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BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS
Boston 1979 [no label, 2CD]
Amandla: Festival Of Unity. Live at Harvard Stadium, Boston, MA; July 21, 1979. Fairly to very good soundboard-audience matrix mix.
On July 21, 1979, Bob Marley and The Wailers, Dick Gregory, Olatunji, Eddie Palmieri, Jabula, the art of Black Dance and Patti Labelle came to Harvard Stadium in Boston for a concert to benefit the on-going struggles in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. The concert was called AMANDLA: Festival of Unity. A benfit Concert for Relief and Humanitarian Aid to Southern Africa. 25 years later in making this video of the performance of Bob Marley and the Wailers, we celebrate the triumph of these liberation struggles of the people of Southern Africa for equality, dignity and self determination. This videotape is dedicated in memory of Bob Marley singer of songs of freedom and in memory of Kwame Olatunji who was responsible for recording this historic event. This show was the first live performance of the two encore songs (Zimbabwe and Wake Up And Live). It is also notable that during these two songs Bob Marley made several spoken statements over the music which are way longer than what I’ve ever heard on other Bob Marley recordings. The appearance of Babatunde Olatunji on Exodus is also very notable.
- notes from DVD
Thanks to grner1 for creating this mix and sharing the tracks at Dime.
grner1 noted:
The previous separate soundboard and audience sources have been merged here with a soundboard plus speed-matched audience matrix mix. Bass equalization was also done to better even out the mix.
I should also mention that the audience audio was speeded up by varying amounts throughout (with a lot of it approximately 23 cents fast). The soundboard source was mostly more complete, with the audience source having a short gap for the tape flip. The audience source was also missing Dick Gregory’s opening speech and most of the encore break. The soundboard audio and the video that it came from had quite a few short gaps in the last 10 minutes of the show, which could be seamlessly added back in from the audience source in all but one place during the last song, where approximately eight tenths of a second (25 frames) now has only the audience audio with video still frames. Though that spot will be noticeable a bit, it goes by very quickly and should not impair the listening experience much at all.
And, of course, many thanks to all who helped to create and share this show in previous versions!
There is also a Japanese boot of this show wrongly listed as Brisbane - Australia 79. It contains only seven tracks and appears to have slight tape warbling in parts.
Original audience audio specifics: Taper: Alan Powell
Lineage: Nakamichi 550/300’s FOB (mC) > DAT > ZA-2 > CDR > EAC > SHN
New lineage and notes:
Video and audience audio from previous Dime downloads.
DVD PCM Soundboard audio extracted losslessly from previous version’s VIDEO_TS folder.
VIDEO_TS folder > Cinematize2 (lossless Quicktime extraction) > Apple Macintosh Final Cut Pro 7.0.3 > AIFF export > Digidesign Pro Tools 8.0 with MBox interface (audience source speed-matched with soundboard audio on video, matrix mix, bass equalization, normalization and minor “nip and tuck” edits). Audio placed back into Final Cut Pro before Compressor down-sampling.
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Disc 1
Track 101. Announcer/Dick Gregory Speech 14:31 (24.4MB)
Track 102. Bob Marley intro and talk 1:06 (1.9MB)
Track 103. Positive Vibration 5:19 (8.9MB)
Track 104. Slave Driver 4:22 (7.3MB)
Track 105. Them Belly Full 4:01 (6.8MB)
Track 106. Runnin Away 5:13 (8.8MB)
Track 107. Crazy Baldhead 4:01 (6.8MB)
Track 108. The Heathen 5:11 (8.7MB)
Track 109. War 5:51 (9.8MB)
Track 110. No More Trouble 1:54 (3.2MB)
52 mins
Disc 2
Track 201. Lively Up Yourself 5:16 (8.9MB)
Track 202. No Woman No Cry 6:55 (11.6MB)
Track 203. Jammin’ 5:47 (9.7MB)
Track 204. Get Up Stand Up 4:49 (8.1MB)
Track 205. Exodus (with Babatunde Olatunji) 8:39 (14.5MB)
Track 206. encore break 3:10 (5.3MB)
Track 207. Zimbabwe 7:00 (11.8MB)
Track 208. Wake Up And Live 10:40 (17.9MB)
Track 209. band intros by Junior Marvin 1:49 (3.1MB)
Track 210. announcer and applause 0:14 (396k)
55 mins
Lineup: (listed at bobmarleyconcerts website):
Bob Marley - vocals, rhythm guitar
Aston Barrett - bass
Carlton Barrett - drums
Junior Marvin - lead guitar
Al Anderson - lead guitar
Tyrone Downie - keyboards
Earl “Wya” Lindo - organ
Alvin “Seeco” Patterson - percussion
The I-Threes - backing vocals
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