![]() ![]() and I wanted to know what I know from jail. What I learned in jail was something that I couldn't learn anywhere else. He is still "fighting against conviction" and working on clearing his name but was able to gain a measure of knowledge and understanding from this harsh episode of incarceration. ![]() In July 1967 Bunny Wailer was imprisoned, initially in Kingston's notorious General Penitentiary, following a conviction for possession of marijuana. that we couldn't avoid doing and out of that it made all that came out of The Wailers." Bunny Wailer we knew that there was a responsibility that was ours. Bob, Robert Marley, Winston Mackintosh, Peter and myself Bunny Wailer. No other way! We could have tried out other ways. "We had to be very serious about what we were doing and we knew that there was no other way to go. The Wailers were among the first wave of Jamaican artists to take charge of their own destiny and work in this way as they knew it was the only way they could get their message across. The group established their own Wail N Soul M label in 1966 after parting company with Studio One although the first release on the label, 'Bend Down Low' backed with 'Freedom Time', employed the talents of Studio One's house band The Soul Brothers and was distributed by Coxsone. A number of these songs would be returned to at later stages in the group's career. Bob Marley handled the lead vocals on 'Jailhouse', 'Rude Boy', 'I'm Still Waiting' and 'Put It On' and, as the music began to slow down from ska to rock steady, Bunny Livingston took the lead on 'Dancing Shoes', 'What Am I Supposed To Do', 'Let Him Go', 'Who Feels It Knows It' and 'Dreamland'. ![]() The remaining three members now took turns on lead vocals: Peter Tosh (or Touch) led on 'Maga Dog', 'Sinner Man', 'I'm The Toughest' and the authority baiting 'Rasta Put It On' (also known as 'Rasta Shook Them Up'). and still is a hit record for The Wailers! " Bunny Wailerīeverly Kelso left The Wailers the following year and Junior Braithwaite then left the group when he emigrated to America. "That was our first song that we did under that tutorship of Joe Higgs and 'Simmer Down' was a hit record for The Wailers. The group were thoroughly tutored in voice control, harmonies and stagecraft in the "government yards in Trench Town" by singer and songwriter Joe Higgs, of Higgs & Wilson, before voicing their first records including 'Simmer Down' for Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd( CS Dodd) at Studio One on Brentford Road. In 1964 The Wailers came together as a five piece harmony group comprising Neville ' Bunny Wailer' Livingston, Winston ' Peter Tosh' Mackintosh, Robert 'Bob' Marley, Junior Braithwaite and Beverley Kelso who had replaced Cherry Green aka Ermine Bramwell. The last surviving member of the original Wailing Wailers, Neville ' Bunny Wailer' Livingston, is not only the sole keeper of The Wailers' history but is also rightly regarded as the guardian of their place in history and the importance maintaining their enduring legacy. The incredible global success of Bob Marley & The Wailers is not only a reggae phenomenon but also a phenomenon without precedent and to trod the potholed zinc fenced streets and yards of Trench Town is to fully appreciate The Wailers' incredible advancement from harsh, unrelenting poverty to worldwide recognition. ![]()
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