Steel Pulse plays Jannus Live in St. Petersburg, Florida on July 16, 2019. Credit: Phil DeSimone

Drummer Conrad Kelly only played with Steel Pulse for a decade in the mid-’90s and 2000s, but was instrumental on a trio of albums that earned the band Grammy nominations.

Kelly died last month at the age of 65, and it would be no surprise if the legendary U.K. reggae band dedicated large parts of its set to their former bandmate.

One of the genre’s bright young stars, Jesse Royal, opens the show.

Tickets to see Steel Pulse play Jannus Live in St. Petersburg on Thursday, July 18 are still available for $34.50.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...