BREAKUP OF THE WAILERS

Well since Peter and Bunny left

kinna get a little bit tighter

I don’t think is because them leave you know

all I feel is it mostly

because type of vibration we had in the studio

we did have a good vibration you know

Well is my bredrin’

then you know and you don’t supposed to like

your not supposed to feel down over whatever 

happened to you

you must use whatever happened to you as some 

type

upper you know

so if everybody say they don’t want to play 

music 

no more

leave an go on know what I mean

they have to go with it

time go with it

what is to be must be. 

Bob Marley 

CELEBRATING YOUR OWN OPPRESSION

And Christmas... like all these Christmas's 

that cometh in... is the time... what you 

call them... a pig... an force the Christians 

to eat pigs... so this Christmas I want to 

talk about Christmas... this is just 

celebrating your own oppression... you 

know what I mean... a wicked... you know

a very wicked thing... mon... a man force

 you to eat pork... and then every year 

celebrated the day... then make you 

celebrate it an call the day Christmas... 

BOB MARLEY

BOB MARLEY THE MAKING OF A LEGEND

http://www.liveunchained.com/the-legend-behind-the-legend-esther-anderson-on-reggae-rebellion-marley/

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/woman-magazine/Esther_Anderson__Bob_Marley___Me-144065466.html

http://www.theartcollector.org/bob-marley-rebel-prophet-photographs-esther-anderson/

http://www.island-stage.com/issues/island_stage_mag_01_2014.pdf

https://massappeal.com/contact-high-esther-anderson-on-photographing-bob-tuff-gong-marley-circa-1973/

CALLED AND CHOSEN AND FAITHFUL

He cannot die. He is Almighty God. If you say Jesus, people think you all right; if you say Ras Tafari, people think you mad.
Bob Marley 1978

Esther Anderson - So, I would say his conversion was that moment when he had his “vision” as he called it, of Selassie touching him on his forehead. Bob and I went to Nine Miles in St. Ann to visit the place where he was born. He told me stories of his grandfather whom he loved, and of his very young mother who gave birth to him and of his father, a 60 old year old Englishman who left before he was born. He then took me to the top of a hill with a small one room building he had built himself. He said he had gotten into some trouble in Kingston. At the time he had his dreadlocks, but he cut them off to get away from the bad influence around him and came to live again as a farmer. But while working on the building he got tired and fell asleep. He said it was not a deep sleep. He was just resting when he suddenly felt a hand touch him on his forehead. Bob said it was ‘His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie 1’ and a voice inside him said “you are like Jonah — he was in the belly of the whale — Now you must go back into the world and do. my works”.

https://massappeal.com/contact-high-esther-anderson-on-photographing-bob-tuff-gong-marley-circa-1973/

Revelations 17:14

These shall make war with the Lamb,

and the Lamb shall overcome them: 

for he is Lord of Lords, and King of 

Kings: and they that are with him 

are called, and chosen, and faithful.

         

RASTA GOODWILL

Of late The Wailers have been trying to express their Rasta goodwill in action by investing some of the group's profits in community and youth projects, such as farms owned by Jamaican people rather than vast, foreign companies.
It won't solve all problems, but is a beginning. Is something the government shoulda done, but them don't do it and them won't do it.
Bob Marley 

THE REGGAE GROOVE

Reggae music takes its groove from the body

movements of the working farmer ploughing 

the earth and chopping the bushes. 

Bob Marley 1973

                                                        Photo credit Ian Dickson

WE HAVE TO STOP SUFFERING

If I show you a ball, I would have to be a magic man to make that ball a different color. And when you expose a situation, you don't need to expose it again. It's exposed already. To sing about suffering all the time is not a deep thing. We want our people to live good. We don't want to encourage suffering. We want our people to live the way they want to live. We have to stop suffering. 
Bob Marley 1978