Bob Marley by David V. Moskowitz

Author:David V. Moskowitz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Published: 2006-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Babylon by Bus

An offshoot of the recording of several of the Wailers shows from the Kaya tour was the release of another live album. Blackwell headed into the studio with the raw tapes of Wailers shows from Paris, Copenhagen, London, and Amsterdam. He emerged with the master tapes for the live album Babylon by Bus. Released in 1978, the album included 13 exemplary live performances including the songs “Positive Vibrations”, “Punky Reggae Party”, “Exodus”, “Stir It Up”, “Rat Race”, “Concrete Jungle”, “Kinky Reggae”, “Lively Up Yourself”, “Rebel Music”, “War/ No More Trouble”, “Is This Love”, “The Heathen”, and “Jamming.”

The album began with an introduction by Bob during which he continued to assert his faith in Haile Selassie I. He welcomed the crowd in the name of Ras Tafari. He went on to repeat that Selassie was “ever living” and “ever sure”. Bob further linked himself with Selassie through repeated use of the “I and I” word choice of Rastafarians. He then engaged in a brief call and response with the audience that led into the first track. The album captured the Wailers at a new height of live performance, and the power of Bob’s singing and his vocal presence illustrated how far the singer had come since the Live! album was released three years earlier.

A strange circumstance unfolded with the release of the Babylon by Bus album: the Wailers toured in support of a live album without releasing any new studio material. The group was capable of doing this because its international reputation had grown to such a high level and there were still parts of the world in which it had not performed. In pursuit of newer and larger audiences, the Wailers launched the Babylon by Bus tour, with the idea that they would play parts of the world that had not been previously exposed to live reggae music.

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