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 be the first time
ever...the mid section of the calendar which we are in right now will present better
known bands and singers with some rather rare or at least special concerts...and as
we close in on Christmas you may 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.

For once I chose to stay with an artist, in this case with WINSTON HUBERT McINTOSH, as he
was baptised. This concert today is not especially rare but it is certainly very special.
TOSH was on tour in Europe to promote his then current album "Wanted Dread and Alive" when
he stopped in Amsterdam to perform at the "Anti Apartheid Festival". Most of you will
know that TOSH was by no doubt the most militant reggae artist of his time. His miltancy
was both expressed his songs and lyrics ("I don't want no peace, I want equal rights
and justice") as well as in his frequent "ramblings". I personally am not the biggest
TOSH fan, firstly because he hardly ever varied his set lists but also because of these
ramblings which a lot of times were simply not understandable even for hard core reggae
fans and which would a lot of times interrupt the "flow" of a concert...interestingly
enough, this is said to be one of the reasons why he split ways with SLY & ROBBIE: in
the early 80s they were at the peak of their own career, performing with BOB DYLAN, JOE
COCKER or GRACE JONES...they simply did not want to be stopped at random times, night after
night. Anyway, this show right here is an exception it every way: TOSH altered his set regular
list significantly when replacing the rather slow "Rastafari is" with a 11 min version of the
in 1981 rarely played "Equal Rights" - and his speech at the beginning of "Equal Right" is
(imho) his best ever: "...this is a struggle that each and everyone have to get themselves
deeply involved in...it's against the most dangerous and fascist organisation that organised
themselves together..."

FUCK APARTHEID!

by the way, I've patched this together from two different sources, to make it as complete
as possible


PETER TOSH 1981-06-13 Amsterdam, Anti Apartheid Festival

01 Dutch Radio DJ (Source 1)
02 Buk-in-Ham Palace Teaser - MC Herbie Miller
03 Stepping Razor
04 African (Source 1 -> Source 2)
05 Coming in hot
06 (You gotta walk) Don't look back
07 Rok with me
08 Mystic Man
09 Toughest
10 Bush Doctor
11 Equal Rights
12 Get up stand up
13 Dutch Radio DJ
14 MC Herbie Miller (Source 2 -> Source 1)
15 Burial
16 400 Years
17 Babylon Queendom (fade out)




analogue casettes -> digitised -> EAC -> FLAC front end

sorry, no lineage info



"Happy Festivus" (George Costanza)