Today is Bob Marley's 70th Birthday

[PNWbrit]

Pretty much all been said.

...just add that the Barrett brothers were a fucking incredible rhythm section.

[iceman]

Good article from The Guardian by a woman who knew him. A couple claims may be a little hyperbolic (Bob handing out money to thousands on the Kingston streets is not something I've heard of before for example) but overall good stuff: http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...ey-70-birthday

[frorider]

I have great memories as a kid in the 70s upstairs reading or whatever while my mom blasted Marley or Lou Reed etc while she was doing stuff around the house in the afternoon. Bob had a singular talent.

Re: veneration-- Happened to see this article recently by Robert Christgau.
http://www.salon.com/2010/06/16/bob_...hris_salewicz/

[PNWbrit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10034299.html

[AK47bp]

It's weird how people either get bob or they don't. I mean there are people who like the classics like 3 little birds, jammin, etc. Cheesy as it sounds I get goosebumps when I listen to some songs, never had a musician do that to me.

The heathen
Ambush in the night
Revolution

Timeless lyrics.

He was a womanizer for sure and mostly a normal guy with just incredible talent and voice.

I can't get into his kids, they are nothing. They got no soul, little similarity in voice and lyrics suck.

[frorider]

She love to party, have a good time
She looks so hearty, feeling fine
She loves to smoke, sometime shifting coke
She'll be laughing when there ain't no joke
A pimpers paradise, tha's all she was now
A pimpers paradise, that's all she was
A pimpers paradise, that's all she was
Every need got an ego to feed
Every need got an ego to feed.

.......

[AK47bp]

First tape ever owned was Legend, has been my favorite artist since.

Them Belly Full is one of my favs.

http://youtu.be/Ox4DltFF-dQ

RIP Bob

Bumpity bump bump

[Labcabin]

Really good documentary on Netflix called "Marley"

Check it out!

[schindlerpiste]

Kaya

[iceman]

Okay this is good: Santa Barbara 1979, remastered and corrected in Japan for your viewing and listening pleasure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7yzk2zP-lI

Are you picking up now?

edit: even better version of that concert than I first posted

[yeahman]

Nice links. I listen a lot these days to the Reggae Regulars station on Pandora...plays all kinds of cool stuff in addition to Bob Marley. Playing right now: The Garden, by Tribal Seeds. Never heard of 'em but it's cool music. Okay, it just switched to Trench Town Rock by Marley. This sounds like an oldie.

http://www.pandora.com/station/play/1313750729824773892

[iceman]

1:03:50

I would gladly tear it all down if I didn't think that the bad guys would still win somehow.

[Benny Profane]

I'll bet there are a thousand very talented raggae artists through the years from the island that just either sigh or grit their teeth when white people from America and Europe say "Marley! Ya. Let's smoke a bowl and listen to Exodus" when the genre is mentioned.

[BmillsSkier]

I'll bet there are a thousand very talented raggae artists through the years from the island that just either sigh or grit their teeth when white people from America and Europe say "Marley! Ya. Let's smoke a bowl and listen to Exodus" when the genre is mentioned.

Well that's a very Eeyore post.

[Benny Profane]

Did you mean Irie?

[AK47bp]

http://youtu.be/ABfGrB028-k

[iceman]

I'll bet there are a thousand very talented raggae artists through the years from the island that just either sigh or grit their teeth when white people from America and Europe say "Marley! Ya. Let's smoke a bowl and listen to Exodus" when the genre is mentioned.

You are unsmart. At least try to figure shit out before you comment on it.

The cream rises to the top. That's why you're down here with us, you dumbass.

[Benny Profane]

Name me four or five raggae artists besides Marley. Fast and no Googling.

[Benny Profane]

It's kinda like my Mom, who loved the Beatles, but couldn't get beyond that.

[iceman]

I could name 20 but I'm into it. Most people couldn't name two more. But what's your point?

[that dude who did that thing]

How many of you do more than "like the music?' How many choose to live their life in a way that defies "Babylon?" When you travel, do you do so to see what's happening to real people, or to escape from reality? Do you help more than you hurt in the choices you make each day?

I'm not perfect, never claimed to be, but when I listen to Bob Marley I don't think "Oh, I wish I could spend more time stoned." I think, "There's a man who risked it all for what he believed, and still kept a sense of humor, I need to be more like that." Or, "There's a man who wouldn't take 'impossible' for an answer, and neither should any of us."

If Bob was alive he'd be fighting for what he believed in every single day. Honor him by trying to do the same, not by putting on a playlist and smoking a joint.

In his honor fight the greed, write your Congressman an email telling him or her to beat the TPP, or to vote in favor of new wilderness designations in Idaho, or to cut the tax subsidies that keep us all driving fossil fuel burners. THEN, put on some music and smoke a joint, after you've earned it.

[Labcabin]

Hell, Im sometimes impressed if they can name Exodus. Most just ask if it might be a song from Legend, like that no woman no cry thing.

[that dude who did that thing]

Name me four or five raggae artists besides Marley. Fast and no Googling.

Well THAT^ completely misses the point of reggae music.

[AK47bp]

Just listen to his lyrics, the man has no comparable artist, let alone reggae artist. Not even close.

The Heathen, could be the fight song for insurgency. "He who fight and run away, live to fight another day"

http://youtu.be/EMvzBfa1Y9I

[Benny Profane]

Here, this guy will take you to school, and he plays no Marley.

http://www.kexp.org/programs/PositiveVibrations

It's archived, btw.

I mean, loved him, but, jeez, it's a big world out there.