Rastaman Vibration Tour

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.

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"
• "Crazy Baldheads"
• "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.

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Notes
April 23, 1976	Upper Darby, Pennsylvania	United States	Tower Theater
April 24, 1976	Washington, D.C.		McDonough Arena
April 25, 1976	Boston, Massachusetts		Music Hall	2 shows
April 30, 1976	New York City, New York		Beacon Theater	2 shows
May 1, 1976				2 shows
May 4, 1976	Montréal, Québec	Canada	Centre Sportif
May 5, 1976	Toronto, Ontario		Convocation Hall	2 shows
May 6, 1976	Buffalo, New York	United States	Century Theater
May 7, 1976	Cleveland, Ohio		Public Auditorium
May 10, 1976	Detroit, Michigan		Masonic Temple
May 11, 1976	Chicago, Illinois		Auditorium Theater
May 13, 1976	Minneapolis, Minnesota		Orchestra Hall
May 14, 1976	St. Louis, Missouri		Ambassador Theatre
May 20, 1976	Houston, Texas		Music Hall
May 22, 1976	Denver, Colorado		Denver Auditorium Arena
May 25, 1976	San Diego, California		Civic Theater
May 26, 1976	Los Angeles, California		Roxy Theater
May 27, 1976			Shrine Auditorium
May 29, 1976	Oakland, California		Paramount Theater
May 30, 1976
May 31, 1976	Santa Barbara, California		Santa Barbara Bowl
June 1976	Miami, Florida		?
June 6, 1976	Offenburg	Germany	Messegelände	Sunrise Festival
June 8, 1976	Düsseldorf		Philipshalle
June 9, 1976	Hamburg		Laeiszhalle
June 10, 1976	Stockholm	Sweden	Gröna Lund
June 13, 1976	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Jaap Eden baan
June 14, 1976	Paris	France	L'Olympia
June 15, 1976	London	England	Hammersmith Odeon
June 16, 1976
June 17, 1976				2 shows
June 18, 1976				2 shows
June 19, 1976	Cardiff	Wales	Ninian Park	West Coast Rock Show
June 20, 1976	Wolverhampton	England	Civic Hall
June 22, 1976	Birmingham		The Odeon
June 23, 1976	Bristol		Colston Hall
June 24, 1976	Exeter		Great Hall, University of Exeter
June 26, 1976	Leeds		Leeds University	2 shows
June 27, 1976	Manchester		Belle Vue