RIP Jimmy Cliff

[Drunk Monk]

Oddly, I think the only time I saw him was with Jerry at the Greek. At least that I can remember.

That was a good one. 

Below are my mentions of JC here, to jog my memory. I saw him a lot more before the D00M4M arose, once thrice in 1 week in '88 - Santa Cruz (which I thought was with KB), San Jose (which I think was with Jennifer Bailey) and Eugene OR, which was with a carload of Deadheads whose names I don't quite remember anymore. I think I still have the T-shirt, which I shall attempt to recover tomorrow night. 

Reggae On The River: The Magical Years
by Steve Heilig, May 15, 20199 Comments
1992: One of the years where one after another, artists who would be headliners anywhere else took the stage one after the other - Toots and the Maytaks, Jimmy Cliff, Burning Spear, and for good measure, Zimbabwean legend Thomas Mapfumo.

But it was fairly constant, especially on Saturday night, costing Dm Jimmy Cliff's act, but that was alright as there are a few JNK that are really into Cliff, and DM has seen him a bazillion times, so Dm was happy to work so they could see him.  

I just saw Jimmy Cliff at RotR30.  

Jimmy Cliff: He played a lot of classics, which is all we really want.  He updated one of my fav tunes, Vietnam, to Afghanistan, which totally worked.  He’s still got it – that inspiring castrati voice, and righteous lyrics.  

Saw LKJ and Jimmy Cliff.  LKJ was ok.  Jimmy is still great, still Jimmy.  Someone told me he was 78, which I repeated without checking, but he is in fact, 64.