Kaya Tour

The Kaya Tour was a concert tour organised to support the album Kaya by Bob Marley & The Wailers.

Kaya Tour 1978
Tour by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Start date18 May 1978
End date5 August 1978
Legs3
No. of shows40 in North America
12 in Europe
52 in total
Bob Marley & The Wailers concert chronology

The tour was initially set to begin in early May in Miami, but the first six shows had to be postponed due to lead guitarist Junior Marvin's cocaine problems. Therefore, the tour began in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on 18 May 1978, and ended in Miami on 5 August 1978. The tour was divided into three legs, two U.S. legs and one European leg between. Before the tour Marley performed at the One Love Peace Concert on 22 April 1978.

Numerous concerts including the performances in Paris' Pavillon Baltard were recorded in order to release a second live album, Babylon by Bus which is a compilation of songs performed in Paris as well as from earlier shows from the tours in 1975 and 1976.

On 21 July, Peter Tosh, who was on tour with The Rolling Stones and performing in Anaheim, stopped by the Starlight Bowl in Burbank (where Bob was playing) and performed "Get Up, Stand Up" with Marley. Mick Jagger is said to have watched the entire show from off stage.

On 23 July, the birthday of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, reincarnated God of the Rastafari movement, Marley performed in Santa Barbara and did a very rare live performance of his song Sun Is Shining.

While on the tour Marley performed for the first time in Spain and Norway, and also premiered at the Madison Square Garden.

Steel Pulse were the opening act on several of Marley's European dates on the tour.

Setlist

After the first quarter of the tour the setlists became more standardised and mostly looked like the following:

  • "Positive Vibration"
  • "them Belly Full (but We Hungry)"
  • "Concrete Jungle"
  • "Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)"
  • "the Heathen"
  • "War" / "No More Trouble" (medley)
  • "Running Away" / "Crazy Baldhead" (medley)
  • "Crisis"
  • "I Shot The Sheriff"
  • "No Woman, No Cry"
  • "is this Love"
  • "Jamming"
  • "Lively Up Yourself"
  • "Easy Skanking"
  • "Get Up, Stand Up"
  • "Exodus"

At the beginning of the tour a Nyabinghi chant called "So Long Rastafari" (sometimes as a medley with "Time Will Tell") had been performed at the start of the show, followed by "Concrete Jungle", "Burnin' and Lootin'" and "them Belly Full (but We Hungry)". Since the Nyabinghi chant was very meditative and slow until it segued into the lively reggae beat of "Concrete Jungle", it was decided to replace the chant by the classic and instantly lively "Positive Vibration" to better catch the audience from the beginning. The same procedure was done at the beginning of the Rastaman Vibration Tour in 1976 when a medley of Nyabinghi chants, like "Lion of Judah" and "Rastaman Chant", opened the sets, but was later replaced.

It is reported that all songs from the Kaya album had been performed at least once. There are reports of various people (concert attenders, band members) that Marley did unusual long concerts in Ann Arbor Michigan, Lenox, Massachusetts, and Oslo (Norway), each with a setlist full of rarely performed songs. There were also performances of an earlier song, "Punky Reggae Party", which is not featured on any of Marley's Island albums released at that time, but was released as a single in 1977. When performed it was part of a medley along with "Get Up, Stand Up".

From show to show sometimes an additional song was edged in somewhere in the setlist, like "Slave Driver", "Burnin' and Lootin'", "Punky Reggae Party", "Kaya", "Sun Is Shining", "Time Will Tell", "One Love", "Natural Mystic", "Waiting in Vain" performed at the Montreal Forum-Montreal,Canada, "So Much Things To Say", "Talkin' Blues", "Who the Cap Fit"-performed at Music INN-Lennox, MA, "Rat Race" and "Roots, Rock, Reggae". Live performances of each of these songs happened very rarely during the tour.

Tour dates
Date City Country Venue
5 May 1978MiamiUnited StatesJai Alai Fronton Cancelled
6 May 1978AtlantaFox Theatre Cancelled
7 May 1978New OrleansThe Warehouse Cancelled
11 May 1978HoustonMusic Hall Cancelled
12 May 1978Fort WorthWill Rogers Auditorium Cancelled
14 May 1978AustinParamount Theater, University of Texas Cancelled
18 May 1978Ann ArborHill Auditorium
19 May 1978ClevelandPublic Auditorium
24 May 1978ColumbusVeterans Memorial Auditorium
The Imperials opened
25 May 1978MadisonOrpheum Theater
2 shows
27 May 1978ChicagoUptown Theatre
29 May 1978MilwaukeePerforming Arts Center
2 shows
30 May 1978MinneapolisNorthrop Auditorium
2 June 1978PittsburghStanley Theatre
3 June 1978SyracuseLandmark Theatre
4 June 1978DetroitDetroit Masonic Temple
5 June 1978PhiladelphiaThe Spectrum Theater
8 June 1978BostonMusic Hall
2 shows
9 June 1978TorontoCanadaMaple Leaf Gardens
Tower of Power opened
10 June 1978MontrealMontreal Forum
Tower of Power opened
11 June 1978BuffaloUnited StatesShea's Buffalo Cancelled
12 June 1978PoughkeepsieCivic Center
14 June 1978SheltonPinecrest Country Club
16 June 1978LandoverCapital Centre
17 June 1978New York CityMadison Square Garden
18 June 1978LenoxMusic Inn
22 June 1978StaffordEnglandNew Bingley Hall
25 June 1978ParisFrancePavillon de Paris
26 June 1978
27 June 1978
28 June 1978IbizaSpainPlaza de Toros
29 June 1978GothenburgSwedenScandinavium Cancelled
30 June 1978StockholmGröna Lund
1 July 1978RoskildeDenmarkRoskilde Festival
2 July 1978HortenNorwayHorten Festival
4 July 1978GdańskPolandHala Olivia
7 July 1978RotterdamNetherlandsRotterdam Ahoy
8 July 1978GeleenIJshall
9 July 1978BrusselsBelgiumForest National
13 July 1978LondonEnglandTop of the Pops
BBC TV broadcast
14 July 1978VancouverCanadaQueen Elizabeth Theatre
2 shows
15 July 1978SeattleUnited StatesParamount Theatre
2 shows
16 July 1978PortlandParamount Theatre
18 July 1978Santa CruzCivic Center
2 shows
20 July 1978BerkeleyGreek Theatre, University of California
21 July 1978BurbankStarlight Bowl
Peter Tosh special appearance
22 July 1978San DiegoPeterson Gym
23 July 1978Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara Bowl
24 July 1978BurbankStarlight Bowl
25 July 1978Los AngelesThe Roxy Theatre
27 July 1978AustinMunicipal Auditorium
28 July 1978Fort WorthTarrant County Convention Center
29 July 1978HoustonMusic Hall
30 July 1978New OrleansThe Warehouse
1 August 1978AtlantaFox Theatre
5 August 1978MiamiJai Alai Fronton
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