We jamming (Bob Marley) (LP 388 - 390)

Bob Marley and The Wailers Live! (CD, Tuff Gong/Island, 1975) *****
Bob Marley and The Wailers Live At the Roxy (CD, Tuff Gong/Island, 2003) *****
Bob Marley and The Wailers Babylon By Bus (CD, Tuff Gong/Island, 1978) ***

Genre: Reggae

Places I remember: The Warehouse Cambridge (Live! and BBB); Music store in the Al Ain Mall (Live At The Roxy)

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles:  Get Up Stand Up/ No More Trouble/ War (from Live At The Roxy)




Gear costume:  Positive Vibration on all three live sets; Jamming on BBB; Trenchtown Rock on Live! and the Roxy show.

Active compensatory factors: Live! and the Roxy show (from 1976) have a huge advantage over Babylon By Bus in that they are concerts from one venue - one night (and wowsers - what nights!!)

The Live! album has the advantage of being a single album, which means the featured songs stand out; nothing gets lost along the way.

The Roxy show appears on a double album and features the 24 minute encore (featured above). Remarkably, there is not one second of those 28 minutes that is superfluous.

Babylon By Bus from 1978 is just not as tight - even though it contains some wonderful moments.


Where do they all belong? If you want to relive the galvanising effect Bob Marley had on audiences then these albums are your go to items.