Peter Tosh - A Little Melodica

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Peter Tosh - A Little Melodica




Dr. Alimantado - Mary Lou




UK reissue, original 1971
Produced by Clive Chin for Above Rock, matrix AB7270, reissue distributed by Dub Vendor


Winston Hubert Mackintosh was born in Westmore land in 1944, and was part of the original Wailers along Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer in the sixties, where he already showed his rude boy attitude. During that period he himself also recorded for Joe Gibbs (Maga Dog and Leave My Business and Arise Blackman). When The Wailers started recording for Leslie Kong in 1969, Tosh contributed tunes like Soon Come and Stop The Train, and, a year later while recording for Lee Perry 400 years, No Sympathy and Downpresser. Peter recorded a lot of his material with the Wailers (eg the supreme Soul Revolution 1 & 2) at Randy's, and it seems that Tosh found some time to version Jimmy London's A Little Love on harmonica. He also released Can't Fool Me Again on the Impact label. When The Wailers moved to Island records it became clear that the record company preferred the cool and friendly Marley to the more agressive-styled Tosh. In 1973 Peter and Bunny left The Wailers, although Tosh still contributed Get Up, Stand Up and One Foundation, to the Wailers 1973 Burnin' album. He started his own label Intel Diplo HIM, and signed to Virgin in 1976 and Rolling Stones Records in 1978 (through his friendship with Mick Jagger), releasing strong albums like Legalize It (1976), Equal Rights (1977) and Bushdoctor (1978). Peter was shot dead during a robbery of his Kingston home in 1987. He was honoured with a Grammy Award for his last album No Nuclear War (EMI, 1987) in 1988. The flipside features Dr. Alimentado AKA Winston Thompson AKA The Ital Surgeon doing a deejay version on A Little Love. Alimentado would also record Unitone Skank at Randy's in 1976, featured on the classic Best Dressed Chicken In Town (Greensleeves, 1978).