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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
Down
The Shitstem
It's
election time up north in Malaysia. Time to enjoy equal rights. Yes boss?
Click on the panels for a better view or to download artwork
Peter
Tosh
Equal Rights
Demos [no label, 1CD]
Demos recorded in 1977?
The origins of the
material found here is a true ROIO - recordings of indeterminate origin.
For instance, 400 Years was a Tosh composition he sang on The Wailers'
Catch A Fire album in 1972. The version here sounds undubbed, less sparkling
guitars. But was this demoed for Catch A Fire? Or was Tosh planning to
put this on Equal Rights?
Of the nine tracks,
only two - Get Up, Stand Up and Apartheid - made the final cut on Equal
Rights. Officially, Vampire turned up finally on the No Nuclear War LP
in 1987. Babylon Queendom was part of his live setlist during his 1976
tour in America and can be found in a live version of the Live And Dangerous
album. The version here is a studio recording.
While Can't Blame
The Youth was first[?] recorded with The Wailers in 1973 and part of the
posthumous Bob Marley and The Wailers album, Talkin' Blues released in
1991. This song was never on any Tosh album until after his death in 1987.
The tracks Hammer,
Jammin' Inna Jam Down and Know Them A Wicked appear to be unreleased in
any official form at least not on a mainstream record label.
But in the early
'70s, while Bob Marley formed his Tuff Gong label, Tosh set up Intel Diplo
HIM which stood for Intelligent Diplomat For His Imperial Majesty and
released in limited quantites 7-inch singles in Jamaica. Can't Blame The
Youth was an Intel Diplo release in 1974. And again in 1980 with Hammer
on the b-side. Babylon Queendom was released as a single in 1976 on Intel
Diplo as was Vampire in 1977.
These lost tracks
have been assembled on this collection under the title Equal Rights Demos
and first shared on the Demonoid site. The two tracks - Get Up, Stand
Up and [Fight] Apartheid - are different from the released CBS versions.
Peter Tosh was not
one to mince his words. He was a straight talking fellow who called Chris
Blackwell of Island Records "Whiteworst". He infused his songs with social
messages more so than Marley. His first international album, Legalize
It, was to champion ganja while his second was Equal Rights. He won a
Grammy in 1987 for No Nuclear War. Tosh was shot dead Sept 11, 1987 when
robbers broke into his house.
We wonder what Tosh
would have had to say about the millennium and the habit of sharing music
on the net? Here are some clues from his Tosh-isms, words conjured from
Peter Tosh's imagination:
"City" -> "Shitty"
"Disc
jockey" -> "District johncrow" (johncrow is a Jamaican vulture)
"Judge" ->
"Grudge"
"L.A." ->
"Hell A" (Los Angeles)
"Lawyer" ->
"Liar"
"Managers"
-> "Damagers"
"New York City"
-> "Boo York Shitty"
"Politics"
-> "Politricks"
"Prime Ministers"
-> "Crime Ministers"
"Situation"
-> "Shituation"
"System" ->
"Shitstem"
"Technology"
-> "Tricknology"
"Producer"
-> "Reducer"
'Nuff said. These
are nice quality recordings.
- Professor Red 
Click
on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality,
stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain,
this recording has never been officially released.
These tracks are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at
mybigo@bigozine.com if you want
to download these tracks at a later time.
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| Track
01 |
400
Years (6.3MB) |
| Track
02 |
Hammer
(6.3MB) |
| Track
03 |
Jammin'
Inna Jam Down (8.2MB) |
| Track
04 |
Vampire
(4.6MB) |
| Track
05 |
Babylon
Queendom (6.8MB) |
| Track
06 |
Can't
Blame The Youth (6.8MB) |
| Track
07 |
Know
Them A Wicked (4.4MB) |
| Track
08 |
Get
Up, Stand Up (4.7MB) |
| Track
09 |
[Fight]
Apartheid (9.9MB) |
The Equal Rights album
was remastered with two live tracks as bonus. You can buy it here.
For more... email mybigo@bigozine.com
with the message, "Put me on your mailing list."
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6, 2008
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