So, um, it was a hell of a party yesterday..

[mnaz]

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...

[WIREMAN]

...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.....

[Lightning Rod]

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

[mnaz]

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.

[mnaz]

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

[Lightning Rod]

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

[WIREMAN]

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

[Lightning Rod]

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

[mnaz]

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...

[Dave The Dov]

Great song L Rod!!!! Some how in the vast wastelands of Texas there be an island oasis called "LRmaica"!!!!
_________________
Honda Super Cub

[WIREMAN]

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......

[the mingo]

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

[Doreen Peri]

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.

[Lightning Rod]

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.

[Doreen Peri]

LOL!!!

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