WOOD WOWED MARLEY AS LAST-MINUTE REPLACEMENT
RONNIE WOOD will never forget the night he played guitar with BOB MARLEY - and impressed the reggae legend with an hour-long encore.
The Rolling Stones rocker was drafted in as a last-minute replacement at a 1979 Marley concert in California, and admits he was intimidated by the Buffalo Soldier hitmaker.
But Wood managed to win over Marley after a flawless performance - and the pair celebrated the successful gig by sharing a joint afterwards.
Wood tells Britain’s Uncut magazine, "(We played) at the Oakland Coliseum. Al Anderson, Marley’s guitarist, had his guitar stolen and I was living in Mandeville Canyon in L.A., so I flew over and took him a new one. Al asked if I wanted to play that night. I thought it should be cleared with Bob Marley first, but Al said it would be find and took me in to meet him.
"Marley didn’t say much, he just looked at me as if to say, ‘If you can cut it, you’re OK. If you can’t, I’m throwing you off the stage.’ I ended up doing the encore which lasted about an hour and I got the nod from Marley during the set, which was very satisfying. After the gig we played football and had a huge spliff."
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