The Reggae Thread

[taunton-hobbit]

This gets more relevant by the year -

 

 

 

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[Reggaebass]

Well I’m off to see ,one love the Marley film, shall report back later 

[taunton-hobbit]

The Guardian didn't like it much - which is probably a recommendation ................

 

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[miles'tone]

3 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

Well I’m off to see ,one love the Marley film, shall report back later 

I hope you enjoy. I did.

A mate from work asked me to go with him so I obliged. I don't usually go in for musical biopics, especially about artists I love. 

Maybe it's because I went in just hoping it wouldn't be rubbish, but I think they did a good job for Bob.

Also I was pleasantly surprised to see the cinema nearly full, with many young teenagers in attendance. 

If the movie is turning on the current new generation to Bob, reggae and a path to positivity in general then it's a worthy job well done imho. 🙂

[Reggaebass]

5 minutes ago, miles'tone said:

Also I was pleasantly surprised to see the cinema nearly full, with many young teenagers in attendance. 

If the movie is turning on the current new generation to Bob, reggae and a path to positivity in general then it's a worthy job well done imho.

Thanks miles, yes it’s definitely positive if it reaches the younger audience, the cinema was fairly full and many young people there, 

I already knew the history of Bob from when I first bought Exodus around 77 but it was really good to see it in a film, I thought they did a great job of his life story, good to see a few shots of studio one too, I especially liked the part with the Wailing Wailers doing Simmer Down

I’d say it’s definitely worth a watch if you haven’t already seen it 

[Gasman]

Loved the loads of authentic  1970s cars that featured strongly in the film, and  the warehouse punk scene put in for a real contrast, as well as Bob's music being superb of course!

[Reggaebass]

On 08/02/2024 at 13:03, SumOne said:

Truth wave Rights being one of my favourite reggae tunes

Hi SumOne , there’s some  info on here about the releases you might find interesting, lots of other links to look through too at the top, I like the one on the early labels 

https://www.downbeat-special.co.uk/truthsandrights.html

[SumOne]

1 hour ago, Reggaebass said:

Hi SumOne , there’s some  info on here about the releases you might find interesting, lots of other links to look through too at the top, I like the one on the early labels 

https://www.downbeat-special.co.uk/truthsandrights.html

Nice! 

 

(and just realised my auto type changed 'Truth and Rights' to 'Truth wave Rights' for some reason 🤨 babylon getting to it! 

[taunton-hobbit]

Try this-

 

 

 

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[taunton-hobbit]

 

 

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[Reggaebass]

Really liking this, Aston Familyman Barrett on bass & Junior Marvin on guitar, Aston Barrett Jr on drums 

 

[Reggaebass]

Was going through some of King Sounds tracks and I like this version of the heptones song Book of Rules, great voice and bass 

 

[taunton-hobbit]

I have told this before (long time back) - I had the Heptones for a Sunday night show & the backing band simply didn't turn up.

 

I landed up playing every Heptones version track that I could find, with the guys doing vocals on the dance floor through my dj mic (several times).

 

The crowd loved it (& them)

 

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[Reggaebass]

4 minutes ago, taunton-hobbit said:

I have told this before (long time back) - I had the Heptones for a Sunday night show & the backing band simply didn't turn up.

 

I landed up playing every Heptones version track that I could find, with the guys doing vocals on the dance floor through my dj mic (several times).

 

The crowd loved it (& them)

 

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Very cool T-h, things like that don’t happen very often, good times 

[Raslee]

So digging the Skints again lately - 

 

 

[BassTractor]

 

Sacrilegious post warning! 😊
This is prog, but the partial reggae vibe made me think someone in this thread might actually like it.
I do. It's a weird little ditty that I actually like a lot.

 

 

[nilorius]

I like this one. Though in live cover i play it much different.

 

[Reggaebass]

King tubby day today 

 

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[SumOne]

Nice new mix from Earl Gateshead

 

https://on.soundcloud.com/UhW4y

[taunton-hobbit]

 

 

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[taunton-hobbit]

| have a copy of Freddie McGregor 'wine of violence' (which I dropped here a while back, it's a bit of a favourite of mine. Earlier today I was browsing my cd collection & came across a few that I'd bought but not listened to. A studio one cd offered the track, which is the 'original' recording (really?) I listened to & it just didn't do it for me, so I took to YouTube to have a look around - this is a direct steal, but (imo) loses nothing in 'translation' -

 

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[Reggaebass]

Isn’t the original one by Freddie McGregor on the album Bobby Bobylon which was released in 1979 

[taunton-hobbit]

The one I prefer is Jah Marcus Dubplate?

 

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[Reggaebass]

18 minutes ago, taunton-hobbit said:

The one I prefer is Jah Marcus Dubplate?

 

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Is that the white label one? Don’t think it’s on YT