I'd like to thank CodyB for inspiring this post with his fantastic post on the importance of the movie Wild Style, which some how led me to rediscover the movie Rockers.Sometimes describing a film as either good or bad is just so limiting. In his post, CodyB mentions that Wild Style is by no means a great movie in some of the acting performances and corny story, but it is none the less import...
...I posted this Jacob Miller vid in a comment on a "*Tuff Today, Tuff Tomorrow post*":http://mog.com/Tuff_Today%2C_Tuff_Tomorrow/blog_post/32146 which comes from a reggae documentary I used to watch avidly back in college and helped me lock into Rasta's irie ites (good spirit) and vibe it out to people who used to come and see my band play...Miller's backing band was Inner Circle (probably bes...
I heard this song while driving cross country, and I connected with it immediately. It has taken me this long to finally track it down, but I am glad I did...i think it is instantly something you can relate too if you are currently going through some sort of a monumental life change...great words.
I speak from experience when I say that the people in this community have some of the biggest hearts I have ever come across. My 2006 was such a disaster, I honestly don't think I would have made it through with out the ENDLESS love and support from this amazing group of strangers.So Carmen hang in there...this too shall pass. Keep listening to your music and to the people you love, and I pro...
...I posted this Jacob Miller vid in a comment on a "*Tuff Today, Tuff Tomorrow post*":http://mog.com/Tuff_Today%2C_Tuff_Tomorrow/blog_post/32146 which comes from a reggae documentary I used to watch avidly back in college and helped me lock into Rasta's irie ites (good spirit) and vibe it out to people who used to come and see my band play...Miller's backing band was Inner Circle (probably bes...
Ooh yeah. Jacob Miller. Gregory Isaacs later I expect ....Looking forward to the Soho meet up. If anyone is foolish enough to steer things in the direction of Carnaby Street you may be assured I will stand in the street and regale you with tales of late 70s Coxsone mashups and unspeakable bad behaviour in a basement that has almost certainly been repurposed as something dull. However, now I am ...
Jacob MillerAt age 10, Jacob Miller knew that he would become a singer- Jacob born May 4, 1952, in the cool hills of Mandeville, central Jamaica. Was the only child of Joan Ashman and Desmond Elliot. All Miller knew of his father was that he was a singer whose stage name was Sidney Elliott. Unfortunately, Miller never had the opportunity to go to England and look for his father (as he declared ...