Stepping Gong

After the deal with Island record, Chris Blackwell wanted to make Bob the leader of the Wailers. Peter & Bunny disappointed with this situation.

Peter Tosh was furious about this situation, he said that he didn't want to be in background vocal (To hear a sample clik ). He said many times that Bob Marley was his studient and learnt him to play guitare. Peter wanted to liberate all his compositions and within the Wailers he couldn't do what he wanted to do. He put this conflic between him and bob on the back of Island record he refer them as devils. But during the Legalize It session the musicians were the Wailers, excepted Bob he wrote with Tosh the song Why Must I Cry. Peter Tosh played for the Natty Dread sessions with Bob. They had link with musicians too Earl Lindo played keyboards for Tosh and Al Aderson guitare during the Legalize It tour, Donald kinsey who was with the Wailers in 1976 and played for Tosh "Word Sound & Power".

In 1978, when Bob Marley was on tour in America, Peter was present with Mick Jagger (Leader of the Rolling Stones), a person proposed that Mick should to sing with Bob but Marley refused. During Get Up Stand Up Peter Tosh appear on stage to sing with his old friend, Marley was happy and danced around Tosh, after that Peter shack Bob's hand and said to him that they will feel it until Bucking Hamm Palace....

In june 1980, a journalist asks to Bob if he appreciate Peter Tosh:
J: Do you like Peter Tosh
B: Yeah
J: What do you think about his union with the Rolling Stones?
B: Well you know i don't know (Smile)

Some close friends of Bob Marley said that when he was in Germany, he was sad because they didn't call him or saw him. When Tosh knew that his old friend died he said that they have to continue the fight. During his show at the World Music Festival he sent a message for Bob to rest in peace.

In 1983 Peter Tosh has been interviewed after his show at the Greek Theater the journalist asks him why he left the Wailers
J: Why did you leave the Wailers
P: I never left myself, mon. It was belittling my integrity. I taught Bob Marley. How can you compare the teacher with the taught? I and I and the devil are at war. The devil make Marley leader of the band. I had no desire follow the path of destruction.”
J: Are you saying that Bob Marley is a devil?
P: Bob Marley is dead, mon.

After Bob Marley's death, during a rehearsal Peter Tosh saw the picture of Bob Marley on the Wall of the studio, he brusted Bob's eyes and said that he refused to record with a dead man who look at him, probably because the Rasta have a other perception of the death. Between 1983 and 1987 he recorded the Red X tape, he wanted to make aautobiographical book, on these tapes he speak in details about the problem of the Wailers and Island record. These tapes are in the Tosh estate.

In spite of the problem of the groupe they were and will be the Wailing Wailers for ever.