Natty Dread Tour

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The Natty Dread Tour was a concert tour organised to support the album Natty Dread by Bob Marley & The Wailers.

The tour began in Miami, Florida, on June 5, 1975, and ended in Manchester, England, on July 20, 1975. In late June Marley did 14 shows in seven days at Paul's Mall in Boston. During the second tour leg in England the first live album Live! was recorded at the Lyceum Ballroom in London. Before the tour started Marley performed a concert along with Jackson Five in March in Kingston. After the tour Marley performed the Wonder Dream Concert, featuring Stevie Wonder and his old bandmates Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer.

While on the Natty Dread Tour Marley did his first performance outside Jamaica, England and the United States when playing the Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada.

[edit] Setlist

The standard setlist of the tour mostly looked like the following:

• "Trenchtown Rock"
• "Slave Driver"
• "Burnin' And Lootin'"
• "Concrete Jungle"
• "Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)"
• "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)" (frequently)
• "I Shot The Sheriff"
• "Kinky Reggae"
• "Midnight Ravers"
• "No Woman, No Cry"
• "Natty Dread"
• "Talkin' Blues"
• "Lively Up Yourself"
• "Get Up, Stand Up"

All songs from the Natty Dread album had been performed at least once, except for "Revolution" (which was a standard song during the Uprising Tour in 1980). There were performances of two earlier songs which are not featured on any of Marley's Island albums released at that time: "Trenchtown Rock" and "Nice Time".

From show to show sometimes an additional song was edged in the middle of the setlist, like "No More Trouble", "Nice Time", "So Jah Seh", "Bend Down Low" and "Stir It Up". Live performances of each of these songs happened very rarely during the tour.

[edit] Tour dates

Date	Venue	City	State	Notes
June 5	Diplomat Hotel	Miami, FL	USA
June 8	Massey Hall	Toronto, ON	Canada
June 9	Quiet Knight Club	Chicago, IL	USA
June 10	Quiet Knight Club	Chicago, IL	USA
June 14	Showcase Theater	Detroit, MI	USA	Shotgun opened
June 16	Agora Theater	Cleveland, OH	USA
June 18	Wollman Skating Rink, Central Park	New York City, NY	USA	Schaefer Music Festival
June 20	The Spectrum Theater	Philadelphia, PA	USA
June 21	Manhattan Center	New York City, NY	USA
June 22	Bushnell Memorial Hall	Hartford, CT	USA
June 23	Paul's Mall	Boston, MA	USA	2 shows per night
June 24	Paul's Mall	Boston, MA	USA	2 shows per night
June 25	Paul's Mall	Boston, MA	USA	2 shows per night
June 26	Paul's Mall	Boston, MA	USA	2 shows per night
June 27	Paul's Mall	Boston, MA	USA	2 shows per night
June 28	Paul's Mall	Boston, MA	USA	2 shows per night
June 29	Paul's Mall	Boston, MA	USA	2 shows per night
July 4	The Boarding House	San Francisco, CA	USA
July 5	The Boarding House	San Francisco, CA	USA
July 6	The Boarding House	San Francisco, CA	USA
July 7	The Boarding House	San Francisco, CA	USA
July 8	Paramount Theater	Oakland, CA	USA
July 9	Roxy Theater	Los Angeles, CA	USA
July 10	Roxy Theater	Los Angeles, CA	USA
July 11	Roxy Theater	Los Angeles, CA	USA
July 12	Roxy Theater	Los Angeles, CA	USA
July 13	Roxy Theater	Los Angeles, CA	USA
July 17	The Lyceum Ballroom	London	England
July 18	The Lyceum Ballroom	London	England
July 19	The Odeon	Birmingham	England
July 20	The Hard Rock	Manchester	England