Yeah I ploughed a lone furrow since the age of 11. Never been to a reggae event, dance, record fair. Never had any friends into reggae, apart from ones made on the internet post-96. Read everything I could (which wasn't much until a few years ago), bought records whenever I could find or afford them. I got into soul after I got into reggae, it's usually the other way round but I thought most soul records sounded the same (this is around 1972-73)