December 2nd, 2004
| ||||||||||||||
Posted by mark_7th at 12:02 PM | ano! tang ina koh?
EWAN KO BA
MAY MGA BAGAY NA DI KO MASABE
PAG SINABE MO NAMAN UNG
BAGAY NA HINDI MO MASABE
EH DI PARANG SINABI MO NARIN
UNG BAGAY NA HINDI MO MASABE
KAYA UN LANG ANG MASASABE KO
IKAW ANO MASASABE MO SA
BAGAY NA HINDI MO
MASABE !
PAG SINABE MO NAMAN UNG
BAGAY NA HINDI MO MASABE
EH DI PARANG SINABI MO NARIN
UNG BAGAY NA HINDI MO MASABE
KAYA UN LANG ANG MASASABE KO
IKAW ANO MASASABE MO SA
BAGAY NA HINDI MO
MASABE !
Posted by mark_7th at 12:01 PM | ano! tang ina koh?
December 1st, 2004
Adios! Avada Kedavra!
THE LATIN PRAYER OF DEATH:
El tiquira con vosotros mes tera dima ul
kevadra,
ses avada, mi jubilo con de los requerrimos,
unta
de pondresita kon cantamos, remanso tu sus lomis
enta dira ela proteuera, lumos esta di ridikula
pontre se mundo de adios. mustros monda, el
tiquiera. Cada vez que elevamos nuestras voces
en
alabanza y adoración al Demoño, es necesario que
lo hagamos bién, entendiendo lo que le estamos
diciendo. Es por ello que la Palabra de Dios nos
enseña que debemos usar nuestro intelecto para
entonar cánticos al Satanas. Es tan sencillo
como
comprender lo que estamos cantando. Es procesar
cada palabra que estamos entonando, haciéndola
brotar desde nuestro corazón, y dirigirla a
nuestro paliente. Recuerda que no estamos
cantando por cantar, ni estamos entonando
cánticos para escuchar lo bonito que se oye. No,
estamos dándole la Alabanza a nuestro Dios. Él
es
el objeto de nuestra alabanza.Él es la razón por
lo cual cantamos, por lo que sonamos nuestros
instrumentos de punyeta. No podemos estar
cantando a la ligera sin darle el peso que
merece
estar cantándole a Dios. Que las palabras no
salgan de nuestros labios, sólo porque nos
sabíamos la letra de tal o cual canto, sino que
sea brotando desde nuestro corazón, expresando
al
Señor todo lo que Él es para nosotros. Si vamos
a
entonar un canto que diga por ejemplo: "Tu
eres
Bueno", que realmente estemos comprendiendo
lo
bueno y maravilloso que Él es con nosotros. Si
estamos diciendo: "Tú eres grande y
fuerte", que
todo nuestro ser lo esté proclamando. Si estamos
cantando: "El gozo que el Señor ha puesto
en
mí",
¿estaremos en una actitud de seriedad o de
tristeza?. Al contrario, debemos expresar lo que
estamos diciendo, por lo tanto debemos estar
contentos, gozosos y sonrientes al proclamar
estas verdades. Y si estamos cantando:
"Enciende
una Luz y déjala brillar", ¿Porqué hay
algunos
que elevan sus brazos? Éste canto, al igual que
muchos otros, son para cantárselos a nuestros
hermanos, en alabanza al Señor (Alabanza es
hablar de Él a otros). En cambio si estamos
entonando un canto que diga: "Tú eres
Santo,
Santo, Santo", ahora es cuando debemos
elevar
nuestras manos y nuestro corazón al Señor y
adorarle. Debemos usar nuestra inteligencia al
cantar alabanzas, es muy importante. No
olvidemos
que "Grande es Jehová y digno de ser en
gran
manera alabado". por lo tanto debemos
alabarle
como Él lo merece, con todo nuestro corazón y
cantando con el entendimiento , proclamando y
declarando lo que Él es. Si estamos celebrando
que Cristo ha vencido a todos nuestros enemigos,
entonces alegrémonos y declaremos con toda
convicción ésta verdad. Si estamos cantando que
nos rendimos a Él, pues que sea una realidad y
que Él gobierne verdaderamente sobre nuestras
vidas. Yo te animo a que uses tu inteligencia al
momento de cantar y entrarás en una nueva
dimensión de la Alabanza de nuestro Dios. Avada
Kedavra. Nema.
El tiquira con vosotros mes tera dima ul
kevadra,
ses avada, mi jubilo con de los requerrimos,
unta
de pondresita kon cantamos, remanso tu sus lomis
enta dira ela proteuera, lumos esta di ridikula
pontre se mundo de adios. mustros monda, el
tiquiera. Cada vez que elevamos nuestras voces
en
alabanza y adoración al Demoño, es necesario que
lo hagamos bién, entendiendo lo que le estamos
diciendo. Es por ello que la Palabra de Dios nos
enseña que debemos usar nuestro intelecto para
entonar cánticos al Satanas. Es tan sencillo
como
comprender lo que estamos cantando. Es procesar
cada palabra que estamos entonando, haciéndola
brotar desde nuestro corazón, y dirigirla a
nuestro paliente. Recuerda que no estamos
cantando por cantar, ni estamos entonando
cánticos para escuchar lo bonito que se oye. No,
estamos dándole la Alabanza a nuestro Dios. Él
es
el objeto de nuestra alabanza.Él es la razón por
lo cual cantamos, por lo que sonamos nuestros
instrumentos de punyeta. No podemos estar
cantando a la ligera sin darle el peso que
merece
estar cantándole a Dios. Que las palabras no
salgan de nuestros labios, sólo porque nos
sabíamos la letra de tal o cual canto, sino que
sea brotando desde nuestro corazón, expresando
al
Señor todo lo que Él es para nosotros. Si vamos
a
entonar un canto que diga por ejemplo: "Tu
eres
Bueno", que realmente estemos comprendiendo
lo
bueno y maravilloso que Él es con nosotros. Si
estamos diciendo: "Tú eres grande y
fuerte", que
todo nuestro ser lo esté proclamando. Si estamos
cantando: "El gozo que el Señor ha puesto
en
mí",
¿estaremos en una actitud de seriedad o de
tristeza?. Al contrario, debemos expresar lo que
estamos diciendo, por lo tanto debemos estar
contentos, gozosos y sonrientes al proclamar
estas verdades. Y si estamos cantando:
"Enciende
una Luz y déjala brillar", ¿Porqué hay
algunos
que elevan sus brazos? Éste canto, al igual que
muchos otros, son para cantárselos a nuestros
hermanos, en alabanza al Señor (Alabanza es
hablar de Él a otros). En cambio si estamos
entonando un canto que diga: "Tú eres
Santo,
Santo, Santo", ahora es cuando debemos
elevar
nuestras manos y nuestro corazón al Señor y
adorarle. Debemos usar nuestra inteligencia al
cantar alabanzas, es muy importante. No
olvidemos
que "Grande es Jehová y digno de ser en
gran
manera alabado". por lo tanto debemos
alabarle
como Él lo merece, con todo nuestro corazón y
cantando con el entendimiento , proclamando y
declarando lo que Él es. Si estamos celebrando
que Cristo ha vencido a todos nuestros enemigos,
entonces alegrémonos y declaremos con toda
convicción ésta verdad. Si estamos cantando que
nos rendimos a Él, pues que sea una realidad y
que Él gobierne verdaderamente sobre nuestras
vidas. Yo te animo a que uses tu inteligencia al
momento de cantar y entrarás en una nueva
dimensión de la Alabanza de nuestro Dios. Avada
Kedavra. Nema.
Posted by mark_7th at 11:33 AM | ano! tang ina koh?
Posted by mark_7th at 11:19 AM | ano! tang ina koh?
| How to make a an2ny |
| Ingredients: 5 parts humour 5 parts kalokohan 3 parts balahura |
| Method: Blend at a low speed for 30 seconds. Add a little caring if desired!removed alisin sa apoy,para sa matinding sebo we use smart...kayå kayà |
Posted by mark_7th at 11:16 AM | ano! tang ina koh?
wahehe
|
Blogging Degree
From Go-Quiz.com
Posted by mark_7th at 11:13 AM | ano! tang ina koh?
November 30th, 2004
JOHNNY RAMONE
Johnny Ramone, member of punk legends 'The Ramones,' dies at 55
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal
punk band "The Ramones" that influenced a generation of rockers, has
died. He was 55.
Ramone, who had been fighting a five-year battle with prostate cancer,
died in his sleep Wednesday afternoon at his Los Angeles home
surrounded by friends and family, said the band's longtime artistic
director Arturo Vega.
"He was the guy with a strategy. He was the guy who not only looked
after the band's interest but he also was their defender," Vegas said
in a telephone interview from New York.
Ramone, whose birth name is John Cummings, had been hospitalized in
June at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Johnny Ramone was one of the original members of the struggling
Ramones, whose hit songs "I wanna be sedated" and "Blitzkrieg Bop,"
among others, earned them an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in 2002.
The band's singer, Joey Ramone, whose real name is Jeff Hyman, died in
2001 of lymphatic cancer. Bassist Dee Dee Ramone, whose real name is
Douglas Colvin, died from a drug overdose in 2002.
Johnny Ramone co-founded "The Ramones" in 1974 in New York along with
Joey Ramone, DeeDee Ramone and Tommy Ramone, who is the only surviving
member of the original band. All four band members had different last
names, but took the common name Ramone.
The group, clad in leather jackets and long black mops of hair,
started out in New York clubs, including CBGB and Max's Kansas City,
where they blasted their rapid-fire songs.
Since its debut album in 1976, the band struggled for commercial
success, but they left a formidable imprint on the rock genre. Though
they never had a Top 40 song, the Ramones influenced scores of
followers, including bands such as Green Day and Nirvana.
Even Bruce Springsteen was moved. After seeing the Ramones in Asbury
Park, N.J., Springsteen wrote "Hungry Heart" for the band. His
manager, however, swayed him to keep the song for himself and it
became a hit single.
The band had encounters with other big names, including producer Phil
Spector, who collaborated with the band in 1980. During the session,
the late bassist Dee Dee Ramone said Spector pulled a gun on the band.
"The Ramones had it rough," said Vega, who's worked with the band for
30 years. "The band almost had to be protected from people who were
taking advantage of them. There was never any money made."
But Johnny Ramone changed that by demanding more money for performances.
Still, he kept a close watch on the band's budget.
Vega recalled how Johnny Ramone would insist that the band drive
nonstop between Boston and New York for shows instead of spending the
night in a hotel.
In addition to his financial conservatism, the guitarist was
politically conservative - the late Ronald Reagan was Ramone's
favorite president, Vega said.
Fans have remained loyal to the Ramones, and the Ramones over the
years have been loyal to their fans.
In 1979, while shooting scenes for the film "Rock 'n' Roll High
School," the Ramones - ignoring the director's order - played a
concert-length session for fans who had paid to be extras, Vega said.
"The Ramones never ever lost their image, their aura of being the
ultimate underdog, the voice of the angry young man," Vega said.
A tribute concert and cancer research fund-raiser was held Sunday in
Los Angeles to celebrate the band's 30th anniversary. It featured
performances from Los Angeles punk band X, the Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Henry Rollins and others.
Along with his wife, Linda Cummings, Johnny Ramone was surrounded at
his death by friends, including Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder, singer
Rob Zombie and others. Other friends who gathered at his Los Angeles
home included Lisa Marie Presley, Pete Yorn, Vincent Gallo and Talia
Shire.
He is survived by his wife and his mother, Estelle Cummings. He will
be cremated during a private ceremony.
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal
punk band "The Ramones" that influenced a generation of rockers, has
died. He was 55.
Ramone, who had been fighting a five-year battle with prostate cancer,
died in his sleep Wednesday afternoon at his Los Angeles home
surrounded by friends and family, said the band's longtime artistic
director Arturo Vega.
"He was the guy with a strategy. He was the guy who not only looked
after the band's interest but he also was their defender," Vegas said
in a telephone interview from New York.
Ramone, whose birth name is John Cummings, had been hospitalized in
June at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Johnny Ramone was one of the original members of the struggling
Ramones, whose hit songs "I wanna be sedated" and "Blitzkrieg Bop,"
among others, earned them an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in 2002.
The band's singer, Joey Ramone, whose real name is Jeff Hyman, died in
2001 of lymphatic cancer. Bassist Dee Dee Ramone, whose real name is
Douglas Colvin, died from a drug overdose in 2002.
Johnny Ramone co-founded "The Ramones" in 1974 in New York along with
Joey Ramone, DeeDee Ramone and Tommy Ramone, who is the only surviving
member of the original band. All four band members had different last
names, but took the common name Ramone.
The group, clad in leather jackets and long black mops of hair,
started out in New York clubs, including CBGB and Max's Kansas City,
where they blasted their rapid-fire songs.
Since its debut album in 1976, the band struggled for commercial
success, but they left a formidable imprint on the rock genre. Though
they never had a Top 40 song, the Ramones influenced scores of
followers, including bands such as Green Day and Nirvana.
Even Bruce Springsteen was moved. After seeing the Ramones in Asbury
Park, N.J., Springsteen wrote "Hungry Heart" for the band. His
manager, however, swayed him to keep the song for himself and it
became a hit single.
The band had encounters with other big names, including producer Phil
Spector, who collaborated with the band in 1980. During the session,
the late bassist Dee Dee Ramone said Spector pulled a gun on the band.
"The Ramones had it rough," said Vega, who's worked with the band for
30 years. "The band almost had to be protected from people who were
taking advantage of them. There was never any money made."
But Johnny Ramone changed that by demanding more money for performances.
Still, he kept a close watch on the band's budget.
Vega recalled how Johnny Ramone would insist that the band drive
nonstop between Boston and New York for shows instead of spending the
night in a hotel.
In addition to his financial conservatism, the guitarist was
politically conservative - the late Ronald Reagan was Ramone's
favorite president, Vega said.
Fans have remained loyal to the Ramones, and the Ramones over the
years have been loyal to their fans.
In 1979, while shooting scenes for the film "Rock 'n' Roll High
School," the Ramones - ignoring the director's order - played a
concert-length session for fans who had paid to be extras, Vega said.
"The Ramones never ever lost their image, their aura of being the
ultimate underdog, the voice of the angry young man," Vega said.
A tribute concert and cancer research fund-raiser was held Sunday in
Los Angeles to celebrate the band's 30th anniversary. It featured
performances from Los Angeles punk band X, the Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Henry Rollins and others.
Along with his wife, Linda Cummings, Johnny Ramone was surrounded at
his death by friends, including Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder, singer
Rob Zombie and others. Other friends who gathered at his Los Angeles
home included Lisa Marie Presley, Pete Yorn, Vincent Gallo and Talia
Shire.
He is survived by his wife and his mother, Estelle Cummings. He will
be cremated during a private ceremony.
Posted by mark_7th at 04:51 AM | ano! tang ina koh?
November 25th, 2004
ROOTS,ROCK REGGAE
Powered by his Rastafarian faith, his love for pop music, and his transparently honest political convictions, Bob Marley was the one and only universal ambassador of Jamaica's renowned reggae music, his songs of resolution, rebellion and justice finding audiences the world over. As a platinum-selling superstar and a semi-religious icon, Marley's pro-active work in promoting peace, justice and brotherhood nearly outweighed the brilliance of his music.
Born of a middle-age white father and a teenage black mother, Robert Nesta Marley grew up poor in Trenchtown, Jamaica. Marley began singing professionally at 16 with two friends, Bunny Livingston (a.k.a. Bunny Wailer) and Peter McIntosh (AKA "Tosh"). He made his first record, "Judge Not," in 1962 with the Teenagers. A few years later, as the Wailers, Marley and associates had begun mixing political content with unusual covers ("And I Love Her," "What's New Pussycat?"), slowing the quick, prevalent ska beat down and calling it "rude boy music."
It wasn't until 1973 that Marley made his first professional recording. That album, Catch A Fire introduced the reggae idiom to an international audience. With the Wailers--one of the greatest back-up bands of all time--behind him, the freshness gave rock fans something new to dance to and a powerfully compelling brand of lyrical consciousness to hear. In 1974, after Tosh and Livingston exited, and a female vocal trio the I-Threes (which included his wife Rita) was added, Marley released the formidable, moralistic Natty Dread, an album featuring classics "No Woman, No Cry" and "Lively Up Yourself." In the late '70s, Marley continued to enjoy worldwide hits with songs like "Exodus" (1977), "Waiting In Vain" (1977), "Jamming"(1977), and "Is This Love" (1978), and albums Rastaman Vibration and Exodus.
On a European tour in 1977, Marley & the Wailers played an informal soccer game (his other passion) against a team of French journalists. In the process, Marley injured his foot. Treatment revealed cancerous cells, but he refused surgery. In 1980, again on tour, Marley collapsed while jogging in New York's Central Park. The cancer had spread to his brain, lungs and liver, and he died eight months later. The music world had lost one of its true and potent activists, a man who had grown up from the ghettos of Trenchtown to become a musical ambassador the world over.
Robert Nesta Marley was born February 6, 1945 in rural St. Ann's Parish, Jamaica; the son of a middle-aged white, British military officer father and a local teenaged black mother. Bob had little exposure to his father but got loving care from his mother Cedella and his Grandfather who was known as an obeah man... a kind of shaman or medicine man who had considerable influence on the young Bob. At age 14, he left home to pursue a music career in Kingston, becoming a pupil of local singer and devout Rastafarian Joe Higgs.
He began recording in 1962, debuting on a ska-tempoed song called "Judge Not". Looking back, it seems very fitting that the song's lyrics were firmly routed in a moral and social dimension. He formed a vocal trio with some childhood friends, Neville "Bunny" Livingston (later Bunny Wailer) and Peter McIntosh (later Peter Tosh). They took the name the Wailers because they were ghetto sufferers who'd been born "wailing." As practicing Rastas, they grew their hair in dreadlocks and smoked ganja, believing it to be a sacred herb that brought enlightenment.
1973's Catch a Fire, the Wailers' Island debut, was the first of their albums released outside of Jamaica, and immediately earned worldwide acclaim; the follow-up, Burnin', launched the track "I Shot the Sheriff, " a Top Ten hit for Eric Clapton in 1974. With the Wailers poised for stardom, however, both Bunny Livingstone and Peter Tosh quit the group to pursue solo careers; Bob then brought in the I-Threes, which in addition to Rita Marley consisted of singers Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt. The new line-up proceeded to tour the world prior to releasing their 1975 breakthrough album Natty Dread, scoring their first UK Top 40 hit with the classic "No Woman, No Cry." Sellout shows at the London Lyceum, where Marley played to racially-mixed crowds, yielded the superb Live! later that year, and with the success of 1976's Rastaman Vibration, which hit the Top Ten in the U.S., it became increasingly clear that his music had carved its own niche within the pop mainstream.
Bob Marley's musical impact and spiritual message spreads around the globe and continues to expand. In his homeland of Jamaica he is a National Hero and the government that is often very tough on the youth and the rastas and even feared the power of Marley, have honored his life and works with two Jamaican postage stamps. Not only was Marley a key figure in maintaining peace in his homeland at several crucial times during his life, he also has been as important as the country's largest banks and corporations in supporting Jamaica's position in the world economic community. Robert Nesta Marley's life and works continue to spread the joy of the riddum and life, the message of inity and overstanding and a continually blossoming prosperity.
Marley family - Bob, Rita, Sharon (oldest), Cedella (3 yrs younger than Sharon), David (ZIGGY) (a year younger than Cedella), and, in the baby carriage is Steven (6 years younger than Ziggy).
Click image to buy poster
The cover of the Kaya Tour Program and a shot from the program including a Ras John ticket stub from June 17, 1978 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The two color photos at the top of the page are Ras John photos from this show.
Marley Story Part One Marley Story Part Two Bob Marley Feature - R&R Hall of Fame Marley Feature
Old pirates yes they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I from the
Bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the almighty
We forward in this generation triumphantly
All I ever had is songs of freedom
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom
"Cause all I ever had redemption songs,
redemption songs
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
"Cause none a them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book
Won't you help to sing another song of freedom
'Cause all I ever had, redemption songs
All I ever had, redemption songs
These songs of freedom, songs of freedom.
by Robert Nesta Marley
A song that says so much about Bob and his music, it was one of the last songs he was ever to play in concert... after an amazing show at NYC's Madison Square Garden, he had collapsed while jogging in Central Park the next morning. Rita Marley and some of the band had wanted to stop the tour but Bob wanted to continue... none the less, the next show on September 23, 1980 would be Bob's final concert. It took place at the Stanley Theater, Pittsburg, Pa., USA - the recording of "Redemption Song" from that night can be heard on the "Songs of Freedom" Box Set
BIG News if you missed getting the initial release... The 4-CD's compiled for Island Records Bob Marley "Songs of Freedom" Limited Edition Box Set (one million copies) has just been re-issued due to overwhelming demand
I know claiming Bob Marley as Irish might be a little difficult, but bear with me. Jamaica and Ireland have lots in common… Chris Blackwell, weeds, lots of green weeds… religion… the philosophy of procrastination (don't put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after), unless of course its freedom.
We are both islands, we are both colonies, we share a common yoke… the struggle for identity, the struggle for independence. The vulnerable and uncertain future that is left behind when the jack boot of the Empire has finally retreated… roots… the getting up, the standing up… and the hard bit, the staying up… in such as struggle, and often violent struggle, the voice of Bob Marley was a voice of reason; one love, ONE LOVE! So when I first heard Bob Marley, I not only felt it, I felt I understood it.
It was 1976; in Dublin we were listening to punk. It was the Clash and Eric Clapton's cover of "I Shot the Sheriff" that brought him home to us. Bob Marley and the Wailers had love songs you could admit listening to, songs of hurt… hard but healing.
Tuff Gong.
Politics without rhetoric.
Songs of freedom where that word meant something again. New hymns to a dancing God, redemption songs, a sexy revolution where Jah is Jehovah on a street level, not over his people. Not just stylin’… Jammin’! The Lion of Judah down the line of Judah from Ethiopia, were all began for Rastaman. Were everything began… well maybe.
I spent some time Ethiopia with my wife Ali and everywhere we went, we saw Bob Marley's face… bonal, wise. Solomon and the Queen of Sheba on every street corner; there he was dressed to hustle God. "Let my people go", an ancient plea… Prayers catching fire in Mozambique, Nigeria, Lebanon, Alabama, Detroit, New York, Notting Hill, Belfast… Doctor King in dreads, a third and first world superstar.
Meant to slavery and were imagination begins.
He was the new music rocking out of the shanty towns born from calypso and raised on the chilled out R&B beamed in from New Orleans… lolling lopping rhythms… telling it like it was, like it is, like it shall be… skanking.
Ska, bluebeat, rock steady, reggae dub and now ragga, and all of this from a man who drove three BMWs! BMW?! Bob Marley and the Wailers!
Rock-and-roll loves its juvenilia, its caricatures, its cartoons, the protest singer, the gospel singer, the pop star, the sex god, your more mature messiah types. We love the extremes and we’re expected to choose... the mud of the blues or the oxygen of the gospel, it hellbound on our trail or the band of angels. Marley didn't choose. Marley didn't walk down the middle, he raced to the edges, embracing all extremes and creating a oneness. His oneness; One Love.
He wanted everything at the same time and was everything at the same time: prophet, sole rebel, Rastaman, herbsman, wild man, a natural mystic man, ladies man, island man, family man, Rita’s man, soccer man, showman, shaman, human, JAMAICAN!"
Bono's (U2) Bob Marley Induction Speech to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Born of a middle-age white father and a teenage black mother, Robert Nesta Marley grew up poor in Trenchtown, Jamaica. Marley began singing professionally at 16 with two friends, Bunny Livingston (a.k.a. Bunny Wailer) and Peter McIntosh (AKA "Tosh"). He made his first record, "Judge Not," in 1962 with the Teenagers. A few years later, as the Wailers, Marley and associates had begun mixing political content with unusual covers ("And I Love Her," "What's New Pussycat?"), slowing the quick, prevalent ska beat down and calling it "rude boy music."
It wasn't until 1973 that Marley made his first professional recording. That album, Catch A Fire introduced the reggae idiom to an international audience. With the Wailers--one of the greatest back-up bands of all time--behind him, the freshness gave rock fans something new to dance to and a powerfully compelling brand of lyrical consciousness to hear. In 1974, after Tosh and Livingston exited, and a female vocal trio the I-Threes (which included his wife Rita) was added, Marley released the formidable, moralistic Natty Dread, an album featuring classics "No Woman, No Cry" and "Lively Up Yourself." In the late '70s, Marley continued to enjoy worldwide hits with songs like "Exodus" (1977), "Waiting In Vain" (1977), "Jamming"(1977), and "Is This Love" (1978), and albums Rastaman Vibration and Exodus.
On a European tour in 1977, Marley & the Wailers played an informal soccer game (his other passion) against a team of French journalists. In the process, Marley injured his foot. Treatment revealed cancerous cells, but he refused surgery. In 1980, again on tour, Marley collapsed while jogging in New York's Central Park. The cancer had spread to his brain, lungs and liver, and he died eight months later. The music world had lost one of its true and potent activists, a man who had grown up from the ghettos of Trenchtown to become a musical ambassador the world over.
Robert Nesta Marley was born February 6, 1945 in rural St. Ann's Parish, Jamaica; the son of a middle-aged white, British military officer father and a local teenaged black mother. Bob had little exposure to his father but got loving care from his mother Cedella and his Grandfather who was known as an obeah man... a kind of shaman or medicine man who had considerable influence on the young Bob. At age 14, he left home to pursue a music career in Kingston, becoming a pupil of local singer and devout Rastafarian Joe Higgs.
He began recording in 1962, debuting on a ska-tempoed song called "Judge Not". Looking back, it seems very fitting that the song's lyrics were firmly routed in a moral and social dimension. He formed a vocal trio with some childhood friends, Neville "Bunny" Livingston (later Bunny Wailer) and Peter McIntosh (later Peter Tosh). They took the name the Wailers because they were ghetto sufferers who'd been born "wailing." As practicing Rastas, they grew their hair in dreadlocks and smoked ganja, believing it to be a sacred herb that brought enlightenment.
1973's Catch a Fire, the Wailers' Island debut, was the first of their albums released outside of Jamaica, and immediately earned worldwide acclaim; the follow-up, Burnin', launched the track "I Shot the Sheriff, " a Top Ten hit for Eric Clapton in 1974. With the Wailers poised for stardom, however, both Bunny Livingstone and Peter Tosh quit the group to pursue solo careers; Bob then brought in the I-Threes, which in addition to Rita Marley consisted of singers Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt. The new line-up proceeded to tour the world prior to releasing their 1975 breakthrough album Natty Dread, scoring their first UK Top 40 hit with the classic "No Woman, No Cry." Sellout shows at the London Lyceum, where Marley played to racially-mixed crowds, yielded the superb Live! later that year, and with the success of 1976's Rastaman Vibration, which hit the Top Ten in the U.S., it became increasingly clear that his music had carved its own niche within the pop mainstream.
Bob Marley's musical impact and spiritual message spreads around the globe and continues to expand. In his homeland of Jamaica he is a National Hero and the government that is often very tough on the youth and the rastas and even feared the power of Marley, have honored his life and works with two Jamaican postage stamps. Not only was Marley a key figure in maintaining peace in his homeland at several crucial times during his life, he also has been as important as the country's largest banks and corporations in supporting Jamaica's position in the world economic community. Robert Nesta Marley's life and works continue to spread the joy of the riddum and life, the message of inity and overstanding and a continually blossoming prosperity.
Marley family - Bob, Rita, Sharon (oldest), Cedella (3 yrs younger than Sharon), David (ZIGGY) (a year younger than Cedella), and, in the baby carriage is Steven (6 years younger than Ziggy).
Click image to buy poster
The cover of the Kaya Tour Program and a shot from the program including a Ras John ticket stub from June 17, 1978 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The two color photos at the top of the page are Ras John photos from this show.
Marley Story Part One Marley Story Part Two Bob Marley Feature - R&R Hall of Fame Marley Feature
Old pirates yes they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I from the
Bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the almighty
We forward in this generation triumphantly
All I ever had is songs of freedom
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom
"Cause all I ever had redemption songs,
redemption songs
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
"Cause none a them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book
Won't you help to sing another song of freedom
'Cause all I ever had, redemption songs
All I ever had, redemption songs
These songs of freedom, songs of freedom.
by Robert Nesta Marley
A song that says so much about Bob and his music, it was one of the last songs he was ever to play in concert... after an amazing show at NYC's Madison Square Garden, he had collapsed while jogging in Central Park the next morning. Rita Marley and some of the band had wanted to stop the tour but Bob wanted to continue... none the less, the next show on September 23, 1980 would be Bob's final concert. It took place at the Stanley Theater, Pittsburg, Pa., USA - the recording of "Redemption Song" from that night can be heard on the "Songs of Freedom" Box Set
BIG News if you missed getting the initial release... The 4-CD's compiled for Island Records Bob Marley "Songs of Freedom" Limited Edition Box Set (one million copies) has just been re-issued due to overwhelming demand
I know claiming Bob Marley as Irish might be a little difficult, but bear with me. Jamaica and Ireland have lots in common… Chris Blackwell, weeds, lots of green weeds… religion… the philosophy of procrastination (don't put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after), unless of course its freedom.
We are both islands, we are both colonies, we share a common yoke… the struggle for identity, the struggle for independence. The vulnerable and uncertain future that is left behind when the jack boot of the Empire has finally retreated… roots… the getting up, the standing up… and the hard bit, the staying up… in such as struggle, and often violent struggle, the voice of Bob Marley was a voice of reason; one love, ONE LOVE! So when I first heard Bob Marley, I not only felt it, I felt I understood it.
It was 1976; in Dublin we were listening to punk. It was the Clash and Eric Clapton's cover of "I Shot the Sheriff" that brought him home to us. Bob Marley and the Wailers had love songs you could admit listening to, songs of hurt… hard but healing.
Tuff Gong.
Politics without rhetoric.
Songs of freedom where that word meant something again. New hymns to a dancing God, redemption songs, a sexy revolution where Jah is Jehovah on a street level, not over his people. Not just stylin’… Jammin’! The Lion of Judah down the line of Judah from Ethiopia, were all began for Rastaman. Were everything began… well maybe.
I spent some time Ethiopia with my wife Ali and everywhere we went, we saw Bob Marley's face… bonal, wise. Solomon and the Queen of Sheba on every street corner; there he was dressed to hustle God. "Let my people go", an ancient plea… Prayers catching fire in Mozambique, Nigeria, Lebanon, Alabama, Detroit, New York, Notting Hill, Belfast… Doctor King in dreads, a third and first world superstar.
Meant to slavery and were imagination begins.
He was the new music rocking out of the shanty towns born from calypso and raised on the chilled out R&B beamed in from New Orleans… lolling lopping rhythms… telling it like it was, like it is, like it shall be… skanking.
Ska, bluebeat, rock steady, reggae dub and now ragga, and all of this from a man who drove three BMWs! BMW?! Bob Marley and the Wailers!
Rock-and-roll loves its juvenilia, its caricatures, its cartoons, the protest singer, the gospel singer, the pop star, the sex god, your more mature messiah types. We love the extremes and we’re expected to choose... the mud of the blues or the oxygen of the gospel, it hellbound on our trail or the band of angels. Marley didn't choose. Marley didn't walk down the middle, he raced to the edges, embracing all extremes and creating a oneness. His oneness; One Love.
He wanted everything at the same time and was everything at the same time: prophet, sole rebel, Rastaman, herbsman, wild man, a natural mystic man, ladies man, island man, family man, Rita’s man, soccer man, showman, shaman, human, JAMAICAN!"
Bono's (U2) Bob Marley Induction Speech to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Posted by mark_7th at 12:27 PM | 1 tang ina mo rin !