973, Shakespeare’s life changed when he was invited to hear Dunbar play at a reggae club, Tit for Tat. “I said, ‘Who’s Sly?’ ” Shakespearein 2008. “’Sly’s a drummer.’ ‘Alright, come on.’ We went over there and Sly is sitting down on the drums, and I said, ‘Whoa, he can beat a drum. That’s a good sound, I want a session with that youth.
He and Dunbar soon became members of the Revolutionaries, the house band for Jamaica’s Channel One studio. That outfit pioneered the heavily syncopated reggae offshoot that came to be known as rockers. The duo also started their own production company and record label, Taxi. During the mid Seventies the two, known as the Riddim Twins, appeared on classic albums by Tosh and also recorded with nearly every major reggae act, including Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown, and Barrington Levy.
Shakespeare and Dunbar reached a new level of success and renown in the late Seventies when they joined reggae’s biggest band, Black Uhuru. That association led them to Island Records head Chris Blackwell, who soon recruited them for Grace Jones’ genre-smashingLP in 1981. Starting with albums like those, Sly and Robbie began incorporating more computer-generated rhythms and sounds into their tracks.
Into the 2000s, the duo worked with Sinead O’Connor and also remixed Britney Spears’ “Piece of Me.” In 2020, Shakespeare was’s list of the greatest bassists of all time. Asked where he would have placed himself on that list,
debbopoullo Lola rastaquouère !!
One of the players I learned from… I destroyed my vinyl of Dennis Brown’s Brown Sugar playing along to it… a true master of the bass guitar. 😞Rest in Power
ah! very sad news
Rest In Power Mr. Shakespeare. 😔💔🎼🎸
Geez. Godspeed. 'Big, big loss,” Black Uhuru’s Michael Rose tells Rolling Stone. “Nobody sounds like Robbie. He had the wickedest bass. You’ll never find nothing like that again.”
JohnFugelsang I can recognize his thump anywhere. Music selection for tomorrow settled.
JohnFugelsang Meanwhile
JohnFugelsang RIP BROTHER
ZydecoRocks NOOOOOOOOOOOO
One of the greatest of all time. I will always love Robbie Shakespeare
RIP Robbie 💔💔
RIPRobbieShakespeare
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Aww man. RIP.
RobbieShakespeare & Sly Dunbar did exceptional work on CarlySimonHQ Hello Big Man album. Especially on her version of BobMarley Is This Love Rest In Peace
😢✨💔🕯Rest in Power Mr. Robbie! 🙏✨
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R. I.P
I always liked this one (not sure if title is accurate). 'Nipple to the Bottle' from one of Grace Jones' albums is a good one too.
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