The Exodus album is the one that brought the wailers them to the masses. Without a doubt. Try and find an original copy of Catch a Fire on vinyl now. You would be looking for gold ! Even Tuff Gong studio does not have it. I have been there and on Cds are available!
along with the film The Harder They Come, the two events that broke reggae worldwide. Wish I still had my Zippo lighter album cover. Both the Jamaican version and the standard version are excellent.
Yess sir! I have that same album in vinyl as well as CD. I had to buy the CD version at the Tuff Gong recording studios as they did not have vinyl at the time. Shocked wasn't the word to describe how I felt when they told me, only CDs. Horror came into play, even more, when I had to pay using Jamaican dollars!!!! No credit card machine working!!! So glad I went to the studios nevertheless as I had a private tour, sat in his red Leyland truck used for transporting the musician's gear when they gigged. Standing inside the studio and sound mixing booth was serine. It was as if I had been there with every great Reggae artiste ever, with Bob being on the top of the list of greats. I simply had to come away with something from that studio. The CD Catch Ah Fyah! Off to 9 Mile where he is buried to spend the day was just as moving as it was exciting as meeting Captain Crazy and drinking a couple of Red Stripes with him and singing No Woman No Cry! Visiting the home where he grew and lived was like going home... The final leg of this third trip to see the family, was to Kingston to see the studio home at 96 Hope Road in Kingston and pick up some tee shirts, watch some videos of the Wailers with Bob through the years of their legacy in the music business. The Blue Mountain coffee is recommended if you like strong coffee, although no cheaper than if you had paid for it at exported prices...They call this Bob Marley coffee and it sure felt like Bob was around especially you stroll around the grounds meeting greats from the past, too many to name here. There is also a bar upstairs where they have some wicked rum cocktail shots and the typical Red Stripe beer if you don't dare sample anything stronger..! Glad still, that I have the vinyl version from this remake of the money-making ''Catch Ah Fyah'' ( my own naming of this album! ) I will go back again because you can never have too much of Jamaica. If you don't know, you simply gotta' go! Me no botha' with Rodders, him deh pon street from time pushin' reggae since university days in Oxford, then movin uptown to London to join Capital radio then the BBC and runnin' up & down the world spreading di gospel of reggae music, but if yu wanna' go visit yard, it is a must do ting! BBC privilege get him where he is, and what he knows 'bout reggae is more than most. Seriously good that someone like him keeps this ting alive. Ironic then that in the beginning, BBC never appreciate black music, much less reggae.
40th Street Black Since that trip, was in London where I resided til I moved abroad, and picked up TWO MINT copies of what I could not get at Tuff Gong records, paying in dollars! US of course, and in London! Forget Ebay!
Rodigan always giving out history lessons. He could have been a great teacher.
such a legend, could listen to him for days
The Exodus album is the one that brought the wailers them to the masses. Without a doubt.
Try and find an original copy of Catch a Fire on vinyl now. You would be looking for gold !
Even Tuff Gong studio does not have it. I have been there and on Cds are available!
RODDY A TRUE LEGEND!!!! READ HIS BOOK ITS NEARLY ALL OUR STORY
Several thanks Dr.Rodigan
along with the film The Harder They Come, the two events that broke reggae worldwide. Wish I still had my Zippo lighter album cover. Both the Jamaican version and the standard version are excellent.
I love it !
One Love
WAILERS IT WAS. WAILERS IT WILL FOREVER BE !!!
Yess sir! I have that same album in vinyl as well as CD. I had to buy the CD version at the Tuff Gong recording studios as they did not have vinyl at the time. Shocked wasn't the word to describe how I felt when they told me, only CDs. Horror came into play, even more, when I had to pay using Jamaican dollars!!!!
No credit card machine working!!!
So glad I went to the studios nevertheless as I had a private tour, sat in his red Leyland truck used for transporting the musician's gear when they gigged.
Standing inside the studio and sound mixing booth was serine. It was as if I had been there with every great Reggae artiste ever, with Bob being on the top of the list of greats.
I simply had to come away with something from that studio. The CD Catch Ah Fyah!
Off to 9 Mile where he is buried to spend the day was just as moving as it was exciting as meeting Captain Crazy and drinking a couple of Red Stripes with him and singing No Woman No Cry! Visiting the home where he grew and lived was like going home...
The final leg of this third trip to see the family, was to Kingston to see the studio home at 96 Hope Road in Kingston and pick up some tee shirts, watch some videos of the Wailers with Bob through the years of their legacy in the music business.
The Blue Mountain coffee is recommended if you like strong coffee, although no cheaper than if you had paid for it at exported prices...They call this Bob Marley coffee and it sure felt like Bob was around especially you stroll around the grounds meeting greats from the past, too many to name here. There is also a bar upstairs where they have some wicked rum cocktail shots and the typical Red Stripe beer if you don't dare sample anything stronger..!
Glad still, that I have the vinyl version from this remake of the money-making ''Catch Ah Fyah'' ( my own naming of this album! )
I will go back again because you can never have too much of Jamaica. If you don't know, you simply gotta' go!
Me no botha' with Rodders, him deh pon street from time pushin' reggae since university days in Oxford, then movin uptown to London to join Capital radio then the BBC and runnin' up & down the world spreading di gospel of reggae music, but if yu wanna' go visit yard, it is a must do ting!
BBC privilege get him where he is, and what he knows 'bout reggae is more than most.
Seriously good that someone like him keeps this ting alive.
Ironic then that in the beginning, BBC never appreciate black music, much less reggae.
Nice one. I have this original too, bought on it's release in 1973.
Nice one. I have this original too, bought on it's release in 1973.
40th Street Black Since that trip, was in London where I resided til I moved abroad, and picked up TWO MINT copies of what I could not get at Tuff Gong records, paying in dollars! US of course, and in London!
Forget Ebay!
First.....Fascinating
Skinheads=reggae
Early jamaica music is the real music of skinhead