Bob Marleys son...

Splottboy

Apparently, the son of Bob Marley, Ky-Mani, has a book out exposing Rita Marley, Bob's wife, of trying to stop Bob's other children from getting support from his estate.

He had children by 6 women, and Rita was trying to only give support to her kids.
6 women? Maybe he should have changed his name to KNOB Marley...

I saw Bob in Ninian Park, Cardiff City's old football ground in the mid/late 70's.

Awesome, excellent, amazing, brilliant, stupendous, teriffic....Do I go on any more???

A true GOD amongst the low life idiots of modern-day "music".
( Top shagger too...)

Westerberg

yup, agreed there Splottboy. It's a shame so many people who claim to be Marley fans never bother to dig a bit deeper into the Reggae genre as there's a load of good stuff out there.

disquieting_museeuws

Westerberg wrote:

yup, agreed there Splottboy. It's a shame so many people who claim to be Marley fans never bother to dig a bit deeper into the Reggae genre as there's a load of good stuff out there.

A lot of it better than Marley's stuff (no disrespect) IMO. It makes you weep to think about the pop-reggae dross (again, I don't mean Marley) that reached the British charts, whereas many great roots artists lived & died in obscurity & poverty.

Another thing most people don't realise is that Marley (along with Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Rita Marley, et al) were the antithesis of the modern packaged pop star in that they had a long apprenticeship in the Jamaican music scene stretching back to the mid-60's.

Westerberg

disquieting_museeuws wrote:

A lot of it better than Marley's stuff (no disrespect) IMO. It makes you weep to think about the pop-reggae dross (again, I don't mean Marley) that reached the British charts, whereas many great roots artists lived & died in obscurity & poverty.

too true. Maybe Spotify can help foster a revival and reappraisal. Those cheapo Trojan boxsets are a good starting point I think. I type this to the soundtrack of Better Must Come by Delroy Wilson - good tunes, good memories of when I first got into this stuff.

Splottboy

OK, I'm gonna make you sick now.
Here's the scene;
Christmas Eve, Barry Town Hall, Reggae gig night, 1973...

Artistes: Uni Rock Movement, never made it big.
Greyhound, were big, bit of a pop-reggae group, but great live and....
Toots and the Maytals, I kid u not !!! Fred " Toots" Hibbert himself.

Wow, what a night, I was 16 and pissed by 8pm.
And...we went backstage and met Toots and the Maytals, and sang with them too.

The Maytals were the FIRST group to use the word "REGGAE" in a song, spelt that way.

Missed our train home, got a taxi which cost a bloody fortune. Woke up Christmas Day with
"Monkey Man" still ringing in my years !

spen666

Splottboy wrote:

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I saw Bob in Ninian Park, Cardiff City's old football ground in the mid/late 70's.

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Was he part of the soul Crew?.......



I'll get my coat :oops:

rick_chasey

Splottboy wrote:

Apparently, the son of Bob Marley, Ky-Mani, has a book out exposing Rita Marley, Bob's wife, of trying to stop Bob's other children from getting support from his estate.

He had children by 6 women, and Rita was trying to only give support to her kids.
6 women? Maybe he should have changed his name to KNOB Marley...

I saw Bob in Ninian Park, Cardiff City's old football ground in the mid/late 70's.

Awesome, excellent, amazing, brilliant, stupendous, teriffic....Do I go on any more???

A true GOD amongst the low life idiots of modern-day "music".
( Top shagger too...)

Grumpy old man complaining that 'modern' music is crap?

Jeez, never heard that before.

DaSy

Very true that so few people appreciate Reggae outside of the pop stuff that for some unknown reason makes it into the charts.

Bob Marley was great for his achievement of making Reggae an international (should that be outer-national) sound, and bringing it to the consciousness of the non-Reggae listening public. Funny that a lot of his more popular stuff was that which came out during the Disco era, and was fairly influenced by it, and tends to be the softer stuff.

There is so much to Reggae, from Lovers to Dancehall, Roots, Ska, Ragga etc, but CJ Lewis manages to get a tune in the charts!

Lot's of the artists that people think of as commercial, like Shaggy and Chaka Demus actually have a long and very credible career in the Dancehall scene for years.

I've been to a lot of Dances through the years, but seeing Stone Love at the House of Leo in Kingston, along with the White River Reggae Bash in Ocha Rios definitely stand out.

I met Garnet Silk just before he died, in Jamaica too, that was amazing, he would have gone on to be something very special had he lived.

Splottboy

Yeah, Artic Chiefs... Keiser Monkeys, and all those guys.

Hang em all, LOL!

spen666

Splottboy wrote:

Yeah, Artic Chiefs... Keiser Monkeys, and all those guys.

Hang em all, LOL!

Hang the DJ

cee

spen666 wrote:

Splottboy wrote:

Yeah, Artic Chiefs... Keiser Monkeys, and all those guys.

Hang em all, LOL!

Hang the DJ

Soulwax?