INNER CIRCLE & NATIVE ELEMENTS LIVE @ ROCKIT ROOM (Event Over)
- When:Fri 11/6 (9PM)
- Where: Rockit Room (formerly The Last Day Saloon)
- Address: 406 Clement St San Francisco, CA Map
- Cost: $12 presales
Recession Buster
$12 presales for going.com members RSVP Required
Rockit Room & DeeCee's Soul Shakedown present
Inner Circle live
plus special guests
Native Elements
ROCKIT ROOM
406 CLEMENT
SAN FRANCISCO.
Presales only $12
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/84...
The band released its debut album in 1974 on the famed record
label, Trojan Records, and resigned in 1979 to Island Records,
where the internationally successful album Everything Is Great
originated. This album reached top 20 in the UK and preceded their
other chart success by some years.
The original Inner Circle included Ibo Cooper (keyboards), Stephen
Cat Core (guitar), Funky Brown (vocals), Prilly (vocals), Ian and
Roger Lewis, and Mr. Lewis. The band's residence was originally on
Holborn Road in New Kingston. In latter years they had a horn
section that included Douglas Gutherie on alto sax and Leighton
Johnson on trumpet; both were former members of the Excelsior High
School band. During that time the band toured extensively to North
America and Bermuda. At the end of this time, Ibo and Cat started
their own band, Third World, whose hits included, "Now That We
Found Love" and "Ninety Six Degrees in the Shade". Ibo, Cat, and
Funky Brown were at this time students of the University of the
West Indies studying for various degrees.
The band were joined by New York Session guitarist 'Joe Ortiz'
([1]) dubbed by the band as GITZY who added the first touches of
hard rock, jazz, and blues to the group. Joe recorded at Compass
Point Studios for the Eveything Is Great Album on Island Records
and later joined the group for their European Tour in 1978-1980.
Joe also played on the title track for the album New Age Music.
Wherever you find a greatest hits album, Joe will most likely
feature - particularly on the live recordings which were made
during the UK leg of the European tour. The band appeared in the
reggae cult film Rockers in 1978.
Jacob Miller, the frontman and lead singer, was killed in a car
crash on March 23, 1980. After the loss of Miller, Inner Circle
broke up, but in 1982 the band reformed to release another album
called Something So Good. In 1986 Ian and Roger Lewis
re-established Inner Circle with the singer Calton Coffie, and the
band experienced a comeback with the album Black Roses.
In 1987, Inner Circle released the song "Bad Boys." California
guitarist, Dave Gonzales, joined the band for a tour in 1989. Since
then, the band calls itself "The Bad Boys of Reggae". They had
another big hit with the 1992 song "Sweat (A La La La La Long)with
Bob Marley)", which was a #3 hit in the UK while "Bad Boys" had
languished at #52. It was their second (and last) American hit,
reaching #16 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The lead singer Calton Coffie was ill for a long period in 1995 and
decided after his recuperation to start a solo career. He was later
replaced by Kris Bentley. In 2008 Junior Jazz became lead singer.
Today, members of the group run Circle House, one of the most
popular and respected recording studios in Miami.
Shannon