Old school music is cool!

[Blurock]

This is the most beautiful song ever written.

May you all have a blessed and peaceful Christmas.

[Citizen X]

PinkFloyd: Another Brick In the Wall Part 3: 1978: Lyrics and original Video






“I don't need no arms around me
I don't need no drugs to calm me
I have seen the writing on the wall
Don't think I need anything at all
No don't think I'll need anything at all
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall
All in all you were just bricks in the wall”

Album cover[1]
Video source[2]

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[1]Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall. Accessed 27 December 2013

[2] Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbh_k5GLRuQ.Accessed 27 December 2013

[tec0]

P.O.D "I'll Be Ready"

I gotta keep on movin'
I see dem comin' down hollywood blvd
And they won't stop until dem find me
No time to hide, I just keep ridin' on.
I'm ridin'on...

When babylon come for I
'jah know I'll be ready
When the wicked man come for I
'jah know I'll be ready
When babylon come for I

I'm in the fire out here strugglin'
Rollin' down the sunset strip
Lord it's getting hard but I'm trying
So please forgive me but I'm hustlin' on
I'm hustlin' on...

[Citizen X]

The secret to music success from a rudimentary perspective!

Now, you could work towards a master degree in music, which is indeed commendable, but it’s no guarantee of you releasing an album that millions will buy and still millions will listen to decades after its original release date!

Heres that grassroots, rudimentary secret…

“This is my story you know, my story! Some people got nothing, some people got hope and dreams. We couldn’t afford to buy records so we listened to the radio and anything that the radio played is that to the ear. I was into , you know, like call it spiritual music, you know, it couldn’t get more revolutionised than that. We called our selves the ‘wailing wailers,’ cause we cried so much in our lives.

The way we were was poor living in Trench Town, I grabbed my acoustic guitar. We done our thing in our yard, you know, we smoked a romantic and everyone was there and we start playing, everyone influenced and communicated to us. Even a stranger, and him tell you, “ Sing it this way, put this word to it,” You know, it’s like a people’s music. We come together about 1960, at that time, we used to have one track, you know everything mixed and recorded one time and that it! “ Bob Marley
“One thing about music when it hit you it make you feel okay!” Bob Marley

Concerned about stage fright???

Practice in a cemetery at 2am! Bob Marley and the Wailers done so for years!

“We rehearsed for about two years, we go sing at a park downtown for the people, we go sing at ‘Back o Wall,’ for the Rastaman, we even go sing at the May Pen Cemetry for the Duppy dem( A Duppy,’ is an evil spirit or ghost).
His policy was that some stars get afraid or nervous when they get up on stage, so he said that if we went to the cemetery at say 2 0 clock in the morning and sang for these people then we can’t be afraid when we hit the stage, we went sat on the grave, played and several times we do it, until we thought we were brave enough to do it!” Neville ‘Bunny,’ Livingston 2012
Source[1]



Photo source
http://www.google.co.za/imgres?newwi...3&tx=136&ty=46

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[1]Youtube: Marley Full Movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWhUXqxA6uY. Accessed 30 December 2013


Bob Marley: Put it On:1973: Lyrics


“Feel them spirit
Feel them spirit
Feel them spirit
Lord, I thank you
Lord, I thank you

Feel alright now
Feel alright now
Feel alright now
Lord, I thank you
Lord, I thank you

I'm gonna put it on, I put it on already
I'm gonna put it on, and it was steady
I'm gonna put it on, put it on again
Good Lord, help me
Good Lord, help me

I'm not boastin'
I'm not boastin'
I'm not boastin'
Feel like toastin'
Feel like toastin'

I rule my destiny, yeah
I rule my destiny
I rule my destiny
Lord, I thank you, yeah
Lord, I thank you

No more cryin'
No more cryin'
No more cryin'
Good Lord, hear me
Good Lord .”
Album cover[1]

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[1] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnin'...Wailers_album). Accessed 30 December 2013

[Citizen X]

Bob Marley: Catch a fire:1973: Lyrics and Original Video







Just for the love of the genre of reggae and nothing further…

I have a thing for album covers. ‘Catch A Fire,’ had two album covers, the first more rare and collectable than the second. The first was fashioned in the form of a Zippo lighter.

I can clearly remember a very specific Zippo Lighter with the inscription: "Success now and forever"
“You know it was tough, Kinston was like that. A lot of people don’t know, but Bob, me, we went to bed hungry a lot. I mean really hungry. I don’t mean that you had a piece of something, I mean nothing, one of the famous lines was ‘drink some water and go to bed.’ You might have had one pair of shoes, one suit of clothes. That kind of suffering and struggling can make you either go good or bad” Desi Smith.[1]




“Slave driver, the table is turn; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burn, now. (catch a fire)
Slave driver, the table is turn; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire: gonna get burn. (catch a fire) Wo, now!

Every time I hear the crack of a whip,
My blood runs cold.
I remember on the slave ship,
How they brutalize the very souls.
Today they say that we are free,
Only to be chained in poverty.
Good God, I think it's illiteracy;
It's only a machine that makes money.
Slave driver, the table is turn, y'all. Ooh-ooh-oo-ooh.

Slave driver, uh! The table is turn, baby, now; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burn, baby, now. (catch a fire)
Slave driver, the table is turn, y'all; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire: so you can get burn, now. (catch a fire)

Every time I hear the crack of a whip,
My blood runs cold.
I remember on the slave ship,
How they brutalize the very soul.

O God, have mercy on our souls!
Oh, slave driver, the table is turn, y'all; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burn. (catch a fire)
Slave driver, the table is turn, y'all; (catch a fire).”
Album covers[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_a_Fire
Marley Full Movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWhUXqxA6uY. Accessed 31 December 2013

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[1]Youtube:Marley Full Movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWhUXqxA6uY. Accessed 31 December 2013


[2]Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_a_Fire. Accessed 31 December 2013

[Citizen X]

Bob Marley and his love affair with Miss World 1976 Cynthia Breakspeare


The grassroots guy always gets the lovely chic!


Bob Marley and Cynthia Breakspeare dated in the late 70’s and a child Damian Junior Gong Marley[a superstar himself] was born out of this relationship.

“Bob liked achievement. I don’t know a man in the world who doesn’t want to get the ‘girl!’”[1]

It’s written in legend that Bob Marley wrote the song ‘waiting in vain,’ especially for Cynthia Breakspeare.









Bob Marley: Waiting in Vain:1976: Lyrics and original Video







“1, 2, 3:
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love;
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love.
From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, girl,
My heart says follow t'rough.
But I know, now, that I'm way down on your line,
But the waitin' feel is fine:
So don't treat me like a puppet on a string,
'Cause I know I have to do my thing.
Don't talk to me as if you think I'm dumb;
I wanna know when you're gonna come - soon.
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love;
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love;
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love,
'Cause if summer is here,
I'm still waiting there;
Winter is here,
And I'm still waiting there.


Like I said:
It's been three years since I'm knockin' on your door,
And I still can knock some more:
Ooh girl, ooh girl, is it feasible?
I wanna know now, for I to knock some more.
Ya see, in life I know there's lots of grief,
But your love is my relief:
Tears in my eyes burn - tears in my eyes burn
While I'm waiting - while I'm waiting for my turn,
See!
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love;
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love;
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love;
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love;
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love, oh!
I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna -
I don't wanna wait in vain.
I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna -
I don't wanna wait in vain.
No, I don't wanna (I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna -
I don't wanna - I don't wanna wait in vain) -
No I - no I (I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't
wanna - I don't wanna wait in vain) -
No, no-no, I, no, I (I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna -
I don't wanna - I don't wanna wait in vain) -
It's your love that I'm waiting on (I don't wanna - I don't wanna -
I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna wait in vain);
It's me love that you're running from.
It's Jah love that I'm waiting on (I don't wanna - I don't wanna -
I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna wait in vain);
It's me love that you're running from.”
Photos[2]
Album cover[3]

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[1] Marley Full Movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWhUXqxA6uY. Accessed 1 January 2014


[2]http://www.google.co.za/imgres?imgur...=768&w=1024&sz= accessed 1 January 2014

[3]Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_...Wailers_album)accessed 1 January 2014

[Citizen X]

In 2014 I realize that I still have a love affair with reggae music, 80’s classics and bubble-gum pop in general. I guess I’m really into “silly love songs!” I find that some of the most rugged musical characters of all time wrote silly love songs and were very proud of that fact.

Bob Marley wrote and sang a silly love song called ‘Turn Me loose,’ with bubble-gum lyrics. I honestly don’t know who he wrote this particular song for but she must have being taken back, must have..

“You'd think that people would have
Had enough of silly love songs
But I look around me and I see it isn't so!
Some people wanna fill the world
With silly love songs

And what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know
'Cause here I go again.” Sir Paul McCartney



Bob Marley: Turn Me Loose: Lyrics and Video

In this context, the ‘high,’ Marley describes is clearly true love, the lyrics themselves bear testament to this!

I especially like his logic in the following lines of this song:
“I'll be the picture,
You can be the show.
From the screen our love will glow.
You got your love, I got mine.
Put them together and they'll work fine.”





“Feeling so high,
I'm floating in the sky.
Feeling so high,
I'm floating in the sky.

So come and turn me loose,
Ain't got no time to lose.
Chasing a wild goose,
Feeling groovy.
Let's make our home movie.

I'll be the picture,
You can be the show.
From the screen our love will glow.
You got your love, I got mine.
Put them together and they'll work fine.

Ease this pain of mine
Ease this pain of mine
Ease this pain of mine
And turn me loose.

I'll be the picture,
You can be the show.
And on the screen our love will glow.
You got your love, I got mine.
Put them together and they'll work fine.

Turn me loose, ain't got no time.
Chasing a wild goose.
Feeling so high, I wanna touch your sky.”



Video source[1]

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[1] Youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foj646C8sGA. Accessed 2 January 2014

[Citizen X]

Everly Brothers: All I have to do is dream: 1958: Lyrics and original Video



In memory of Phil Everly 19 January 1939 to 3 January 2014

I know a thing or two about constantly dreaming of this ‘Princess,’ and her 'lips of wine,'..Nederburg Rose..






“Dream, dream, dream, dream
Dream, dream, dream, dream
When I want you in my arms
When I want you and all your charms
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Dream, dream, dream, dream
When I feel blue in the night
And I need you to hold me tight
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Dream
I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine
Anytime night or day
Only trouble is, gee whiz
I’m dreaming my life away
I need you so that I could die
I love you so and that is why
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Dream, dream, dream, dream, dream
I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine
Anytime night or day
Only trouble is, gee whiz
I’m dreaming my life away
I need you so that I could die
I love you so and that is why
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Dream, dream, dream, dream
Dream, dream, dream, dream.”
Photo source[1]
Video source[2]

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[1] Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Everly_Brothers. Accessed 4 January 2014



[2] Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxWZT0PXkGg. Accessed 4 January 2014

[Trickzta]

The first guitarist to record the electric guitar as an unique instrument and to (imho) lay the cornerstone of Rock and R'n'Roll sound.

The 'Power Chord' changed musical perceptions forever. (opinion)

As an American Indian he defied all odds and sparked a worldwide interest in his style and feeling with an instrumental hit.

The song was banned in places for promoting or inducing drug taking. Or something equally silly.

There are no lyrics!

Maybe Link Wray had a linkway to plant suggestions in the minds of people, like those who banned it, by distorting notes and sounds?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjBS...e_gdata_player link wraY

Another Link, Unchain my Heart, and pass the spliff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RDS...e_gdata_player

Hope you enjoy this.

[Blurock]

Vanash, this one is for you. Pure bubblegum! Other bubble gum numbers that come to mind is Sugar Sugar by the Archies, Chewy Chewy, Little Willy...