Something for the weekend…
A big thankyou to Michael Greenwell for pointing me towards this wonderfully laid-back live performance of Bob Marley’s Stir It Up. As I think I’ve mentioned before, The Wailers were the very first band I saw live. It was the mid-80s and Bob had sadly moved on by then, but it was a thoroughly amazing evening and live music has been a huge passion of mine ever since (I can only imagine how different my life would be if I’d skipped that gig and gone to see a football match or something else instead!) Not long after the gig had begun, a massive rastafarian in the audience (and there weren’t many of those in Athens at the time) handed a joint to a friend of mine who in turn passed it to me. It wasn’t my first toke, but it was an influential one………
Anyways, let’s Stir it Up why don’t we.
no problem there.
i have an old video of said recording from bbc which is why i knew about it.
the reason for the laid-back-ness (making words up now!) might be that as the bbc video said, in order to get some cannabis into the country they ground it up and put it in jars of honey and then had a fair amount of honey on toast before the performance.
May 10th, 2008 | 5:25pm
by michael greenwell
Some artists just make pretty much all other music look trite and pointless, don’t they?
Go and watch a Thompson Twins video after that, see what you feel.
It’s so gratifying to see that Marley is the world’s most universal music. Wherever you go, huge numbers of people love him. Not just a certain generation, class, race, gender or age, but everyone. And not just ‘quite like’, but really love his music.
If that’s not cause for faith in humanity I don’t know what is.
May 10th, 2008 | 9:53pm
by merrick