Bob Marley & The Wailers — Santa Barbara County Bowl, 1979

Full concert film of Bob Marley & The Wailers live at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, California, on 25 November 1979, during the Survival Tour. This professionally shot live recording, released as The Legend Live, is one of the best-documented concerts of Marley’s career. Anchored by the Barrett brothers’ rhythm section, the keyboards of Tyrone Downie and Earl Lindo, the guitars of Junior Marvin and Al Anderson, Seeco Patterson’s percussion and the I Threes on backing vocals (Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths), the show champions the politically charged album Survival (1979). The setlist moves through “Positive Vibration,” “I Shot the Sheriff,” “Concrete Jungle,” “Africa Unite,” “Zimbabwe,” “Exodus,” “Jamming,” “Is This Love,” “Stir It Up” and “Get Up, Stand Up.” This 1979 live performance captures the militant fervour and stagecraft of Kingston reggae taken worldwide. A landmark full concert for discovering Bob Marley’s power on stage, where Rastafari spirituality meets pan-African politics, eighteen months before his death.