Trivia / Peter Tosh

• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Many of his master tapes were lost after being seized by police. Several tracks released on CD are noticeably vinyl sourced ("Mark Of The Beast" and "No Mercy") as well as cassette sourced (the outtake tracks on the Equal Rights Legacy Edition).
• He Also Did: Peter was a highly-regarded guitarist, and as a result worked as a session musician for Joe Gibbs whilst Bob Marley was away in the US in 1969. He also took up melodica at this time, playing on a large number of dub tracks (these can be found, amongst other places, on the Trojan CD "Arise Black Man"). Peter later contributed his melodica playing to a few Wailers recordings such as "Sun Is Shining" and "Memphis". Outside music, Peter was an adept unicyclist, a photo of which can be seen on the sleeve for for his "Buk-In-Hamm-Palace" 12" single.
• Money, Dear Boy: He often complained that people thought he was richer than he was. By his own admission, he recorded "Nothing But Love" solely to make money in the American market, and signed to EMI only because they gave him the biggest advance.
• Remade for the Export: "Wanted Dread And Alive" as released in Jamaica and North America features the songs "The Poor Man Feel It", "Cold Blood" and "That's What They Will Do". Internationally, these songs were replaced with "Rok With Me", "Oh Bumbo Klaat" and "Guide Me From My Friends", the first two of which became Jamaican singles. In turn, "Cold Blood" was used as a b-side to "Nothing But Love" in the territories where it was left off the album. The 2002 remaster of the album used the international tracklisting for the album and added the Jamaican/North American tracks as bonus tracks.

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