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After Burning Spear's hour-long performance, the crowd did indeed want more. And so the Spear gave them more-in an hour-long encore performance. At 1:15 a.m., an exhausted and sweat-drenched Boston University student articulated the collective sentiment. "Wow. I actually got a chance to have my consciousness raised and party at the same time!" Political reggae that moves behinds. That's what Burning Spear is all about...
...BURNING SPEAR...
Critics claim that all of Burning Spear's albums sound the same. Likewise, there was little to distinguish one tune from another throughout the night. Fortunately, this amounted to a constant musical high maintained throughout the performance. While the Spear's vocals were occasionally unintelligible, the groove was always clear and deep...
...band. The Burning Band horns' slide and two-step dance was reminiscent of James Brown's bands, while their horn lines were full of jazz and folk riffs. It is the band that must be given much of the credit for raising the energy level of some of Burning Spear's more recent tunes, such as "Calling Rastafari" and "Statue of Liberty," both of which are rather low-key on the recorded versions...
However, most of the audience's focus-when it wasn't on their chosen dance partner-was on the Spear. Every time he raised his voice, the crowd went wild, hooting and waving Jamaican flags. And Burning Spear seemed to feed off of the crowd's energy as he chanted and scatted his way through "I and I Survive." Now and again, he would egg the crowd on, asking, "Do you want some more?" Then, responding to the crowd's cheering response, he would add, "Then I will give yo' ass some more...