Soot and Stars
I AM SOOT!
O.K., I know I'm treading heavily on flame wars here but I want a healthy debate without straying here because I think it's an interesting topic to debate about a true legend!
No debates about whether marijuana use is right or wrong, should or should not be legal or anything related to preference on the substance itself!
If this happens I'll shut the thread down and give myself a kick in the ass for opening Pandoras box!
O.K., I'll plant the seed for this debate and see where it goes from there! Bob Marley definitely deserves respect musically and historically and I'm not debating that at all. Marley's name has passed to generation to generation but I'm not quite sure each new generation is grasping this important history and his accomplishments. Honestly, the way he is marketed tends to center on his Marijuana use 90% of the time. Nearly all the shirts of him and posters in college all had him smoking his signature fatty in them. Now the following is a generalization, and you are welcome to throw it out, but maybe some have had similar observations. Almost every Bob Marley fan I'd met in college and I was an art student by the way so I had that demographic, was a new age hippy and very open about their usage. The ones who don't just smoke it but advertise their usage openly. It seems to go exclusively hand in hand and I think the proof is in the marketing more so than in my experience! What do you guys think? Has a historical figure become nothing less than an excuse to toke up?
No debates about whether marijuana use is right or wrong, should or should not be legal or anything related to preference on the substance itself!
If this happens I'll shut the thread down and give myself a kick in the ass for opening Pandoras box!
O.K., I'll plant the seed for this debate and see where it goes from there! Bob Marley definitely deserves respect musically and historically and I'm not debating that at all. Marley's name has passed to generation to generation but I'm not quite sure each new generation is grasping this important history and his accomplishments. Honestly, the way he is marketed tends to center on his Marijuana use 90% of the time. Nearly all the shirts of him and posters in college all had him smoking his signature fatty in them. Now the following is a generalization, and you are welcome to throw it out, but maybe some have had similar observations. Almost every Bob Marley fan I'd met in college and I was an art student by the way so I had that demographic, was a new age hippy and very open about their usage. The ones who don't just smoke it but advertise their usage openly. It seems to go exclusively hand in hand and I think the proof is in the marketing more so than in my experience! What do you guys think? Has a historical figure become nothing less than an excuse to toke up?