i'm terry and welcome to reggae in seattle i count down music video kind of based on what's happening within the reggae scene locally and so this week's countdown is going to feature all visiting international artists and plus we do have a special treat because papa bernstein was here a couple of weeks ago and he sat down with me reggae in seattle to discuss his musical journey and what's next for onsen now what we're going to do is we're going to start this countdown off with michael rose michael rose is going to be at nectar allowed michael rolls with sly and robbie let me be clear because that is the sound that was part of the magic that was black of who rules back at his height they're the ones along with puma rest in peace and donnie simpson that made a black world and they gave us those songs that we love guess who's coming to dinner tha rd also we had opening up for them we have double our international one of our local favorites and we have a special appearance by daven michael stedman so that's going to be on  yeah i just wanted to correct that so we started out this segment we're sly and robbie between michael rolls with good morning we were told that right on into revolution city life now revolution they're going to be at mary moore park on tour i would say we're at the midpoint of the tour we actually are on a fifty state tour right now and i believe when we just checked we had twenty six states since january  that this is like your rd time doing a fifty state tour yeah something like that yes we did it many years ago with my band the reggae revolution we was on the road for sixteen weeks straight  and about ten years ago i went out with my new band called and generation and i think we did about forty eight states in the year so now we're attempting again this year but i'm not rushing it like i did you know we're going to do probably nearly we're going to most of it this year but i'm not worried if we take a lot over into next january you know to complete it but so far it's been really really good and we're not only doing t it wasn't intended to be able it's ended up being like yes well i mean the people want to see you and so you've got to give them that now with all of these cities you're going to tell how it's seattle treating you has this your st time here we've been here quite a few times in the past this time where we've been treated nicely you know you're here you know to soundcheck is being really really good hospitality at the venues is great and you know we're looking forward to a good show tonight did i read that you live in lake elsinore california yes that is absolutely correct when i read this all by how did he end up at lake elsinore now let me just tell you a little some i'm born and raised in san diego but my family and you know when i was a kid they were dreaded but they would load up the camper and we would go camping at lake house and so might have so tell me how did i british reggae star end up and lake elsinore well you know i actually moved you know my daughters came and visited me from the u k and they were wearing blue and one was wearing blue and one was wearing a red and they both got threatened in the same day so you know and there was just a lot of violence very close to where i live so we did a lot of research plus we wanted to be near water but not the ocean but we want to be near someone like a lake so we looked we did some research and we saw that lake house and it was the biggest freshwater lake in southern california and then we researched the prices and we actually got a home twice the size what we was living in for the same price so it's very affordable and very quiet you know you step out after ten o'clock at night and you're in pieces on so yeah and hardly any police they've got one police station and maybe a couple police in this so it's just like a really really nice place to be it's good for our creativity we can record with noise you know and we we've managed to move into that community a lot of people they know who i am so we've got a lot of respect then we get the opportunity to work with the young people with the grown ups so we love it  is part of i mean part of what you are i mean you have been doing community outreach for years started i also read that you are an ordained minister so i mean i'm now so you are a grant now listen to i believe a spiritual in the i love god and my love for god means that i recognise that every person on this planet is a child of god and so i wanted and love my brothers and sisters i do love my brothers and sisters i want to be in a position where i can serve them and as a parent of children myself and also a foster parent over many children from my community i always wanted my environment to be a place where it was positive and that the kids could have a good time without worrying about violence and the reason why i got the b b c achievement award was because i actually reduced gun crime in my city when i was away for years turin i realized you know i wasn't getting a chance to do enough for my own people and then two of my sons got shot in a drive by shooting at the ages of ten and eleven so i was like ok now i need to go back home so i took about fifty six year break and start to teach in start to doing community work setting up recording studios working with gang members to get them off the streets back into education and  it was some of the best times of my life was work in my city yeah my son survived yeah they survived thank god but they save somebody's life they nearly died saving somebody's life and before i mean i can't even imagine i have one son myself so i can't even imagine what you know what you felt but then to take that energy and to turn it into something positive for the community that you can actually quantify the results by lower crime in the area that you know that's i mean that is i don't want to see us miraculous because i think that many people can do what you're doing but too many of us just don't we are sometimes i think a lot of people don't feel that they can what makes what makes pottle think he can do all this i don't know i've always had faith and i've always tried to be brave you know one of the things that a lot of people i know are afraid of is failure you know they're free to start something they kind of complete and for me in though it's like i'm not i'm not too proud to fall down gracefully you know and once i put my mind to something i usually try to complete it but failure for me is a learning tool it's not something that we should run away from it's so often we should embrace because if we don't get it right the st time we can do it the nd time move with more wisdom knowledge and understanding so you know and i think at the time as well what was really beneficial for me when i decided to go and work in my community was i had just had a few hits in the charts so i was a household name in my city and across the k really so it allowed me to be able to go into certain places where ordinary black men it would have been very difficult for me yeah so my celebrity allowed me to use that profile for doing good and i used it to the maximum to help my people pottle talks about his childhood and i know that when a lot of people they come you know they come from chap challenging situations to say the least now yours was so check that out and so i don't want to go to indy because he's given me time and i can't take up all the time i got to keep it i got to keep in contact but do you think that your experience is that your spiritual beliefs have you always been spiritual what kept you on the base because you could have took it and taken a negative path or a positive path what kept you on the positive path to what you really are doing is this just a spiritual vibrations you're giving us what is that i think it it was the inspiration i received from reggae music when reggae music because my father was j from jamaica and so i grew up with him in the u k helping him out we decide on system that's how i ended up going on the microphone and everything and i so i started helping out as a doorman at the age of eight so at the age of a i used to see everything that you're not supposed to see as a child you know attempted rape attempted murder drugs i used to open and close the door all night so i heard all the conversations about what was going on underground in my community on night stand in the door so as i grew up doing this and a music started to change from rock steady blue beat scar and then reggae music started to sing about j and god and africa i wanted to know because i wasn't going to school at that time so i started picking up books and educating myself about the st thing i wanted to know is where did i come from genetically and biologically so i started studying about my african heredity and the link between africa and jamaica and then from jamaica to the u k and then after i figured out who i was i was pretty confident i was an english make an african i said i wanted to know where i came from spiritually so i started to research for fifteen years i did really just study studying the world's religions and i came to the conclusion that you know this material world really is for learning platform for us to advance our selves and prepare ourselves for the next journey which is spiritual so for me this life is not the reality you know this life for me is just a training ground and just an opportunity for me to to to live and learn and grow as i look forward to a better future so you know for me the future is bright you know the future is so bright it's it's dazzling it's it's sparkling you know and that makes me positive that makes me happy to know that not even death is it something that can hinder us from achieving life you know i know exactly and i feel i really feel i really feel what you're putting out there spiritually and the thing is this part though whatever it is at the end your music is here you're going to live on your legacy will live on and your legacy is also going to live on through the children that you've helped to the people that you've inspired even a little bit to me you sat down here so so now let's move on to the i'm going to shut it down but what i want to ask you about tell me about your band now that hit the soundtrack is happening now i don't know if you can hear the effect there but it's come on and i mean here tonight tell us about your  band you mentioned that you've been with this this has been your band for the past ten years now did you say that yeah this is been about and for the now generation has been my band for the past ten years and to let my keyboard player is also my wife now so two net roots datta on the keyboards david goldman's and the guitar sometimes we have horns players with us we have the eveready horn brass section but they're not with us on this run but we're hoping to link up with them again soon and we also have different question is that common in the band different time so you know we just flew over from puerto rico and had you know fruit are we going into washington going to and then into kind of british columbia and then heading over to the u k so we're on a long journey right now and the band i love my band i play great music they play tight what you can hear in the background right now  we're actually work in an internet st full album so she's just working and you know doing some of the songs in the set now so the band's positive the bands happy and going back to you know do you question what makes me stay so positive you know for me you know every day is a blessing you know i grew up seeing a lot of bad things i've seen so many people die in my lifetime and i'm still breathing today and i think that if we wake up in the morning and we have breath and we have health and we have the opportunity to go out there and do some kind of work to keep a roof over our head then we should be happy we should be positive because a lot of people don't have that so it's about having an blessing for us when visiting artists sit down and take a moment of their time to you know have a little conversation with us so thank you again for that blessing so now before i shut the show down let's talk about upcoming events so number one i've already mentioned michael rolls with sly and robbie this is this is just a fantastic thing that's happening on june th we have the seattle peace concert not only is this event free it's nothing but local reggae bad local ready artist this event is taking place at a lower woodland park again on sunday june  and i rooted bad this is like i said this is a free event go out and support your local reggae band i just love this and stay tuned because next week's episode will be nothing but a local reggae artist so we're putting that together for you i'm looking forward to next week's show so make sure you come back for that and listen if you have a local event that you'd like for us to cover reach out to us at reggae in seattle dot com now i'm not saying that we can cover everything  but we do what we can and we cover what we can so in the meantime i'm going to leave you what these herbs and finally the herbs come around