Rastaman Vibration Tour

Rastaman Vibration Tour 1976
Tour by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Start date 23 April 1976
End date 27 June 1976
Legs 2
Number of shows 27 in North America
19 in Europe
46 in total
Bob Marley & The Wailers concert chronology

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 23 April 1976, and ended in Manchester, England, on 27 June 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 26 May.

Setlist

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

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