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Peter Tosh -You Can't Fool Me Again
Straight To Rag Jah Rabbit Head -You Can't Fool Me Again
Impact US reissue, original 1969
Produced by Clive Chin for Above Rock, matrix 414
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, 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, including the tune featured here, the majestic Can't Fool Me Again (with a superb dub on the flipside). He also released a version of Jimmy London's A Little Love, called a Little Harmonica. 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.
Straight To Rag Jah Rabbit Head -You Can't Fool Me Again
Impact US reissue, original 1969
Produced by Clive Chin for Above Rock, matrix 414
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, 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, including the tune featured here, the majestic Can't Fool Me Again (with a superb dub on the flipside). He also released a version of Jimmy London's A Little Love, called a Little Harmonica. 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.
