Reggae

[mnaz]

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

[mnaz]

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

[winddance]

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

[mnaz]

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 I described this sensation in (the yet unpublished rewrite of) my book, but I took most of it out because I don't want to be accused of "cultural appropriation."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 ...