For detailed information on venue, date, and photographer, please visit www.marleyarchives.com. I always try to include this information when it is available.
Just stumble upon this website after looking for Emperor Augustus for my son’s class…Saw Augustus Pablo link…than I dived in…WOW!!! I forgot about my teens…very glad I saw Marley at the Apollo in New York… after missing him at Madison. Good website to share with my family but with Bob’s music playing next time. Thank you.
I live in smokeless (smiling) London and have a family now…
If and when I have the time maybe I will…. need time to reminisce…maybe a day of tribute with the family in April celebrating his music with my family. Thanks for asking.
Bye for now.
Concerning the Bob Marley concert at the Apollo….there were three shows, in three days….and I made sure I was present for all three…Each show was different…but each unique. The Apollo theater has 2 balconies…I was in the first balcony …front row center…best seat in the house…I sooo wish at least one of the concerts were on film….Bob rocked the house…so much so, at one point I actually got frightened…at the end of the third and final show…Bo had everyone on their feet singing “Get up Stand up”…of course everyone got up…but it wasn’t until a few minutes into the song that I realized the whole balcony was shaking….literally moving…I kept still to see if it was movement that I was really feeling…sure enough…it was…that’s when I started to hope that the balcony would hold….the balcony was full…even the isles…the Apollo is an old theater…..After the concert , I left feeling fulfilled and exhausted…Bob had taken all my energy…..antime he played NYC I was there….have never been to a concert that could surpass any Bob Marley concert since…….
BLESS.
I live in smokeless (smiling) London and have a family now…
If and when I have the time maybe I will…. need time to reminisce…maybe a day of tribute in April celebrating his music with my family. Thanks for asking.
Bye for now.
I was a freshman at BU and didn’t know the concert was happening til I literally was walking across the street from Harvard Stadium and saw the crowds. I had a knapsack with my drawing pad, pastels and pencils, and a bag of potato chips and thought really fast…why don’t I approach the press entrance table assembled behind the iron bar gate, and tell them I’m doing an art piece on Bob Marley for Boston University’s “Free Press” – don’t know if the paper really existed, but I gave it a shot, and miracle be – they gave me a press pass and I was FREE to enter – I went below the stadium where all the rastas, the band and MANY beautiful people were, kept walking and found a staircase to the stage where I took a seat at the far left front of the stage and watched the entire concert, drawing of course most of the time, attended the press conference in the back of the stadium and was completely in awe of everything I felt, saw, heard and breathed.
I have an original 4×6 photo of bob in his backyard on hope st in 1976. if i could send it to you or someone else reading this, maybe you might know more about it for me. It was given to me about 12 years ago. The guy (Jeff) who gave it to me is the one interviewing Bob in the picture. But that’s really all i know. Bob is sitting beside another guy, who despite all my searching, i cant firgure out who he is. Although i was told by the original owner of the picture, that the guy beside Bob was murdered a short time after. If that’s true i don’t kow for sure. Look foreward to hearing from someone soon…
Amanda
Great stories…thank you all for sharing. I just returned from Jamaica, where I visited Bobs Birthplace and burial site. Humbling and beautiful to say the least. Peace with every step.
1973
1974
1980
Love all photos of bob
It makes me young again….seems like yesterday
Just stumble upon this website after looking for Emperor Augustus for my son’s class…Saw Augustus Pablo link…than I dived in…WOW!!! I forgot about my teens…very glad I saw Marley at the Apollo in New York… after missing him at Madison. Good website to share with my family but with Bob’s music playing next time. Thank you.
Would you be willing to share your experience at the Apollo show when I post the audio?
I live in smokeless (smiling) London and have a family now…
If and when I have the time maybe I will…. need time to reminisce…maybe a day of tribute with the family in April celebrating his music with my family. Thanks for asking.
Bye for now.
Concerning the Bob Marley concert at the Apollo….there were three shows, in three days….and I made sure I was present for all three…Each show was different…but each unique. The Apollo theater has 2 balconies…I was in the first balcony …front row center…best seat in the house…I sooo wish at least one of the concerts were on film….Bob rocked the house…so much so, at one point I actually got frightened…at the end of the third and final show…Bo had everyone on their feet singing “Get up Stand up”…of course everyone got up…but it wasn’t until a few minutes into the song that I realized the whole balcony was shaking….literally moving…I kept still to see if it was movement that I was really feeling…sure enough…it was…that’s when I started to hope that the balcony would hold….the balcony was full…even the isles…the Apollo is an old theater…..After the concert , I left feeling fulfilled and exhausted…Bob had taken all my energy…..antime he played NYC I was there….have never been to a concert that could surpass any Bob Marley concert since…….
BLESS.
http://midnightraverblog.com/2013/02/05/bob-marley-and-the-wailers-play-the-apollo-harlem-ny-1979/
I live in smokeless (smiling) London and have a family now…
If and when I have the time maybe I will…. need time to reminisce…maybe a day of tribute in April celebrating his music with my family. Thanks for asking.
Bye for now.
OK. My email is marleyarchives@yahoo.com. If you feel up to it, just send me a paragraph about the show and your experience. All the best.
I was a freshman at BU and didn’t know the concert was happening til I literally was walking across the street from Harvard Stadium and saw the crowds. I had a knapsack with my drawing pad, pastels and pencils, and a bag of potato chips and thought really fast…why don’t I approach the press entrance table assembled behind the iron bar gate, and tell them I’m doing an art piece on Bob Marley for Boston University’s “Free Press” – don’t know if the paper really existed, but I gave it a shot, and miracle be – they gave me a press pass and I was FREE to enter – I went below the stadium where all the rastas, the band and MANY beautiful people were, kept walking and found a staircase to the stage where I took a seat at the far left front of the stage and watched the entire concert, drawing of course most of the time, attended the press conference in the back of the stadium and was completely in awe of everything I felt, saw, heard and breathed.
Can’t say I had a better concert experience!!!
I would like to add this to the Amandla post as a fan’s experience.
I have an original 4×6 photo of bob in his backyard on hope st in 1976. if i could send it to you or someone else reading this, maybe you might know more about it for me. It was given to me about 12 years ago. The guy (Jeff) who gave it to me is the one interviewing Bob in the picture. But that’s really all i know. Bob is sitting beside another guy, who despite all my searching, i cant firgure out who he is. Although i was told by the original owner of the picture, that the guy beside Bob was murdered a short time after. If that’s true i don’t kow for sure. Look foreward to hearing from someone soon…
Amanda
scan and email to midnightraverblog@gmail.com I can tell you. The guy interviewing Bob was probably Jeff Walker who I know.
Great stories…thank you all for sharing. I just returned from Jamaica, where I visited Bobs Birthplace and burial site. Humbling and beautiful to say the least. Peace with every step.