Today is the 25th Anniversary of Bob Marley's death.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifes..._YEARS_ON_.asp
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5398576




When I hear his name I always smile.
The sound of love and summer and ganja.

Irie man. We remember Robert Nesta Marley.

Would like to hear any stories anyone has on Bob Marley, his life and his music.


***please don't put this in the Music Forum. No one there put up a thread and I don't go there***

I still remember where I was when my mother heard that he had died. It hit hard at home as he was to play in my home town and my mom had not only backstage passes but had arranged for him to come over to our place for a party.

RIP

Thanks for listening to Preacher's request. Much appreciated.

25 years after he is still just as relevent as he ever.

RIP Bob

War

Until the philosophy which holds one race
Superior and another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
Everywhere is war, me say war

That until there is no longer first class
And second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes
Me say war

That until the basic human rights are equally
Guaranteed to all, without regard to race
Dis a war

That until that day
The dream of lasting peace, world citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion
To be pursued, but never attained
Now everywhere is war, war

And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
That hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique,
South Africa sub-human bondage
Have been toppled, utterly destroyed
Well, everywhere is war, me say war

War in the east, war in the west
War up north, war down south
War, war, rumours of war

And until that day, the African continent
Will not know peace, we Africans will fight
We find it necessary and we know we shall win
As we are confident in the victory

Of good over evil, good over evil, good over evil
Good over evil, good over evil, good over evil

--- based on the speech Haile Selassie gave to the UN on October 4th, 1963.
http://www.bobmarley.com/songs/songs.cgi?war

Life is better because of Bob Marley's music.

It certainly is. On every first day of Spring I feel compelled to play "Trenchtown Rock". It's like that exchange in Lost:

Sawyer: "You like Bob Marley?"
Michael: "Man, who doesn't like Bob Marley?"


One good thing about music: when it hits you, you feel no pain...

Marley helped get me into other fantastic reggae acts. I always wondered what would have become of him if he had lived. I recently rented a DVD of a live show, but found myself laughing about his Rasta views (sorry, but that's one incredibly silly religion). Regardless, it's some of the most amazing music ever recorded.

He knows if it gets posted in the Music forum, it disappears...

Big thumbs up to Bob Marley. I don't think a single artists exists or ever existed that had such profound influence on a style of music. As we had discussed before, to most people, he *is* reggae. And Legend... how many people I know with that album...

I wonder if it's gone beyond selling 10MM at this point.

OK, here's my story...

Growing up in the 70s, I was aware that Marley had been the composer of the Eric Clapton hit "I Shot The Sheriff". I had heard of reggae music, but it wasn't played on the radio except for those rare crossover hits like Desmond Dekker's "Israelites". My entry point to Marley's music came later thanks to the punk/new wave era...

By the late 70s, The Clash had become my favorite band and critics were always writing about their reggae influences. So one day I made a blind buy of Catch A Fire and it was one of those rare LPs that changed my life. I started buying the rest of his LPs and even started to get into other artists like Prince Buster, Toots and the Maytals, Jimmy Cliff and Black Uhuru.

Five years ago, I got to visit Jamaica while on a cruise and I was amazed that he still has such an iconic stature there.