Rastaman Vibration Tour

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

The tour began at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, on April 23, 1976, and ended in Manchester, England, on June 27, 1976. On the tour's second leg Marley performed for the first time in continental Europe and premiered in Germany, Sweden, France and the Netherlands. After the tour Marley performed the Smile Jamaica Concert in his homeland Jamaica, after being shot a couple of days before. The album Live At the Roxy was recorded during this tour, on May 26.

[edit] Setlist

After the first third of the tour the setlists became more standardised and mostly looked like the following:

• "Trenchtown Rock"
• "Burnin' And Lootin'"
• "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)"
• "Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)"
• "I Shot The Sheriff"
• "Want More"
• "No Woman, No Cry"
• "Lively Up Yourself"
• "Roots, Rock, Reggae"
• "Rat Race"
• "Positive Vibration"
• "Get Up, Stand Up" / "War" / "No More Trouble" (medley)

At the beginning of the tour, for example during the four shows at the Beacon Theater when Marley experimented and changed the setlist much more than later during the tour, a gospel-like medley of two Nyabinghi chants ("Rastaman Chant" and "Lion Of Judah") and a brief reggae riff ("Keep The Faith") had been performed at the beginning instead of "Trenchtown Rock". Since the Nyabinghi chants were very meditative and slow until it segued into the lively reggae riff, it was decided to replace the long medley by the classic and instantly-lively "Trenchtown Rock" to better catch the audience from the beginning, as seen during the Natty Dread Tour in 1975 where "Trenchtown Rock" was the opening song as well.

All songs from the Rastaman Vibration album had been performed at least once, except for "Who The Cap Fit" (which was performed once during the Kaya Tour in 1978) and "Cry To Me". There were also performances of an earlier song which is not featured on any of Marley's Island albums released at that time ("Trenchtown Rock").

From show to show sometimes an additional song was edged in somewhere in the setlist, like "Slave Driver", "Johnny Was", "Night Shift", "Bend Down Low", "Crazy Baldhead" or "Jah Live". Live performances of each of these songs happened very rarely during the tour.

[edit] Tour dates

Date	Venue	City	State	Notes
April 23	Tower Theater	Upper Darby, Pennsylvania	USA
April 24	McDonough Arena, Georgetown University	Washington, D.C.	USA
April 25	Music Hall	Boston, Massachusetts	USA	2 shows
April 30	Beacon Theater	New York City, New York	USA	2 shows
May 1	Beacon Theater	New York City, New York	USA	2 shows
May 4	Centre Sportif	Montréal, Québec	Canada
May 5	Convocation Hall	Toronto, Ontario	Canada	2 shows
May 6	Century Theater	Buffalo, New York	USA
May 7	Music Hall	Cleveland, Ohio	USA
May 10	Masonic Temple	Detroit, Michigan	USA
May 11	Auditorium Theater	Chicago, Illinois	USA
May 13	Orchestra Hall	Minneapolis, Minnesota	USA
May 14	Ambassador Theatre	Saint Louis, Missouri	USA
May 20	Music Hall	Houston, Texas	USA
May 22	Denver Auditorium	Denver, Colorado	USA
May 25	Civic Theater	San Diego, California	USA
May 26	Roxy Theater	Los Angeles, California	USA
May 27	Shrine Auditorium	Los Angeles, California	USA
May 29	Paramount Theater	Oakland, California	USA
May 30	Paramount Theater	Oakland, California	USA	2 shows
May 31	Santa Barbara County Bowl	Santa Barbara, California	USA
June	?	Miami, Florida	USA
June 6	Messegelände	Offenburg	Germany	Sunrise Festival
June 8	Philipshalle	Düsseldorf	Germany
June 9	Laeiszhalle	Hamburg	Germany
June 10	Gröna Lund	Stockholm	Sweden
June 13	Jaap Edenhal	Amsterdam	Netherlands
June 14	?	Paris	France
June 15	Hammersmith Odeon	London	England
June 16	Hammersmith Odeon	London	England
June 17	Hammersmith Odeon	London	England	2 shows
June 18	Hammersmith Odeon	London	England	2 shows
June 19	Ninian Park	Cardiff	Wales	West Coast Rock Show
June 20	Civic Hall	Wolverhampton	England
June 22	The Odeon	Birmingham	England
June 23	Colston Hall	Bristol	England
June 24	Great Hall, University of Exeter	Exeter, Devon	England
June 26	Leeds University	Leeds	England	2 shows
June 27	Bellevue	Manchester	England