One from the Blackheart Man
Cool and Deady- Bunny Wailer Of all of the original Wailers, Bunny Wailer (real name Neville Livingstone) was blessed with the greatest abundance of musical talent. He was a better singer than both Marley and Tosh. He wasn't as prolific a composer as Marley but his songs were masterpieces of rasta conciousness poetry. He was the youngest of the original Wailer trio and was still in his teens when the band skyrocketed to international success.
Bunny was also the most creatively difficult member of the Wailers trio. He hated touring outside of Jamaica and on two occasions he left the band in the middle of the tour because he was homesick. Even after the Wailer hired an ital chef to accomadate his strict Rastafarian diet, it failer to address the larger problem. Bunny simply hated touring outside of Jamaica especially in the colder climates of the USA, the UK and Northern Europe. Like many other of his Rastafarian brethern, Bunny didn't like wearing shoes which was problematic when the Wailers had a gig in Boston and there was 2 feet of snow on the ground.
Bunny had the deepest Rastafarian religous convictions and practiced the ancient Jamaican art of obeah and form of voodoo that is common in the bush of the Jamaican back country. He was a bit of a fearful figure and relished his role as a blackheart man, a Jamaican term for a high priest in the practice of obeah magic. It is said that both Marley and Tosh respected and sometimes feared Bunny Wailer's practice of obeah.
For several years, no amount of money could get him to tour. In 1973 at age 27 Bunny quit the Wailers and effectively ended his career as a performing musician outside of Jamaica. He used to produce an album every 3 or 4 years or so but Bunny hasn't been in the studio since 2000, By all accounts, at age 61 Bunny Wailer is as fit as a fiddle, in good singing voice and still won't tour except for an occasional 5 day jaunt to London for a limited three show engagement. He's the sole surviving original Wailer and outlived Peter Tosh by 23 years and Bob Marley by 30 years.