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Ben Harper — Jah Work
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govna
(beantown)
Posted: May 14, 2013 - 08:11
 
 Poacher wrote:

Personally, I am converted to Pasterfari

 
thank you.

Stingray
Posted: Feb 23, 2013 - 16:48
 
LOVELY! Can't wait for his new album to come soon!

wrangler
(swamps of jersey)
Posted: Dec 20, 2012 - 09:10
 
{#Frustrated}{#Frustrated}{#Frustrated}{#Frustrated}{#Frustrated}{#Frustrated}  {#Stop}

midreaming
Posted: Dec 08, 2012 - 13:30
 
 Sasha2001 wrote:
Yes, thank you, Rasafari is so closely related to Christianity it's basically a sect and Jah is more or less the same god that came to earth in the form of Christ. I'm not disparaging Jamaicans for basterdizing a religion and gaining a little self-identity, but God is still God regardless of how favourably we wish to think about the people who believe in him/her/it.
 
..a sect? ..bastardizing?..that might be a little harsh and disrespectful. My reading leads me to believe Rastafari originated from 7 lost tribes in Africa, of which the Jews were 1, from which JC later emerged. One or two others are believed to have settled on the coast near what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea. Read more for yourself. It's good stuff.

Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: Sep 05, 2012 - 05:57
 
 Sasha2001 wrote:
Yes, thank you, Rasafari is so closely related to Christianity it's basically a sect and Jah is more or less the same god that came to earth in the form of Christ. I'm not disparaging Jamaicans for basterdizing a religion and gaining a little self-identity, but God is still God regardless of how favourably we wish to think about the people who believe in him/her/it.
 
Personally, I am converted to Pasterfari

oídos_abiertos
Posted: May 01, 2012 - 18:10
 
 Powerful.  This gives new meaning to Ben's line "Tell me do you really know your brother, man."  I never thought about it much but I like this song because it teaches patience - something I can use a dose of on many an occasion - "Jah work is never done."

  Sasha2001 wrote:
Yes there are many good parts to the Bible and many positive aspects to Judeo-Christianity, but here are some example's of Jah's very BEST work: 1) Genital mutilation (Exodus 4:24-26) 2) It’s okay to have slaves as long as you don’t beat them too badly (Exodus 20:20-21) 3) Rape victims must marry their assailants (Deuteronomy 22:28-29) 4) Capital punishment for homosexuality (Leviticus 20:13) And many, many more.
 



Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window)
Posted: Mar 11, 2012 - 10:45
 
 bluecshells wrote:
He is singing about Jah Rastafari
 



Yes, thank you, Rasafari is so closely related to Christianity it's basically a sect and Jah is more or less the same god that came to earth in the form of Christ. I'm not disparaging Jamaicans for basterdizing a religion and gaining a little self-identity, but God is still God regardless of how favourably we wish to think about the people who believe in him/her/it.

bluecshells
(EARTH)
Posted: Feb 28, 2012 - 08:37
 
He is singing about Jah Rastafari

Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window)
Posted: Oct 24, 2011 - 14:16
 
Yes there are many good parts to the Bible and many positive aspects to Judeo-Christianity, but here are some example's of Jah's very BEST work:

1) Genital mutilation (Exodus 4:24-26)

2) It’s okay to have slaves as long as you don’t beat them too badly (Exodus 20:20-21)

3) Rape victims must marry their assailants (Deuteronomy 22:28-29)

4) Capital punishment for homosexuality (Leviticus 20:13)

And many, many more.

Johnny_Wave
(California, baby)
Posted: Sep 22, 2011 - 21:46
 
It sounds like the only lyrics are "Shower..... shower......... shower.............".   Just take a bath already dude

jkhandy
(Near the ocean (in my mind))
Posted: Sep 03, 2011 - 11:16
 
8

merrickw
(New York)
Posted: Aug 22, 2011 - 12:48
 
I thought this was the Elmer Fudd version of Fi...were


mrgus
Posted: Apr 01, 2011 - 12:51
 
Is it just me? This is the first I heard this song. I thought it was Adam Sandler. I thought Bill was having some fun on April 1.

CoYoT51
(Lima, Perú)
Posted: Apr 01, 2011 - 12:44
 
Under rated...


calypsus_1
Posted: Oct 23, 2010 - 09:53
 
 calypsus_1 wrote:

Ben Harper & Funk Brothers - Live 
   *

"The Funk Brothers was the nickname of Detroit, Michigan, session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown Records recordings from 1959 until 1972, when the company moved to Los Angeles.

The Funk Brothers played on Motown hits such as "My Girl", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "Baby Love", "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours", "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", "The Tears of a Clown", and "(Love is Like a) Heat Wave".

The role of the Funk Brothers is described in Paul Justman's 2002 documentary film Standing in the Shadows of Motown, based on Allan Slutsky's book of the same name. The opening titles proclaim the Funk Brothers as "having played on more number-one records than The Beatles, Elvis, The Rolling Stones, and The Beach Boys combined." 

  
 
* "This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to repeated copyright infringements. " 

    It's the same shit: invoke the rights to censor remove videos clips shared by the YouTube community, nonprofit, which is extremely useful for artists who create art, and behold a thurs most precious means of dissemination.

This is how the conduct of pirâmede monopoly capitalists, greedy for profits that artists only get a small part (most of it is absorbed by the editing, production and distribution), so the final product reaches the consumer at exorbitant and outrageous prices. If artists had to wait such reduced royalty, died of starvation. What counts are the shows and live performances, the artists are all over the world.

It would be good and legitimate, for greater transparency, that YouTube always discloses the entity name, publisher or label that exercised such abominable censorship, claiming rights,  to the Community  also learn to exercise its right of censorship in the acquisition of products these publishers, I repeat, that the creative artists, only get a small part.

The same goes for the perversion that is behind the contracts that bind artists to labels, where the art of music, in many cases, is treated as a product of commercial transaction on the "assembly line continues" ...... .. (continued)




Orodrigues
(Resende (RJ), Brazil)
Posted: Sep 21, 2010 - 16:15
 
A delicious reggae, with acoustic guitars and great drums.

Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Aug 23, 2010 - 10:02
 
 h8rhater wrote:
wrangler wrote:
ben harper strikes me as a total poser
 pobaldy wrote:

same here.
 
The word is poseur... you hoseurs!
 
the spelling is interchangeable. They both mean the same thing.

soulcollision
(Vancouver, BC)
Posted: Aug 23, 2010 - 09:55
 
god i love this song. bill is playing it a lot lately. {#Hearteyes}

calypsus_1
Posted: Aug 19, 2010 - 18:42
 

Ben Harper & Funk Brothers - Live

"The Funk Brothers was the nickname of Detroit, Michigan, session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown Records recordings from 1959 until 1972, when the company moved to Los Angeles.

The Funk Brothers played on Motown hits such as "My Girl", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "Baby Love", "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours", "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", "The Tears of a Clown", and "(Love is Like a) Heat Wave".

The role of the Funk Brothers is described in Paul Justman's 2002 documentary film Standing in the Shadows of Motown, based on Allan Slutsky's book of the same name. The opening titles proclaim the Funk Brothers as "having played on more number-one records than The Beatles, Elvis, The Rolling Stones, and The Beach Boys combined." 



frank-peter
(Siegen / Germany)
Posted: Jul 22, 2010 - 10:55
 
Is he the greatest christian musican in the United States Of America? I think so! (I love him!)


dali
(Tunisia)
Posted: Jul 22, 2010 - 10:50
 
{#Dancingbanana} chinablue wrote:
{#Bananajam}
 



leaf
(Vancouver, BC)
Posted: Jul 07, 2010 - 14:52
 
The bongos sell me on this one.

raia
Posted: Jun 20, 2010 - 13:54
 
Such a warm, better hot voice :) Music good for driving

calypsus_1
Posted: May 24, 2010 - 13:57
 

Ben Harper by ~bekstar
Rebekah   ©2004-2010 ~bekstar

29th June 2004
Manchester Carling Apollo



The_Enemy
(The Sewer)
Posted: Apr 15, 2010 - 07:07
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:
My goats after being smoked by Mr. Harper:

 
ME: That's a flock of goats, isn't it?

BUSINESSGYPSY: Aye, 'tis that.

ME: ah, yes, I thought so. Only.....  what are they doing in the trees?

BUSINESSGYPSY: A fair question. And one which 'as been mooch on my mind......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkw2DdoskPY



Mandible
Posted: Apr 15, 2010 - 06:55
 
 sonofpick wrote:


U folks have obviously never been to see him live.  He would totally smoke your goats.
 
Actually, he makes my goats smoke


h8rhater
Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 10:22
 
wrangler wrote:
ben harper strikes me as a total poser
 pobaldy wrote:

same here.

 
The word is poseur... you hoseurs!


Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 10:19
 
sonofpick wrote:
U folks have obviously never been to see him live. He would totally smoke your goats.
My goats after being smoked by Mr. Harper:



Stingray
(Cologne)
Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 09:48
 
HARPER is absolutely and undoubtedly a GREAT musician and composer!

He knows pretty well to create a mood that makes me want to, ...äääh,...love woman?
Is that understood? Shared? Girls...?



Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Jan 10, 2010 - 15:53
 
 wrangler wrote:
ben harper strikes me as a total poser
 
Yes. He's posing as a mannequin posed as a musician.

kismet700
(over valleys of endless seas)
Posted: Jan 10, 2010 - 15:53
 
{#Meditate}Well I like it. And him. So there!{#Group-hug}


samsamsupersam
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 14:20
 
He looks like Ben Afflek

Stingray
(Cologne)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 14:19
 
 wrangler wrote:


i wouldn't let ben harper anywhere near my goats......
 

Haaaaaa...! RP-posters are really funny - at times!

Or wasn`t it a sexual statement?


Stingray
(Cologne)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 14:18
 
I very much like how he can't-sing!
Real sweet!
!!!!8!!!

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Oct 08, 2009 - 09:09
 
 Poacher wrote:
Ben Harper once had the hots for the sister of an ex-girlfriend of mine. . . does that mean we are related?

 

Did he mumble he loved her?

Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: Oct 08, 2009 - 09:04
 
Ben Harper once had the hots for the sister of an ex-girlfriend of mine. . . does that mean we are related?


jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Sep 09, 2009 - 13:41
 
1 <== 2

sdn
(Philadelphia)
Posted: Aug 06, 2009 - 08:05
 
Jah repetition is never done.

wrangler
(swamps of jersey)
Posted: May 22, 2009 - 06:13
 
 sonofpick wrote:


U folks have obviously never been to see him live.  He would totally smoke your goats.
 

i wouldn't let ben harper anywhere near my goats......

chinablue
(minas gerais/brazil)
Posted: May 05, 2009 - 21:34
 
{#Dancingbanana}

pannaramma
(not from around here)
Posted: Apr 20, 2009 - 09:19
 
Jah whatever

coy
(san antonio)
Posted: Apr 04, 2009 - 08:21
 
totally smoke your goats.

?? i have a friend that used to 'smoke out his iguana'

sonofpick
(SoCal, Small College, My Office)
Posted: Apr 01, 2009 - 14:41
 
 pobaldy wrote:

same here.

 

U folks have obviously never been to see him live.  He would totally smoke your goats.

sonofpick
(SoCal, Small College, My Office)
Posted: Apr 01, 2009 - 14:41
 
 pobaldy wrote:

same here.

 

U folks have obviously never been to see him live.  He would totally smoke your goats.

pobaldy
Posted: Feb 16, 2009 - 08:00
 
 wrangler wrote:
ben harper strikes me as a total poser
 
same here.


vit
Posted: Dec 30, 2008 - 15:00
 
RadioDoc wrote:
I'm starting to get that vibe myself.


Wow I've never heard that before. I saw him play back in '00 I think and there was none of that going on at all. It was one of the best shows I've seen. The guy knows his guitar but what's more he played that night with dudes who knew more/were better and wasn't afraid to admit it.


ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Dec 30, 2008 - 14:58
 
If your workers were as blazed all the time as Jah's, your work would never get done either. :(



RadioDoc
(Chicagoland)
Posted: Nov 13, 2008 - 11:21
 
wrangler wrote:
ben harper strikes me as a total poser
I'm starting to get that vibe myself.



wrangler
(cliffside park, nj)
Posted: Nov 13, 2008 - 11:19
 
ben harper strikes me as a total poser

sirrus
(Fredneck, MD)
Posted: Oct 28, 2008 - 10:57
 
{#Daisy} Happy Birthday Ben!