If there is one name that comes to mind when speaking of reggae music, it has simply got to be Bob Marley. This man has influenced so many people even after death as one of the genre’s best performers and songwriters. Few other people can even compare to the awesome legacy that Marley has left behind. Bob Marley is also very popular these days as a symbol for smoking weed. He openly smoked it and even had many songs with lyrics that tied in with smoking marijuana. Bob is also credited with bringing the reggae music of Jamaica as well as the Rastafari movement to a more world wide audience. It is for these things that we remember Bob Marley and all of the wonderful music that he has given us. Marley’s Music Career Bob Marley and the Wailers were arguably the best reggae band to ever play and they were also innovators of the music. Formally identifying themselves as a ska and rocksteady group, the band went through many name changes before the finally settled on something they liked. These names included The Teenagers, The Wailing Rudeboys, The Wailing Wailers, and eventually The Wailers. The band was not known as the more popular Bob Marley and the Wailers until after the band’s first big break up in 1974. The band’s first incarnation consisted of Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Junior Braithwaite,...