![]() “Catch A Fire,” on the other hand, is a great album: there’s a logic to the flow of the songs, a satisfaction that’s bigger than the sum of the individual tunes. And then came all the songs you know - great songs, but great in isolation, like great singles. There was only one more true Wailers album (“Burnin’”) before the band changed. The sanctification of Bob Marley began the following year. Instead, they went on stage and - like angels, or aliens, or just humans blessed with telepathy - played a note-perfect set that converted everyone in the room to blithering fandom. One night, in a Philadelphia club, I had dinner with The Wailers in their dressing room and watched them smoke so much ganja they should have passed out. And a bass guitar/drum pattern that paints a musical picture of horses riding, riding, riding, in the dead of night. The last song, the Rasta dreamscape “Midnight Ravers,” began with a devastating opening condemnation (“You can’t tell the women from the men/ ’cause they’re dressed in the same pollution”) and moved on to a Book of Revelations vision: “I see ten thousand chariots/And they coming without horses/The riders - they cover their face/So you couldn’t make them out in smoky places.” Rarely has music been better matched to lyrics. “400 Years” was just the start: “No chains around my feet/But I’m not free/I know I am bound here in captivity…” Listen to “400 Years. There were songs that evoked Jamaica ’s colonial past. I got the original.Īnd was it ever original. The other features Marley smoking a huge spliff. One is a rendition of a Zippo lighter (it opens - and, very quickly, breaks). There are two versions of the album cover. And, the next day, bought “Catch A Fire,” their American debut. Met the Wailers (Bob Marley was not then The Star). These young Jamaicans came out, freaky as Sly Stone, clearly tranced-out behind some serious ganja, and began to play amazingly complicated music that had me twisting in one direction while the beat had me going in another.Įxcited and limp, I went backstage (back then, back there, no big deal). Some friends of friends were playing an unknown group called The Wailers was on the bill. ![]() A depressing time for me - I kept looking for flowers sprouting through the concrete and, month after month, came up with only weeds for my troubles.Īnd then, at Max’s Kansas City, I found what I had been seeking. ![]() The great rock revolution of the ‘60s was over by 1973 and the music business was once again what it is now: a business. For me, that begins with the Wailers first album, when they were a group, not a superstar’s supporting cast. When Bob Marley died in 1981, he left behind a complicated legacy: music you could dance to, music that made you raise a fist. 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