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Bob Marley - RIP
By far one of the all-time greats.
Here's a few of my favorites.
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I'm not much of a Bob Marley fan. I kind of resent him in a weird way because there's so much great reggae that doesn't get played because Bob Marley _is_ reggae to almost everyone. I like Junior Murvin, Gregory Issacs, Steel Pulse, and Linval Thompson all more than anything from "Exodus".
It doesn't help that I almost by default associate Bob Marley with pot smoking college kids laid up in dorm rooms, wearing open-toed sandals.
I was complaining about Bob Marley the other day and how he's become music for lazy, white American hippies and my wife, who lived in Jamaica for a year, said "that's all the reggae they listen to there too".
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Michael Barnes wrote: Good grief, his old ska/rocksteady stuff is SO MUCH BETTER than his later records. Those early records were phenomenal.
That's because that era of Jamaican music is so much better than anything and everything that came afterwards. Every record that Coxsone Dodd put out back then was gold. Bob Marley had some great roots rock jams no doubt, but the Burning Spear makes pretty much any other roots act look foolish in comparison.
It doesn't help that I almost by default associate Bob Marley with pot smoking college kids laid up in dorm rooms, wearing open-toed sandals
There's a hilarious scene in this flick called Kicking and Screaming where a recent college grad finds himself at a party in a tiny freshman dorm room with a shit ton of kids screaming the 'o-yo-yo, Oh-yo-yo-yo' bit from Buffalo Soldiers. This is all I see when I hear Bob Marley.
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"I hate his fans so much that the music must be bad!"
The early rocksteady stuff was nothing special for the time. The Wailers reggae catalog is just fucking incredible, regardless of how many copies of "Legend" are cluttering up dorm CD racks.
"Catch A Fire" is one of the great reggae albums of all time, and the live tapes that exist from that era are positively electric. Heady stuff going down at the time, even if it was completely adopted by the bong patrol later.
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Michael Barnes wrote: It doesn't help that I almost by default associate Bob Marley with pot smoking college kids laid up in dorm rooms, wearing open-toed sandals.
HA! "One Love" was our first dance at our wedding. I was wearng white ballet flats with criss-cross laces, but there certainly were a fair number of guests wearing open-toed sandals and smoking in the bushes.
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I genuinely don't care for Bob Marley's later music. I love the early stuff, because like Jay said that's the best period of Jamaican music and it was pretty much much in line with other music that was happening at the time...that stuff was incredible, Desmond Dekker in particular. I'd say he's the best musician to ever come out of the place.
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Michael Barnes wrote: Paul, Bob Marley's fans are pretty much the entire human race. I don't hate everybody.
Well you can understand my confusion some days, I'm sure.
No doubt that the Wailers were a top-notch vocal group. I just don't think they really hit their stride until they started playing reggae instead of Jamaican doo-wop. I also think there were better acts doing that gig.
The later Wailers records were probably overproduced (both in the studio and at the presses!), but that band in 1972-73-74 is the best reggae act that's ever going to be.
Also, Desmond Dekker is wonderful, but nobody's yet mentioned Toots and the Maytals? Criminal, I tell you.
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jay718 wrote: ...but the Burning Spear makes pretty much any other roots act look foolish in comparison.
First couple of Burning Spear records are among my faves. He's usually great live, too, which is really not the case with a great many acts. Speaking of live, Toots & the Maytals taught me a little something about vocal power [and, by extension, probably something about amplification, too]. Regardless of genre, most vocalists stick that microphone damn near down their throats when they sing. Toots, on the other hand, rarely lifted the thing past his belt buckle--the picture definition of "belting out a tune." A real high energy good time show.
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You've gotta be careful with those Trojan boxes, some of them are real crap. The Christmas one for instance. They've got a couple Bob Marley boxes as well, one of which is just BM&W covers. A few you can't go wrong with: Skinhead Reggae, both ska boxes, and the Rocksteady box. The Soulful reggae box is just awesome, and both dub boxes are pretty great if you like dub. Their Upsetter box is a pretty great cross section of Lee Scratch Perry's music as well.
The Toots show you were at didn't happen to be at the Bayou in Georgetown did it Dogmatix?
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