33 years ago today Bob Marley died - now Keith Richards covers Get Up Stand Up for Charity

[malaise]

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20140511/ent/ent1.html
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English singer and original member of the Rolling Stones band, Keith Richards, has collaborated with a number of musicians across the globe for a cover of Bob Marley's Get Up Stand Up for charity.

The charity, Playing for Change, aims to "inspire and connect the world through music". It also hopes to erect music and art schools around the world from the funds generated.

It is also being reported that Keith Richards, American contemporary blues guitarist and singer, Keb' Mo', and Jamaican reggae singer Sherieta Lewis are among an all-star cast slated to record a tribute album to the late reggae legend.

Online reports also state that the album, scheduled for a June release, will feature tracks from Latino rock band Los Lobos, reggae veteran Toots Hibbert, and blues guitarist Taj Mahal.

This would not be the first time the Rolling Stones guitarist has tried his hand at reggae music.

[spanone]

1. k&r...

[malaise]

2. Even more relevant today

[Scuba]

3. K&R for Bob and Keef.

[napkinz]

7. I plead ignorance ... please fill me in

Why do so many refer to KEITH Richards as Keef?

thanks

[tosh]

8. Thank you for giving me a reason

to share my #1 favorite Annie Liebovitz shot...

[napkinz]

9. now I feel even more stupid

I don't get it. Is keef a slang word for drugs?

[tosh]

10. Really I think it's a double play

on English vernacular speech and his love for weed ... just an affectionate nickname.

[malaise]

22. Did you know that Peter Tosh was killed on 9/11

1987

[tosh]

25. Wow. I knew it was '87

but my brain never clicked with the significant date.

Thanks.

[Ligyron]

23. keef or kief are the dried resin heads of the female mary wanna plant

Compressed it becomes hashish.

[Scuba]

13. I have no clue.

[sheshe2]

4. KnR

And thank you malaise.

[SunSeeker]

5. So cool they're involving Toots Hibbert, a contemporary of Bob's.

Bob's music is the best, but Toots and the Maytals put out some amazingly good reggae that never got the recognition it deserved.

[malaise]

6. Toots is lucky to be alive after that attack on stage in Virginia in 2013

By that racist scumbag

[HipChick]

36. Wow...never heard about that..

[malaise]

37. here

http://rvanews.com/news/toots-and-the-maytals-concert-shut-down-band-member-injured/93416
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The young man who threw a vodka bottle that struck Frederick “Toots” Hibbert at last summer’s Dominion Riverrock (see below), William Connor Lewis, will serve jail time for the offense after pleading guilty on Thursday to assault and battery.

Judge Margaret Spencer ordered Lewis to serve six months, less than the one-year jail term Richmond prosecutors argued for.

But Hibbert, lead singer for Toots & the Maytals, wrote a letter, which was read during yesterday’s court proceedings, asking that Lewis not serve jail time at all.

“He is a young man, and I have heard what happens to young men in jail,” wrote Hibbert. “My own pain and suffering would be increased substantially knowing that this young man would face that prospect.”

[tosh]

11. I love this thread!

Thank you malaise!!!

[malaise]

15. You would

Tosh and Richards worked together

[Initech]

12. I love Toots!

[malaise]

21. That's my favorite Toots

from way back when

[SunSeeker]

28. Me too!

Here he is as a handsome young man singing my favorite Toots and the Maytals song, Sweet and Dandy. Pure joy.

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[malaise]

39. That's a very popular festival song

By the way that new Reebok ad with 'What a Bam Bam ' playing is a cover for the very first 'festival song'.

One of the reasons Toots and the Maytals never achieved the popularity of Bob and the Wailers is that they were more part of the local festival song tradition (a competition during the run up to independence celebrations) rather than the international circuit.

[whistler162]

14. He is probably happy get up and stand up.....

at his age a abuse history!

[ProSense]

16. Here's the video

[winstars]

26. The more hits this video gets on YouTube the better for this cause...

Not completely sure how it works but I am not sure if you need to play it on YouTube for the "view" or if clicking on the link above does the same thing. But if anybody wants to pass the link on to someone else its for a great cause...

[malaise]

27. Lovely

I'll spread it everywhere

[Octafish]

17. Now you've seen the light...

We stand up for your right.

[malaise]

18. LOL

[Octafish]

19. Ja Love. Ja Love.

Did Keef take the picture?

[malaise]

20. That is gorgeous

Thanks and I doubt it

[progressoid]

24. Never give up the fight.

One of my fave Marley songs.

[nationalize the fed]

29. Ever hear about Bob's Boots?

What was the son of a CIA director doing at Bob's place?
Where did Bob's cancer first show up?

http://www.hightimes.com/read/chanting-down-babylon-cia-death-bob-marley

RIP RNM O.M.
a truly great man

[malaise]

30. Well Bob was certainly the first person I ever heard of with

cancer of the toe. First Lennon was killed and then Bob died. There will always be theories.

[winstars]

31. A lot of people think similar thoughts, cancer of the toe? WTF... nt

[malaise]

32. I have never been given a satisfactory reason for the removal of all conscious

music from our airways following that Seaga victory in October 1980. What's more it was replaced by some low level sexist crap.
And this was the dawn of the Thatcher/Reagan 'New World Order'.

[winstars]

33. Don't get me started on the Manley-Seaga BS... thanks to the CIA!!! nt

[H2O Man]

34. Lyrics by Peter Tosh,

music by Bob Marley. Both men were prophets. Marley had a wider appeal; Tosh was the fine wine for a smaller number of people. They both spoke the Truth.

[malaise]

35. Tosh was brutally frank

and he had the best voice of all the Wailers - I loved both of them - still do.

[panader0]

38. How excellent!

I love Keb Mo and Taj Mahal and Freddie Hibbert. Should be a great album.