Word: rastafarians
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...wider audience, establishing reggae as a genre of global reach and lasting import. Today you can hear their influence in the music of the hip-hop group the Fugees, the ska-rock band Sublime and even the Rolling Stones (Stones guitarist Keith Richards has a low-key Rastafarian drum-and-chant album out called Wingless Angels). Marley's career (he died in 1981) was rightly celebrated several years ago by the spectacular four-CD boxed set Songs of Freedom (Island). Now Tosh, who was murdered in 1987, gets the box treatment in the just released three-CD set Honorary Citizen...
...strange assortment of characters mill into the theater and onto the stage. A few men in short, tight skirts and high heels casually talk with a rastafarian and two star-trek lookalikes, while on the other side of the stage a giant egg rehearses footwork...
...Sheriff and then segue into the blistering grind of Head Top, from their strong new album Joy and Blues. As Ziggy, 24, rekindles his father's musical spirit and links it to the throbbing rhythms of the '90s, the listeners cheer and raise their arms in a sign of Rastafarian affirmation. "I always do a few of my father's songs," says Marley, who is touring the U.S. and Europe. "His music is a part of me. It's the same meaning, the same message...
...Dancehall has a real excitement and tension to it," says Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records, who signed Bob Marley to the label in 1972. Says Tiger, whose dancehall album, Claws of the Cat, was just released: "It's not just the roots and Rastafarian thing anymore...
...little ones." When the ashes cool, the widow Gertrude Leemer, still recovering from a double mastectomy, hefts her husband's skull like a bowling ball and muses, "The final scar makes all of us safe from the world." She credits this insight to the sinister Linga, a giant Rastafarian woman with a face "beautifully scarred" by razor markings and dyed in a vivid multicolored swirl, who is passing out ganja cigarettes from a Sucrets...