On November 27, 1979, Bob Marley and the Wailers play the Roxy Theater in Hollywood, CA for the last time. Here is the story behind that show.
Roger Steffens spoke about this show when interviewed by www.bobmarleymagazine.com in 2003:
I last saw him at the end of November in Los Angeles, the night of his Roxy performance, a benefit for the Sugar Ray Robinson Foundation. I sat alone in the Roxy that afternoon with him for nearly 3 hours while he played all the instruments himself and Fams, his band leader, set the sound levels. The first hour he kept singing something I’d never heard before, a song about redemption. I was mesmerized.
That afternoon at the Roxy and 2 of the evenings that same week I arranged for him to see the work print of “Smile Jamaica” and the suppressed documentary about the assassination attempt; and the work print of Heartland Reggae with the One Love Peace Concert footage. Afterwards, we asked Bob what he felt standing there between Seaga and Manley, two men in whose names so many thousands of Jamaicans have been killed. “I man no politician,” he explained, “But if I man a politician only one t’ing for me to do – kill them both.”
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Live at The Roxy Theater
Los Angeles, CA
November 27, 1979
01-Intro-Positive Vibration
02-Wake Up And Live
03-Them Belly Full
04-Concrete Jungle
05-I Shot The Sheriff
06-Ambush In The Night
07-Running Away
08-Crazy Baldheads
09-The Heathen
10-War
11-No More Trouble
12-Africa Unite
13-One Drop
14-Exodus
15-Ride Natty Ride
16-Zimbabwe
17-Jammin’
18-Rebel Music
19-Stir It Up
20-Is This Love
21-Get Up Stand Up
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