Bob Marley The Legend Live

Santa Barbara County Bowl
November 25th 1979

Taken from the Trojan Video Archive, this Bob Marley & The Wailers concert is presented here for the first time on DVD and is the final recorded performance before his death in May 1981.

The concert took place at The Santa Barbara County Bowl on the 25th of November 1979, and the resulting film is an incredible record of Bab Marley's performance; on that is arguably an equal of the better-known 'Live at the Rainbow' show filmed on the Exodus tour in 1977. Every song is received rapturously, but the show takes a quantum leap as night falls and Bob and the Wailers burst into 'Exodus', a work of epic poetry. By the time the show is concluding with the militant 'Get Up Stand Up', the entire auditorium is swaying along and mouthing the repeated lines on 'Cos I never give up the fight,' a defiant statement of intent that brings this inspirational concert to a close.

With remastered picture and audio, the original 70-minute version has been extended here for DVD by Don Letts to include an additional 7 songs from the set not featured in the original VHS release.

Also included as a DVD extra is another gem from the Trojan vaults: an archive documentary entitled "Prophecies & Messages." Running at approximately 51 minutes, this includes 30 minutes of previously unseen interview footage with Marley and the Wailer's keyboard player Tyrone Downie discussing Rastafarianism.

DVD. English. Sanctuary. 2008. Good Condition. UMFDVD 253.