Bob Marley was a very important ambassador in many respects. One overlooked aspect is his work spreading the use of the proper manly greeting. Showing love to all men, nevertheless Marley sometimes had to work wholesale and educate the style leaders of the time, hoping for a trickle down of solid. Not appetizing as stated, but this was decades before Reagan tried it, so give a rasta some slack. How many times did Bob have to go over and over and over the solid with George Harrison until he got it half right? This picture probably represented a high instance of repetition. You can see the fire in Bob's eyes, daring Harrison to get it wrong one more time. Or possibly trying to hypnotize George, with Harrison's eyes open wide, trying to soak up the simple instructions via karma.
One solid highlight came with Bob's biggest challenge. As they say, you have to clean up your side of the street before you can point at the glass houses in someone else's rose garden. Marley had to show his home country that World Peace began at home. To demonstrate this, he had some very raw material to work with: A stage, an audience, and two very stiff and angry men: mortal enemies Edward Seaga and Michael Norman Manley. No ganja or any fraternal-feeling enhancers were allowed in this demonstration. This was to prove the efficacy of the solid alone. Dubbed the One Love Handshake, Marley had to personally intervene to hold the men in some semblance of the solid, allowing its natural healing powers to go to work for all Jamaicans. The rest is history.
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