Hungry is a word you could probably apply to The Wailers circa 1971. Stuck in London with no way to get back to Jamaica to record any more music, they approached Island Records main man Chris Blackwell for help. With no guarantee that’d he ever make good on his investment, he ponied up £4,000 to get the band home. But less than a year later Marley touched down in London again with what would become some of the greatest Reggae tracks ever recorded. But before they could be released, on the “Catch A Fire” album, Marley and Blackwell began to sweeten them. Enter John "Rabbit" Bundrick.

“My parts on ‘Catch A Fire’ are in no way near purist.” Bundrick recounted for the late 90’s Classic Album episode on the record. “They are an imitation of what Bob Marley taught me how to do.”

When Bundrick arrived in England from a Swedish tour with Johnny Nash, he encountered his first ever synthesizer – a Minimoog Model D.

“I didn’t really know how to work the Moog, but as my intuition grabbed hold of me and I just started moving all the controls and accidentally brought up this wonderful sound. Everybody in the studio yelled out…’That’s it! You nailed it Rab!’”

That same year Bob Marley and the Wailers performed “Stir It Up” on the Old Grey Whistle test – an influential U.K. pop show that featured Earl "Wire" Lindo playing Bundrick’s Minimoog parts. It was one of a handful of early keystone moments in getting listeners to embrace the new and unfamiliar Reggae sound.