Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

I like reggae but at
first I didn't understand it.
I didn't quite get that it was
protest music, done well.

Watching the film 'Babylon'.
It's amazing, how close the
'Black vs White' experience
was, together back then.

some is done well, noone can make you feel it like bob marley

Indeed. Bob Marley launched it for me. 2000-2001 was a weird time for me. I sensed we were heading into a much different time than the second half of the '90s. I quit my job for a while to bum around the desert-- ALL of the different deserts-- the Mojave, the Great Basin, the Sonoran, the Chihuahuan and of course the red canyonlands. I left on that long journey the day before Sept. 11, 2001. I'd been listening to a lot of Sly Stone's post-Stand! music; it had "desert-like" vibes to it. I thought about trying to meet him at some point on my long road trip. But it was the roots reggae that really got to me-- especially dub echo and reverb bouncing between mountainsides. I described this sensation in (the yet unpublished rewrite of) my book, but I took most of it out because I don't want to be accused of "cultural appropriation." Anyway ...