i and i is very sad
May. 26th, 2006 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
axolotl9so Desmond Dekker, the original reggae legend of the '60s, apparently died of a heart attack yesterday.
why, you may ask, do i care?
i remember hearing "Israelites" and "King of Ska" fairly frequently on the radio as a child. (Back before pre-packaged playlists, when all sorts of oddities shared space on the airwaves.) i liked it a lot.
didn't get exposed to Bob Marley until i was in my teens. probably was predisposed to liking Marley from early exposure to Dekker.
i suspect, without the way being paved by Desmond Dekker and Jimmy Cliff (who got his start as one of the Aces), that Bob Marley would have had a much tougher time getting a foothold in the States.
anywho... somber thoughts at the end of a tiring week.
why, you may ask, do i care?
i remember hearing "Israelites" and "King of Ska" fairly frequently on the radio as a child. (Back before pre-packaged playlists, when all sorts of oddities shared space on the airwaves.) i liked it a lot.
didn't get exposed to Bob Marley until i was in my teens. probably was predisposed to liking Marley from early exposure to Dekker.
i suspect, without the way being paved by Desmond Dekker and Jimmy Cliff (who got his start as one of the Aces), that Bob Marley would have had a much tougher time getting a foothold in the States.
anywho... somber thoughts at the end of a tiring week.
