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Easy Skanking in Boston for Feb release
BobMarley
Entertainment
January 20, 2015

Easy Skanking in Boston for Feb release

Bob Marley and The Wailers’ shows at Boston’s Music Hall in June 1978 is the subject of a multi-faceted project by Universal Music Enterprises. It will be released February 3, three days before what would have been the reggae superstar’s 70th birthday.

Titled Bob Marley & The Wailers-Easy Skanking in Boston ’78, the package comprises a CD, a Blu-Ray/CD combo and a VD/CD. They capture Marley and his band in two shows on June 8. The project is one of many planned by the UME (distributors of the Marley catalogue) and Marley’s family to celebrate his birthday throughout 2015.

The CD contains 13 songs, many of which Marley performed while on tour. They include Slave Driver, Them Belly Full, Rebel Music, I Shot the Sheriff, No Woman, No Cry, Jammin’, Get Up, Stand Up and Exodus.

The 46-minute Blu-Ray/CD version has seven songs: Rebel Music, I Shot the Sheriff, No Woman, No Cry, Lively Up Yourself, Jamming, War/No More Trouble and Exodus.

Marley and his band had performed at the One Love Peace Concert in Kingston in April where he famously brought on bitter rivals, Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley and Opposition Leader Edward Seaga, in a symbolic gesture of peace.

It was his first live date in Jamaica since the Smile Jamaica event in December 1976. Two days before that show, Marley, his wife Rita and manager Don Taylor were shot by gunmen at his St Andrew home.

After the Smile Jamaica show, Marley left the country for The Bahamas and England.

On his 1978 tour of the United States, he was promoting his Kaya album.

His band at the Music Hall shows were Carlton Barrett (drums), Aston Barrett (bass), Tyrone Downie (keyboards), Junior Marvin (guitar), Alvin ‘Seeco’ Patterson (percussion), Marcia Griffiths, Rita Marley and Judy Mowatt (backup vocals). Marley died from cancer in Miami in May 1981. He was 36.

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