Seasonal greetings from germany!

Some of oyu will remember that little “project” of mine I started last year...
I called it “German Advent Calendar Goodies” (or GACG), with reference to a
German tradition which goes by the same name...to make it short: by end of
november little kids here in Germany are presented so called “advent calendars”...
usually these are pre-manufactured cardboard boxes that contain 24 little pieces
of chocolate hidden behind 24 tiny little cardboard doors...starting with December
1st the kids may open one door a day, thereby counting down the days until on the
24th, Santa or what we call him, the “Christkind” or the “Weihnachtsmann” comes
and brings the “real” presents...obviously there are no limits when you want to
alter this tradition, a lot of parents (including my wife) make the effort and
create their own unique calendar, taking little canvas bags, attach the numbers
on them and then not only hide chocolate but other goodies, too big to put in
a thin cardboard box...now, my own “virtual” advent calendar last year could
potentially be “opened” by roughly 102,000 people...all you nice (well, most
of them) folks in this community! It contained Reggae music, something I have
been collecting for almost thirty years now. A few months ago I broke through
the “1,000 live shows” barrier. Obviously in these days I could easily double
that number but since I still have the ambition to listen to everything I download
at least once I started to concentrated on quality, rather than quantity, especially
since I am old school when it comes to Reggae... all these “modern” reggae artists
just don’t do it for me and even most of the “original” guys have either disappeared
or taken the commercial road (can’t blame them, though).

Anyway, I got some real nice and warm responses last year so I decided to stick to
the tradition and create another reggae calendar for 2008. In 2007 I did not start
until December 12th or so, this year it will be “the real deal”: 24 shows for
24 days. And since 24 easily divides into 8, I planned to split my seeds into three
different categories: behind the first eight doors you found reggae artists who
are rarely featured here on DIME...for some of them it might even have been the first time
ever...the mid section of the calendar presented better known bands and singers with
some rather rare or at least special concerts...and as we now close in on Christmas you can
expect a “simple” best of complation, nothing rare, nothing special (at least not for
the die hard collectors), just great musicians with great shows in superb (for Reggae
standards) quality.


There is certainly a lot that you can say AGAINST BUNNY WAILER: he seems to have a very old
fashioned, if not racist attitude towards homosexuals, his set list has not been changed for
20 years now and during that same period of time his studio releases were simply poor and
uninspired. On the other hand he is the sole survivor of the ORIGINAL WAILERS, his stage
presence probably only rivalled by BURNING SPEAR, his first solo release "Blackheart Man"
remains one of the best reggae albums ever...and he certainly never felt as jealous about
BOB MARLEY'S success as PETER TOSH did...so there you go. By the way: In 1995 he was promoting
one of those rather weak post-Rock 'n' groove releases: "Gumption".

BUNNY WAILER 1995-11-19 Santa Cruz, CA

CD 01

01 MC
02 Reggae Hits Instrumental Medley
03 MC
04 Satta Amasagana
05 Hard to confess
06 Joy in the Morning
07 MC

08 Psalm 133
09 Old Dragon
10 Rastaman
11 Blackheart Man
12 Armagedeon
13 Fighting against Convictions
14 Dreamland
15 Talking
16 Love Fire
17 Rise and shine
18 Talking
19 Liberation
20 Serious Thing

CD 02

01 Talking
02 Baldhead Jesus
03 Crazy Baldhead
04 No Woman no cry
05 Rockers
06 Rock 'n' groove
07 Dance Rock
08 Rootsman Skanking
09 Cool Runnings
10 Galong so - Cool Runnings
11 Rule Dance Hall
12 Gumption
13 Warrior
14 Never grow old
15 Sound Clash
16 Talking
17 Keep on moving
18 MC







sorry, no lineage info

I have seen this show being shared before, if not here, then on one of the reggae specialty boards;
however, I obtained my copy in the old fashioned way long before I joined any torrent community, so
my version of it might be different from the one some of you still have on their hard discs


"Happy Festivus" (George Costanza)