Giant Panda leads the way of the new reggae
Giant Panda leads the way of the new reggae
When Bob Marley wrote “Roots Rock Reggae” and “Punky Reggae Party,” he couldn’t have fully foreseen the cross-pollination that would so utterly transform the music he had helped to pioneer and the broader pop culture that would embrace it.
At the end of the 1970s, Marley was watching as the “punks” embraced reggae and its offshoot, dub, employing it as a basis for their own brand of working class art-rock, and crystallizing it with such timeless platters as the Clash’s “Sandinista!“ and the nascent efforts of Public Image Ltd. Marley offered his bemused approval. After all, anything was better than Eric Clapton’s white-bread take on “I Shot the Sheriff,” wasn’t it?