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EX-WAILERS MEMBERS GO TO COURT OVER USE OF BAND’S NAME!

RICHMOND, VA. Former members of Jamaican reggae band The Wailers, which played alongside Bob Marley, are going to court to try to stop the group they left from performing under the same name. Aston “Family Man” Barrett and other ex-Wailers members said in a petition filed in a Virginia Beach court this week that the reggae group currently preforming as The Wailers is a sham because it includes no members of the original band. They’re asking the court to act quickly and block the band from using the name, noting that it is set to play in Virginia at the Lockn’ Festival this weekend. The court set a hearing for Aug. 31, said attorney Stephen Screnci, who is representing Barrett and the others. Asked if that meant the band would still be … Read entire article »

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FORMER LEAD SINGER FOR THE WAILERS, ELAN, RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE “WICKED GAME!”

 Elan Atias— During his 13-year association with The Wailers, singer Elan Atias worked with a diverse list of acts, from Gwen Stefani to Carlos Santana. For his latest project, he covers Wicked Game, American rock singer Chris Isaak’s breakthrough song. His reggae version was released digitally last week. Elan, as he is known professionally, said his decision to revisit the 1990 hit was spontaneous. “I was in the studio with one of my producers, Thomas, and he played a reggae track that sounded like Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game, so I decided to record a version of the song to that track,” Elan told the Jamaica Observer. “I replaced the original song’s signature slide guitar sound with a saxophone doing the parts as I thought it fit better.” The song is intended for his fourth solo album, scheduled … Read entire article »

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BOB MARLEY’S WAILERS BAND TO PLAY IN INDIA FOR THE FIRST TIME, NOVEMBER 1!

BOB MARLEY’S WAILERS BAND TO PLAY IN INDIA FOR THE FIRST TIME, NOVEMBER 1!

 Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett— THE legendary Wailers band is scheduled to perform in India for the first time this week, the Indo-Asia News Service (IANS) reports. Led by stalwart bass player Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett, they are headliners for Saturday’s NH7 Weekender Festival at RBDSA Sports Complex in the city of Shillong, often described as India’s rock capital. The Wailers will also perform in the city of Kolkata on November 1. “This is our first time to India and … Read entire article »

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ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE NAMED “TOP REGGAE BASS PLAYER” BY WEBSITE’S RANKING!

  Robbie Shakespeare & Family Man—- ROBBIE Shakespeare, who has played on some of the great reggae songs of the past 40 years, has been named Top Reggae Bass Player by the Largeup.com website. Shakespeare is known to dancehall/reggae fans as half of Sly and Robbie, the formidable ‘Riddim Twins’ that also includes drummer Sly Dunbar. While he and Dunbar have played on and produced countless hit songs, Shakespeare worked on a number of quality productions prior to Sly and Robbie. These include The Wailers’ Concrete Jungle and King Tubbys Meets the Rockers Uptown. In the 1970s, he was also a member of two high-profile bands: producer Bunny Lee’s Aggrovators and Peter Tosh’s Word, Sound and Power. The Wailers’ Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett, one of Shakespeare’s influences, was named number two while Errol ‘Flabba’ Holt of … Read entire article »

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