MEL COOKE, Freelance Writer
( L - R ) Sasha and Turbulence - FILE PHOTOS
WITH A CHEERFUL Geefus up front and centre, co-ordinating with Iceberg at the controls, Stone Love Movements was an extra performer, along with Alaine, Gyptian, Richie Spice, Morgan Heritage, Buju Banton and Damain 'Jr. Gong' Marley, at Cinema 2, New Kingston, on Saturday night.
Stone Love kept the large audience rocking during the band changes, the first coming after Richie Spice had lit a spark with Marijuana, keeping the Rastaman vibrations going with the Sizzla triple of Rise To the Occasion, Solid As A Rock and Aint Gonna See Us Fall.
"A lot of innocent people in prison. Is not everybody in prison guilty," Geefus said, following up with Jah Cure's True Reflections. It was a Jah Cure double, Longing For following.
Greetings was punctuated with the sounds of the band tuning up, Under Pressure and One Big Family coming after. There was a short detour to hip hop, before Geefus used Voicemail's ode to Bogle to demonstrate the Willie Bounce. "It easy. Remember Body Basics?" Geefus said, doing the moves.
Returning after Morgan Heritage ended their performance, Stone Love started out with Natural Mystic, the audience rocking and singing along to the Marley tribute. "Do you remember Dennis Emmanuel Brown?" Geefus asked. And they certainly recalled Revolution. "People are you ready?" Geefus asked and the traditional "Bow! Oh Lord!" rose over Cinema 2.
Greetings and Under Pressure got uninterrupted treatment. "Whether you are black, whether you are white, show me yu han' if you are...," Geefus said and Iceberg neatly slotted in One Blood, to an enthusiastic response. Tenor Saw's Lots of Signs was a singalong.
Geefus was patriotic. "When we represent, we represent all the way. This is the immortal Stone Love and we big all over the world. We don't forget where we are from and we love our country Jamaica," he said, singing the part of the anthem with 'Jamaica', to which the audience threw back up ''boom!'' each of the three times.
Geefus sent out the next song to all true Jamaicans who remembered the days of black and white televisions "when we put piece a paper ova it mek it look like colour; when yu a iron de clothes yu haffi drop coal inna de iron fe get de seam right ..."
The tune dropped and Cinema 2 exploded for Ghetto Story, which was given extended play, Geefus leading the chorus of ''ra-ra-ra'' where appropriate.
And for their final stint on stage, Stone Love started slow and sweet with Turbulence and Sasha then Bushman's Fia Pon a Weakheart earning a 'wheel up' and Fantan Mojah chanting Mama Hungry on dub plate, before ending with Nanko's Lucky You.
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