Today would have been Bob Marley's 64th birthday.

[Are_grits_groceries]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonYFxHHvaM

Remember...........

[sniffa]

1. And he would have been a sell-out now

Pepsi would own his songs.

[tosh]

2. "...half the story has never been told..."

[panader0]

3. Hard to believe that it's Reagan's birthday too

[JuniperLea]

4. Nature always seeks a balance

It took the uber cool of Marley to counteract the uber neocon greed of Reagan.

[B o d i]

6. Ok then, who's birthday counterbalances Rick Astley's?

Axl Rose?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI

Happy birthday Bob & Axl :-)

[JuniperLea]

11. EW!

I'm not fond of either.

I must be ugly and tone deaf... I share a birthday with Isabella Roselini and Paul McCartney! LOL!

[Blues Heron]

5. We forward in this generation

Triumphantly!
Wont you help to sing
These songs of freedom?


One Love y'all - happy birthday Bob!

[aikoaiko]

7. He did not shoot the deputy.

[aikoaiko]

8. When I was a kid, I thought the song No Woman, No Cry meant if you didn't have a girlfriend

you wouln't be unhappy.

[scarletwoman]

9. Ya mon. I and I still cry.

I saw Bob Marley live in concert FOUR times. Don't know why he showed up in Minnesota so many times, but I always made sure I was there. I was totally in love with him and his music.

I don't remember how I ever heard about him in the first place, back in those days. But I turned lots of my friends onto him -- hauling more and more of them along with me to each of his concerts. Always they were blown away and really glad I insisted.

I used to have every one of his albums on vinyl -- but that was long ago, and I moved so many times cross country that eventually a box or two of stuff got lost or left behind.

I turned my kids onto Marley and they dug him, too. But the utterly transcendent experience of seeing him live... There's no way to ever reproduce that.

So sad, so sad. Another beautiful soul taken from us way too young.

:cry:
sw

[mdmc]

10. Ja

Bless!

[tigereye]

12. I would never have fallen in love with reggae, and then ska and world music

if not for that man.

For that I am very grateful. I hope he is still playing music somewhere up in the ether....