#Bob marley ganja interview plus

Last yearвЂ™s One Love: The Very Best of Bob Marley seemed the biggest stretch of all - it was virtually the same record as Legend, give or take a track or two. There was even an ambient version of Marley tunes, which sounded like Bob-meets- 2001 Space Odyssey. Over the years, LegendвЂ™s tremendous success spurred on more and more Marley compilations, all with their own thematic spin. A dead global superstar who still put out records. He even won a posthumous Grammy Award and a place in the Rock вЂn Roll Hall of Fame. His smiling face suddenly adorned T-shirts, posters, and bumper stickers. Marley, who died at the age of 36, joined the ranks of other young talents who left the planet with their star on the rise. Suddenly, Marley-trademarked merchandise, coffee table books, and documentary films sprang up. alone - that Marley became just that: a full-blown legend. It was only after his death, with the release of 1984вЂ™s Legend compilation - which sold 10 million copies in the U.S. He did have his audience, certainly, but while he was alive, Marley skirted the periphery of superstardom in America.

#Bob marley ganja interview plus

Plus there was the fact that Marley and the Wailers seemed perpetually preoccupied with Jah (God), ganja (pot), and political upheaval, hardly the fodder for college party music. They couldnвЂ™t get past the fact Marley and his Rastafarian cohorts considered Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie a deity. The rest of my friends just didnвЂ™t get it - didnвЂ™t get the whole island/Rasta/rebel music thing. In the late вЂ™70s, when I discovered MarleyвЂ™s music and tried to turn on my college friends onto it, I was met with utter indifference, except from a few progressively open listeners. ItвЂ™s a bit ironic for me to see how popular BobвЂ™s become. Elvis doesnвЂ™t still sell records like this, does he? There have been no less than eight вЂњofficialвЂќ Marley albums released since 1981 dozens more of cheap compilations can also be found in any record store. And it seems to never end, this proliferation of вЂњnewвЂќ Bob Marley records, death be damned. Since his death, Bob Marley has sold more albums - millions more - than he ever did when alive. Yet I could not have imagine then that Bob Marley would, in the years following his death, be transformed from an unassuming Jamaican musician, (albeit one who drove a BMW, which he said simply stood for вЂњBob Marley & the WailersвЂќ) to a full-fledged cottage industry, complete with trademarked clothing items available on his posthumously created web site. The fact that Marley had been given a state funeral spoke volumes about what he meant to the people of Jamaica. I wrote a story about Marley for the newspaper where I worked, and spent much of the next few weeks loaning out my albums to people who wanted to understand what the fuss was all about. There were a lot of rumors going around about him - he had cancer he was getting better he was dying he was in hiding. I remember clearly the week Bob Marley died.