April 1, 2011

Dubbing Up Your Friday

By chappy81

With opening day for baseball, and the weather hitting the high 80’s and low 90’s over the last couple days in LA, I found myself busting out the reggae music. I’m not sure why, but every year I seem to listen to a lot more reggae during the summer than the other months in the year. Maybe it’s the whole kick back and chill outside by the grill attitude that summer brings. Whatever the case, I thought I’d share with our readers my favorite reggae DUB band 10 Ft. Ganja Plant. It’s strange that of all my friends I can only think of two that really listen to reggae as much as me. I’m kinda glad it’s not mainstream like hip-hop. It’s like following the golf of music, everyone kinda likes playing it, but most people don’t know much about it or the bands. This Born Free track might be better served for a holiday like the 4th of July, but it’s my favorite track of theirs, and the lead singer sounds a lot like Bob Marley. Plus, when I was in little league our baseball coach used to play reggae for our batting practice to try to give us some riddim mon. If you want me to keep posting reggae artists that you probably haven’t heard, let me know. If not, this could be a one and done with the reggae posts.

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About chappy81

I'm a dude that just hit 30 years old. Pretty much like everything that is funny, insightful, and has to do with the Warriors, A's, and Raiders. View all posts by chappy81

This entry was posted on Friday, April 1st, 2011 at 11:54 am and tagged with 10 Ft. Ganja Plant, Born Free, reggae, summer and posted in Music. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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9 responses to “Dubbing Up Your Friday”

• tophatal
  April 1st, 2011 at 3:23 pm

  chappy

  Backa yard I and I bretheren bun di calli weed . Jah rasta fa I ! Long live Haile Selassie Lion and King of a di Tribe of Judea !

  Now back to baseball I just wanna’ see a season of great baseball without being <b any controversy on or off the field of play ! But that’s highly unlikely !

  Sly & Robbie

  If you’re going to listen to reggae you’ve got to listen to Sly & Robbie or Black Uhuru .

  Black Uhuru

  It’s the Jamaican side of me now coming out . I’ll probably head up into O-Town (Orlando) this weekend and hit one of the heavy dub reggae clubs in the area .

  tophatal ……………………………..

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  • chappy81
    April 2nd, 2011 at 6:34 pm

    I love Black Uhuru! My two favorites off the top of my head are “What is Life” and “Chill Out”. DUB reggae is by far my favorite, you can’t get enough bass!

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    • tophatal
      April 3rd, 2011 at 10:44 am

      chappy

      Black Uhuru , Burning Spear , Toots & The Maytals , Sly & Robbie , King Tubby and of course the original Wailers with Bob Marley . What’s not to like ? I’d throw in UB 40 as well as they’re old school ! The Campbell brothers (UB40) who started the group are contemporaries of mine as we hung out together in their early years when they came to London to do gigs . .

      Badness Dub ………. King Tubby
      —————–

      King Tubby ……………”Murderous Dub” one of the most famous pieces of vinyl dub in history bar none ! …………

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• mceezy
  April 1st, 2011 at 5:14 pm

  Hahaha… “reggae is the golf of music.”

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• tophatal
  April 1st, 2011 at 5:17 pm

  chappy

  mceezy

  If at all interested ?

  He’s Got A Ticket To Ride ………….

  They Can’t Tell It Like It Is Because Then Everyone Would Know The Whole Damning Truth !

  tophatal ……………….

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• Chris Humpherys
  April 1st, 2011 at 10:28 pm

  We weren’t listening to reggae music on our high school baseball team but we WERE doing OTHER things that many reggae musicians enjoy.

  On a side note, is assuming that most reggae artists smoke weed a stereotype? If so, I apologize for being insensitive.

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  • chappy81
    April 2nd, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    Hahaha, well it was just for batting practice when I was in little league, so maybe it just said more about my coach than anything. I’m not so sure it helped, but it was a memory that popped into my head…

    Nah, that’s not stereotyping. Listen to Pato Banton’s “Don’t Sniff Coke”, and I’m sure you can keep that assumption. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rewSToCtdPg

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• Chris Humpherys
  April 3rd, 2011 at 9:33 pm

  Hey, man. You and your boys should sign up. It might help us all build traffic.

  http://groups.google.com/group/independent-sports-bloggers/post

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  • chappy81
    April 6th, 2011 at 9:23 am

    I’ll check it out!

    Reply

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