In times Selwyn would hear untrue rumors that he crooked the guys with money. The truth was that Selwyn had to spend a lot of real input with them, always having to practice much more than playing live shows. The using of instruments to better their skills and the coaching that Selwyn had to do all these years for many artist, somehow in most times went unrecognized, simply because people sometimes never really want to admit the truth.

It started in Old Town -1982 when he had to see that all the players of Rainbow got their normal supply of herb and something for the belly, cause like "Bob" says, "a hungry man is an angry man." He had to see to the whole works of the band himself, - organizing the instruments/ the practice venue- which was a tent in Selwyn’ backyard, as well as organizing repairs and bookings etc. He also had to buy a generator to supply electrical current cause there was no electricity ever in his time that he stayed at 17 Smith Street, in Old Town. He also had to help with money for transport for the players to come to practice, otherwise there would have been no practice. On the other hand when people rented the band it was always for peanuts and "thank you’s" only. The same thing happened with churches and schools that the band helped out with live performances. One would at least expect some kind of support from some of these people, because they knew that Rainbow released some music and that they was the fir ^st reggae band that released an album in this area.

Selwyn also recall how a certain "Miss Jean" who owned the Masonic hotel, always phoned the cops to complain about so called noise, the way she put it, that the band was making. Alittle while later the cops would rock-up. Eventually you would see them swaying to the sound. They only asked us to drop the volume of the music and then left us to continue practice.

During 1982/83 Rainbow band also practiced at a small leather factory at Zwelitsha that belonged to a certain Mr. Adams who has now passed away. The man did not ask the group anything to rehearse and to keep the instruments on his property. He only wanted to see his sons being part of the Rainbow team.

The band equipment also use to be kept at one of Rainbow’s 1^st bass players- Patrick Zwane. He was from johannesburg and use to tell Selwyn that he dreamed about this group Rainbow. A very good player he was, but their journey was short lived. He use to work for "king buy and sell" selling seco^nd hand furniture. He was very helpful in providing the shop’s transport to load the instruments for shows or rehearsals. Surprisingly soon after Selwyn released his fir^st album "Free Me" he noticed that Patrick’s attitude changed even though he was not a member of Rainbow for some time. The reason for this was when Selwyn send drummer- "Selby Tsoyi" and percussionist- "Percy Benjamin" to "Patrick" who was now working for a local newspaper "imvo zabantsundu" [now closed down]. Selwyn wanted "Patrick" to write an article about the release "Free Me". "Patrick" refused point blank not to help Rainbow. The message he got from his two friends was that he Patrick would never do anything for Rainbow. The man behaved as if he had a grudge against Selwyn. Before he knew it Selwyn was in his office [now a uptown boy] and approached him about the talks he had about Rainbow. He insisted that Selwyn should sit in his office before he would speak to him. Selwyn was not in the mood for these kind of things and asked him to repeat what he told Percy and Selby. It seemed he turned chicken because he did not have the guts to say it again. Deciding not to take it any further and got in touch with the big boss of the "Imvo" newspaper and explained his story. Patrick’s spitefulness did not achieve anything because he was ordered not to stand in the way of Rainbow after all he was just a worker. He lost his job some time after that, due to his own reasons.

The same Patrick was also spiteful with Selwyn when Rainbow performed for the first time at the Maclean square in the heart of King William's Town. This was the town’s 150^th anniversary. Patrick was part of the team that rehearsed for this show. One day before the show, he suddenly changed his mind and made it clear that he was not going to play. This was a setback for all the players and drastic changes had to be made in the band. What a great show this was cause everybody that was there loved what was happening. This was Rainbow’s fir ^st opportunity to play with high- class equipment which was supplied by a Johannesburg sound company. It was also the first time Rainbow had the service of a professional sound engineer to mix their sounds. The results was amazing – so much that Patrick had no other option then to apologize and to admit that he only released afterwards that he made a mistake. He said he felt like going on stage to play the bass guitar. Selwyn did not hate him for doing this but took his hand when he apologized. After all this they still are friends, although they do not see each other too often.

The last show Selwyn played with Patrick was about 1991/92 when Rainbow played a whole night session on the outskirts of Stutterheim the occasion being an 80th birthday party. On their way back to King William's Town the next day they encountered a heavy roadblock when suddenly one of the drug squad members found herb which he most probably "planted" in the car. He actually wanted to put the blame on Selwyn, and said that he was sitting the closest to the herb. This only happened after he took off Selwyn’s cap and saw his dreadlocks, saying, "where there’s a Rasta there surely will be herb."Selwyn only learned afterwards that this was the same guy that came to search his house when he was not there. He somehow knew Selwyn, but acted as if he did not know him. Meanwhile this was the first time Selwyn saw this guy. At first the whole group

decided to rather go to court. everybody was locked- up besides "Percy Benjamin", who was in the bakkie before them, transporting the band equipment. The officer who was from east London did not even go home because somehow he was worried that the whole group was speaking the same story. They would rather appear before the magistrate. Eventually it was decided to leave him in the hands of "Jah" to judge him, and to rather end this little ordeal, which was not fair towards the other players who really had no blame. The money that the band got from the show had to cover the r120 fine that was given to youngest lady in the group with no previous crimes- "Thembisa may". she had to take the rap.

This was also the last show Selwyn played with these guys.

The music they played that night was mostly reggae. They played from about 8pm the previous day until the early hours off the next day. Selwyn played keyboards on this occasion. He was also the main vocalist. "Simon smith" was playing drums, "Patrick Zwane." - bass, "Michael Magwana" - lead guitar, "Percy Benjamin" – percussion, "Xoliswa Moyeni" and "Thembisa may". backing vocals. This was a great show where the musicians was in good form and good music was played.