As a Reggae/DUB musician there are too many Bob Marley & The Wailers popular (meaning 'Pop') song requests and people slaughter UB40 for changing their sound?, Listen to The Wailers (not Bob Marley & The Wailers! just The Wailers) before their music left Trenchtown,Jamaica when there's no American Slide Steel Guitar anywhere! It's superb! Yet track one on 'Catch A Fire' 'Concrete Jungle' is purely Americanised!, It's an alright album but with time more and more Lead Guitar appeared and Lead Guitar has no place in Reggae music, Hence Horn Sections, Keyboards, Lyricons, Percussion and the Melodic yet still Rhythmic deep Bass Line carrying it, Of course along with the One Drop or back beat on the 3rd, Bob Marley who is or was a legend sold out a bit there, Hence Bunny Wailer & Peter Tosh leaving The Wailers! UB40 they just move with the times, Still to date releasing two brand new Studio Albums last year called 'For The Many' (the Labour parties campaign slogan during the last UK election,they're still anti-conservative), With 'For The Many DUB ALBUM' on the same day only for original Saxophonist Brian to get diagnosed with two brain tumours the following day! I'm not putting down Bob Marley & The Wailers in any way shape or form I'm just pointing out musical fact, BIG LOVE
Thanks for the input, as you can see by this thread its quite a wide range of artists, I hear what you are saying about UB40, it's hard to go by their first album for me, a pure classic, maybe you could have dropped a few tunes while you were here.. Anyway, stay blessed. Aon GrΓ‘/One Love
