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Bob Marley Interview
Here is Bob Marley being interviewed in Aoteraoa, New Zealand talking about reggae music, his Rastafarian beliefs, his dreadlocks, and marijuana. The interviewer announces that Bob Marley smokes a pound of grass a week. I thought that was a high number, no pun intended, but I suppose its true. I liked Bob’s belief that weed…
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Bob Marley, Pimper's Paradise
“Every need got an ego to feed.” If that’s not the lyric of a master, than nothing is. “Pimper’s Paradise,” from 1980’s Uprising LP, is one of Bob’s best songs. Anyone else obsessed with the way he sings “Well-ell aelll..?” How about the line, “Now she is blusing when there ain’t no blues…?” I’m not…
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Bob Marley, Duppy Conqueror, Rare Studio Take
We’re back in the 1974 Catch a Fire sessions as Bob Marley and the Wailers cut a fifth version of “Duppy Conqueror.” What is a “duppy,” and why is Bob conquering them? Interesting question. Well, in Jamaica, duppy is slang for ghost, and Bob was thinking about opening up a Jamaican branch of the Ghostbusters. …
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Bob Marley, Get Up Stand Up, Rare Studio Take
Some very generous youtube benefactors recently uploaded over 30 videos of Bob Marley in the studio recording tracks for his Catch a Fire record. The video below is a priceless take from the sessions of “Get Up Stand Up,” Bob’s most righteous moment in his career. This version is a hard slow funky jam of…
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Bob Marley, Stir it Up
Part 55 of my countdown grooves on with Bob Marley’s gem “Stir it Up.” Written in 1967, this was one of Bob’s first songs to gain international fame when Johnny Nash covered it and made it a top 20 hit in 1972 in both Britain and America. The song is one of Bob’s incredible love…