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General Discussions => Tribal Funk Affliction => Topic started by: WALSH on April 17, 2007, 09:31:01 am
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check out talkin blues for the best of both worlds..
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marley was pheady
check out Groundation for sick contemporary reggae. they are fuckin badass
I\'ve heard of them, but am yet to hear any. Hook a brother up!!
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marley was pheady
check out Groundation for sick contemporary reggae. they are fuckin badass
I accidentally met a guy from Groundation last spring while promoting for The Breakfast. I gave him a sampler in the bar and he promptly ran out to his car and gave me their cd.
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marley was pheady
check out Groundation for sick contemporary reggae. they are fuckin badass
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When I was at URI in the early 90\'s (god I feel old) we used to go to this tiny ass club in Providence. The name escapes me I think it was the red brick tavern or something like that. They used to get killer ska, dancehall acts, and reggae. We used to have really great time there. I think they even had a Red Stripe drink special.
I think a few people got shot or something there and they closed it down, Not totally sure about that tho
Man that seems like 2 lifetimes ago.
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Had to go with Bob for his songwriting. I have to admit to not knowing much Tosh, but from what I\'ve heard, just don\'t like the tunes that much. Bob\'s songs are always great, even when covered by others - Manfred Mann\'s Earth Band\'s take on Redemption Songs is a particular favourite.
Truth be told, I never really got into reggae because of UB40, who I still can\'t stand and rank along with shite like Take That. Problem of spending my real formative music years in the early 80s, when you couldn\'t escape UB40\'s cod-reggae. Started to listen to reggae properly after picking up a cheap CD of early reggae and ska such as Jimmy Cliff and Desmond Dekker. Then tried Bob and didn\'t need to explore further.
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Ernest Ranglin - SERest Jamacian musician. end of discussion.
never heard of him,
its always nice to hear new music
he\'s a jamacian jazz/reggae guitarist.... He wrote the tune 5446 What\'s My Number that sublime covered (no lyrics just ser jams). The only album I have heard from him is called Below The Bassline....
i always thought that toots and the maytals wrote the song 5446 what\'s my number
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d.bob/tosh
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marley for this reason, i cant find a bob tune that i really just dont like (not counting remixes), however there are some wierd sounding tosh tunes that just dont do it for me. but both are an excellent chioce. could have also thrown jimmy cliff in the mix aswell
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Ernest Ranglin - SERest Jamacian musician. end of discussion.
never heard of him,
its always nice to hear new music
he\'s a jamacian jazz/reggae guitarist.... He wrote the tune 5446 What\'s My Number that sublime covered (no lyrics just ser jams). The only album I have heard from him is called Below The Bassline....
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Ernest Ranglin - SERest Jamacian musician. end of discussion.
never heard of him,
its always nice to hear new music
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Ernest Ranglin - SERest Jamacian musician. end of discussion.
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I LOVE REGGAE so much.
ALLELUIA!
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Just because reggae couldnt spread without the two of them doesnt mean you can\'t have a favorite or think one made better music than the other. It is completely opinion based.
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tosh of course because of his guitar skills
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Joe HIggs was "the" guy in Kingston...he gave voice lessons to all the kids that wanted them...they started oiut as "The Teenagers" and then decided on "The Wailers".
I LOVE REGGAE so much.
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I voted for Bob but Ill take the wailers over either solo career.
Tosh = Mystic
Bob = Lover
"Marley became friends with Neville "Bunny" Livingston (later known as Bunny Wailer), with whom he started to play music. He left school at the age of 14 and started as an apprentice at a local welder\'s shop. In his free time, he and Livingston made music with Joe Higgs, a local singer and devout Rastafari who is regarded by many as Marley\'s mentor. It was at a jam session with Higgs and Livingston that Marley met Peter McIntosh (later known as Peter Tosh), who had similar musical ambitions."
Also these guys were the Holy trinity of reggae
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Good point Leith, but you do know of both of them so stop being a douche and answer the question;)
I hear you though, but I feel your reasoning is flawed...it was the American music industry trying to bring this form of music to america that let us know who "they are". Marley was obviously more marketable, because of the positivity in his songs, but that isn\'t what the true spirit of reggae was all about. Most of what we got to hear from Marley was american-bastardizations of great roots-reggae. They set Marley up with extra session players(american) that could give more of an "appeal" to the music.
Marley went along because he felt if his message could get out to the world(even if it was softened), it would bring a chance for peace. Tosh "Didn\'t want peace, [he] wanted justice". He didn\'t want his songs of protest and anti-oppression commercialized for capitalist consumption. That was 100% against what he believed in. The classic One Love Peace Concert shows this Marley/Tosh juxtaposition the best. Tosh came out spitting FIRE and talking against every perceived injustice in Jamaica...including DEMANDING that the farmers be allowed to grow marijuana and, that rastafarians be allowed to smoke freely as their system of beliefs called for. With the crowd in an uproar he spoke after nearly EVERY song against the very Goverment officials that were IN ATTENDANCE.
THEN, Marley comes out and gets the two govt heads that were basically at war to shake hands. I read once that after that Marley was quoted as saying that he should have,"Put a bullet in both of their heads". Yet Marley\'s fame as an "ambassador" was out there for everyone in america to get behind, because as you said...people like their political messages safe and acceptable, not brash and possibly controversial.
If Tosh had not taught Marley how to play guitar we probably would not know of Marley.
If Marley had not come back to Jamaica and help form the Wailers we probably would not have heard of Tosh as he probably would have been dead for vocalizing his beliefs. He was able to get his message out and become a solo star due to the Wailers success.
So to me they are both intrinsic to the spread of Reggae outside of Jamaica. Neither is better. I love the songs of both.
In other words useless poll WALSH ;)
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interesting information Walsh.
I know nothing, NOTHING, about reggae.
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Good point Leith, but you do know of both of them so stop being a douche and answer the question;)
I hear you though, but I feel your reasoning is flawed...it was the American music industry trying to bring this form of music to america that let us know who "they are". Marley was obviously more marketable, because of the positivity in his songs, but that isn\'t what the true spirit of reggae was all about. Most of what we got to hear from Marley was american-bastardizations of great roots-reggae. They set Marley up with extra session players(american) that could give more of an "appeal" to the music.
Marley went along because he felt if his message could get out to the world(even if it was softened), it would bring a chance for peace. Tosh "Didn\'t want peace, [he] wanted justice". He didn\'t want his songs of protest and anti-oppression commercialized for capitalist consumption. That was 100% against what he believed in. The classic One Love Peace Concert shows this Marley/Tosh juxtaposition the best. Tosh came out spitting FIRE and talking against every perceived injustice in Jamaica...including DEMANDING that the farmers be allowed to grow marijuana and, that rastafarians be allowed to smoke freely as their system of beliefs called for. With the crowd in an uproar he spoke after nearly EVERY song against the very Goverment officials that were IN ATTENDANCE.
THEN, Marley comes out and gets the two govt heads that were basically at war to shake hands. I read once that after that Marley was quoted as saying that he should have,"Put a bullet in both of their heads". Yet Marley\'s fame as an "ambassador" was out there for everyone in america to get behind, because as you said...people like their political messages safe and acceptable, not brash and possibly controversial.
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Neither is better. W/O each other we would not even know who they were.
Beat me to it!
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I\'m not gonna vote, since I don\'t see Jimmy Cliff on the poll & I do smoke ;)
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Neither is better. W/O each other we would not even know who they were.
Tosh was a political voice and stood by his convictions.
It came through his music just as clearly as the peaceful stylings of Marley.
Thing is people like to be happy and ignore the bad things in life so One Love was easier to groove to than Stepping Razor.
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tosh motherfuckers --- wanted dead and alive, bush doctor, no nuclear war, mama africa, legalize it, all classics. I cant get enough of tosh **** genius
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/5sqn1v
this was the first tosh disc i could find at the moment. mostly rarer songs w/ a cool cover of "here comes the sun" on the disc.
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Igziabeher...hmmm? I was wondering who you would pick;) I definitely like Marley, don\'t get me wrong but to me Peter Tosh is what reggae should sound like, even his "rockish"-type of songs are still roots-reggae in message...I love his voice too. Plus he wrote "Get Up, Stand Up" AND "Legalize It"...\'nuff said.
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Tosh all the way. I love his version of Johnny B. Goode, he just had a more rock and roll approach to reggae that i dig. I\'ll throw up a disc on sendspace later on today.
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I have to Bob but thats only out of the ignorance I have with reggae music. I don\'t think I have listened to enough Peter Tosh to vote against him, so I\'m going with, "Sorry...I don\'t smoke."
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whoa is there even a contest???
bob all the way.
so many amazing & soulful songs, i never get tired of them.
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i think i have been overexposed to bob
i have not enough knowledge of tosh\'s work
i like them both, but would have to choose bob with my limited information
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The whole point of reggae is to be militant...it is protest music. But good points...I really am interested in everyone\'s take on this.
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Tosh is a much, much better guitarist but he can\'t write songs like ol\' Bob. Bob\'s got the voice, the lyrics and was not as militant as Tosh. Bob first, Tosh second and Bunny third for good measure. btw good topic and better quote walsh, hands down fav writer
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Who does it for you more between these reggae icons. I will save my comment for a while, but I will vote for Tosh. Let\'s discuss.