Saturday, November 04, 2006

Jacob Miller - Nuff Respect (1980)

Jacob Miller, most famous as the frontman for Inner Circle in the 70's, was the man many people picked to be the most serious competition to Bob Marley in terms of worldwide reggae stardom. He and the band had just signed with Chris Blackwell's Island Records when he suddenly died in a car crash. He rammed into a stoplight on the way to by himslf some sugarcane.

To mark the opening of Island Record's new offices in Brazil, Blackwell, Miller and Bob Marley, went to Brazil for promotional appearances in mid-March. Two days after returning to Jamaica, at the age of only 25, Jacob Miller smoked his last spliff (probably in the car during the crash).

Inner Circle didn't play after that for 6 years, but later went on to record many albums and even won a Grammy in 1993. Thier most famous album by far was the Bad Boys album, with hits like Sweat (a la la la long) and the Theme from the TV show Cops. The video below is from the "Heartland Reggae" documentary about reggae music in the 70's. He's performing live in Jamaica in 1978 in what looks like some field, puts on a police hat and sparks up a big fatty.


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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yo dew, drop that shit on us bratha mon. miller's tune, Healing is da bomb.

3:55 PM  

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