400 Years was introduced as a zine and website in 1996 and billed as "here today, gone tomorrow." The website is still here, but the four zines are now out-of-print collectors items. Maybe another one will be published, maybe not . . .
Here are some articles and interviews from my Jamaican experiences and those of my friends . . .
Luciano interviewed by CVP 2/28/99
Mikey General interviewed by CVP
Some Final Words from Dennis Emmanuel Brown
Bernard Collins of The Abyssinians interviewed
by CVP (9/27/98)
Mutabaruka, The Ultimate Interview (in 3
parts)
Skatalites' drummer Lloyd Knibb interview
(4/23/98)
Triston Palmer interview by Carter Van
Pelt, Feb. 3, 1998
Burning Spear interview by Carter Van
Pelt, July 27, 1996
Burning Spear interview by Carter
Van Pelt, August 22, 1997
Horace Andy interview by Carter Van
Pelt
Linval Thompson bio
Linval Thompson interviewed by Carter
Van Pelt
Linval Thompson, "Well Wicked"
by Steve Milne
Donald Manning of The Abyssinians interviewed
by Carter Van Pelt
Willi
Williams on "400 Years" in Real Audio @ www.ireggae.com
Other contributors:
Jim Dooley, from Ottawa, Canada, currently maintains the Culture website and has been a contributor to the 400 Years site and the Culture issue of 400 Years. The following are his interviews.
Everton Blender interviewed by Jim Dooley
Fitzroy "Bunny" Simpson of
The Mighty Diamonds interview by Jim Dooley
Tony Greene biography & discography
by Jim Dooley
Culture's Albert Walker interviewed by
Jim Dooley
Bassist/singer Lloyd Parks interviewed by
Jim Dooley
Rock Steady singer Phyllis Dillon interviewed by Jim Dooley
Glen Washington interviewed by Jim Dooley
Doug Heselgrave contributed the following:
Jimmy Cliff Interview by Doug Heselgrave
Lee Scratch Perry in BC by Doug Heselgrave
Ray Hurford at More Axe/Small Axe let me publish his and David Katz's Earl Sixteen interview and also included is Steve Milne's Earl Zero interview from Full Watts.
The Heptones interviewed by the press pool at Reggae On The River 96
"Righteous Works" -- Earl Zero
by Steve Milne from Full Watts 5
The More Axe 9 interview with Earl
16 by Ray Hurford & Dave Katz
Additional Archive of articles
from Reggae Report, The Beat, Dub Missive, and elsewhere
Artist Discographical Information