1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: Disgraceland as a production of Double Elvis. The stories about 2 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:26,639 Speaker 1: Peter Tosh are insane. He was a reggae subversive who 3 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: used his music as a means to fight corruption, oppression, 4 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: and hypocrisy. Unlike his one time bandmate Bob Marley, Peter 5 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: Tosh did not fight for peace. He fought for truth 6 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: and justice. He played a guitar shaped like an sixteen 7 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: automatic rifle. He funded an album that lobbied for the 8 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: legalization of marijuana by running drugs from Jamaica to Miami. 9 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: He was arrested for smoking weed and then beaten by 10 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: seven police officers for over an hour in a prison cell. 11 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: All these trials and tribulations were reflected in his music, 12 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: great music, some of the greatest reggae music of all time, 13 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: both as a member of the Whalers and as a 14 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: solo artist. Unlike that clip I played for you at 15 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 1: the top of the show, that wasn't great music. That 16 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: was a preset loop from my melotron called dred Kylie 17 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: MK one. I played you that clip because I can't 18 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: afford the rights to a clip from Night Fever by 19 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 1: the Beg's, And why would I play you that specific 20 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 1: slice of falsetto Cheese. Could I afford it? Because that 21 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: was the number one song in America on April twenty second, 22 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight, And that was the day that Peter 23 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: Tosh went on a thirty minute tirade during the One 24 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: Love Peace Concert, a rant that nearly got him murdered. 25 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: On this part on a special two part episode Reggae Subversives, 26 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: Truth and Justice, M sixteen Guitars, running drugs, police brutality, 27 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: and Peter Tosh. I'm Jake Brennan, and this this disgraceland. 28 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: Seven year old Peter Tosh was dangerous not because he 29 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: was involved in the political violence that was quickly becoming 30 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 1: commonplace in his country, even way out here in Westmoreland, 31 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: Jamaica's westernmost parish. Peter Tosh was dangerous because he knew 32 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 1: the truth, a truth that was hiding in plain sight. 33 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: It was in the ocean, in the clouds, and it 34 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: was carried on the wind, but few people actually saw it. Politicians, 35 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: the people in power, the devil himself, they all worked 36 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 1: overtime to blind due to the truth. They created conflict 37 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:28,559 Speaker 1: of divide brother against brother, all that hate, all that bloodshed, 38 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: diversions away from what was really happening lies injustice, corruption. 39 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: The world was evil. Peter Tosh knew this to his core. 40 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: He could feel the truth coursing through his veins. It 41 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: was in the blades of grass that he trampled under 42 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: foot as he ran through the West Warman fields, running 43 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: toward the sound of his parents' voices, voices that he 44 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: hadn't heard in years, Voices that his aunt told him 45 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: he might one day hear again. As he got older, 46 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: he would come to realize this was nothing but wishful thinking. 47 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: Right now, however, as a child whose parents had abandoned him, 48 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: a child who wanted that which he did not have, 49 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 1: Peter ran toward the voices. He was so focused on them, 50 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: so disoriented by their ghostly sound, so open to the 51 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: truth that pulsed around him in all aspects of life, 52 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: that he failed to see the barbed wire fence. It 53 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: was obscure just up ahead, covered in lush green overgrowth, 54 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: hidden there by the devil himself. Peter ran face first 55 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 1: into the barbs. They dug into his eyelids, the rusty 56 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: knots biting through his skin. He felt a burning sensation 57 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: on the surface of his eyes and felt the blood 58 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: as it began to run down his cheeks. Suddenly the 59 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: world went dark. Peter feared he would be like everyone else, 60 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: now sightless, silenced, his own personal awakening, obscured forever by 61 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: one faithful accident, his consciousness and a slumber. He knew 62 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: he was destined for more than this, to live his life. 63 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: Fumbling through the darkness slowly, carefully, he began to open 64 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: his eyes. There staring back at him in the mirror, 65 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 1: a bloody reflection. The devil may have tried to blind him, 66 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,799 Speaker 1: but the devil was unsuccessful. Peter's two eyelids were sliced open, 67 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: one cut so deep that he could see right through 68 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: the gaping hole to his eyeball. He breathed a sigh 69 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: of relief. Wounds would heal? He still had his sight. 70 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: He used that site to watch an old man up 71 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: the road pluck out country and Western tunes on an 72 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: equally old guitar, and the sound the man made was 73 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: the sound of beauty an otherwise ugly world. Peter internalized 74 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: the chord, voicings, the rhythms. He made his own guitar 75 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,359 Speaker 1: from a piece of wood, some fishing line, and a 76 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 1: sardine pan, and he watched his own hands learn to 77 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: make music, and he watched as the devil kept pulling 78 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:20,840 Speaker 1: the wool, kept separating black Jamaicans from positions of power. 79 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 1: There were no black lawyers, black judges, black preachers. Not here. 80 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: Even the Son of God was a white man. Where 81 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: so Peter Tosh was told in church, not a house 82 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: of the Lord, a house where Peter and his family 83 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: saying the hymns, the devil wanted them to sing, Lord, 84 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: wash over me, and I will be whiter than snow. 85 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: No dangerous thinking as dangerous as being found with the 86 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 1: truth in your possession. In nineteen sixties Kingston, in the 87 00:06:55,720 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: trench Town ghettos, the truth was being intimidated, shot, blown up. 88 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 1: Peter Tosh, now a teenager, now truly on his own 89 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: for the first time in his life, adjusted to his 90 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: new city with in trepidation. Didn't matter that Jamaica had 91 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: finally achieved its independence. Frustration was everywhere. Frustration with the establishment, 92 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: with authority, with a two party system that failed to 93 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: serve the disenfranchised, rude boys, young unemployed, disaffected youth. They 94 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: did the bidding of the People's National Party or the 95 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: Jamaican Labor Party whichever paid them more to violently disrupt 96 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: the other. They heckled, they threw stones, and they sewed 97 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: discorded local polling stations. The burgeoning ganja trade added weapons 98 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: to the mix, thanks to Americans and Europeans who couldn't 99 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: get enough Jamaican grass. They traded grass for guns, but 100 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: guns weren't enough. Pipe bombs, mall top cocktails, machetes, knives, 101 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: all of them tools of the trade, tools of the poor, 102 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: the oppressed, the burners, and the looters. Unable to express 103 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: their anger over the growing social divide in any other way. 104 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: They were under the state's corrupt thumb, and they wanted out. 105 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: They wanted money, They wanted power, They wanted a voice. 106 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: Peter Tosh had a voice to lend, a voice that 107 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: could not be silenced from speaking out, just like his 108 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: eyes couldnt be shut by tangles of barbed wire, A 109 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: voice that blended well with those of his Trench Town 110 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 1: friends Bob Marley and Bunny Livingston. At first, the Whalers 111 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: were a duop vocal group, a group armed with only 112 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:45,319 Speaker 1: their voices. But Peter had other weapons at his disposal, 113 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 1: not that old fishing line and sardine pan guitar, and 114 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: not the guitar shaped like an sixteen that would come later. 115 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: Peter sung a less Paul over his shoulder and taught 116 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: Bob Marley how to play guitar strokes on the offbeat, 117 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: sounding like a machine gun when you squeeze the trigger. 118 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: Their goal, or rather the goal spurred on by Peter 119 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,559 Speaker 1: Tasha's guidance, was to stir it up. Not unlike the 120 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 1: rude boys stirring it up in the streets, but unlike 121 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: the rude boys, the Whalers sought to combat the disinformation 122 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 1: making its way through their community. They did this first 123 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: by dropping the dou wop stick and finding their unique 124 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 1: voice as a group. And then they get down to 125 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: writing songs. Peter wrote four hundred Years about slavery, and 126 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 1: together Peter and Bob wrote get up, stand up, dangerous songs, 127 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: Songs without compromise, songs for all the boys and girls who, 128 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:47,559 Speaker 1: like Peter, had no parents, no hope, no outlet. They were, 129 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: in turn hypnotized by these songs, songs that were powerful weapons, 130 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: songs that cut through all the noise and delivered the 131 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: very thing that everyone from the Devil to Jamaica's two 132 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,719 Speaker 1: party system, the shit stem, as Peter Tosh called it, 133 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: were so desperate to silence the truth. Peter Tosh was 134 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: in the revolution business. It with his bandmate Bob Marley 135 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 1: and Bunny Livingston. Peter Tosh revolutionized reggae music, first working 136 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 1: with producer Cox and Dodd at the legendary Studio one 137 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: in Kingston, then with the eccentric lee Scratch Perry at 138 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: Black Arc, and now with Chris Blackwell of Island Records. 139 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: From Scott to rock Steady to the Whaler's own unique 140 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,959 Speaker 1: strain of reggae, a strain as potent as Jamaican Guy 141 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: as well defined as the Rastafari religion with which it identified, 142 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: played as tight as a pack splip thanks to Peter, 143 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: who taught each of them that a guitar could be 144 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: more powerful than a loaded gun. But there was no 145 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: money in the revolution business. The money was in the 146 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: music business, and to get that money, the Whalers had 147 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 1: to compromise their original sound in order to break through 148 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: in the Western market. It's hard now to overstate just 149 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: how foreign reggae music sounded to rock and roll fans 150 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: circa nineteen seventy two. Even the seasoned American session musicians 151 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: hired to record overdubs on the Whaler's Island Records debut 152 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: Catch a Fire. Their fifth album, Overall, had trouble finding 153 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:47,439 Speaker 1: the one, and those overdubs were the brainchild of Chris Blackwell, 154 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: not only the record's producer, but Island Records founder and 155 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 1: Bob Marley, who understood that compromise was necessary in order 156 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 1: for his message to reach a larger audience. Peter Tosh, however, 157 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: did not do compromise, not when it came to music, 158 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: not when it came to revolution, and certainly not when 159 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: it came to the money that he believed he was owed, 160 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,679 Speaker 1: money that Chris Blackwell was now telling the band they 161 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: owed him forty pounds in tour expenses expenses Chris Blackwell 162 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: promised to cover if the Whalers came to England, played 163 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: some shows, started working on another record. In Peter Tosh's eyes, 164 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: Chris Blackwell broke that promise, just like he was now 165 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: breaking up the Whaler's long standing bond by putting Bob 166 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: Marley up front as the main attraction. The Whalers were 167 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: no longer the Whalers. They were Bob Marley and the 168 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: Whalers now, and Peter Tosh was fucking pissed, Irritated that 169 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: he was being screwed out of money, Irritated that he 170 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: was being creatively demoted by the very band that he 171 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: made musically literate, a band that was supposed to be 172 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,839 Speaker 1: giving a voice to the voteless, but which was now 173 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: being led by a man groomed for pop stardom, a 174 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: man who was singing, Baby, Baby, We've got a date. 175 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: Bob Marley wasn't a revolutionary, not like Peter Tosh. Anyways. 176 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: He wasn't dangerous like Peter. And that's not to say 177 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: that Peter had actual, real beef with Bob. They weren't 178 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,319 Speaker 1: in conflict, weren't divided, though the Devil would like to 179 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: make you think they were. They were just on different paths. 180 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 1: Bunny Livingston too. Bunny left the band first, but Peter 181 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: then followed shortly after, True to himself and true to 182 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: the songs, he left behind. Stop that train, I'm leaving. 183 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: It wasn't just the Bob Marley train that chugged along 184 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 1: without Peter Tosh. It was Island Records too. They didn't 185 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: want anything to do with Peter Tosh's debut solo album, 186 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: Legalize It Is he fucking crazy. Marijuana was one hundred 187 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: illegally pretty much everywhere, advocating for the decriminalization as something 188 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: that could get you serious jail time, even if you 189 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,959 Speaker 1: were a rosta and considered its sacrament. That wasn't a hill. 190 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 1: Chris Blackwell and Island Records were willing to die on. 191 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: If Peter Tosh wanted to put a target on his head, 192 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 1: that was his prerogative. Didn't matter. Peter spoke his truth. 193 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: He didn't fear targets. He didn't fear death either, even 194 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: though by the mid nineteen seventies death was all around 195 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: him in Trench Town and beyond, Fearing death meant becoming death. 196 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: And this wasn't about cheating death either. Peter knew that 197 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 1: every time he was knocked down, it was another opportunity 198 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 1: to get back up. He was knocked down plenty. His 199 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: guitars routinely suffered the consequences of his actions, smashed to 200 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: pieces as he tried to jump fences or walls as 201 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: another cop niffed at his heels. The law made possession 202 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 1: of marijuana a bigger crime than smoking marijuana, so the 203 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: first part of it, this little game Peter played with 204 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: the police was to take a huge toke off his 205 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: joint when he was caught in the act, and then run. 206 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: Running made his lungs burn. Even for a veteran weed 207 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: smoker like Peter. He knew he wasn't going to be 208 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 1: fast enough, though not this time. But he wasn't about 209 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: to give in so easily. If the cops wanted him, 210 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: they'd have to catch him, and they did, two, three, 211 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: four of them. He couldn't quite tell from his vantage point, 212 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 1: lying on the ground, arms shielding his face, and then 213 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: the cops beat him mercilessly with their batons. They hit 214 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: him until he bled and until a few of his 215 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: ribs were fractured, all for a little ganja. Experiences such 216 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: as these strengthened Peter's resolve. Knocked down but never kept down, 217 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: Public Enemy number one, with no fear, diving headfirst into 218 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 1: making a record called Legalize It, and not just no fear, 219 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: no cash. What little his old friend bought Marley gave 220 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: him help pay for the recording of a few songs, 221 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: but he needed more. Kingston, nineteen seventy six. The DC 222 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: three was loaded to the gills with Jamaican herb and 223 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 1: there were no passengers, just the pilot and the smuggler 224 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: not a true smuggler per se, more of a guy 225 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: who put thought into action and got shit done. And 226 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: for this he had his associate, Peter Tosh, his blessing 227 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: hundreds of pounds of marijuana on its way to a 228 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: buyer in Miami. The whole idea was a win win. 229 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: The farmers got paid, and the island got that much 230 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: needed injection of foreign currency, and Peter Tosh got his 231 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: album made. The pilot asked about his cut, and it 232 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: would be. Smuggler told him to chill out and get 233 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: this bird to its destination and you'll be handsomely compensated 234 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: on the back end. Just like we discussed. The pilot 235 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: had no reason not to trust him, and furthermore, no 236 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: reason not to trust Peter Tosh, a man who lived 237 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 1: by the truth. The pilot fired up the engine and 238 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,399 Speaker 1: got the plane in the air. He kept it real low, 239 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: one hundred feet from the ground, so close to the 240 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:11,880 Speaker 1: Caribbean that the water quivered as the hunk of metal 241 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: rattled along above it. But it wasn't a straight shot. 242 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 1: The pilot had a maneuver his way around Cuba. There 243 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,120 Speaker 1: was zero doubt that Castro wouldn't blow their ass out 244 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: of the sky if he caught them, so the trip 245 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 1: took longer than either of than wanted it too. The 246 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: sun went down, red skies at night, drug Smuggler's delight 247 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: or something like that, and finally they made it. The 248 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,680 Speaker 1: DC three settled onto a runway at the Miami Airport, 249 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: its propeller's humming, and the buyer was waiting. He took 250 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 1: the ganja and handed over seventy five thousand dollars in 251 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:51,679 Speaker 1: American bills. Back home in Kingston, Peter Tosh was happy 252 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 1: he finished making Legalize It, largely paid for thanks to 253 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: a massive shipment of grass to the US, the strategy 254 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:02,360 Speaker 1: that initially pissed off the drug dealers who provided the product, 255 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 1: because the last thing they wanted to see was marijuana legalized, 256 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,400 Speaker 1: thus destroying the way they made their money. But I digress. 257 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: Columbia Records didn't know how Peter funded his album, and 258 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 1: they didn't care. They released Legalize It in June of 259 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, and though it managed to crack the 260 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: Billboard Album chart in the United States, it was immediately 261 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: banned in Jamaica. Peter responded by buying a full page 262 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: ad in the local newspaper and printing the lyrics of 263 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: the title track. He was undeterred. He didn't hold back. 264 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,640 Speaker 1: He put it all out there and if anyone had 265 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: a problem with that, they could come talk to Peter Tosh. 266 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: They knew where to find him. We'll be right back 267 00:18:50,800 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 1: after this. We're We're, We're. The same month that Peter 268 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 1: toge legalize it. In June of nineteen seventy six, a 269 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: state of emergency was declared in his home country. Jamaica 270 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 1: was in turmoil. Economically broken, distrusting of a government that 271 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 1: was seen as duplicitous. Prime Minister Michael Manley could hardly 272 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 1: hold it together, and as the general elections approached, the frustration, 273 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 1: anger and resentment festering below the surface began to bubble 274 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: up and leak out everywhere, and with it came more 275 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:37,679 Speaker 1: violence and more bloodshed. A candidate for the People's National 276 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 1: Party was shot in the side while helping us set 277 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 1: up a podium. A candidate for the Labor Party was 278 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: viciously attacked by a mob. His assistant cut down with 279 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:50,399 Speaker 1: a machete while his car was riddled with bullets and 280 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 1: then blown up with a homemade bomb, and they even 281 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: came for Bob Marley, two teams of government and exiting 282 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 1: two white dotsons a moving fast through the darkness, pistols 283 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: and machine guns in hand. They shot Bob Marley's wife 284 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: Rita in the head outside in the couple's yard, and 285 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,160 Speaker 1: one of the gunmen made his way inside Bob's house 286 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:14,919 Speaker 1: to the kitchen where Bob, his manager, and his guitarists 287 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 1: were sitting ducks. The shooter emptied the clip of his 288 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 1: submachine gun and then disappeared. But look at how Bob 289 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:29,160 Speaker 1: Marley bounced back just two days later on stage at 290 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 1: the Smile Jamaica concert. 291 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:35,719 Speaker 2: On stage two days later after getting shot, rolling up 292 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 2: his sleeve to show off his bullet holes and show, 293 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 2: as would be assassins, that he was not afraid. 294 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: Bob Marley was the struggle. He was the hero. Bob 295 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 1: Marley was reggae music, at least to most Americans who 296 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: were now buying his records in such quantities that he 297 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:58,120 Speaker 1: finally cracked the Billboard top ten. But not Bunny Livingston 298 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: and not Peter Tosh. And if Bob Marley was the struggle, 299 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:07,479 Speaker 1: the hero, then Peter Tosh was the truth. And just 300 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: like his friend and former bandmate Bob Marley, Peter Tosh 301 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:14,359 Speaker 1: could put that truth on display for everyone to see. 302 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: Like Bob, Peter feared nothing, not the devil, not his enemies, 303 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: not even death. Nineteen seventy eight, the gunman who came 304 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: for Peter Tosh didn't sneak into his home under the 305 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: cover of darkness. He didn't even hide who he was, 306 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: a detective, a so called man of the law. He 307 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: pulled out his piece and broad daylight and put it 308 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 1: right to Peter's head. He cocked it, said he'd been 309 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: wanting to do this for a while now, ever since 310 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: Peter ran his mouth on stage. At the Kingston National Stadium, 311 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 1: the One Loved Peace Concert, two years after Smiled, Jamaica, 312 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: thirty five thousand people gathered together, many of them hoping 313 00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: that music could help heal the wounds of the ongoing 314 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: civil war happening in their country. Peter Tosh wasn't that naive. 315 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: He knew that his guitar was a weapon, just like 316 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: the REALM sixteen it was modeled after, but that it 317 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: would take more than strumming some machine gun rhythms, and 318 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,360 Speaker 1: it would take more than joining the hands of political rivals, 319 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:22,120 Speaker 1: Michael Manley and Edward Sega. That was Marley's bag. Peter 320 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: didn't want peace. Peace was the diploma you got in 321 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: the cemetery you rest in peace. Peter didn't rest. Peter 322 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: wanted justice, equal rights and justice. Justice for four hundred 323 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: years of oppression, for the colonial imperialistic situation. They now 324 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,679 Speaker 1: found themselves in the people in power, the government, the 325 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 1: forces of evil doing everything they could to snuff out progress. 326 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: Manly Sega, all of them pirates like Columbus and Francis 327 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 1: Drake before them. The people suffering, brutalized, malnourished, trying to 328 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 1: make it through each day, each week. Can't get any 329 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 1: worse than this. Any worse is dead. Peter Tosh was 330 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 1: a steppen razor, dangerous for half of his hour long 331 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:17,919 Speaker 1: set on stage. Peter carried on like this for thirty minutes, 332 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 1: delivering a fiery rant that rejected the very notion of 333 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: peace that was aimed at both sides of the political aisle, 334 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,439 Speaker 1: both of whom were in attendance. It cemented him as 335 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,679 Speaker 1: a beacon of truth, a voice for the voiceless, and 336 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: it also made him a marked man. Guys like this detective, 337 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: who had the barrel of his pistol to Peter's head, 338 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: weren't just bothered by Peter's words. That was only part 339 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 1: of it. They were bothered by his actions, lighting up 340 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 1: a spliff right there on stage and smoking it. Mister 341 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:50,920 Speaker 1: legalized it himself, as if he were immune to the 342 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: laws of the land, as if he didn't know his place. 343 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 1: The detective wanted to pull the trigger. He really did, 344 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 1: but not like this, Not for nothing. He knew Peter 345 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,399 Speaker 1: Tosh would get his eventually. He hoped he would be 346 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 1: there when it happened. Peter didn't show the detective an 347 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,360 Speaker 1: ounce of fear. He wasn't about to give these colonial 348 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: bastards the satisfaction the devil's legion doing the devil's work, 349 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:22,120 Speaker 1: hiding the truth behind corruption and lies. He just kept 350 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: on doing what he did, which right now. In nineteen 351 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,119 Speaker 1: seventy eight meant touring the United States behind his new record, 352 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: Bush Doctor, released on the Rolling Stones as Record label. 353 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,680 Speaker 1: The support of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, who appeared 354 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: on the album's opening track, helped boost Peter's profile in 355 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: a global market that continued to equate reggae solely with 356 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: Bob Marley back in Jamaica, there was no confusion over 357 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,880 Speaker 1: who Peter Tosh was. He was the guy standing outside 358 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: a Kingston recording studio, fresh spliff burning between his fingers, 359 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: the one who called himself Stepen Raiser, a real tough 360 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: guy up on the One Love Peace concert stage. Two 361 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: men in plain clothes then approached him, and they didn't 362 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 1: say anything. One took the joint from Peter's hand power 363 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: moved bullshit. Peter took it back. The man tried to 364 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 1: take it again, so Peter mashed it up and tossed 365 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 1: it on the ground and I pissed off the guy 366 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 1: and plaine clothes to no end. He put his hands 367 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 1: on Peter. Peter Tosh was a big dude six'. Five 368 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: the guy couldn't take him, alone not even with his. 369 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: Friend they called over a third, guy this one with 370 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 1: a pistol in his, hand and he wrapped the gun 371 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: tight inside his clenched fist and took a hard. Swing 372 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,119 Speaker 1: peter moved. Fast the fist Missed peter's head by inches 373 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,120 Speaker 1: and hit one of the other men standing behind. Him 374 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: cracked the guy's, nose, open blood, everywhere and that Fucked. 375 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:51,120 Speaker 1: Peter he knew. It more men were coming, now these 376 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: ones wearing police. Uniforms they grabbed him and dragged him 377 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: to the. Station they threw him in a, cell and 378 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:02,000 Speaker 1: then they got to, work finishing with that detective with 379 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: the loaded gun had started working Over. Peter tosh their, 380 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 1: hands their, truncheons their boot. Heels they Attacked peter with 381 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 1: everything they. Had they took. Turns they hit him in the, 382 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,479 Speaker 1: ribs his, chest his. Face he put a hand up 383 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: to block the, blows and they broke that, hand and 384 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,880 Speaker 1: they hit him till they, bled till their own knuckles 385 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: bled till they couldn't tell whose blood was who's. Anymore 386 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 1: peter tried to escape through a, window but there were 387 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: too many of. Them they pulled him, down and he 388 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 1: fell to his knees and they hit him some. More 389 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 1: peter collapsed to the, ground splayed out where seven police 390 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 1: officers continued to assault him for over an, hour beaten 391 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: until his face was swollen and blood oozed from his, 392 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 1: head beaten until his eyes rolled into the back of his, 393 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,160 Speaker 1: Skull beaten until the cops were sure they had actually done, 394 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:57,159 Speaker 1: it silenced the one man brave enough to tell the, 395 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: truth killed nineteen eighty, One Bob murley was. Dead Peter 396 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,640 Speaker 1: tosh wept just Like bob had wept when he rushed 397 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,680 Speaker 1: to The Kingston police station three years prior to find 398 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:39,160 Speaker 1: his Friend, peter a crumpled mass of battered, flesh hand broken, 399 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: skull cracked, open nearly beaten to death by seven cops 400 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 1: in his jail, cell beaten for over an hour for 401 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: the crime of speaking his mind and smoking a. Joint 402 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: But peter wasn't actually. Dead he only played dead to 403 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 1: get the police to stop attacking. Him when it came To, 404 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,959 Speaker 1: bob playing dead couldn't stop the cancer that took his. 405 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: Life Losing Bob marley left a hole in the reggae. 406 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,400 Speaker 1: World many looked To Peter tosh to ascend the superstar 407 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:13,160 Speaker 1: status to take his former bandmate's place as the genre's dominant. 408 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 1: Avatar they called him the New king of. Reggae but 409 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 1: there was nothing new About Peter. Tosh, Besides peter had 410 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: Been bob's. Teacher Bob marley would have been nothing Without Peter. 411 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 1: Tosh In peter's, mind at, Least peter was not a. 412 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 1: Superstar he was an, architect a, missionary a, messenger a 413 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,199 Speaker 1: man who used music to shine light on the. Truth 414 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 1: he feared, nothing not the retribution of political, leaders not 415 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: detectives pointing guns in his, face not playing clothes cops 416 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 1: trying to get him to step out of, line and 417 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: certainly not the Maniacal Keith richards of The Rolling, stones 418 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: Technically peter's, boss seeing As peter was signed To keith's record. 419 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 1: Label keith could be a prickly, fuck But peter didn't. 420 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: Care The stones were hosing him, now just Like Chris 421 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 1: blackwell And Island records host him all those years, before 422 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 1: Using peter to boost their own bad boy. Image keith 423 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 1: fighting a heroin bust up In canada around the same 424 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: Time peter was fighting for his life in a prison. 425 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: Cell but The stones weren't doing shit For peter's. Career 426 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 1: they weren't properly promoting his. Records they wanted him to 427 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: pay for his touring. Expenses. Money it was always about. 428 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: Money in, reality The stones were the ones who were 429 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 1: in debt To. Peter that's How peter saw it. Anyway 430 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 1: at Least keith was nice enough to Let peter stay 431 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 1: at his place In Otro rios for a few. Days 432 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: The jamaican resort town was geographically and spiritually far removed 433 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 1: from the dangerous ghettos Of. Trenchtown peter liked it a 434 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 1: little too. Much he didn't want to. Leave neither did 435 00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: the collection of Roughneck, rastafarians gangsters and goats that were 436 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: now squatting with him in the mansion of one of 437 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 1: the most famous rock stars in the. World peter, figured 438 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 1: what the Hell Keith richards? Odom and If Keith richards 439 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: wasn't going to pay, up Then Peter tosh was going 440 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 1: to take what was His news Of peter's intention made 441 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: its way to The stones out on. Tour keith was. 442 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: Furious he picked up the phone and dialed the number 443 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 1: of his house In Ocho. Rios peter Answered keith told, 444 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: him in no uncertain, terms to vacate the. Premises The 445 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 1: Stepen razor had officially taken advantage Of keith's, generosity And 446 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 1: peter Told keith the fuck off if he even tried 447 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 1: to physically Remove peter from the. House peter said he 448 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: would use one of the machine guns he found stashed 449 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: in the mansion's many rooms to stand his. Ground keith 450 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 1: Called peter's. Bluff he was on his way back To 451 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 1: jamaica right now get lost or get. Fucked Keith richards 452 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 1: arrived In Oro rios a few days later to Find 453 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 1: Peter tosh no longer in his, house and it wasn't 454 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: long Before peter was no longer On keith's record label. 455 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: Either peter wasn't about to steal from, anyone not Even Keith. 456 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 1: Richards he who steals me steals, Destruction Peter tosh, SAID 457 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: a destruction that was the devil's. Business Peter tosh's business 458 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 1: was to stay the. Course whether or not he was 459 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 1: in league with The stones or filling the shoes Of Bob, 460 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 1: marley it was. Irrelevant it was happening all the. Same 461 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 1: he was filling the. Shoes he was performing at that heightened. 462 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 1: Level he was the, guy the guy who gave voice 463 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,880 Speaker 1: to the. People, but like he said on stage at 464 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 1: The One Love peace concert in nineteen seventy, eight hungry 465 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: people are angry. People people Like Dennis Leppo, loban one 466 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 1: of many hangers on who hit Up peter for money 467 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 1: on the. REGULAR a usual suspect At Peter tosh's, house 468 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 1: D X cohn asked for fifty bucks here and one 469 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 1: hundred bucks. There peter once Bought lepo a mattress after 470 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 1: he did a stint in. Prison some said he did 471 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,680 Speaker 1: that stint because he took the rap for a gun 472 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 1: possession charge that Threatened peter's. Freedom didn't. Matter the point 473 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: is That lepo had come to expect That peter would 474 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 1: take care of. Him but Now Peter tosh was on 475 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 1: tour In america and no one was taking care Of. 476 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,800 Speaker 1: Lepo it ate at him listening To peter interviewed on 477 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: the radio talking about The United, states talking about making, 478 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: records talking about his good life and the large sums 479 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,720 Speaker 1: of money he was, making the money he was owed 480 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 1: millions of dollars By peter's. Math everyone thought they were owed. 481 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: Something Peter tosh thought The Keith richards owed. Him Dennis 482 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 1: Leppo lobin thought That Peter tosh showed him just Like 483 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 1: peter had gone To keith's house to get what was, 484 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 1: Owed leppo was going to do the same At peter's. 485 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 1: House but Unlike, Peter leppo wasn't going to back down and. 486 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: Leave and that what's the. Truth I'm Jake brennan in 487 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: this episode Of disgraceland is to be. 488 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 3: Continued disgraceland was created by yours truly and is produced 489 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 3: in partnership With Double. 490 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 1: Elvis credits for this episode can be found on the 491 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:32,680 Speaker 1: show notes page at disgracelampod dot. 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