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I found an old tape of mine... cranked up the reggae so loud it sounded like Ozzy. I could swear I was meditating! ... I musta played that Sylford Walker tune ten times in a row (Lamb's Bread)... It wasn't long before the smell of sweet herb drifted across the fence from next door. Contact high, I guess. Rock and roll, ye peasants! Snap-on.

And that Delroy Williams song, all dubbed out... Holy shit! I mean skull-pounding vibration.. I'm in awe over the intensity of that rhythm.. Simply in awe, that's all...

...it is ultimate trance music backed by Jah belief & herb mon.....check out some sufi trance too naz if you have not yet.....mercan dede.....morgador....are a couple of groups right off the top of mi head.....

de first time I see de Lahmb's Bread mon
we be in Negril
up in de hills

you see why de call it dat
eet's fuzzy like a sheep, mon
and sweet as a yut

Thanks Mark. I'll have to check it out. I don't know what it is about that music. I don't even like some reggae-- maybe even most of it. A lot of it is pretty thin.. But some of that dread, dread dubbed-out stuff from the '70s... oh man, that has depth. I've tried to describe my connection to it here... hard to express. I made the tape about 12 years ago, and I was quite the mixmaster... Soaring, haunting vocals by Cornell Campbell play off the rolling, thunderous haze of Bunny Wailer's "Collie Man" dub... and the I-Threes are wondrous. Yeah. Good stuff. And I don't even smoke!

Oh well... back to work..
Damn.

L rod... I can't believe I've never been to Jamaica... Ha!

I used to spend a couple of months a year in Jamaica

the first time I went to Negril, there was no telephone in town

you had to take a bus to the next town 17 miles away to make a phone call

then for a few years there was one pay phone in Negril

Now there are resorts all over the place and everybody has a cell

If I ever retire (I'll probably die first) I'm going to retire in Jamaica.

One way ticket.

No Reggae in Texas

LRod i thought u were retired....smile..mark chk out the movie ROCKERS ......vintage jamaican acts from late 70's.....

WIRED,
I retired
the day I realized that only fools punched clocks
from that day on I've been working for myself
I'll never retire
my pension is what I've learned along the way

Yezz... Classic Rockers... Gotta see that one. Lots of late '70s reissues in the last 11-12 years or so. I picked up a whole mess of 'em... mostly the holy trinity of dub... King Tubby, Scratch Perry, and Augustus Pablo. Some of it can get pretty dark. Scratch is a trip. He once burned down his own recording studio. Missed a chance to go see him in concert last year...

I still have that Delroy Williams dub in my head... it just keeps grinding along so... majestically. Such grace...

Great song L Rod!!!! Some how in the vast wastelands of Texas there be an island oasis called "LRmaica"!!!!
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only fools punch time clocks eh...damn LRod ain't you the judge and jury.....have a nice evening...o that was written by a fool who keeps a timebook for a bunch of other fools......

Sometimes, Lightning, you make yourself unfit as decent company. This fool is done with it.

Yeah, mingo, I know.

Hey, Lightning, what gives you the right to call all of us who work for a living fools, huh?

Cut it out.

Gotta get back to work. I punch someone else's clock so I can pay my mortgage and take care of my daughter.

That's called being responsible. It certainly isn't foolish.

thanks dave, I call it Texas Reggae

as for the rest of you clinging to your servility,
"there are two types of people in this world
the ones that say, 'where do I get in line?'
and the ones who tell everybody else where to line up."

I suppose you can take your pick.

I'm certainly not discounting the value of applied effort, work. I work every day. But I work for myself.

LOL!!!

There are many things I admire about you, but your arrogance is not one of them.