B Is For Bob-Bob Marley

by **Dayna** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 10:00 pm

You mean I've been duped? I thought my store was playing authentic Bob Marley & it's just kids songs?

Maybe I could find out how to wear my hair in dreadlocks. :-) I've seen a couple guys around with those.

Well, maybe you could advise me on what to get, or I will try to look for the one that's pictured there.

by **NormanD** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 10:14 pm

I think that "re-imagined by" is one of the filthiest expressions in the musical language. It is a way of showing that you can, indeed, get blood from a stone.

by **Ted** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:05 am

I like this one:

Songs Of Freedom

I'm sure you can still get it secondhand. The early recordings are nothing special (plenty of other young jamaicans sounded pretty similar) but still come crackling through the static like a message from a distant galaxy.

He was generally better when he made music to dance to rather than for lying round getting stoned.

Seems a bit harsh singling out Rastafari for believing in strange things and oppressive practices. At least you get a lick of the chalice to help you believe.

Dayna - do not locks-up under any circumstances. No white people look good with dreadlocks. Ever. I challenge anyone reading this to provide an image of a white person with locks who does not look like an utter dick.

by **Neil Foxlee** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:26 am

Alborosie, the Sicilian dread. I leave it up to others to decide whether this proves Ted's point!

PS I wonder if the length of his locks is calculated to draw looks down to the area of his manhood... It's all very phallic.

by **Neil Foxlee** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:09 am

Dayna, Songs of Freedom is a 4-CD career overview, which might be a bit much for you. The most popular Bob Marley compilation by far is the single-disc Legend (Universal). You can't go far wrong with that.

by **Des** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:34 am

by **Adam Blake** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:35 am

Ted wrote:Seems a bit harsh singling out Rastafari for believing in strange things and oppressive practices. At least you get a lick of the chalice to help you believe.

Didn't say nothing about oppressive practices. Strange things, yes, oppressive practices, no. (Although I suspect the chalice might not come your way if you happen to be a menstruating female.)

First Bob Marley album I ever heard was "Live At The Lyceum". I've heard reggae snobs deride it for having been mixed specifically for a white rock audience - bass low, sprinkled with guitar solos. Well the cd re-issue has decent bass and the guitar solos by Junior Marvin are all wonderful and always were. But I'm a white rock audience... Whatever, it did the trick for me.

by **Neil Foxlee** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:52 am

Adam said

Didn't say nothing about oppressive practices. Strange things, yes, oppressive practices, no. I suspect the chalice might not come your way if you happen to be a menstruating female.)

I think you'd need to ask Jean 'Binta' Breeze, the leading UK-based contemporary Jamaican dub poet, about that. I interviewed her once (and even provided tracks for her to improvise over on another occasion), and she told me that she didn't have any problems as a woman with the Rasta community she joined in Jamaica. We didn't discuss menstruation, however...

by **Dayna** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:18 pm

I was just kidding about myself with them. You're right, whites don't look as good with those. Johnny Depp looked pretty good with long black dreadlocks. I'm sure I don't want to look like him. I've seen one blonde haired guy with them, & he didn't look too bad.

I will look for the real Bob Marley music.

by **Adam Blake** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:23 pm

Neil Foxlee wrote:Adam said
Didn't say nothing about oppressive practices. Strange things, yes, oppressive practices, no. I suspect the chalice might not come your way if you happen to be a menstruating female.)

I think you'd need to ask Jean 'Binta' Breeze, the leading UK-based contemporary Jamaican dub poet, about that. I interviewed her once (and even provided tracks for her to improvise over on another occasion), and she told me that she didn't have any problems as a woman with the Rasta community she joined in Jamaica. We didn't discuss menstruation, however...

What kind of an interviewer are you? Menstruation is surely the single most important subject to any leading UK-based contemporary Jamaican dub poet!

by **jackdaw version** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 1:17 am

For the ultimate in white-people-with-locks commentary may I suggest http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/digital-short-rasta-man/787201/.

A trustafarian classic, tongue hopefully firmly in cheek, if not in check.

There's a short commercial to sit through first. Sorry.

by **Dayna** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:05 am

Hot Stuff!

by **Ted** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:47 pm

Neil Foxlee wrote:I think you'd need to ask Jean 'Binta' Breeze, the leading UK-based contemporary Jamaican dub poet, about that. I interviewed her once (and even provided tracks for her to improvise over on another occasion), and she told me that she didn't have any problems as a woman with the Rasta community she joined in Jamaica. We didn't discuss menstruation, however...

Funnily enough I've actually heard Jean Breeze talk about menstruation in her time living in a rasta commune in JA. Her questioner was clearly hoping to get a her to say something critical about being banished (the questioners word) to a separate hut. Jean just sort of twinkled and said "it was rather nice actually".

by **Adam Blake** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:27 pm

But did the men and non-menstruating females bring the chalice over to the separate hut? I think we need to clear this up. After all, marijuana eases cramps in childbirth and I'm sure it must be good for period pains.

by **pirkko** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:36 pm

Dayna wrote:I was just kidding about myself with them. You're right, whites don't look as good with those.

Alborosie looks pretty good , I guess that's because because his locks seem to be natural grown.

Whereas the two festivalgoers got theirs from hairdressers, I'm sure,and they look awful.

And maybe the fact that Alborosie is from Sicily has helped with the dreadlocks, structure of our northern european hair really is no good for dreadlocks, but Sicily is almost Africa...

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