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(More customer reviews)Having already seen the "The Grateful Dead:From Anthem to Beauty" episode of the "Classic Albums" series I knew what to expect from this DVD. This series is about retracing history, and documenting the process of creating the classic albums of the past 30 years before the creators pass from the earth and their words are lost forever. Short on "features" that we've been spoiled with on other DVDs , on the surface this is a straight forward 60 min. doc on the making of the "Catch A Fire" album by The Wailers. The strength of this production, and in fact the whole series, is that the producers went to Jamaica and London to interview the people who wrote, recorded, engineered, produced and played on this seminal album. Recent interviews with Bunny Wailer, Rita Marley, Chris Blackwell, and surviving members of the Wailers live and studio bands are very insightful. Add to that the fact that the DVD features archival interviews with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. These further deepen the viewer's understanding of their musical and social philosophies and how it was expressed in their music. Through all of these people you get a very complete picture of the commercial, religious, social, and economic pressures on the band to bring the message of Reggae Music from the Third world to the First. Finally, the highlight of the disc has to be the rare and some never-seen-before footage of the original Wailers live in England in the early '70's. You finally see Bob, Bunny and Peter sing those amazing harmonies live which,IMHO, has more impact now because NOBODY sings their own harmonies live anymore without some sort of pre-recorded assistance. This is a tribute to the "old-skool", where the musical worlds of Kingston, Motown, Memphis, and London blended together over a 16 track mix in such a simple yet expressive way to create a deeply spiritual and mystic sound. If you really love music, especially Reggae music, then you should pick this one up. Amazon's price. . . is very reasonable, considering I paid $19.99USD at a bricks and mortar video chain for this DVD. Enjoy!
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The Wailers, featuring the legendary Bob Marley, Peter Toshand Bunny Wailer, became the most influential band in the history of Reggaemusic. Catch A Fire, their first Island album released in 1973, introducedthem to an international rock audience.Here the principal figures in the creation of Catch A Fire tell the storyof how this record was designed to Â"cross-overÂ". The program features aunique interview and performance with Bunny Wailer, rare archive interviewswith Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, and contributions in words and music frommany of those who performed on the record, like bass players Family ManBarrett, Robbie Shakespeare and BobÂ's wife Rita Marley.Featuring rare home movies of The Wailers in Jamaica, previously unseenfootage, and unique performances of many album tracks such as Stir It Up,Stop That Train and Kinky Reggae, this is a documentary that will endlesslyfascinate the viewer and is both a genuine tribute to a great supergroupand an insight into a true reggae Classic Album.
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