You may have heard that Bunny Wailer, the last of the original Wailers, passed away. His health had been deteriorating since a stroke in 2020. I hadn't heard about the stroke and hadn't really been paying attention to his music in recent years. My loss. He was still recording and performing until just a few years ago. There's a full set down there from 2015, and it's really good. Wailer is obviously past his prime but still a commanding presence, backed by a super tight band. (The horns in the opening instrumental, particularly the solos, were the hook.) Along with that show a few other videos and a link to Compartilhando Reggae which has a shitload of full LPs, via download site Mega. (NOTE!: You do not have to have an account there. It might save you two minutes of download time but how much is your privacy worth?). There's an article down there from GQ of all places, from 2011. Haven't read it so you're own your own there. You'll notice that most of this paragraph is not even about Bunny Wailer. I'm lame like that.
Listen:
Bunny Wailer - Multiple LPs and 12"s at Compartilhando Reggae All zips hosted at Mega (despite the looks you do not have to join).
Video:
Bunny Wailer Live in Spain at Rototom Sunsplash at YouTube 2015, Full set 63 minutes.
Bunny Wailer feat. Ruffi-Ann - Baddest at YouTube 2017
Bunny Wailer and Manu Chao w/Playing For Change - Soul Rebel at YouTube 2019
Bunny Wailer -Electric Boogie at YouTube 1989
Visit:
The Last Wailer by John Jeremiah Sullivan at GQ 2011
Bunny Wailer, last surviving founder member of the Wailers, dies aged 73 at The Guardian
3 comments:
Hey Usama you clown. No spam.
Tom, let me recommend an e-mail proxy called Spam Gourmet. I was not mentioning it for a while because it was on the terminal spiral. But amazingly, this was something which was revived in Spring 2020.
How it functions is: You register your core e-mail address, the one you do not want to ever give out. It will send you an e-mail, because it has to know it exists. But when you complete the registration, you will then be able to give out any number of e-mail proxy addresses. If the resultant e-mails you receive become spam, the specific e-mail proxy address will stop accepting the e-mails once the limited number you set to receive is exceeded. However, if the proxy e-mail address is not spammed, you can approve that sender to continue sending e-mail to it.
The format for the e-mail address is: [xxxxxxxx].[# of e-mails you will accept].[spamgourmet username]@[xoxy.net]. I specify xoxy .net because that is the shortest domain name it has. It has other domains. You can set a new default for the # of e-mails you will accept, which if you do, means you do not need to include that as the 2nd element of the e-mail address.
This works. I have used it since December 2005. In this span, it has devoured 52,665 spam e-mails. They never got to my Inbox.
The one hazard to it is that an "anti-spam" suite such as Barracuda might consider an e-mail address ending in "xoxy.net" to be spam and then reject your replying e-mail back to the sender. As if it expects everybody to have a Gmail or Yahoo e-mail address, which of course, are the ones most abused by spammers. (It doesn't dare bounce e-mail from those domains because they're so big.) As well, a number of blogposts won't accept a SpamGourmet e-mail address because it is four-parts - two_before_the@two_afterward.
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