What a Bam Bam- Toots at the Fillmore

[JRL]

I dug the Wailers doing the Marley stuff. Like the Dead doing Garcia/Hunter tunes. Great music lives on!!

Bird Lives! Marley Lives! Jimi Lives! John Lennon Lives! Trane Lives! Miles Lives!  on and on and on

Yeah, better see old Toots if you can. How many more years can he tour?

[laughingwillow]

Looks like toots will prolly go until he drops.  

Sitting here listening to this old JGB set dredged up memories of seeing Jimmy Cliff back in the 80's. He puts on a great show, too. Last few times we saw him, he had a wall of hand drummers sitting on front of the stage to segue into reggae. I wonder what he's been up to these daze?

The Abyssinians is another old-school group still kicking it, if'n I'm not mistaken.

indra: Whazz up wit hthe skatilites (sp?) Are/were they ska or reggae?

jrl: Btw, I was happy to hear the wailers to bob marley songs all night long. But they didn't all need to come from the greatest hits album. hehe Bob has a ton of songs in his catalog.

lw

lw

[Indra]

the skatalites are said to have "invented" ska back in the early 1960's.  I saw the most recent incarnation of the band a couple of years ago, and the sound, though laden with horns in typical ska manner, more resembled roots reggae than anything else.

[Indra]

while we are all in this groovy reggae mood, i'll ask the following question:

"what do 'yall think about dub?"  personally, i love it!!

[JRL]

Me too. Talk about some spaced out shit.

LW: I guess they do what they gotta to sell tickets to citizens

I  got the garcia Band doing The Harder They Come. I really first fell in love with da reggae when I heard The Harder They Come soundtrack.
Is Jimmy Cliff good live?, cause to me,except for The Harder They Come stuff his stuff is a bit to commercial for me. I understand he is not a rasta but a muslim.