Roots Archives Forum

Hi everybody,
first of all I want to say greetings to all of you!
It is a long time that I search for infos in the Roots Archives and I think that this is a beautiful site! It's serious work, here; and I can only thank you for what you did and keep doing!

Now let's come to my first request.

I know that maybe there is already the answer somewhere in the forum, but I tried to look for it without success.
"Iron Lion Zion" can be found in "Natural Mystic: The Legend Lives On" (1995), but anyone knows the year of the original?
I heared about 1973, but I'm not sure.
Can you help me please?
I thank all of you in advance for any reply.

One Love

Recording date is around 1973/1974 according to Roger Steffens Dicography from the Wailers; Rumours has it, that even Bunny Wailer was on background vocals, but his voice was deleted from Island Records when they release the original version on Songs of Freedom Compilation.

when was peter tosh's version of "lion" released? he is talking about iron lion but you cant go a zion. sounds older but i think it was the counteraction to marleys tune.. any more info?

Irie.....

Yes, wasnt this the tune that was "found" in Ritas vaults a couple of years ago?

And then they remixed it with sleazy saxophones just to make it chart-friendly...... Grrr!!

Nuthin wrong with saxophones, but in this case it was!

i'm not totally sure but my guess with 'lion' is circa '71 or '72

great song, tosh wrote some of his best songs in that period for sure

is it a joe gibbs production?

it may have been recorded there, not sure, but it was issued on the original tuff gong label

Yardie got the answer on Blood & Fire.

Gong

Thanks to all of you for the answers!
One Love