Trip report sept 1-14, including pelicanbar, etc

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Went down to dining room and ate with Larry and Rina. We all then went back to show them our room. They were amazed how cold our air was.

We walk down to BB about 8 pm. We knew it was early but didn't realize how early. I don't even know if they were ready for us on the VIP balcony. At any big concert the VIP is the way to go as you have access to the balcony and all u can drink. The first couple hours included various local artists performing half of 2 or 3 raps of their own music. All the big name artists were in the rooms at BB getting ready and were on the balcony as well.

Both Terry and I have fuzzy memories of the night. We even forgot we had our camera with us as we have 1 picture of the night. Larry took some pictures so if Rina finishes her report you can see some them.

I spent a lot of time at the bar upstairs and could have gotten some great pictures. I was introduced to several band members but can't remember all of them.

Chocolate and I were at the bar admiring a mans hat and his red beard. We hung out with him for a while. He found us as amusing as we found his hat. I had no idea who he was but then he was on stage performing. It was Lee "Scratch" Perry.

I talked to Frankie Aird (trumpet player) for a while. We met Frankie on our first visit to Negril and see him every visit. Frankie looked really good and I told him so.

Met Gary Cooper, some of the Mighty Diamonds hung out with us also.

After what seemed like forever, the headliners began to play. I think Rob and Lisa left around 2am. Not sure when Andrew Tosh took the stage. No sign of Sizzla yet.
At around 3:30am Larry and Rina were ready to head back to the cliffs and since they had left things in our room we decided to head back with them. Still no sign of Sizzla.

We all staggered back to the room, gather their things and walk them back to the road to get a taxi. We could hear the crowd and the announcement that Sizzla was taking the stage so put Larry and Rina in a taxi and head back over to see Sizzla. It is now past 4am and I think we may be the only tourists left there. We stay for a couple songs and decide we can hear it from our room so decide to call it a night.

At some point during the night Kevin came around and passed out candles to everyone. We lit the candles and had a moment of silence. It was a very cool tribute with hundreds of people holding up candles. (Only wish I had a picture, Hope Larry has one)

Concert overall was good what i remember of it.