![]() ![]() As Rolling Stone’s David Fricke explains in his glowing review of the album “ooking for a new Marley is as pointless as looking for a new Dylan or Hendrix. At the time of the album’s release, just ten years after Marley’s passing, his role as a visionary and musical pioneer as well as his place in the lexicon of popular music were undeniable and all but universally accepted. Talkin’ Blues is a posthumous release that is absolutely essential listening for any Marley fan, as it captures a transformative period in which Marley breaks from the past and forges ahead into a future unknown. ‘You see that interview? It could value a million dollars, as well as it could value nothin’.’ I gave him a copy of the tape but against his wishes I never destroyed the original tape.” In fact after the interview, sometime after it was broadcast, he told me to destroy it. He was clearly upset by feedback that he was getting about what Tosh was saying about the break-up. But he arrived promptly, and in the course of the interview he was very outspoken. With all the excitement, I never remembered to note the day in 1974 that it took place. A studio off Hope Road that did jingles and commercials. He didn’t want to do it at the JBC, so find somewhere else. Then another week, and then unknown to me Skill Cole convinced Bob that he should do the interview. As I lived near to 56 Hope Road and in fact passed the house everyday going to work at JBC, I would wait until after he played soccer, as a ritual every afternoon and I kept asking him to do the interview. “At the time of the break-up of the Wailers, I had approached Bob about doing an interview.
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