The Wailers at briXton (formerly Harvelle's)

THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
BRIXTON – REDONDO BEACH, CA

"Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight"

“It takes a Revolution to Find a Solution”

The revolutionary spirit of Bob Marley is alive in America, and the Wailers are about to make their live contribution to the struggle. As America's citizens take to the streets in protest and Occupy their cities, it is the right time for the Wailers to add their music to the people's voice.

The heart of the Wailers, bassist and musical director Aston "Family Man" Barrett, not only co-founded the best known line-up of the band (after the departure of singers Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailers,) but was an intimate part of Marley's creative process. Fams was the man Bob trusted to develop songs with, including not simply a song's rhythmic bedrock but lyrical ideas as well. Bob's thoughts expressed in classics like Get Up, Stand Up and Burnin & Lootin' and were knowledge and beliefs that both artists shared as Rasta bred'ren. and to which they livicated (Rasta patois for dedicated) their lives and creativity....

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
BRIXTON – REDONDO BEACH, CA

"Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight"

“It takes a Revolution to Find a Solution”

The revolutionary spirit of Bob Marley is alive in America, and the Wailers are about to make their live contribution to the struggle. As America's citizens take to the streets in protest and Occupy their cities, it is the right time for the Wailers to add their music to the people's voice.

The heart of the Wailers, bassist and musical director Aston "Family Man" Barrett, not only co-founded the best known line-up of the band (after the departure of singers Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailers,) but was an intimate part of Marley's creative process. Fams was the man Bob trusted to develop songs with, including not simply a song's rhythmic bedrock but lyrical ideas as well. Bob's thoughts expressed in classics like Get Up, Stand Up and Burnin & Lootin' and were knowledge and beliefs that both artists shared as Rasta bred'ren. and to which they livicated (Rasta patois for dedicated) their lives and creativity.

On this special "Revolution” tour, the Wailers will perform a themed show, much as they did when they performed the whole of the Exodus album onstage for that Album of the Century's Anniversary. Expect to hear inspiring, incendiary anthems delivered as only Family Man Barrett and the Wailers know how mainly because he actually wrote and played them on the records -- Revolution, Survival and I Shot The Sherriff and more.

Says Family Man "I am eager to take the spirit of rebel music that I was able to bring forth with my bred'ren Bob Marley, out on the road and across America. These are the times Bob sang about when he said, It takes a revolution to make a solution. We want to show the people that the Wailers are the band of the 99 percent. We want our music to be part of the solution. I am a resolutionary"

Since Bob passed, Fams has kept the flame of the music burning by keeping it alive on stage. For a generation that never got to see Bob Marley, ada “The Skip," Fams shares the musical meaning of One Love and what you can really feel in the legendary One Drop of the bass that Bob hymned.

Family Man Barrett has been playing with the Wailers for forty years and has helped pave for the way to establishing the theband as the world's most prominent reggae band: having sold over 250 million albums worldwide.

"You can fool some people sometimes
But you can't fool all the people all the time
And now we've seen the light (What you gonna do)
We gonna stand up for our rights"

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