7 Reasons To Love Bob Marley

Discussion in 'Music genres, Bands and Artists' started by SongDownload, Mar 4, 2015.

  1. He's responsible for official Bob Marley weed
     
    Marley Natural will hit the market everywhere the sale of marijuana is legal late this year, making it the first global consumer marijuana brand.
     
    He's also responsible for Bob Marley coffee
     
    To wake you up in the morning, perhaps after a night indulging in Marley Natural products, there is Marley Coffee. Founded by Marley's son Rohan, the coffee comes from 52 acres of land atop Jamaica's Blue Mountains, one of the world's most prized coffee-producing regions.
     
    <div>Tuff Gong
     
    Tuff Gong is the brand name that has become associated with Bob Marley's estate, and it's hard to walk through a college campus without seeing at least a few T-shirts emblazoned with its logo. Tuff Gong was Marley's nickname-he was a fierce fighter in his early days and footballer later in life-and the moniker came from the nickname given to the founder of the Rastafari movement that Marley followed, Leonard "The Gong" Howell. Today Tuff Gong is a merchandising brand and record label, highly coveted among reggae artists, which still boasts a full-service recording studio in Kingston, Jamaica.
     
    Damian Marley's Welcome to Jamrock
     
    Though Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley was only two when his father passed away, he reached perhaps the highest artistic heights of any of Marley's many children with the release of Welcome to Jamrock in 2005. While Ziggy may be better known than his younger brother, Jamrock, produced by their brother Stephen, had a unique, modern sound, and was hugely influential. It also picked up on Bob Marley's themes of struggles in the inner cities of Jamaica (and elsewhere), alienation, despair, and prejudice, juxtaposed against aspirational hope. If you haven't heard it, it's one to pick up.
     
    Without him we might never have gotten to hear Peter Tosh
     
    Winston Hubert McIntosh aka Peter Tosh founded the Wailers with Marley and Bunny Wailer in 1963, and created the distinctive sound of the band with them before leaving with Wailer in 1974. As a solo artist he released several excellent, influential albums, toured with the Rolling Stones, and dueted with Mick Jagger on the Temptations' "Don't Look Back," but never attained the commercial heights of his internationally famous former bandmate and close friend. He was murdered during a home invasion in Jamaica in 1987.

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    "Simmer Down"
     
    Marley's first recording under the Wailers banner was another artistic step forward. Simmer Down was number-one in 1964 in Jamaica, selling nearly 100,000 copies.
     
    Legend
     
    Despite the fact that it has been endlessly reissued in a wide variety of formats since it was first released in 1984, this best-of compilation is arguably the greatest album, beginning to end, of all time. It has sold 27 million copies worldwide, and did what Marley was unable to do in his lifetime: reach a huge, mainstream audience. It was also the first time most people heard his near-perfect "Redemption Song." "Bob was a revolutionary at heart, but Legend is a way for people to get to know him," Ziggy Marley says.

     
     
  2. #8 - He was a righteous person who spread the belief that the poor and oppressed had an important spiritual purpose on this green and blue Earth.
     
  3. Gotta say I hate #1. Hate the fact so many people use his face or name to sell their shitty weed products. Marley wouldn't approve of that shit without money going back into the community.
     

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