Things that hurt and feel, y'know? So I got to play deep more within. RS: What is your favorite Wailers album, or better yet, what LP best reflects your drumming?ĬB: Because Kaya have some directly emotional songs on it. Is that true?ĬB: Bob never interfere with his musicians.
REGGAE DRUM KITS FREE
RS: I understand that Bob Marley gave his musician a free hand, so to speak, when it came to songs arrangements. Instead of sayin’ to Bob, Peter and Bunny, “You are three singing together as one," they say to Peter and Bunny to break free and be their own superstars. Why was it that Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer quit the group just at the time the Wailers were breaking big in the State and in Europe?ĬB: Well, at dat time the group was called the Wailers, not Bob Marley and the Wailers like later on, y'know? Everything was cool until some people tell Peter and Bunny to break free. RS: You’ve been a member of the Wailers right from the very first album the band put out, "Catch A Fire," back in 1972. The reggae drummer carries that history more than the guitarist or keyboards player, and the good reggae drummers make playing a spiritual experience. Because drums come from the slavery days and from Africa, it comes from a lot of history. Can you explain what you mean by that?ĬB: Well, it’s a spiritual vibe that I try and get from my drums to the music. RS: You've often described your drum playing as a spiritual experience. The Barretts Brother - Aston “Family Man” Barrett and Carlton Barrett: a one-two punch. y'know, Fams and I, we always had a special pattern for playing, a cool drive that everybody take notice of, ever since the earliest days of reggae.
You two were responsible for popularizing bass/drum combinations in reggae, as well as helping bass players and drummers get the recognition they so obviously deserved.ĬR: Yes dat true. RS: Before the rise of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, you and your brother Family Man had no rivals in reggae. Called "Out of Exile," the record features some of Carly Barrett's finest moments as a drummer. The band did a brief tour of California and the enthusiastic supportive response it received from loyal fans in Los Angeles and other parts of the state convinced the Wailers to carry on. Since then the band has been working on an LP of Wailer originals which should be released in the States very soon. For months after Marley's passing, the group agonized over whether it should remain intact as the Wailers. Since the untimely death of Bob Marley in 1981, Carly Barrett and the rest of the Wailers have kept a rather low profile. And it was no big secret that the driving power of the Wailers music came from its bottom, the throbbing bass riffs of Family Man and the exceptionally tight-fisted drumming of brother Carly. Together these five musicians formed the nucleus of what soon was to become the greatest reggae band in the history of the music form.Įven after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the group to pursue solo careers, the Wailers flourished. It was Carlton Barrett and his bass playing brother Aston “Family Man” Barrett, both formerly of Lee "Scratch" Perry's Upsetter band, who were chosen to fill out the Wailers. Carlton Barrett, Modern Drummer interview 1982Ĭarlton "Carly" Barrett has been the drummer for the late Bob Marley’s Wailers ever since Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston Wailer-the original Wailers-decided to add a permanent bass player and drummer to the band more than a decade ago.
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