In the 90s Maxi Taxis ruled the road with trendy names and loud music. It was the era of dub music and Maxis jostled for supremacy based on the decibel levels of their "pong". Bally captured the ethos of the day with his song Maxi Dub, describing his experience of travelling in a maxi and being subjected to loud Jamaican music. In 1992, the Government clamped down on the clubs on wheels when they banned the use of televisions, videos, radios, tape decks, compact disc players, amplifiers, equalisers, speakers or other electrical or electronic equipment for the purpose of playing music or other electrically or electronically transmitted sounds in a maxi-taxi.
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