what I think is interesting too, is to watch the people dancing to records that were meant to chant them down. (like "crazy baldheads")
they use to dance to music that was created to chant them down. still they nuh open their eyes.
most of them also call Reggae music "good vibrations-music", which is not wrong, but they think everything that concerns the carribean or Reggae or Rasta is some kind of "peace, love music". they don't see that brethren write songs about ambush in the night or another shooting in the ghetto or political violence, etc.
they don't Iverstand Reggae (I prefere calling it RastafarI-music). they think it is a thing about only love, peace, ganja, being a cool rasta-guy or about this 2nd-4th-beat - thing.
you can't definy Reggae through some emphasizing-techniques on the guitar or keyboard.
fe sure, reggae music is "created by rasta-people" (as Bob says), and musical basics is to emphasize the 2nd and 4th beat, but what about "redemption song" ? this ain't Reggae, RastafarI-music? definitely it is Reggae, RastafarI-music, because it was created by rasta-people.
Reggae isn't everything whose rhythm is turned inside out. people shouldn't think in isms and skisms. now they create new styles like "neo-dancehall-dub-ragga" or other shit like that. silly. sick.
if they want to check everything technically and not with their heart, why they don't call it Reggaeism ?
ridiculous, the ways babylon go.
you have to check music with your heart, not with your brain.
Bob: "we don't play for suit critics. we play what we want, when we want and how we want, and we have a reason to play it."
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another thing: did you know that the melanoma (skin cancer) that Bob had, only europeans (light-skinned people) can have this kind of cancer. "black" people can not develop this cancer on their skin. so it was in the gens of Bob's father, the cancer.
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