“If it’s all night, it’s alright!” – James Brown and Bob Marley

Old and New: “The name of the place….Augustus, JA”

I’ve always suspected James Brown influenced Bob Marley, and a friend recently played me the proof. On The Complete Wailers 1967-1972, Part 1, Disc 2 is Feel Allright (Original), a beautiful cover of James Brown’s *GREAT*, There Was a Time a.k.a. ‘Groove Maker’.

The Wailers cover There Was a Time from Side 2 of James Brown and the Famous Flames Live at the Apollo Volume 2. James Brown does a call and response replicated by the Wailers in the studio.

The Wailers :”Heh! Heh! :
Bob Marley: “Feel alright – one time”
“HUH!!”
“Yes!”
“Oh! Oh!”
“Feel pretty good a-myself, yo – two”
“HUH!! HUH!!”
“Yeah!”
“Eh! Eh!”
“Feel alright! – Three”
“HUH!! HUH!! HUH!!”

Small Mount Fuji Rug


This Mount Fuji rug is new and roughly 1M^2.$150. It shows a simplification and abstraction from a rug like:

Super fine, roughly 5×7, $1400
The new Mount Fuji rug also links to a more abstract group of small Baluchi rugs. Similar too below, but with red and blue minarets in foreground.

Previous Mount Fuji war rug post
Another previous Mount Fuji rug post
UPDATE:

Rug 465
Here is an example of the more abstract group referred to above which were more common 6 to 7 years ago. The new rug provides a link to understanding the imagery in the rugs like 465. The Mushwani type two minaret mosque borders are noteworthy in the large fine Mount Fuji rug as well as rug #465.

Red Rug Sub-Groups

Warrug.com’s selection of small red rugs illustrates sub groups of red rugs well.

‘Classic Red Rug
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“[not] Vegetable Dye”



Modern [true] Vegetable Dye

‘Five Genades’ (random name but most popular style)



‘Squashed Helicopter’ Style’




‘Camoflage Helicopter’ named for harlequin-esque rendering on helicopters. These were readil available in 1999 and 2000. They are like “Classic” red rugs, but not quite as finely knotted.




“Fat RPG’s” (for lack of a better name)

War News

Tribesmen began battling the foreigner militants they had previously sheltered early last month after the foreigners tried to kill a tribal leader.

“The people in South Waziristan have risen against the foreigners. They have killed about 300 of them and they get support from the Pakistan army, they asked for support,” Musharraf told a military conference on global counter-terrorism in Islamabad.

Reuters