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Peter Tosh

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The Resume

    (October 19, 1944-September 11, 1987)
    Birth name was Winston Hubert McIntosh
    Member of Bob Marley & The Wailers - solo artist beginning 1974
    Recorded 'Get up, Stand Up,' 'Stepping Razor,' 'Downpresser,' 'Equal Rights,' 'African,' 'Legalize It,' 'Burial,' 'Igziabeher (Let Jah Be Praised),' 'Bush Doctor,' 'Fools Die,' 'Ketchy Shuby,' 'Till Your Well Runs Dry,' 'Why Must I Cry,' '400 Years,' 'Brand New Second Hand,' 'In My Song,' 'I'm the Toughest,' 'Dem Ha Fe Get a Beaten,' 'Buk-In-Hamm Palace,' 'What'cha Gonna Do?' and '(You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back' (duet with Mick Jagger)

Why he might be annoying:

    He smoked (both tobacco and cannabis).
    He had a short temper, earning him the nickname 'Stepping Razor' (to which he embraced and even penned a song).
    He was a militant Rastafarian who sang protest songs and encouraged marijuana smoking.
    He claimed the only reason Marley was so successful was that his father was white.
    He was hassled, occasionally arrested (drug possession or no reason) and sometimes beaten by Jamaican police.
    He accidentally drove his car off a bridge, killing his girlfriend and fracturing his own skull (1973).
    He had a fist fight with Marley (November 1973), quitting the Wailers but later came back for another year.
    When his record producer Chris Blackwell refused to issue his solo album, he left the Wailers citing unfair treatment.
    He referred to Blackwell as 'Whiteworse.'
    The closest he ever came to a hit in the U.S. was a cover of Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B. Goode,' which made the Top 50 (1983).

Why he might not be annoying:

    He grew up in poverty.
    He left home at 15, moving to Kingston to seek fame.
    He was an accomplished guitarist and taught Marley how to play guitar.
    He started a promising solo career in 1971, but Bob Marley & The Wailers took off, so he selflessly put his solo career on hold.
    One of his police beatings required 30 stitches to close his head wounds.
    He proudly displayed the scars he had received from the beatings but never retaliated.
    His lyric from 'Equal Rights:' 'I don't want no peace, I want equal rights and justice!' became a rallying cry for the world's oppressed.
    He signed with the Rolling Stones record label in 1978 and released the album 'Bush Doctor.'
    He accompanied Keith Richards with guitar on two tracks. of 'Bush Doctor.'

Credit: Scar Tactics


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 8 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 71 Votes: 47.89% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 8 Votes: 12.50% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 88 Votes: 57.95% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 16 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 21 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 21 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 22 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 35 Votes: 54.29% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 49 Votes: 67.35% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 40 Votes: 52.50% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 82 Votes: 53.66% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 135 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 370 Votes: 47.57% Annoying