Survival Tour

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.

Survival Tour 1979
Tour by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Start datelate October 1979
End date6 January 1980
Legs1
No. of shows41 in North America
3 in the Caribbean
2 in Africa
46 in total
Bob Marley & The Wailers concert chronology

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:

  • "Positive Vibration"
  • "Wake Up And Live"
  • "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)"
  • "Concrete Jungle"
  • "I Shot The Sheriff"
  • "Running Away" / "Crazy Baldhead" (medley)
  • "Ambush In The Night"
  • "The Heathen"
  • "War" / "No More Trouble"
  • "Africa Unite"
  • "One Drop"
  • "Exodus"
  • "No Woman, No Cry"
  • "Jammin'"
  • "Is This Love?"
  • "Get Up, Stand Up"

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 1979Boston, MassachusettsUnited StatesHarvard Stadiumwith Stevie Wonder
22 October 1979New York City, New YorkMadison Square Garden
25 October 1979Apollo Theater2 shows
26 October 19792 shows
27 October 19792 shows
28 October 1979
31 October 1979Hamilton, New YorkCotterell Court
1 November 1979Toronto, OntarioCanadaMaple Leaf Gardens
2 November 1979Montréal, QuébecMontreal Forum
3 November 1979Ottawa, OntarioOttawa Civic Centre
4 November 1979Burlington, VermontUnited StatesBurlington Memorial Auditorium
7 November 1979 7 PMPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia Civic Center Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center where?with Betty Wright; benefit concert for the Black Music Association
10 November 1979 7 PMDetroit, MichiganMasonic Templewith King Sundiata Keita
11 November 1979Madison, WisconsinDane County Coliseum
12 November 1979Milwaukee, WisconsinThe Auditorium
13 November 1979Chicago, IllinoisUptown Theatrerare live performance of Survival
15 November 1979Minneapolis, MinnesotaNorthrop Auditorium
17 November 1979Edmonton, AlbertaCanadaKinsmen Fieldhouse
19 November 1979Portland, OregonUnited StatesParamount Theatre
20 November 1979Seattle, WashingtonParamount Theatre2 shows
21 November 1979Vancouver, British ColumbiaCanadaPacific Coliseum
23 November 1979 9:15 PMLos Angeles, CaliforniaUnited StatesPauley Pavilion
24 November 1979San Diego, CaliforniaSan Diego Sports Arena
25 November 1979Santa Barbara, CaliforniaSanta Barbara Bowl
27 November 1979Los Angeles, CaliforniaThe Roxy Theaterbenefit for Sugar Ray Robinson's foundation
30 November 1979Oakland, CaliforniaOakland Auditorium Arenawith Ronnie Wood and Donald Kinsey
1 December 1979Davis, CaliforniaFreeborn Hall
2 December 1979Santa Cruz, CaliforniaCivic Auditorium2 shows
5 December 1979Denver, ColoradoDenver University ArenaPromoter: Skip Davis and Marshall Royal Monsell
6 December 1979Lawrence, KansasHoch AuditoriumBlue Riddim Band opened
7 December 1979Dallas, Texas?
10 December 1979Nashville, TennesseeUnited StatesMemorial Gymnasium
11 December 1979New Orleans, Louisiana?
12 December 1979Atlanta, GeorgiaFox Theatre
13 December 1979Tampa, FloridaJai Alai Fronton
14 December 1979Birmingham, AlabamaBrothers Music Hall
15 December 1979NassauBahamasQueen Elizabeth Sports Centerbenefit concert for Bahamian children
4 January 1980LibrevilleGabonGymnase Omnisport Bongo
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