{"id":2919,"date":"2020-10-08T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rabbitwho.com\/blog\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2020-10-08T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T15:29:00","slug":"tributes-to-johnny-nash-bob-marley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rabbitwho.com\/blog\/tributes-to-johnny-nash-bob-marley\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes to Johnny Nash & Bob Marley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I Can\u2019t imagine you not being around anymore.
\nThank you for starting and giving me a
\nfabulous career in music.
\nAnd thank you for all of the Good Times
\nin my life. You did it man.
\nI love you so much.
\nUntil I see you again in heaven.
\nJohn Rabbit Bundrick<\/p>\n

Songwriter John “Rabbit” Bundrick worked with Bob Marley in the early 1970s, when Marley was a songwriter for Johnny Nash and Danny Sims.<\/p>\n

As if by magic, Bob arrived at our house in Sweden in the summer of 1971. Hecame to write songs with and for Johnny Nash and to help in the recording of the soundtrack for a film in which Johnny was starring with Christina Schollin. Bob and I were brought in as songwriters since Johnny had the music rights to the film. We also published everything we turned out, whether it was used or not. We lucked out and wrote the film theme song. Sadly, nobody has ever heard it, or seen the film. We had the big premiere in Stockholm, and the next night the film closed.<\/p>\n

I had never heard of Bob or reggae before, so obviously I thought, “What the hell is this?!” I have often eaten those very words since then. One minute Bob wasn’t there, and the next minute Bob was there. We all worked hard and played hard.<\/p>\n

Bob was shy of, or didn’t respect, the Swedish musicians Johnny had hired, and he usually stayed away from them. When they did approach him he mumbled and stared at them with a far distant glare. Then he would coyly move away to escape from them, grumbling something that sounded a lot like “Rass-Claat”, or “Blood-Claat”, or something that I’m sure nobody could quite make out.<\/p>\n

In the studio and at home Bob taught me how to follow him with a reggae feel that I never knew existed. He would play the “Chink-A” rhythm on the guitar, then yell out to me, “Hey, Rab, mon. On de organ you play dis, mon; Chu wah ka cha ka cha ka Chu wah ka cha ka cha ka.”<\/p>\n

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John “Rabbit” Bundrick<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0<\/span>Johnny Nash<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u200e\u2013\u00a0Vill S\u00e5 G\u00e4rna Tro – Want So Much To Believe Vol. 1 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)<\/h1>\n
Label:<\/div>\n
Mellotronen<\/a>\u00a0\u200e\u2013 MELLOLP 12,\u00a0Klubb Super 8<\/a>\u00a0\u200e\u2013 none<\/div>\n
Format:<\/div>\n
Vinyl<\/a>, LP, Album<\/div>\n
Country:<\/div>\n
Sweden<\/a><\/div>\n
Released:<\/div>\n
2013<\/a><\/div>\n
Genre:<\/div>\n
Funk \/ Soul<\/a>,\u00a0Stage & Screen<\/a><\/div>\n
Style:<\/div>\n
Funk<\/a>,\u00a0Soul<\/a>,\u00a0Soundtrack<\/a><\/div>\n
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Tracklist<\/h3>\n
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A1<\/td>\nMasquerade Dance<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A2<\/td>\nNorth Scene<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A3<\/td>\nLive In The Country<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A4<\/td>\nMr Sea<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A5<\/td>\nMore Questions Than Answers<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A6<\/td>\nDiminished Tune<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
B1<\/td>\nMine All Mine II<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
B2<\/td>\nRollin’ In Clover<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
B3<\/td>\nFanny Big Horn<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
B4<\/td>\nPretty Woman Blues<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
B5<\/td>\nBack To The North Scene<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
B6<\/td>\nSecond Wind<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Companies, etc.<\/h3>\n
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