This is Peter Tosh, not Bob Marley!

 wookie wrote: 

Yeah!

Bill likes his reggae. (Luckily, me too.)

 cobalt789 wrote:

Yes, stop THIS train, I'm disembarkin'.  Maybe later. 

This is not Bob Marley. It should be listed as "The Wailers." Peter "Tosh" Macintosh is on lead vocal here.

Jerry Garcia does a rippin' version of this song. Check it out.

More Peter Tosh!!!!!

Great track from a classic album!

Ya know, this is really mediocre Bob Marley, but it absolutely SHINES when played after Jon Redfern's "I Love the Sun".

Like a ray of sunshine after being in a dank, smelly cave.

WonderLizard wrote:

Actually, they were sometimes billed as "Bob Marley and the Wailers", even while Peter and Bunny were still members. For instance, "Soul Rebels" (which was released about two years earlier) is billed as such.

This is a wailers' song. And when he was asked what about the Wailers after Peter had split, Bob Marley answered:"The Wailers? The Wailers is everyone who plays with the Wailers!" (on Talkin Blues)

Thanks for the info, jah_blessed, that's good to know. Great, great song from Tosh and the Wailers. Excellent to hear this version!

yep, sounds nothing like Bob. Hey Bill, how 'bout some Reggaemylitis?

bluematrix wrote:

Not to put too fine a point on all of the below, but Peter Tosh wrote "Stop That Train". That's why he sang the lead. They were still The Wailers instead of Bob Marley and the...

Yeah!!!! Finally get to hear it again!

Can't help but think of it as: "Somebody please stop the earth, I'd like to get out."

Tosh goes back to the rock steady roots.

Dear to Sear this again Hear on RP, Thanx! ... ...

discochuck wrote:

Slight correction: they still made "Burnin'" after this, which includes the standout "Get Up, Stand Up" written by Marley and Tosh.

The Wailers went their separate ways in '74 (after this album), at which point Bob Marley started appearing in the title of the new group, using the Wailers Band (which was an almost entirely different set of players than what you have here, aside from the Barretts).

For marketing purposes the re-release had the following lettering, even though the Chris Blackwell inspired name that appears on it was conveived after the original band had mostly gone their own ways:


Either way, great add.

Bill, please fix this: it's NOT Bob Marley, it's The Wailers. And it's Peter Tosh who's singing. Thanks for playing!

funny to hear tosh singing on a bob marley tune. nice though.

Yep, another upload added this week. Thanks Rebecca!

This is one of Peter Tosh's finest songs from while he was still a member of The Wailers. Bob may have the most songs on the album, but Peter steals the show with this and "400 Years".

Note that this version of the song is from the Jamaican mix of their classic "Catch a Fire" album. Regrettably, you can only obtain this version in the more expensive 2-disc deluxe edition, which also contains the same album in the version as it was originally released, remixed and overdubbed for the Western market.

As far as I'm concerned the Jamaican version is superior in all respects, making the Western version completely redundant. Granted, the Western version is the album everyone knows - and it was fully approved by The Wailers themselves, who were keen to break into a new market - but the Jamaican mix is how it should have sounded all along.