Merry xmas Bob Marley

As I am one member of an 8 piece ska band, I remember to stop and give thanks to those who made it possible for me to play ska.
I always tell people who ask me about ska
to read the Bob Marley story.
This is one conversation I had:

Dem-So...what IS ska anyway, like...ya know?
Me-Ya ever read the Bob Marley story?
Dem-The WHOLE story, I mean...
Me-READ it!!
Dem- Well, I dunno if I have the time to...
Me-Just ...fuckin' read it and stop askin' me! Plus if you go to his site you can listen to his songs
while you read!
Dem- Well...I dunno if...
Me- (Silent scream inside my head)
... then I start to beat them unmercifully with invisible mind bullets, kicking them in their thoughts with my brain foot...and walk away.

It's no use to tell people about ska anymore. It's an in crowd thing anyway. If you don't know by now, then I guess....whatever. But the Bob Marley story is a crucial part of SKA history.
He made the fork in the road with the music. What Bob Marley kept, he called reggae. Which is what you can sing with a Jamaican accent.
What he left in his historic wake for anyone to sing was the roots of reggae music.

The Ska.
So thanks Bob...for the Ska and Reggae music.


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Uncle Samurai

Note: I'm not crediting the entire ska/reggae music to the honorable Bob Marley,
just thanking him for his part...which is immense, I might add...
K bye

Water crisis?

The way is the path, right? The path is the way. Correct?

How does one go about finding the right path, or way? Is there a secret? The secrets are usually oriental, celtic, hebrew, indigenous, ye old way, etc... and then sometimes they are not, right?

Well...then how come every time I hear some American try to tell me about this stuff...it just sounds like a bunch of hippy crap?

I begin to wonder how much I missed just trying to run away from the patchoulie!

Save the trees, the polar bears, the rivers, the salmon, the smelt, the bees...yeah, yeah, yeah.
Whatever. Right? You know what I mean? When you're walkin' down the street, mindin' yer own business, and somebody with a clip board tries to get you to stop and sign something for the environment. And now everybody has agreed to save the banks.
The BANKS?

Hold on a sweet, hot minute, there.
How in the hell did the banks just cut in line like that?
Are we supposed to multi task this one?!

(We probably are and I'm going to be embarrassed later)

Let's get a jump on the water crisis before it becomes one.

My advice on the water shortage :

1-Get the banks to pay for the following steps.

2-Gather the stoners together en masse.The way to gather the stoners is to simply say,
" uh...no more water, no more weed...what are we gonna do?"

3-Select the thick eye glass toting, pony tail wearing, trench coat and Isotoner glove sporting

hackers out of the large group of concerned citizens to come up with a plan or two!

4-Wait for it...it's gonna take them at least 3 to 4 days to wait for insperatu. Then...

5-Rebuild the water ducts to these new specs.

6-Have a Peace Pipe Line day. (Maybe instead of thanksgiving.)

Then come up with a way to do that in the middle east, Africa, Australia, etc...
Because their life seems to already look like a water crisis.
(sigh)
Just thinkin' on line, here...

your friendly cyberhood

Uncle Samurai

2009 is Skankin' Time!!

The mighty two tone trumpet has blasted it's reunion call from across the pond!

See ya on the dance hall floor...

your friendly cyberhood

Uncle Samurai

Someone Like Me

Song written by- Musashi Lethridge
Vocals- Musashi Lethridge
Guitars- Musashi Lethridge
Bass- Musashi Lethridge
Drums- Musashi Lethridge
Engineer- Jon Robin
recorded in 2003


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Uncle Samurai (Musashi Lethridge)

Zen moment...

At the request of the internet emperor, Google-san, I have been instructed to perform the music of my heritage(s)
and put out a video, which is being hosted by the generous youtube-daimo broadcasting prefecture:

Domo Arigato







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Uncle Ssamurai