MARLEY, BOB

DVD · HotWacks archive review

OAKLAND JAMMING

Sound 9 Packaging 9 Performance 9 Video 6
Label
VJam VJR 250
Source
Oakland Auditorium Arena 30th November 1979
Format
1 DVD-R
Running time
110 m.
Sound / source
Soundboard mono, Dolby Digital 2.0
Packaging
Standard DVD Clamshell
Features
Interactive menu,songs selection
Video / source
Pro Shot b&w
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Track list

1. Positive Vibration, 2. Wake Up And Live, 3. Concrete Jungle, 4. Them Belly Full (But We Hungry), 5. I Shot The Sheriff, 6. Running Away, 7. Crazy Baldhead, 8. Ambush in the Night, 9.   The Heathen, 10. War, 11. No More Trouble, 12. No Woman, No Cry, 13. Lively Up Yourself, 14. Africa Unite, 15. One Drop, 16. Exodus, 17. Introducing Ronnie Wood, 18. Is This Love, 19. Jammin, 20. Ride Natty Ride, 21. Roots, Rock, Reggae, 22. Natty Dread, 23. Get up, Stand Up.     

The review

This release couples the known Proshot from Bob Marley Oakland 79 film with the recent radio broadcast from Wolfgang's Vault that had the whole concert in soundboard, although mono. Picture is still in black & white but the addition of a proper soundtrack renders this release an improvement over previous ones even if not that dramatically. The concert is a great performance by Reggae's most known artist who plays his stylistic set of songs amidst a bunch of family and friends and is joined at the end of the concert for a three songs encore by Ron Wood ('Look what I found: A Rolling Stone, He Won't Gather Moss Here’ says Marley introducing Wood). Hoping a better video copy of this concert will pop up sometime in the future we have to accept this release as the best document for that eventful night.

 

 

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