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Israel Vibration were a reggae harmony group, originating from Kingston, Jamaica. Lascelle "Wiss" Bulgin, Albert "Apple Gabriel" Craig, and Cecil "Skelly" Spence all contracted childhood polio, and went on to be a Jamaican roots reggae group in the s. The trio initially met as children at a rehabilitation center.

Bulgin (born ), Craig (–), and Spence (born –) first met as children at the Mona Rehabilitation Clinic, all polio patients in the epidemic that spread through Jamaica in the s. Several years later they formed Israel Vibration. Craig attended the Alpha Boys School but ran away at the age of fourteen, living on the streets. Spence was a member of the band Hot Lickers, appearing on Jamaican television with the group at the age of twelve. He also played in the Jamaican wheelchair basketball team but was forced out in after adopting the Rastafarian faith, something which the three had in common when they were later reunited.

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Peel discovered the group in the late 70's and would play material from them on his radio programmes until the early 90's. There is no evidence, according to available tracklistings on this site, that he played any of their records in the 00's.

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Israel Vibration are a reggae harmony group, originating from Kingston, Jamaica. Lascelle "Wiss" Bulgin, Albert "Apple Gabriel" Craig, and Cecil "Skelly" Spence all contracted childhood polio, and went on to be a Jamaicanroots reggae group in the s. The trio initially met as children at a rehabilitation center.

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Bulgin (born ), Craig (–), and Spence (–) first met as children at the Mona Rehabilitation Clinic, all polio patients in the epidemic that spread through Jamaica in the s. Several years later they formed Israel Vibration. Craig attended the Alpha Boys School but ran away at the age of fourteen, living on the streets. Spence was a member of the band Hot Lickers, appearing on Jamaican television with the group at the age of twelve. He also played in the Jamaican wheelchair basketball team but was forced out in after adopting the Rastafarian faith, something which the three had in common when they were later reunited.

Spence and Craig got together in Kingston and sought out Bulgin, who at the time was working as a tailor. They formed a vocal group, initially adopting the name Israel Vibration Israel Vibrates, soon becoming simply Israel Vibration. They survived on money earned singing in the streets for several years, and in attempted to launch a recording career at Channel One Studios, but the track they recorded there ("Bad Intention") was not released.

Funding for their first album came in the form of a grant from the Twelve Tribes of Israel branch of Rastafarai after Hugh Booth, a member of the Twelve Tribes, had overheard the three men singing in a wooded area outside Kingston. Apple and Wiss were living in the area, which they had converted into a home. Recorded at the Treasure Isle studio in , their debut release was the single "Why Worry", released on the Twelve Tribes label late that year.

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When polio struck Jamaica in the late s, many of the island nation&#x;s children had not been vaccinated against the crippling disease. Three young victims of the epidemic&#x;Cecil (Skelly) Spence, Albert (Apple) Craig, and Lascelle (Wiss) Bulgin&#x;came together at the Mona Rehabilitation Centre in Kingston, a government institution for young polio patients whose families could not afford medical care. We grow together like brothers, Craig said. The three boys&#x; paths crossed sporadically as they moved among various institutions, according to Roger Steffens, a reggae historian and founding editor of The Beat. Through it all, however, they shared a love of music. Spence, for example, played in a band called the Hot Lickers and performed on Jamaican TV when he was Craig started writing songs at an early age and taught himself to play the piano by watching his teacher&#x;s hands as she played.

In that unlikely setting, under those traumatic circumstances, a seed was planted which would grow into one of Jamaica&#x;s most noted vocal groups&#x;Israel Vibration.

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Members include Lascelle (Wiss) Bulgin, vocals; Albert (Apple) Craig, vocals (left band, ); and Cecil (Skelly) Spence, vocals.

Israel Vibration began performing and recording in their Jamaican homeland, s; the trio released popular roots-reggae recordings in Jamaica before splitting up in ; reunited in the U.S. six years later; signed with RAS Records and recorded a string of albums in the s.

Awards: Tower Records/Pulse! magazine selected On the Rock the best reggae album of

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The trio&#x;s concerts, Rob Kenner wrote in Vibe magazine, are unforgettable. It&#x;s not just the sight of three polio-stricken Rastafarians skanking on stage in a tangle of c

If you weren't paying close attention you might have missed the fact that Jamaican roots reggae royalty rode into town Sunday in the form of harmony duo Israel Vibration, which played at Turner Hall Ballroom.

Even if you were there, you may or may not have noticed that anchoring the backing band was legendary studio and stage duo Style Scott on drums and Errol "Flabba" Holt on bass.

On tour in support of its latest disc, "Stamina," released last year by Tafari Records, singers Lascelle "Wiss" Bulgin and Cecil "Skelly" Spence rocked a crowd that didn't pack the main level of the venue, but filled it comfortably.

Mixing tracks from throughout their plus-year career, Bulgin and Spence alternated lead vocals throughout a minute set that kicked off with backing band Roots Radics reeling through a brief instrumental medley of Israel Vibes' best-known tunes.

The two have some of the most distinctive and emotive voices in music today and, although it's a well-worn cliché, it seems safe to say the crowd -- a multi-racial mix of rastas, hippies, college-age couples and others - would have been happy to hear Spence and Bulgin sing the Milwaukee phone book.

When the singers appeared, the crowd cheered, and whenever the two veteran vocalists danced, the audience went wild. That's due, at least in part, to the inspiring sight of seeing the two singers skanking joyfully despite the crutches that are a result of their childhood affliction with polio.

If there is a cooler person on earth than bassist Flabba Holt, I'd love to meet him or her. Holt alternately thumbed his Hofner violin bass - held nearly chest high - and played it with the more traditional index and ring fingers. He leaned on his towering, thumping bass amp looking cool and deadly, sometimes his body sway was barely perceptible.

Holt makes his snakey bass runs look easy and his long-time cohort Sty