OPINION: He had a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Sitting on a couch in an office above his Kingsland bar, Six60's bassist Chris Mac took a sharp intake of breath when he heard my question. I'd asked him about the band's critics, the negativity that seemed to surround Six60 from their origins as a covers band operating out of a Dunedin flat, and the early reviews, the ones that dismissed the group as "BBQ reggae". Mac remembered. He could quote the reviews back to me. He shook his head. He called them "racist". Supplied/Matthew Clode