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Marley At The Schaefer Summer Music Festival:
The Schaefer Music Festival was a music festival held in summer between 1968 and 1976 at the Wollman Skating Rink in New York City’s Central Park. The festival began in 1966 as the Rheingold Central Park Music Festival, the series was sponsored by F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company, brewer of Schaefer Beer.
The shows were very popular and usually sold out. Hundreds would spend the entire day on line for a concert. While the capacity of the Wollman Rink was usually limited to about 6,000 to 7,000 people, it is reported that Bob Marley’s performance in 1975 attracted about 15,000 people.
Bob Marley and the Wailers, on tour promoting the Natty Dread album, played the opening summer show of the festival on a hot and muggy June 18, 1975. The show is notable because it is one of the few live performances featuring the only white member of The Wailers, harmonica player Lee Jaffe. Jaffe plays harmonica on “Rebel Music (3 O’clock Road Block)” and “Talkin’ Blues”.
Special Thanks To:Midnightraverblog
Photographer: Jim Anderson
Location Of Photograph:Schaefer Festival, New York, USA 06/18/75
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Junior Murvin, Jacob Miller& Bob Marley being interviewed at the Santos Dumont Airport in Brazil, 1980.
Photographer:Unknown
Location Of Photograph: Santos Dumont Airport, Rio, Brazil. 03/18/80
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Junior Murvin, Bob Marley, Jacob Miller & Chris Blackwell in Jamacia 1980 just after promotional trip to Brazil. (Possibly last photograph of Jacob Miller)
Photographer:Unknown (Probably Nathalie Delon)
Location Of Photograph: Norman Manley Airport, Jamaica. 03/21/80
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There’s a natural mystic blowing through the air; If you listen carefully now you will hear. - Bob Marley
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No More Reggae At The Hammersmith Odeon:
Performing six shows throughout the 15th to the 18th of June 1976 and selling out all of them in record time for the ticket price of just three pounds. Marley and The Wailers caused quite the stir with their performances attracting many kinds of people that squads of police had to get involved to supposedly keep the peace but was most likely caused by the paranoia of the somewhat cozy white rock promoters face with a 50/50 black/white audience. After The Wailers performances, the venue owner decided to not brings reggae music again at The Odeon due to neighbors complaints.
Photographer: Steve Joester
Location Of Photograph: Hammersmith Odeon, London, England. 06/17/76
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“When the race gets hard to run, It means you just can’t take the pace. When it’s time to have your fun, You find the tears run on down through your face, Then you stop and think a little: Are you the victim of the system? Anyday now they gon’ let you down; Remember, Natty will be there to see you through." - Bob Marley
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“Some people think life is a dream, so they making matters worse but no matter what the crisis is, give Jah all the thanks and praises!” - Bob Marley
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Promoter Rich Engler Talks About Marley’s Last Show:
“they came in to do a soundcheck. I was looking around for Bob and found him in the dressing room, sitting on the couch, looking depressed and ill. I said, ‘I heard you’re not feeling well. I’m concerned. I hope you’re feeling better. Are you going to play?’
"He said, 'Mon, I wasn’t going to, but I’m going to for my band and everybody. It’s a sold-out show. I’m going to do it.’ ”
Photographer:Unknown
Location Of Photograph: Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, USA. 09/23/80
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Marley Performs A Historic Show At Reggae Sunsplash:
Reggae Sunsplash was a Jamaican concert festival. It attracted people from all over the globe to enjoy multiple days and nights of reggae music. Bob Marley’s performance was priceless/epic/amazing/historic a true one of a kind performance. The show featured never before or after live versions of “Hypocrites”, “Blackman Redemption”, “Rastaman Live Up” and also played for the first time live “Ambush in the Night”. This show also features a Rare live “Who The Cap Fits”. It would be his only appearance at Reggae Sunsplash but defiantly went out with a bang.
Photographer:Dave Saunders
Location Of Photograph: Jarrett Park, Montego Bay, Jamaica. 07/06/79
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“I’m just a Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America. Stolen from Africa, brought to America…” - Bob Marley
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Bob Marley Plays A Football Game In Bazil 1980:
Bob Marley visited Brazil in 1980 from March 18th until March 20th. The principal reason was to promote the launch of the Ariola label in Brazil.
On Wednesday, March 19th, in the afternoon, a Football game was organized with Bob Marley, Junior Marvin, Jacob Miller, Toquinho, Chico Buarque and Paulo César against Alceu Valença, Chicão (from the Brazilian band Jorge) and 4 other people from the Brazilian recording scene and Bob’s team won 3-0.
Photographer:Clori
Location Of Photograph: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 03/19/80
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Bob Marley at Tuff Gong studios working on his 1979 “Survival” album.
Photographer:Adrian Boot
Location Of Photograph: 56 Hope Road, Kingston, Jamaica. XX/XX/79
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The Legend Lives On:
Taken in 1978 during the filming of the “Is This Love” music video. This iconic photograph would later become the cover art for the 1984 album titled “Legend”, released by Tuff Gong/Island Records. The album would become the second longest-charting album in the history of Billboard magazine and one of the best selling albums of all time.
Photographer:Adrian Boot (Tuff Gong)
Location Of Photograph: Keskidee Centre, London, England. 03/16/78
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Bob Marley work in progress drawing.
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New podcast episode
In the new episode ofthe Rock’s Backpages podcast, we invite the excellent Miles Marshall Lewis to Zoom in from his native New York City.
Co-hosts Barney, Mark & Jasper ask Miles about his formative musical experiences in the South Bronx, including the impact of his parents’ superhip record collection. The conversation turns to hip hop, and then to the “mashing” of jazz and rap on the first three Tribe Called Quest albums — which leads circuitously to Kendrick Lamar’s jazz-infused 2015 masterpiece To Pimp a Butterfly, and then to the biography (Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power & Poetry of Kendrick Lamar) that Miles has just published. Jasper asks the author about Kamasi Washington and other guest stars on Butterfly, after which we swing to the opposite end of the jazz spectrum and discuss Tony Scherman’s 1996 interview with somewhat divisive traditionalist Wynton Marsalis — the week’s new audio offering, from which we hear two clips.
From jazz and hip hop we turn to reggae and to the week’s featured artist Bob Marley. Prompted by the imminent London premiere of Marley musical Get Up, Stand Up!, we hear the voice of the Jamaican superstar as he speaks to Karl Dallas about ‘I Shot the Sheriff’, a mere day after the Wailers blew the roof off London’s Lyceum theatre on 18th July, 1975.
After bidding farewell to Status Quo bassist/cofounder Alan Lancaster and to George “Commander Cody” Frayne IV, the RBP team talk us through the 100+ pieces added to our library over the past two weeks. These include Lillian Roxon writing about L.A. in the aftermath of the 1969 Manson killings (before Manson has been arrested); Ronnie Hawkins in hot water with former charges The Band/Hawks (also 1969), Michael Watts in hot pursuit of Iggy Pop in 1977, Mark Rozzo revisiting “ultimate cult album” Big Star Third in 2006, and —– bringing the episode full circle — our special guest on Baz Luhrmann’s 2016 hip hop drama The Get Down…
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New on Rock’s Backpages
THIS WEEK we’re featuring – for one week only – exclusive audio ofBob Marleytalking to Karl Dallas the day after the Wailers played a legendary show at London’s Lyceum on 18th July, 1975. Hear the interview for free till Friday, then read the Melody Makerpiece that resulted from it – along with Vivien Goldman’s account of dropping in on Bob in Jamaica four years later.
The week’s featured writer (and our next podcast guest) is Miles Marshall Lewis, whose biography of the brilliant Kendrick Lamaris published this week. Miles’ Ebony review of To Pimp a Butterfly is revisited here, as is a 2013 interview with Wynton Marsalis… who just happens to be the week’s new audio interviewee (in a 1996 conversation with Tony Scherman). By way of bidding farewell to Alan LancasterandGeorge Frayne IV, we’re also offering 1976 interviews with Status Quo and Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen.
Subscribers can, of course, access the 50+ new articles added to the RBP library, including:
- Robert Shelton reviewing the Byrds @ Village Gate in 1966
- Ronnie Hawkinsin hot water with former charges The Band in 1969
- John Morthland in New Orleans with the Ohio Players in 1981
- Sandy Robertson meeting “Hollywood’s prince of darkness” Warren Zevonin 1985
- Phranc onbeing an “all-American Jewish lesbian folk singer” in 1991
- New RBP recruit Mark Rozzo lauds “ultimate cult album”Big Star Third/Sister Loversin 1993
- And, from 2015, David Toop revisiting Coltrane’s classic Love Supreme…
We sick and tired of-a your ism-schism game
Dying ‘n’ going to heaven in-a Jesus’ name…
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Free on RBP for a week
SO MUCH THINGS TO SAY — Exclusive audio of Bob Marley talking to Karl Dallas in July 1975, the day after he blew the roof off London’s Lyceum… and the Melody Makerpiece that resulted from it. Plus the MM’s Vivien Goldman meets Marley “in his own backyard” in the summer of ‘79…
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Bob Marley photographed by Michael Putland while visiting the Island Records Offices in London, United Kingdom - July 24, 1975
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