A scorching dub for dub between long-time rivals King Jammys and Jack Scorpio and some commendable performances decorated Saturday night's 'Giants of the '80s' show.

Patrons cheered on the veteran sound system operators as they exchanged items from their musical repertoire and brought the nearly full Mas Camp, Oxford Road, St. Andrew venue to life. At the end of the segment, however, it was not a clash as both veterans pointed out, and so a winner was not decided.

The patrons were earlier also treated to some classic '80s music that had them 'skanking' and bursting a flew blanks by selectors from the same two sound systems. However, they made their intentions known when they began asking for the performances to start.

Thus, when deejay Flourgon took the stage he was warmly received and after doing some of his past hits including some done by his bother deejay Red Dragon, he was joined by his cousin Daddy Lizard.

They earned a few forwards before exiting and making way for Echo Minott who came out to loud applause. The singer started off well and had the patrons singing along but just when it seemed he was overstaying his time he called on deejay General Trees and the tempo and temperature in the Mas Camp jumped a few degrees. Trees, with his usual stage walking and hand swinging, placed a spell on the patrons, which was only broken after he was called back a third time. With his catalogue of past hits including Gone a Negril, Minivan, Eye No See among others, he clearly had the patrons wanting to hear his each and every word. This was very evident when before going into his lyrics he would tell the music man to lower the rhythm and say 'shhhhh' and the venue would immediately get quiet.

Good reception

Peter Metro

Singer Little John was next and he got a good reception and, after giving off a string of hits, introduced an upcoming artiste.

Johnny P was his usual vibrant self and took the patrons through a musical journey of his '80s songs. The deejay made sure to stop and introduce every song he did and for his hit songs Stick By Me and Only Sixteen that he did in combination with Thriller U who was not present, he simply sang those parts himself.

Leroy Gibbons dashed on the stage singing his trademark Four Season Lover and followed up with This Magic Moment before being recalled for an encore.

Peter Metro reminded the patrons he was the first deejay to 'talk backways' and talk in Spanish before reeling off a string of hits including Nuh Put It Deh, Backway Talk and Police Inna London among others. Upon exiting, he asked Jamaica not to support gunmen as they were running the country to a wreck.

His sentiments were echoed by Pinchers who sang a chilling piece about how he spoke to a gunman who told him he would continue to kill and rob because people kept supporting his bad deeds. Pinchers gave some short pieces from his catalogue of songs of the '80s and even did two of his more recent recordings. He, too, earned two encores as the patrons were determined to hear him do quite a number of his songs and some were even calling for him to return again.

King Yellowman rocked the patrons as only King Yellowman could and he invited Sasa Frass who also delighted and thrilled the patrons.

Charlie Chaplin 'the Principal' took the stage shortly after 3 a.m. and immediately asked that Brigadier Jerry and Josie Wales join him. Only the brigadier answered the call however and the two worked masterfully with the brigadier showing his style and versatility that left some patrons in awe.

When they exited Josie Wales entered and without delaying went straight into a song which talked about the Beenie Man/D'Angel/ Bounty Killer situation. He had to start over the song at least four times because of the numerous forwards it got. From there The Outlaw took the patrons through a musical journey and they must have left feeling satisfied with his and all the other performances.