Yes, I rate high his early 68-70 work with Wailers and I discovered recently a wicked 1975 instrumental pon Solomonic with Peter on melodica: *Anti-Apartheid*... Killer!
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Who between Bunny and Peter
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maredicorsica
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Re: Who between Bunny and Peter
Thank you all for your opinion, it interested me a lot.
My experience was this, I discovered the multi authoral identity of BMW when I bought the album Burnin (that amazed me), on which cover was not Bob Marley and The Wailers but just the latter.
It happened in 1979, after get acquainted with Kaya in 1978, and Exodus and Rastaman Vibration that soon followed in my album collection.
That was my first occasion to understand that there were three instead of one, or just more than one group then splitted.
So I bought soon some lp of the other two missed (Blackheart Man and Protest from Bunny, Bush Doctor and Equal Rights from Peter), realising that they were musically far apart.
Well, what I can say, it is that I appreciated more Bunny instead Peter.
What I felt more intriguing to me was the deep soulful inspiration of Bunny's music, something that I was'nt able to recognize as easily in Peter's music, despite the song I am that I am that among others, was one of my favourite since that period.
So for the followings years I followed more Bunny instead Peter, and I had few occasion tho rethink the whole matter, despite the non enthusiastic feelings I had with the Bunny's dancehall era.
In the meantime I was higly excited with the release of Peter's No nuclear war album (that I bought, but rarely played), I must admit that his music was somehow elusive to me, and too much pop oriented.
When I first heard of Peter murder I was shocked, but, you know, it was impossible for me to understand anything about it for years, until I had the occasion to read some part of the story in the Timothy White book Catch a Fire, that in Italy was published only in 1994, many years after Tosh brutal assination.
Then appeared to me the documentary X TAPES about Tosh music and personality.
Please consider that I may have not understood something in the whole matter, I'm a white italian man with only moderate skillingness in english reading and writing, (not to say about jamaican patois), and black culture, but I'm doing my best.
When I first seen the videotape in a record shop scaffold, I refused to buy it.
Something in my soul refused to keep in touch with that episode in Peter's life, now being told through images on a documentary kind videotape.
For some years I could'nt find myself ready to give a look on it.
But then, last summer, I had the intuition to see it, and reconsider.
I was musically astounded with that short intro of the song "Lesson in my life", with slowed down images of late eighties concert when Peter was dressing arab like, and I clearly found that I didnt had listened carefully enough to the No Nuclear War LP bought 20 years before.
Well I newly discovered an Artist that I surely underevaluated when faced at firsts, just 20 years before
The result was that I recently bought again all the remastered CD edition of Peter original discography and more, and, to be honest, only I now have understood the incomparable talent of Mr. Peter Tosh.
To the point that I cant anymore put him third in my old and wrong ranking score, he not only equalled Bunny talent, I' m going to say he cannot be considered second to none.
Long life to Peter Tosh! (Bunny is still experiencing it).
Respectfully
John Maredicorsica
My experience was this, I discovered the multi authoral identity of BMW when I bought the album Burnin (that amazed me), on which cover was not Bob Marley and The Wailers but just the latter.
It happened in 1979, after get acquainted with Kaya in 1978, and Exodus and Rastaman Vibration that soon followed in my album collection.
That was my first occasion to understand that there were three instead of one, or just more than one group then splitted.
So I bought soon some lp of the other two missed (Blackheart Man and Protest from Bunny, Bush Doctor and Equal Rights from Peter), realising that they were musically far apart.
Well, what I can say, it is that I appreciated more Bunny instead Peter.
What I felt more intriguing to me was the deep soulful inspiration of Bunny's music, something that I was'nt able to recognize as easily in Peter's music, despite the song I am that I am that among others, was one of my favourite since that period.
So for the followings years I followed more Bunny instead Peter, and I had few occasion tho rethink the whole matter, despite the non enthusiastic feelings I had with the Bunny's dancehall era.
In the meantime I was higly excited with the release of Peter's No nuclear war album (that I bought, but rarely played), I must admit that his music was somehow elusive to me, and too much pop oriented.
When I first heard of Peter murder I was shocked, but, you know, it was impossible for me to understand anything about it for years, until I had the occasion to read some part of the story in the Timothy White book Catch a Fire, that in Italy was published only in 1994, many years after Tosh brutal assination.
Then appeared to me the documentary X TAPES about Tosh music and personality.
Please consider that I may have not understood something in the whole matter, I'm a white italian man with only moderate skillingness in english reading and writing, (not to say about jamaican patois), and black culture, but I'm doing my best.
When I first seen the videotape in a record shop scaffold, I refused to buy it.
Something in my soul refused to keep in touch with that episode in Peter's life, now being told through images on a documentary kind videotape.
For some years I could'nt find myself ready to give a look on it.
But then, last summer, I had the intuition to see it, and reconsider.
I was musically astounded with that short intro of the song "Lesson in my life", with slowed down images of late eighties concert when Peter was dressing arab like, and I clearly found that I didnt had listened carefully enough to the No Nuclear War LP bought 20 years before.
Well I newly discovered an Artist that I surely underevaluated when faced at firsts, just 20 years before
The result was that I recently bought again all the remastered CD edition of Peter original discography and more, and, to be honest, only I now have understood the incomparable talent of Mr. Peter Tosh.
To the point that I cant anymore put him third in my old and wrong ranking score, he not only equalled Bunny talent, I' m going to say he cannot be considered second to none.
Long life to Peter Tosh! (Bunny is still experiencing it).
Respectfully
John Maredicorsica