ONE LOVE: REGGAE: David Baram: Entertainment Attorney

“It's Bob Marley and the Wailers 'Kaya'. And it was the late 1970's and I had been working in the live music production and promotion business as a concert promoter for about a decade. I had worked with some very large named talents like Jethro Tull and Arrowsmith and Kiss and the like but I knew nothing of reggae music. And I started working at a nightclub called My Fathers Place for a gentleman named Eppy and he was famous for doing a Monday night reggae series. And one day he said to me 'Hey we're going to Jamaica in a couple of weeks we've got a live festival that we're promoting, here check this out'. And he gave me a copy of Kaya and he said go listen to this. And I listened to it and my head exploded from it. I couldn't believe how different it was from the music I was used to and yet it had the same basics from the blues that I always loved, the 1,4,5, kind of chord structure. And there was so much space in it, between the bass and the drums, there was so much openness in it that wasn't being filled that was so powerful. The lyrics were so amazing and the vocals were great and it just changed my life. I've worked in the reggae business ever since.”David Baram: Long Beach, NY, 10th February 2019Bob Marley and the Wailers: “Kaya” - released 1978
David Baram: Entertainment Attorney, Bob Marley and the Wailers: “Kaya”

 

“It's Bob Marley and the Wailers 'Kaya'. And it was the late 1970's and I had been working in the live music production and promotion business as a concert promoter for about a decade.  

I had worked with some very large named talents like Jethro Tull and Arrowsmith and Kiss and the like but I knew nothing of reggae music. And I started working at a nightclub called My Fathers Place for a gentleman named Eppy and he was famous for doing a Monday night reggae series. And one day he said to me 'Hey we're going to Jamaica in a couple of weeks we've got a live festival that we're promoting, here check this out'. And he gave me a copy of Kaya and he said go listen to this.  

And I listened to it and my head exploded from it. I couldn't believe how different it was from the music I was used to and yet it had the same basics from the blues that I always loved, the 1,4,5, kind of chord structure. And there was so much space in it, between the bass and the drums, there was so much openness in it that wasn't being filled that was so powerful. The lyrics were so amazing and the vocals were great and it just changed my life. I've worked in the reggae business ever since.” 

David Baram: Long Beach, NY, 10th February 2019 

Bob Marley and the Wailers: “Kaya” - released 1978