Good show, love reggae music, a friend of mine from Germany was kind of dissing me about learning about reggae through the Clapton version of I Shot The Sheriff, I tried to explain that the States were behind Europe and Great Britain in discovering that music. So Marley was also my first love and then again like you I discovered Tosh when he opened for the Stones in '78, I saw them both, Marley on his last tour and Tosh a couple of times at Park West ,both in Chicago, Tosh would be smoking on stage and then passing it out to the audience, I wasn't lucky enough to try it, so anyway I enjoyed your show, keep up the good work, and long live reggae music 🎶 Thanks
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
27 күн бұрын
@@kennethozelie2082 thanks so much for your wonderful comments. I really appreciate it.
@davidkunzli680
28 күн бұрын
Kinky Reggae mon. Wait a minute......You went to an all inclusive resort in Jamaica and all I got was this video 😂. The Harder They Come is one of the all time favorite albums. Perfect . I hope you had your money's worth of cocktails with nice umbrellas in them.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
27 күн бұрын
@@davidkunzli680 thanks David. No umbrella’s in drinks but very colorful and flavorful drinks for sure. I’ve now had enough rum for awhile .
@perrygoddard1520
26 күн бұрын
Hi Alan Good to have you back. Great topic. You'll love the "Songs of Freedom" set. Thank you for the " Wingless Angels" tip and for sharing more of your vast collection.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
26 күн бұрын
Ah... thanks so much - big smile on my face. Hope you enjoy Wingless Angels.
@renetrachet
28 күн бұрын
Always wanted to visit Jamaica. I saw Peter Tosh in Brussels in 1978. On stage he made an enormous joint, the biggest I ever saw and everyone who wanted could take a puff. In fact you had not to smoke yourself. Take a deep breath and you was high like a monkey. I think that the best known hit of Third World was "Now That We Found Love"
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
that's a great story. Can you imagine what that would be like now...now that it's legal (at least here in the US). You are correct - Now That We Found Love was definitely Third World's biggest hit - of course it was an O'Jays cover song, so for me nothing beats Try Jah Love - should have been an equal hit in my mind....So catchy. Thanks so much.
@djtrishm
28 күн бұрын
I love Reggae! Thumbs up! Trish
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
Thanks so much Trish. Really appreciate it.
@thomaswery3087
28 күн бұрын
I have that 4 cd boxset of Marley but it's a long box.Glad you had a good time on vacation Alan.Glad to have you back
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
Thanks my friend - gonna start working on your idea.
@thomaswery3087
28 күн бұрын
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow Cool your face looks a little burnt lol
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
@@thomaswery3087 As Monty Python said...."I've had worse"...lol
@jasonpp1973
28 күн бұрын
Saw that long box yesterday at a thrift store, but it was missing discs 1 and 2.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
@@jasonpp1973 That's a bummer...but happens all the time at Thrift Stores - great that you checked.
@stevecloutier8673
27 күн бұрын
Hope you had a great vacation. Like you, I was introduced to reggae by Clapton and the Stones, but I really got into it through The Clash (one of my favourite bands). So, weirdly I know British reggae better than Jamaican reggae (aside from Marley and Tosh of course). I know the likes of Linton Kwesi Johnson, Aswad, and Steel Pulse better. Good episode.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
27 күн бұрын
@@stevecloutier8673 thanks so much. I love the clash as well. I agree they play reggae so well in their own style.
@fizzlebomber674
27 күн бұрын
Alan, you have to open up Songs of Freedom box set asap. Bob was my favorite artist of all time until Rolling Stones surpassed him over time, when i was in my twenties. The box set has so many rarities and a bunch of those tracks are not even on streaming services. Unfortunately, if you collect vinyl like I do, Songs of Freedom comes without the first disc that is included in the CD set.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
27 күн бұрын
Thanks as always - yea I have to get to that box - I bought it years ago...lol. I have so much box set backlog and not enough time. That's terrible about the vinyl box...but I hate to say it, CD boxes are so much better as far as value and getting so much more music compared to many of the corresponding vinyl boxsets. And The CD boxes are cheaper - it's crazy.
@markspooner1224
28 күн бұрын
I love reggae, I like all the ones you showed and some other favourites are Toots and the Maytals, Max Romeo, Burning Spear, Inner Circle (with Jacob Miller) and Lee Scratch Perry.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
27 күн бұрын
@@markspooner1224 thanks mark. I used to have a Toots cd and Max Romeo on vinyl. But long gone. I do like Toots. Have on some compilations. You have a great reggae collection for sure thanks as always
@djtrishm
28 күн бұрын
I first heard Bob Marley at a church retreat and my cousin Donna lent me Legend and I taped it and got my own copy on CD years later!
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
Great story and yes there's a reason why Legend is the biggest selling Marley album and in fact one of the biggest selling albums of all time - it's a perfect greatest hits album and the perfect gateway to Marley. Thanks for sharing.
@petermeehan7150
28 күн бұрын
Nice one Alan. I got the Keith Richards & Lee Perry vinyl EP which was a RSD Black Friday release last year, worth checking out. That Marley box set you haven’t got to yet is excellent, check out the Acoustic Medley on Disc 2, recorded in Sweden, wonderful stuff
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
Thanks so much Peter - yea I have to get to that Marley boxset....so much music, so little time.
@martinstarnes2237
27 күн бұрын
You lucky man, you! If I nip off for a few days holiday, it tends to be Wales, and with due respect to my Welsh cousins, not so much reggae has come out of there over the years. You, however, go to Jamaica. And I am a huge reggae fan. Oh yes indeed! As I have mentioned Wales, I did once see Peter Tosh in Cardiff. Great show. Also, of those you mentioned, I saw Third World back in the early eighties, and I'm afraid it was all a bit reggae-lite for me. No comparison to the Tosh show, and no comparison whatsoever to the best reggae gig I ever saw which was Culture in Copenhagen in Denmark (there's a badge from that show up on my wall with all the old tickets I've told you about before) in 1980; undoubtedly, atmospherically, by far the heaviest gig I have ever been to. Very political as well, of course. A Danish girl, whom I met in the Sinai Desert in the Middle East a couple of years earlier (really!) and whom I was visiting, and I were the only white people in the whole audience (absolutely true), but she was a local and knew the deal. The whole thing was one of those life experiences/musical experiences that you never forget - I certainly haven't - and an amazing evening was had.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
27 күн бұрын
Wow - another amazing story. I truly love hearing these so I can live vicariously thru others, so to speak. I actually agree that Third World is a bit reggae light - like I mentioned Try Jah Love, is almost reggae pop, though I love it - should've been a hit. I don't know Culture but wow, what an experience. Danish Girl from the Sinai...etc - that's a good movie there - I would see that film - Sinai..Reggae concert, only white people, and having an unforgettable reggae rockin' time. I'd love to see that. Thanks so much.
@martinstarnes2237
27 күн бұрын
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow Thanks Alan. My reggae collection (all vinyl), other than the seventies Marley/Tosh stuff that was easy to get hold of, was mainly compiled during the late seventies when i worked in record shops alongside a guy who was a reggae fanatic who had contacts; thus quite a few of my reggae albums were acquired through him and sent direct from Jamaica, which just happens to be a long way away from here. It also meant occasional errors - I still have a Joe Gibbs-produced LP (Majestic Dub) that has never had the final track played, mainly because someone in Jamaica glued the paper circle in the centre of the record halfway across it!! Lol! One too many, methinks. Do you want a very brief Cropredy 2024 report?
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
27 күн бұрын
@@martinstarnes2237 Lol - that's really funny about the paper circle - one too many or one too strong indeed.. Yes I would love The Cropredy report. You've certainly enlightened me on that "little" festival that is not little at all actually.
@martinstarnes2237
27 күн бұрын
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow I shouldn't really have asked - you could hardly say 'no', really - so it was a bit naughty of me, but I figured you might appreciate my impressions. So, Fairport's Cropredy Convention (full title), 45th year, 2024 highlights: Acoustic Fairport Convention for twenty minutes to open the festival on a rainy Thursday afternoon, Feast of Fiddles (you will never have heard of them, but I've seen them several times and they are fantastic and do what the band's title says) and then later in the evening (still raining) Rick Wakeman & the English Rock Ensemble headlined with Journey to the Centre of the Earth (I actually don't really know it, but it was good fun) and encored with a thirty-minute Starship Trooper including a duet with son Adam ("I knew your mother once". "Yes, for seven years, Dad") with both on those strap-on keyboard contraptions towards the end. It was really a very good version indeed, I thought. I do love the man! Friday (a beautiful sunny day) was headlined by Richard Thompson acoustic followed by Richard Thompson and band (basically Fairport - RT was a late replacement for the Trevor Horn Band, flew in from America, and I guess they had a couple of days to practice), and again I have seen him several dozen times over the years, and this did not disappoint. Just brilliant, as always. Big Big Train were on earlier in the evening and they are among the best (imo) 21st Century 'prog' bands and played a fine enthusiastic set. Saturday (another beautiful sunny day): Other than Fairport's two-and-a-half-hour plus headline set with a few guests, excellent as ever, which finishes the festival at midnight, and a bloke called Richard Digance who for twenty years now has opened the proceedings in his own inimitable fashion on Saturday at noon (we, the crowd, hold a certificated world record for Morris dancing from a few years back. Don't ask! Lol!), late afternoon Focus stole the show for me, and possibly the whole weekend. Now I have never seen Focus before (not that I remember, anyway), and I can't say I had heard good reports of shows in recent times, but they were my surprise of the festival. Being an optimist, I hoped they might be decent (a lot of girls had Focus lps in the early '70s, so I remembered a few of their tunes other than their singles) and they were far better than that. So tight for a bunch of old geezers (well, two originals out of four). It was a fabulous set, it clearly mattered to them, and Thijs van Leer, band founder, ended it with the words "Thank you. We feel at home here". Nice touch. Apologies to the fourteen bands/artists not mentioned. And the bands who played the Cropredy 'Fringe' (the two pubs half a mile up the road, one of which I spent a very enjoyable Friday afternoon in).
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
27 күн бұрын
@@martinstarnes2237 Literally sounds like an incredible experience. Focus was on tour here in the US recently - it was a four band show - headlined by Asia (I didn't go because it's really just Geoffrey Downes and replacements - but apparently they sounded great), Martin Turner of Wishbone Ash, Focus and Curved Air - so Focus must've been still red hot from it. Interesting that Wakeman played Journey as opposed to a more "greatest hits" type show. So cool that Richard Thompson flew over and did acoustic and electric shows. Nice. Sounds amazing indeed.
@djtrishm
28 күн бұрын
Bobs Son Ziggy is a great Artist too
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
As soon as I finished the video I realized I forgot Ziggy Marley. I bought Conscious Party (with the hit Tomorrow People) when it came out. Terrific album and yes he's an excellent reggae artist. Thanks so much for bringing him up.
@jasonpp1973
28 күн бұрын
Those really old Marley/Wailers songs must be public domain, there is oodles of those compilations out there. There are a few different versions of Legend on cd, that one has to be in the top 10 selling compilations of all time. I recently picked up that Gold 2 cd set, I really like those Gold 2 cd comps, they are packed, the Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, and ONJ are three of my faves.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
The gold series are amazing - sometimes they're exact to The Essential series as well. Two fully loaded discs always. You're so right - the amount of Marley comps in general is immense but yea - those early songs - there's boxsets of them, cheapo comps - endless really. I know the deluxe legend comes with remixes which I didn't care for at all. No touching the original Legend in my mind. Yes - definitely one of the biggest selling albums ever - it really is a perfect greatest hits album. Thanks so much.
@jasonpp1973
27 күн бұрын
Some early Police songs are definitely reggae influnced, especially Walking on the Moon. Stewart Copeland's drumming is just incredible, plays with trad grip too. Cool Rolling Stones shirt, obviously based on the art of Andy Warhol. I have a cool Bob Marley Live at the Rainbow 2 dvd set, $0.99 thrift store special!
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
27 күн бұрын
I was waiting for someone to mention the Police. You are SOOOO CORRECT. Amazing musicianship and me being a drummer Stewart Copeland blows me away. Very reggae influence for sure. I do have all the Police albums....maybe should have mentioned them, but they're not a reggae band and I was into reggae before The Police, so I left them out in the video - but yea you nailed it. Wow - what a great Marley find at thrift store. My tag line...."this is the golden age for buying used CD's". Just have to luck out. Congrats.
@jasonpp1973
27 күн бұрын
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow I used to play the pots and pans back in they, no room for them now. I used both grips, depending the style. Kept some of my percussion stuff tho, maracas, tambourine, LP cowbell, triangles, vibraslap, there in a box somewhere, lol.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
26 күн бұрын
@@jasonpp1973 lol. I played with trad grip as well though I’m not a very good jazz player.
@davecollins9128
26 күн бұрын
Great shouts. If you fancy digging into some earlier Jamaican recorded reggae that's perhaps less polished, check out the Soul Jazz compilations - Studio One Rockers is a solid comp, or Studio One Rocksteady for when reggae moves from ska to reggae was we know it today. Any early/mid 70s output by Lee Perry /The Upsetters is worth checking. Although my fave album is Harry Mudies Rhythm Rulers. Instantly catchy tracks with massively punchy production.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
26 күн бұрын
Thanks so much for your recommendations. You're correct in that my reggae knowledge and collection is certainly the more popular / polished / commercial reggae, so I appreciate your knowledge so I can go deeper. I certainly know of Lee Perry / The Upsetters but I need to start digging deeper - thanks.
@davecollins9128
26 күн бұрын
@@TheAlanRosenbergShowOne last shout Joe Higgs - Life of Contradiction. Joe was a musical mentor to a young Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. You'll recognize his influence on The Wailers in this album
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
26 күн бұрын
@@davecollins9128 Never heard of him - thanks for the suggestion.
@willieluncheonette5843
23 күн бұрын
Nice vid, mate. Reggae is one of my specialties . I saw Bob twice here in NYC. He is one of my 3 all time favorite musicians. I have had published on audiophile sites many article with embedded songs on Jamaican music. They are on ska, rock steady the singers and groups, the DJ's The Start of Rap? and one on Bunny Wailer. Will provide links if you are interested in any of these.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
23 күн бұрын
Thanks - absolutely send links - always interested in learning from an expert.
@willieluncheonette5843
14 күн бұрын
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow I posted links twice but they disappeared .If you still care I will post here where you can read them.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
14 күн бұрын
@@willieluncheonette5843 Absolutely. I never delete any comments so no idea what happened.
@willieluncheonette5843
14 күн бұрын
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow OK Thanks, mate. so here they are. Just google them. There are many songs embedded to listen to. Starting a Jamaican Music Collection part 1 Ska Starting a Jamaican music Collection part 2 Rock Steady the singers Starting a Jamaican Music Collection part 2a Rock Steady the groups Starting a Jamaican Music Collection Part 3 The Deejays The Start of Rap? Bunny Wailer One of the 3 Most Important Third World Musicians all were published on the Tracking Angle site
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
14 күн бұрын
@@willieluncheonette5843 Interesting. I'll be hitting a record / CD fair in a few weeks - will keep my eyes open. Thanks.
@southsheff
28 күн бұрын
Culture two sevens clash is a classic along with toots and the maytels pressure drop. Gregory Issacs night nurse and some Denis brown were good too. Ub40 are ok but steel pulse Handsworth revolution are British bands to check out with the famous Klu Klux klan track. Also more obscure but a band I liked was Merger exiles in a Babylon. Keep on walking don't look back is just great always makes me chuckle when jagger says in reply to Tosh how long you been walking? "about a hundred miles!"
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
Thanks so much for those suggestions. I have some Toots on compilations and I actually saw Toots & The Maytals once in concert - was fun for sure. Thanks again.
@joejenkins3595
28 күн бұрын
Jimmy Cliff Rebirth album in 2012 is great. Maybe his best. Check it out!
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
Thanks so much - I've never heard that album. Thanks for the recommendation.
@jasonpp1973
28 күн бұрын
Inner Circle are a pretty well known reggae band from Jamaica, they of course are best known for the song Bad boys, bad boys what you going to do when they come for you, used on COPS. I have a cd comp of their pre Bad Boys material, it's not bad.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
Thanks for that AWESOME recommendation. I used to watch Cops and the theme song Bad Boys was killer - I didn't know it was Inner Circle. I'm definitely putting that on my watch list. Thanks so much.
@bodysurfing
28 күн бұрын
Great collection. Thought there would be more emphasis on Bunny Wailer.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
I don't have any Bunny Wailer albums, in fact can't remember ever seeing any in the wild.
@bodysurfing
27 күн бұрын
That's shocking. Bunny was one of the original Wailers and released more than two dozen of his own albums over more than four decades. I recommend Rootsman Skanking (1987) and Liberation (1989).
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
27 күн бұрын
@@bodysurfing Of course I know him and his history with the Wailers, but yea, I've never seen an album of his out in the wild. Honestly he's not exactly a "big" name artist on the par of Bob Marley or Peter Tosh. But I'll look out for those two albums - always willing to investigate. It'll show up in a haul video, when I find. Thanks.
@bodysurfing
25 күн бұрын
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow Bunny Wailer is indeed a huge name artist on par with Peter Tosh. Are you familiar with Aswad?
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
25 күн бұрын
@@bodysurfing I know of Aswad but don't own any albums. As far as finding cds / albums in the wild, Peter Tosh is far more prevalent than Bunny Wailer at least on Long Island. In fact I don't remember ever seeing a Bunny Wailer used CD in the wild, but plenty of Peter Tosh.
@CarmelloRoberts
28 күн бұрын
W Alan man
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
Thanks so much for watching - appreciate it.
@hasseelmerson
25 күн бұрын
Hello again Interesting albums here but how can you miss the group called Culture. Try "Peace and love" or 77 (when two seven clash)....
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
25 күн бұрын
@@hasseelmerson never heard of them. What can I say. I’ll research them.
@LoriJaco
27 күн бұрын
when I personally think of Reggae songs, I think of Led Zeppelin's D'yer Mak'er
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
27 күн бұрын
@@LoriJaco from my first Zeppelin album that bought when it first came out in 1973. Fun track. A bit heavy on the beat for reggae but yea definitely reggae influenced. Thanks so much.
@STEVEHEROLD
28 күн бұрын
looks like someone forgot to wear their Official Rolling Stones Sunblock mon…. not a bad collection. Jimmy is my favorite but he doesn’t have a lot of solid through and through albums so Best Of collections usually work best for him.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
yea - I pitched the idea to the Stones...lol. Still waiting to hear back. yea - I've stuck with the best of collection and deluxe Harder They Come for Jimmy.
@STEVEHEROLD
28 күн бұрын
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow Damn Stones never listen to their #1 Fan. you could use some Toots, Steel Pulse, Mighty Diamonds, Ziggy (surprised you have no Ziggy), Junior Murvin, Gregory Issacs…. lotsa other great stuff out there for ya to keep eye out for.
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
@@STEVEHEROLD I forgot to mention Ziggy - I thought of it immediately afterwards - I bought Conscious Party when it came out - loved Tomorrow People and the album. My bad. I do have some of the other artists on comps...like the Rocker's soundtrack I showed. I think those other artists for me are best served on comps...even Jimmy Cliff for me...Great pickup about Ziggy - I know you mentioned him in your previous videos - I know you're a fan for sure.
@davidkunzli680
28 күн бұрын
Kinky reggae, mon. Wait a minute. You went to an all inclusive resort in Jamaica and all I got was this video😂😂 The Harder They Come is one of my all time favorite albums. Wonderful soundtrack . I am amazed nothing fell......
@Larrybabbin1957
28 күн бұрын
Never owned a Reggae album!
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
Marley's stuff is so easy to love. Melodic, catchy. At the least can get Legend - the best of Marley - one of the biggest selling albums ever. Then if you like Marley get Live - an incredible Live album. I guess Reggae is one area Tull has never attempted (probably thankfully). Best, Alan
@Larrybabbin1957
28 күн бұрын
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow Glad you had a good vacation. Going to listen to the Marley live album as I nod off…..
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
28 күн бұрын
@@Larrybabbin1957 You may want to start with Legend, with all the hits...but I hope you like Live (it's a single disc live album - there are many Marley live albums). I think it's truly one of the greatest live albums ever....perhaps you know "No Woman, No Cry" from that album...insanely great. Enjoy, I hope, my friend..
@Larrybabbin1957
28 күн бұрын
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow The Stones show I saw at the Meadowlands in 2005 or 2006 they replaced Gimme Shelter with Get Up, Stand Up in honor of Marley’s birthday. I was not happy!
@TheAlanRosenbergShow
27 күн бұрын
@@Larrybabbin1957 I have a bootleg recording of that performance. I couldn’t imagine the Stones doing that. Let’s just say…..interesting. But to replace Gimme Shelter for that. I’m with you. That’s a mistake
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