Can reggae music be copied?
Bob Marley: "Well, you see, the way I feel about de music, it can be copied, ya know. But... it’s not copy do it, it’s the feel. Ya know, it carry a feel. Where....if you explain it to a musician, dem know it, but dem can't do it.”
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So, not to be tacky by using this comparison, but Babylon thinks that its currency notes are so valuable that it goes to great lengths to make sure that they can’t be counterfeited. JAH music is created in such a way that its notes can’t be counterfeited either. I once saw an unbelievably complex attempt at a mathematical analysis of the multiple simultaneous rhythms used in a Wailers reggae song –it was mindboggling. And, of course, even if one manages to fully capture and reproduce perfectly every beat of those rhythms, THEY CHANGE EVERY TIME THE SONG IS PLAYED BY THE TRUE MESSENGERS OF JAH!
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