Marley was a great songwriter and a huge presence, but his band was terrific, and deserve more credit. Downie had so many iconic parts, it's been a joy to take a deep dive into his work. There was a brief version of the band I'm in that had 2 keys players, and the other guy handled most of the piano/synth parts while I did Hammond and Clav, but for most of the run, I've been the only keys player. I've played in a Marley tribute band for the last 12 years or so, and have spent a lot of time working out his and Lindo's parts. Right now their are 3 versions of the Wailers out there. Marcia Griffiths, Al Anderson and Junior Marvin did OK. I used to scour the web looking for it? In my circle I had hear that when Bob died these musicians were given very little, in some ways their life ended up being hard. It was always on Bob or the rest of the band. The original band toured in the UK first The most frustrating thing about all of those guys is there is little footage of them playing or techniques. They carried a C3 most of the time with now back panels. ![]() Tyrone was good at it also but handled other keyboard duties. Earl Lindo played the best bubble though and passed a few years ago. Tyrone wasn't 20 even when he joined for Rastaman Vibration. I assume Family Man and Al Anderson are still around but many Wailers are gone including Bob, Bunny and Peter. The keyboards are given more space on live Wailers recordings IMO. Would that be Tyrone? The Hammond was heavily featured on tracks such as Concrete Jungle, Burning and Looting, Kinky Reggae etc. I believe it was released under the title Talking Blues. There was a recording from about 1973 0r 1974 of Bob and the Wailers recorded in the Bay Area from a radio broadcast. Wow./ no idea he was that young when he joined The WailersĪnd how did they even have Hammonds in Jamaica during those years? I caught a later version of the Wailers live in around 2000 and the guy they had then was playing an M-3.
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