SINGERS, players of instruments, family members and well- wishers turned up at the Stadium Community Seventh-day Adventist Church (formerly Roosevelt Avenue SDA) to pay their respects to the late influential drummer Lincoln ‘Style Rotterdam’ Scott.

Holding back the tears, percussionist Bongo Herman sang a couple bars rendition of Los Pop Tops 1968 classic Oh Lord, Why Lord.

Bassist Errol ‘Flabba Holt’ Carter was in a reflective mood.

“Mi miss mi friend. A mi alone lef’,” he told the Jamaica Observer.

Carter and Scott were part of the formidable Roots Radics band. Formed in 1974, the outfit also comprised guitarist Eric ‘Bingy Bunny’ Lamont, keyboardist Wycliffe ‘Steely’ Johnson and guitarist Noel ‘Sowell’ Bailey.

Lamont died in 1993, Johnson in 2009, and Bailey in July.

Roots Radics were the session musicians for the Maxfield Avenue-based Channel One Studio. Their distinctive sound can be heard on John Holt’s Police in Helicopter, Sweetie Come Brush Me and Ghetto Queen.

Among those who turned out at Scott’s funeral were singers Pam Hall, Tinga Stewart, Cedric Myton from The Congos, guitarists Earl ‘Chinna’ Smith and Dwight Pinkney, keyboardist Lloyd ‘Obeah’ Denton, music insider Bridgette Anderson, and Gregory Isaacs’ wife June.

Scott was named fourth on reggae’s top 10 greatest drummers by largeup.com.

Scott, 58, was killed at his home in Williamsfield, Manchester on October 9. He was laid to rest in the Meadowrest Memorial Gardens in St Catherine.