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rastafari is... the one performance by peter tosh is worth the admission to this concert... i would like to know the name of the lead guitarist...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4e7kUgSQ00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4e7kUgSQ00
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it is from the "captured live" album....i will look for it. i know he is american but i forget his name (al...something) just now....historian could probably help too
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Thanks for the Musical Memories!!
Baddaz, thanks for the memories!! (I just came online a short while ago, saw your post and immediately watched the YouTube video twice.) This extended lead guitar solo is a beauty in terms of blues-rock playing!Originally posted by Baddaz View Post
And Gamma, you are correct in your identification of the lead guitarist.
As far as I can recall, the guitarist Donald Kinsey was one of three American guitarists who played in local Jamaican bands during the 1970s and 1980s. In the case of Kinsey, he was the lead guitarist in the original version of Peter Tosh’s “Word, Sound and Power” band, and he was a most welcome addition to that aggregation! His style, as can be seen from Baddaz’s YouTube video posting, was primarily blues with an obvious touch of rock.
My other favorite solo by Kinsey was on Peter Tosh’s “Johnny B. Goode.”
By the way, the other members of the band that I’ve identified are original Fab 5 rhythm guitarist Steve Golding (the dreadlocked rasta in the tam), drummer Carlton “Santa” Davis (in my opinion one of the greatest drummers in the entire history of Jamaican music) and George “Fully” Fullwood, an outstanding bass guitarist. I’m not sure who the other band members are.
The backup vocalists were most likely that 1970s recording group, the Tamlins.
By the way, the other two American lead guitarists who moved to Jamaica during the period were the great Al Anderson, who played for Bob Marley (to this day his guitar solo on the live recording of Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry” is a gem in Jamaica’s musical history, along with, of course, others such as Ernie Ranglin’s solo on the original Wailer’s recording, “It Hurts To Be Alone”).
I cannot recall the name of the third American lead guitarist, except that he played for Lloyd Parkes and We the People band.
Once again, thanks for the musical memories, Baddaz!
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I remember some time ago we were posting great instrumental solos in reggae and I think the consensus was this one and Ernie Ranglin's on "It Hurts To Be Alone" (My two faves by the way). Thanks sir. Great way to start the morning.Originally posted by Baddaz View PostComment
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Historian, was the "third American lead guitarist" Junior Marvin?"The contribution of forumites and others who visit shouldn’t be discounted, and offending people shouldn’t be the first thing on our minds. Most of us are educated and can do better." Mi bredrin Sass Jan. 29,2011Comment
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i think you are right....i remember participating in that one. the guitar in "babylon the bandit" is also a fave of my mine.
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thanks gamma...'to get what we've never had, we MUST do what we've never done'Comment
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farmah... i thought junior marvin was jamaican... i could be wrong... i just remembered seeing him on the wailers tour a couple years after bob passed and he was talking about growing up in jamaica...
maybe he was born in jamaica and grew up in america... i dont know...'to get what we've never had, we MUST do what we've never done'Comment
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btw, junior marvin does a great impression of bob marley in his performances...'to get what we've never had, we MUST do what we've never done'Comment
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No, Not Junior Marvin
No, Farmah, it wasn’t Junior Marvin. The guy I’m referring to, who played lead guitar with Lloyd Parkes and We the People band is not black, he has no Jamaican roots, and he’s an American citizen. For the life of me I cannot recall his name right now! He wasn’t a flashy, stand-out lead guitarist like Donald Kinsey, Al Anderson or Junior Marvin were. Maybe the reason is that Lloyd Parkes’ group tended to play local, grassroots-type traditional reggae as opposed to the marked effort by producers to tailor Bob Marley and Peter Tosh’s music for an international audience.Originally posted by Farmah View Post
By the way, I’m pretty sure that I’ve heard Junior Marvin speak with a British accent, but I could be wrong (I last heard him speak more than two decades ago). Marvin is definitely Jamaican, but I suspect he might have grown up in Britain. But I could definitely be wrong on this, and I am open to correction.Comment
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historian... i found this about junior marvin... hope this clarifies everything about junior marvin...
http://www.juniormarvin.com'to get what we've never had, we MUST do what we've never done'Comment
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Baddaz you're correct on Junior marvin. He was born in Jamaica but grew up in England before making the trek over to the USA. I met him once (around 1992 to 1994) when he attended a reggae concert at the Mahai Temple in Miami and back then he had a very good command of the Jamaican accent."The contribution of forumites and others who visit shouldn’t be discounted, and offending people shouldn’t be the first thing on our minds. Most of us are educated and can do better." Mi bredrin Sass Jan. 29,2011Comment
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Thanks, Boss!
Thanks, Baddaz.Originally posted by Baddaz View Post
I suspected that Junior Marvin was raised in England, as the one or two times I heard him speak many years ago, from what I can remember there was a distinct British accent somewhere.
Junior was not among my favorite lead guitarists (he was certainly not in the class of players like Donald Kinsey), but he was okay and very charismatic on stage. Great personality!
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honestly...these are my favourite threads.
where else can you have these threads in the midst of a don1 vs maudib or the "sky is falling" mantra of the resident chicken little....reggaeboyasc.com
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