Survival Tour

Survival Tour 1979
Tour by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Start date late October 1979
End date 6 January 1980
Legs 1
No. of shows 41 in North America
3 in the Caribbean
2 in Africa
46 in total
Bob Marley & The Wailers concert chronology

The Survival Tour was a concert tour organised to support the album Survival by Bob Marley & The Wailers. It was Marley's second-to-last tour.

The tour started in Boston in late October 1979, and ended in Libreville, Gabon, on 6 January 1980. During 1979, which was the International Year of the Child, the band made appearances at a few benefit concerts for children, as was the case on 10 August 1979, in Jamaica, prior to the Survival Tour, and on 15 December 1979 in Nassau, Bahamas. The tour took place mainly in the United States, but also included performances in the Caribbean and in Africa.

The performance in Santa Barbara, California on 25 November has been released on VHS and DVD as "Bob Marley - The Legend Live". The performance in Oakland, featuring Ronnie Wood (The Rolling Stones) in the encore five days later, had also been taped on video by Bill Graham Presents, but hasn't been released yet.

Most concerts in the United States and in Africa were opened by soul and R&B singer Betty Wright. Furthermore the Survival Tour was the only tour the band included a horn section, featuring Glen Da Costa on saxophone and David Madden on trumpet. After the concerts in Gabon the band returned to Jamaica to record the Uprising album and to make trips to Brazil and to Zimbabwe to perform at its independence celebrations on 18 April 1980, before kicking off the Uprising Tour in Europe by the end of May.

While on tour Marley performed for the first time in Trinidad and Tobago, The Bahamas, and in Africa.

Setlist

The standard setlist of the tour mostly looked like the following:

At the beginning of the tour which started with seven shows at the Apollo Theater in New York City, Marley varied the setlists much more than later on the tour. Most shows had a standard setlist which closes with "Exodus", and an encore set which usually ended with "Get Up, Stand Up". From show to show sometimes an additional song was edged in the middle or attached at the end of the setlist, like "Ride Natty Ride", "Natty Dread", "Lively Up Yourself", "Roots, Rock, Reggae", "Zimbabwe", "Stir It Up", "Kinky Reggae", "So Much Trouble In The World", "Burnin' And Lootin'", "Natural Mystic", "So Much Things To Say", "Rat Race", "Rebel Music" and "Survival". Live performances of each of these songs happened very rarely during the tour.

Tour dates

Date City Country Venue Notes
21 October 1979 Boston, Massachusetts United States Harvard Stadium with Stevie Wonder
22 October 1979 New York City, New York Madison Square Garden
25 October 1979 Apollo Theater 2 shows
26 October 1979 2 shows
27 October 1979 2 shows
28 October 1979
31 October 1979 Hamilton, New York Cotterell Court
1 November 1979 Toronto, Ontario Canada Maple Leaf Gardens
2 November 1979 Montréal, Québec Montreal Forum
3 November 1979 Ottawa, Ontario Ottawa Civic Centre
4 November 1979 Burlington, Vermont United States Memorial Hall 2 shows
7 November 1979 7 PM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia Civic Center Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center where? with Betty Wright; benefit concert for the Black Music Association
10 November 1979 7 PM Detroit, Michigan Masonic Temple with King Sundiata Keita
11 November 1979 Madison, Wisconsin Dane County Coliseum
12 November 1979 Milwaukee, Wisconsin The Auditorium
13 November 1979 Chicago, Illinois Uptown Theatre
15 November 1979 Minneapolis, Minnesota Northrop Auditorium
17 November 1979 Edmonton, Alberta Canada Kinsmen Fieldhouse
19 November 1979 Portland, Oregon United States Paramount Theatre
20 November 1979 Seattle, Washington Paramount Theatre 2 shows
21 November 1979 Vancouver, British Columbia Canada Pacific Coliseum
23 November 1979 9:15 PM Los Angeles, California United States Pauley Pavilion
24 November 1979 San Diego, California San Diego Sports Arena
25 November 1979 Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara Bowl
27 November 1979 Los Angeles, California The Roxy Theater benefit for Sugar Ray Robinson's foundation
30 November 1979 Oakland, California Oakland Auditorium Arena with Ronnie Wood and Donald Kinsey
1 December 1979 Davis, California Freeborn Hall
2 December 1979 Santa Cruz, California Civic Auditorium 2 shows
5 December 1979 Denver, Colorado Denver University Arena
6 December 1979 Lawrence, Kansas Hoch Auditorium Blue Riddim Band opened
7 December 1979 Dallas, Texas ?
10 December 1979 Nashville, Tennessee United States Memorial Gymnasium
11 December 1979 New Orleans, Louisiana ?
12 December 1979 Atlanta, Georgia Fox Theatre
13 December 1979 Tampa, Florida Jai Alai Fronton
14 December 1979 Birmingham, Alabama Brothers Music Hall
15 December 1979 Nassau Bahamas Queen Elizabeth Sports Center benefit concert for Bahamian children
4 January 1980 Libreville Gabon Gymnase Omnisport Bongo
6 January 1980

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