survival

Bob Marley and the Wailers persevered against ism and schism of devil philosophy in the Babylon system with this bold statement of liberation through unification.  His previous two albums ('Exodus' and 'Kaya') had broken his music around the world and given him a platform from which to espouse his vision of the world. The sessions for 'Survival' took place at Tuff Gong Recording Studio in Kingston, Jamaica were produced by the band with Alex Sadkin and featured Bob Marley on lead vocals, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, and percussion;   Aston "Family Man" Barrett on bass, rhythm guitar, and percussion;  Carlton Barrett on drums and percussion;  Tyrone "Organ D" Downie on keyboards, percussion, and backing vocals;   Alvin "Seeco" Patterson on percussion;  Junior Marvin on lead guitar and backing vocals;  Earl "Wire" Lindo on keyboards;   Al Anderson on lead guitar;  and Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths, & Judy Mowatt on backing vocals.  

'Survival' was characterized by a more direct political theme.  The album cover was controversial with its depiction of a typical slave ship cargo hold amid the flags of forty-eight African countries.  Marley would expound at the time:   "Media. If I were in the Newspaper, I would do a lot of interviews, because what I want to say I would get it across. But when you talk to someone, you have to go to someone, and it must be healthy for their business. And if it too militant, them try fi spread a type of propaganda. You know the media (laughs) … Control....Dabble in Politics? I don’t know what that is. You say stand up and talk fi my rights? I know that that is. See? And I don’t care who the guy is… because my right is my right. Like my life. You know? All I have is my life. That means that I can say I don’t want that or I don’t want this. When I check it out, the biggest man was a baby one time, so I don’t know when [they] get all of these big ideas, want to be ruler, want people, and help enforce ‘devilism.’ Can’t dig it. Can’t take it. Me a rebel man. Me a revolutionist...Yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, who don’t have no help. And nah take no bribe from no one, meh fight it single-handed. The music. Rasta is the future. See? (laughs) Rasta is the future...Well, you know, the way I feel about the music… It can be copied you know. But, it’s not copied direct... It’s the feel. You know? It carry a feel. If you ask plenty musicians… Them know it – but them can’t do it. So people still searching for this truth here, which this Reggae music you know, bring cross to them. And the only purpose it serve is to tell the people about Rastafari...In a sense. Me really used to listen to a lot of music, you know? I mean first time… Used to listen to music that play on the radio. We couldn’t afford to buy records so we listened to the Radio, and anything the radio play is that we hear. So I wasn’t really into them thing, I was really into like – they call it spiritual music. You know? ‘Cause it got me revolutionized. You know?...Well I’ve been a Rasta from ever since. You know? But it’s not how long you’ve been a Rasta, it’s how long it take you to grow – because what you is – is what you is. From beginning to the end. You can never change, ‘cause if you even adopt things later – your own fate ah write out. So we ah just Rasta from creation, you know? It’s not an easy thing to explain. We’ve got educated standards and we still have people who can’t do it. But me ah common sense man, that mean when we explain things we explain it very, very simple way that me explain to a baby. The baby’ll understand too, you know? So we ah say now, like the Bible. The Bible say, God say he shall return as the King of King, the Lord of Lords, The Conqueror, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, and him shall come in a new name. And his new name shall be dreadful among the heathen."

'Survival' went to number seventy on the US popular album chart, thirty-two on the US R&B album chart, twenty in the UK, seventeen in Sweden, fourteen in New Zealand, and ten in Norway.  







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So Much Trouble in The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou5dkZcZ0Wk

So much trouble in the world now (repeat)

Bless my eyes this morning

JAH sun is on the rise once again

The way earthly things are going

Anything can happen

You see men sailing on their ego trips

Blast off on their spaceships

Million miles from reality

No care for you, no care for me

So much trouble in the world now (repeat)

All you've got to do is give a little

Give a little, give a little

One more time ye-a-h! ye-ah!

So you think you have found the solution

But it's just another illusion

So before you check out your tide

Don't leave another cornerstone standing there behind

We have got to face the day, ooh we come what may

We the street people talking, we the people struggling

Now they are sitting on a time bomb

Now I know the time has come

What goes up must come down

Goes around comes around

So much trouble in the world

So much trouble in the world

So much trouble in the world

There is so much trouble, there is so much trouble

There is so much trouble

There is so much trouble in the world

There is so much trouble in the world

Africa Unite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpfxD0yY6f8

Africa, Unite

'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon

And we're going to our father's land

How good and how pleasant it would be

Before God and man, yeah

To see the unification of all Africans, yeah

As it's been said already let it be done, yeah

We are the children of the Rastaman

We are the children of the Higher Man

Africa, Unite 'cause the children wanna come home

Africa, Unite 'cause we're moving right out of Babylon

And we're grooving to our father's land

How good and how pleasant it would be

Before god and man

To see the unification of all Rastaman, yeah

As it's been said already let it be done, yeah

I tell you who we are under the sun

We are the children of the Rastaman

We are the children of the Higher Man

So, Africa, Unite, Africa, Unite

Unite for the benefit of your people

Unite for it's later than you think

Unite for the benefit of your children

Unite for it's later than you think

Africa awaits its creators, Africa awaiting its creators

Africa, you're my forefather cornerstone

Unite for the Africans abroad, unite for the Africans a yard

Africa, Unite

Zimbabwe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnpBtRlfdjc

Every man gotta right

To decide his own destiny

And in this judgment

There is no partiality

So arm in arms, with arms

We will fight this little struggle

'Cause that's the only way

We can overcome our little trouble

Brother you're right, you're right

You're right, you're right, you're so right

We gonna fight, we'll have to fight

We gonna fight, fight for our rights

Natty dread it ina Zimbabwe

Set it up ina Zimbabwe

Mash it up ina Zimbabwe

Africans a liberate Zimbabwe

No more internal power struggle

We come together, to overcome

The little trouble

Soon we will find out 

Who is the real revolutionary

'Cause I don't want my people 

To be contrary

Brothers you're right, you're right

You're right, you're right, you're so right

We'll have to fight, we gonna fight

We'll have to fight, fighting for our rights

Mash it up ina Zimbabwe

Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe

I and I a liberate Zimbabwe

Brother you're right, you're right

You're right, you're right, you're so right

We gonna fight, we'll have to fight

We gonna fight, fighting for our rights

To divide and rule

Could only tear us apart

In everyman chest

There beats a heart

So soon we'll find out 

Who is the real revolutionaries

And I don't want my people

To be tricked by mercenaries

Brother you're right, you're right

You're right, you're right, you're so right

We gonna fight, we'll have to fight

We gonna fight, fighting for our rights

Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe

Mash it up ina Zimbabwe

Set it up ina Zimbabwe

Africans a liberate Zimbabwe

Africans a liberate Zimbabwe

Natty dub it ina Zimbabwe

Set it up ina Zimbabwe

Africans a liberate Zimbabwe

Every man got a right

To decide his own destiny

One Drop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLLlgdY2aQ

Feel it in the one drop

And we'll still find time to rap

We're making the one stop

The generation gap

So feel this drum beat

As it beats within

Playing a rhythm resisting against the system

Ooh-we I know Jah'd never let us down

Pull your rights from wrong

I know Jah'd never let us down

Oh no! oh no! oh no!

They made the world so hard

Everyday we got to keep on fighting

Everyday the people are dying

From hunger and starvation, lamentation

But read it in Revelation

You'll find your redemption

And then you give us the teaching of His Majesty

For we no want no devil philosophy

Feel it on the one drop

And we still find time to rap

We're making the one stop

And we fill in the gap

So feel this drum beat

As it beats within, playing a rhythm

Fighting against ism and skism

'Survival' 
full album:



All songs written and composed by Bob Marley, except where stated.

side one:
1. 0:00 So Much Trouble in The World
2. 4:00 Zimbabwe
3. 7:51 Top Rankin'
4. 11:02 Babylon System
5. 15:24 Survival

side two:
6. 19:18 Africa Unite
7. 22:14 One Drop
8. 26:06 Ride Natty Ride
9. 29:56 Ambush in The Night
10. 33:12 Wake Up And Live  (Bob Marley, Anthony Davis)

bonus:
11. 38:13 Ride Natty Ride 
total time:     44:25





Bob Marley: Live in Santa Barbara 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3jtfsJdy8s



1:Positive Vibration, 2:Wake Up And Live, 3:I Shot The Sheriff, 4:Ambush In The Night, 5:Concrete Jungle, 6:Running Away, 7:Crazy Baldhead, 8:Them Belly Full, 9:Heathen, 10:Ride Natty Ride, 11:Africa Unite, 12:One Drop, 13:Exodus, 14:So Much Things To Say, 15:Zimbabwe, 16:Jamming, 17:Is This Love, 18:Kinky Reggae, 19:Stir It Up 20:Get Up Stand Up

black rose: a rock legend

Thin Lizzy found the culmination of their sound with the hard rocking heavy folk of this mesmerizing mythic monument to the mountains of Mourne.  The band had enjoyed international success on their breakthrough album 'Jailbreak', with subsequent albums 'Johnny the Fox' and 'Bad Reputation' continuing to chart higher and higher in the UK.  All the while the band saw a revolving door for lead guitarists.  Brian Robertson left the group after their 'Live and Dangerous' album to be replaced by Gary Moore, who had filled in on a couple of previous occasions.  This was the first time that he was able to record an album with the band.  Moore looked back:    “I'll tell you how it started.  He said 'meet me tomorrow at nine in morning' and I thought 'what? Nine in the morning - how rock and roll is that?'  Then I went to meet him and we had a walk round Belfast and he took me to a Chinese restaurant and made me order something he knew I wouldn't like that meant he got to eat mine as well - and it didn't stop there - he always took what was mine, booze, women… but I loved him to bits. I still miss him today.  Phil was a great catalyst for what was going on. If you felt uncomfortable abut what was going on you could always go round and he would trivialise it - I was worried about punk and he said 'that's just rock with safety pins'.  We were hanging out with the guys from the Sex Pistols - I think Thin Lizzy were accepted by the punk community because we weren't so much older than them. Bands like Yes and Led Zeppelin were really shunned, they were seen as dinosaurs.  When I was in Thin Lizzy I was the straight guy. I was never into hard drugs or anything. When I was in America I would drink little bottles of Budweiser - it was so watered down you could drink twenty of them. The rest of the band would be on vodka and cocaine and smack. I stayed away, I just wanted to be a good player. I showed up on time and they would be late and high. I was a bit mad the first time I was in the band in 1974, but I was only 21.”

  The sessions for 'Black Rose' took place with producer Tony Visconti in Paris with Phil Lynott on bass guitar, lead vocals, and twelve-string guitar;  Scott Gorham on lead guitar, rhythm guitar, and backing vocals;  Gary Moore on lead and rhythm guitar, and backing vocals;  and Brian Downey on drums and percussion;   with Jimmy Bain playing bass guitar on "With Love"; Huey Lewis adding harmonica on "Sarah" and "With Love";  and Mark Nauseef sitting in on drums for "Sarah".   During the recording Lynott and Gorham became increasingly involved with heroin in addition to their usual excesses.    Visconti reveals:    "Being a father and studio owner brought about a certain air of responsibility and sobriety. I didn't expect a stretch limo to pull up outside my modest home and two inebriated rock stars to get out, waving large opened cans of Fosters lager. The rock stars were Phil Lynott and Scott Gorham. After greeting them at the door I could tell that these were not the first cans of lager they'd had that day. They were three sheets to the wind—maybe four! But they were laughing and friendly and full of enthusiasm...Moore replaced a very disenchanted Robertson, who was now pursuing a solo career. Both guitarists contributed greatly to Lizzy's legacy, but Moore was a pleasure to work with...Drugs were a staple for Lizzy. I believe they really killed Phil in the end...I once questioned his ability to play stoned. He replied that he'd been smoking dope for so long he could play extremely well stoned. According to Phil, it was the others in the group who shouldn't get high, not having the experience he had!"

Gorham describes Moore's contribution to the band:   "The guy was such a fantastic guitar player, but you really had to… umm… 'keep up' with Gary, if you know what I mean. He was very competitive. It seemed everything was a competition with him. So you got in there – got your competitive juices going also, because you never wanted to get left behind. It was good experience teaming up with him. Your game definitely had to tighten up when you’re working with a guy like that...It was more of a jam kind of thing. I would have a certain riff, and I’d say hey what do you think of this? Gary would say, 'That’s really cool, how about if we put this to it?' And he’d tag something of his onto it. And I’d be like yeah cool, and put my harmony line to it. Songs like those on ‘Black Rose’ they just kind of evolved themselves. Phil would always have some lyric going, and he’d ask to change a little bit here, so he could fit a different kind of melody line in there – and we’d accommodate that, yeah absolutely!"

Moore left the band during the subsequent tour to be replaced by Midge Ure who was replaced by Dave Flett who was replaced by Snowy White (who would be replaced by John Sykes).    Lynott would recall:    "Yeah, well we were looking for that solidness, y'know? The thing is, we got on well with Brian Robertson, but Brian was very independent.  Gary was a different type of character. Gary was very dependent, but in a way, because of his knowledge of the guitar he was a bit of a musical snob. He figured that because he knew more about the guitar than anyone else in the band he therefore knew how the band should be run better than anyone else in the band.  But with Snowy, Snowy's very quiet – but then so is Brian Downey very quiet. But quiet guys are the hardest to understand, because when they say no they mean no. They say it quietly but it's as strong as somebody screaming it, like me. Snowy'll go 'No, I don't want to play the song that way', and shows the strength of character. Obviously, we've gone for a little more security - someone who wanted to be in the band, and who wanted to have his say in the band but not just use it for his own benefit, who wanted the band to be a band. I think potentially now, if we can stay together, I think we can develop stronger now than with Gary. And I'm not saying that because every time you get a new guitarist you have to say 'this is the one!' But I think it balances better now. So potentially, we're up."

'Black Rose:  A Rock Legend' went to number eighty-one in the US, fifteen in Norway, eight in Sweden, and number two in the UK, making it the highest charting album of their career.







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"Róisín Dubh" combines traditional Irish folk tunes with original rock arrangements.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyuB_9VsdGk


Tell me the legends of long ago
When the kings and queens would dance in the realm of the Black Rose
Play me the melodies I want to know
So I can teach my children, oh

Pray tell me the story of young Cuchulainn
How his eyes were dark his expression sullen
And how he'd fight and always won
And how they cried when he was fallen

Oh tell me the story of the Queen of this land
And how her sons died at her own hand
And how fools obey commands
Oh tell me the legends of long ago

Where the mountains of Mourne come down to the sea
Will she no come back to me
Will she no come back to me

Oh Shenandoah I hear you calling
Far away you rolling river
Roll down the mountain side
On down on down go lassie go

Oh Tell me the legends of long ago
When the kings and queens would dance in the realms of the Black Rose
Play me the melodies so I might know
So I can tell my children, oh

My Roisin Dubh is my one and only true love
It was a joy that Joyce brought to me
While William Butler waits
And Oscar, he's going Wilde

Ah sure, Brendan where have you Behan?
Looking for a girl with green eyes
My dark Rosaleen is my only colleen
That Georgie knows Best

But Van is the man
Starvation once again
Drinking whiskey in the jar-o
Synge's Playboy of the Western World

As Shaw, Sean I was born and reared there
Where the Mountains of Mourne come down to the sea
Is such a long, long way from Tipperary








'Black Rose' 
full album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddzXKQPsxT4



1. "Do Anything You Want To"   (Phil Lynott) 3:53
2. "Toughest Street in Town"   (Scott Gorham, Lynott, Gary Moore) 4:01
3. "S & M"   (Brian Downey, Lynott) 4:05
4. "Waiting for an Alibi"   (Lynott) 3:30
5. "Sarah"   (Lynott, Moore) 3:33
6. "Got to Give It Up"   (Gorham, Lynott) 4:24
7. "Get Out of Here"   (Lynott, Midge Ure) 3:37
8. "With Love"   (Lynott) 4:38
9. "Róisín Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend" 7:06
    I. "Shenandoah"
    II. "Will You Go Lassie Go"
    III. "Danny Boy"
    IV. "The Mason's Apron"