15 Nov 2007: 1977

[RGMike]

Bonnie goes the Ronstadt route -- "please, here's a '60s remake -- I want a hit single".  But it wasn't, exactly. Tho' it is a fine version.

[RGMike]

BOS3 "Exodus". What a  concept: a Marley tune that hasn't been played to death.

[Davefish]

BOS3 "Exodus". What a  concept: a Marley tune that hasn't been played to death.

Eh, maybe not dead, but it was coughing up blood last night.

Meeting time -- ttfn.

[urth]

BOS3 "Exodus". What a  concept: a Marley tune that hasn't been played to death.

I suspect this is going to get heavy action in the popular BOS voting, too.

Wow, the l-o-o-o-o-o-o-ng version!

And here's Christopher Glenn!

[RGMike]

BOS3 "Exodus". What a  concept: a Marley tune that hasn't been played to death.

Eh, maybe not dead, but it was coughing up blood last night.

 well, Bob did die of lung cancer...  Too much ganja, mon.

[RGMike]

Gazz Gazz disco Gazz!  VHM Brick.

[mshray]

And here's Christopher Glenn!

I got to give a full BOS vote to "In The News".

[RGMike]

a neither-BOS-nor-WOS to the Dead, estimating their considerable profits.

[Alicat]

BOS Estimated Prophet

[RGMike]

VHM Dave Mason, lettin' it go/flow, y'know?

[mshray]

one more BOS to Dave Mason.

[urth]

Not familiar with this last "I Got the Time" but it sounds Babys-esque--a deep cut fromt their debut maybe?

[RGMike]

Not familiar with this last "I Got the Time" but it sounds Babys-esque--a deep cut fromt their debut maybe?

DING! DING! DING!  I had no idea, myself.

[Davefish]

BOS3 "Exodus". What a  concept: a Marley tune that hasn't been played to death.

Eh, maybe not dead, but it was coughing up blood last night.

 well, Bob did die of lung cancer...  Too much ganja, mon.

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I'd thought it was brain cancer, or as a friend said, cancer of everything.

[RGMike]

BOS3 "Exodus". What a  concept: a Marley tune that hasn't been played to death.

Eh, maybe not dead, but it was coughing up blood last night.

 well, Bob did die of lung cancer...  Too much ganja, mon.

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I'd thought it was brain cancer, or as a friend said, cancer of everything.

per Wiki:

In July 1977, Marley was found to have malignant melanoma in a football wound on his right hallux (big toe). Marley refused amputation, citing worries that the operation would affect his dancing, as well as the Rastafari belief that the body must be "whole": “Rasta no abide amputation. I don't allow a man to be dismantled.”  

Marley may have seen medical doctors as samfai (tricksters, deceivers). True to this belief Marley went against all surgical possibilities and sought out other means that would not break his religious beliefs. He also refused to register a will, based on the Rastafari belief that writing a will is acknowledging death as inevitable, thus disregarding the everlasting (or everliving, as Rastas say) character of life.

The cancer then metastasized to Marley's brain, lungs, liver, and stomach.

Now, I know Western music fans like to think of Rastafarianism as colorful and benign... but as they say on South Park, "That's some f---ed up s--t there".