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.

And now for something reeaalllly rare, something that might not only interest reggae
fans: these are alternate versions of PETER TOSH'S first solo release after the
breakup of the original WAILERS, "Legalize it"...and the labelling of the rather old
tape I copied claims that ERIC CLAPTON participated in these sessions. Now it is well
known that CLAPTON did spend considerable (recording) time in Jamaica in the early and
mid seventies; however I have absolutely no way of judging if it is indeed his guitar
work we hear throughout the songs - maybe some of the CLAPTON experts can tell us. But
even if he was not among the players of instruments, these are still alternate versions
of (imho) TOSH'S second best album, inferior only to "Equal Rights". In these days PETER
would still on one side heavily rely on the WAILERS musicians but then also begin to
steer towards the SLY & ROBBIE team who would join him later on in his career. And best
of all: this collection has to the best of my knowledge never been publicly shared before,
not even on the "specialists" boards.


PETER TOSH & ERIC CLAPTON 1976 Legalize it Sessions, Kingston, Jamaica

01 Till your Well runs dry
02 Igziabeher (Let Jah be praised)
03 No Sympathy
04 Ketchy Shuby
05 Legalize it
06 Brand New Second Hand
07 Why must I cry


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

sorry, no lineage info but knowing whom I got my copy from it should be close to the master recording



"Happy Festivus" (George Costanza)