Interview with Earl "Wya" Lindo


**Q: It's still hard for you that Bob Marley is not with the band...?

**Wya: "Yeah, that he has passed and GONE ON HIGHER, (laughing veryseriously) that's the way I think of it, you know."

"Myself and Tyrone, I think, Tyrone and myself, we were very deeply afflicted by everything, the whole charma of everything. It's a very traumatic thing, because it seems just in the prime of our youth..."

"...when we were looking to take over the world, you know. We were on the edge of taking over the world like we were going into a new dimension."

"But spiritually I know that we would not be shaken from our spiritual position with God, with rastafari."

"The Father knows who are the Chosen Ones and who he has chosen to be with him and to be on his right hand side of God, you know. So no event on earth can shake us from that!"

**Q: What's the reason why the Bob Marley and the Wailers music is so impressing?

**Wya: "Because when we write we write from a kind of high universal kind of plain of ideas, you know. From a high platonic plain of ideas."

"We are like,- we can feel,- you know, you get that universal, consciousness you can feel the whole world in your consciousness, mind."

"I think, Bob is very gifted that way, you know what I mean. Even when we feel like we are equally as high as he is it's like, you know, (looking down on the ground) it's like he is just looking down here like that, still!"

"It seems I'm always there when the ideas, when Bob has his ideas, you know when, (getting excited) like a brainstorm, when he gets that brainstorm idea: BOOM !!! Like that, you know. I always happen to be there."


**Q: Where did Bob compose? In the studio or at home...?

**Wya: "On the road. On the road a lot. A lot of compositions, like: "MEN SEE THEIR DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS CRUMBLE IN FRONT OF THEIR FACE AND ALL THEIR WICKED INTENTIONS TO DESTROY THE HUMAN RACE". You know them kind of lyrics. I heard him compose that in Brussels!"


**Q: The last song Bob Marley composed was Redemption Song. Maybe his last composition is the most impressing one. How could Bob write that song?"

Wya: "There's ideas in our minds, you know, like the magnetism in the atmosphere like we had that and it going on,- it was very strong."


**Q: And he did it in a studio...?

**Wya: No, while we were on the road. While we were on the road."

**Q: Yes....?

**Wya: "Yes. I think it was in Stuttgart, Germany or somewhere like that."


**Q: When you watch the video of the ONE LOVE PEACE CONCERT in 1978 you see many performances of many musicians, but the performance of Bob Marley and the Wailers was outstanding, historical.

**Wya: "We wanted to prove we are harder than that! Like we are trying to prove that we are harder than that! We are just a harder thing than just making commercial success, you know what I mean!? We can chart nyabinghi, you know!"

"No other group could do that. I don't think. They couldn't do that. Because they were too materially focused. They didn't... their perception of the mind was limited. So, that's why that was such - how you call it - 'historical'."