Rastaman Vibration Tour
Overview
 
The Rastaman Vibration Tour was a concert tour
Concert
A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...

 organised to support the album Rastaman Vibration
Rastaman Vibration
Rastaman Vibration is a roots reggae album by Bob Marley & The Wailers released on April 30, 1976. The album was a great success in the USA, becoming the first Bob Marley release to reach the top ten on the Billboard 200 charts Rastaman Vibration is a roots reggae album by Bob Marley & The Wailers...

by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Bob Marley & The Wailers were a Jamaican reggae, ska and rocksteady band formed by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963. Additional members were Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, Cherry Smith and Aston and Carlton Barrett...

.

The tour began at the Tower Theater
Tower Theater
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 in Upper Darby
Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania
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, Pennsylvania
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, on April 23, 1976, and ended in Manchester
Manchester
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, England
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, on June 27, 1976. On the tour's second leg Marley performed for the first time in continental Europe and premiered in Germany
Germany
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, Sweden
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, France
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 and the Netherlands
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. After the tour Marley performed the Smile Jamaica Concert
Smile Jamaica Concert
The Smile Jamaica Concert was a concert held on December 5, 1976, at the National Heroes Park, Kingston, Jamaica, performed by Bob Marley & The Wailers. Only 2 days after Marley had almost been killed by gunmen in his house, but survived and was driven up in the Blue Mountains...

 in his homeland Jamaica
Jamaica
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, after being shot a couple of days before.
The album Live At the Roxy was recorded during this tour, on May 26.
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".
 
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