PETER TOSH: He's The Toughest
If anybody can bring reggae music to the rest of the world, especially America, then Peter’s the one to do it along with Bob Marley. After all, we were second to the Beatles. You need a door opener and then you need the serious stuff. I’m not saying Marley isn’t serious.
PETER TOSH: He's The Toughest
by
Barbara Charone
If anybody can bring reggae music to the rest of the world, especially America, then Peter’s the one to do it along with Bob Marley. After all, we were second to the Beatles. You need a door opener and then you need the serious stuff. I’m not saying Marley isn’t serious. It’s just that Peter has chosen his scene, his band and his music very carefully. And he’s done an amazing job putting it all together.
—Keith Richards
“It’s the right time now,” Peter Tosh said, stretching his long legs across a Kingston, Jamaica hotel coffee table to expose a pair of green sneakers with yellow stripes. “Jah works mysterious, wondrous things. The mysterious thing is that I was singing with a group—Bob Marley and the Wailers. And now I am by myself. It is a wondrous thing.”
Peter Tosh has a lanky build, a friendly smile, lots of nervous energy and enough confidence to make him a star. Consequently, he doesn’t feel the need to exploit his past affiliation with Bob Marley or his present relationship
with the Rolling Stones. Peter Tosh is his own man.