Product Description
Rare Actual 1975 Japanese First Pressing Still In Top Condition! Includes Insert With Lyrics In English & Japanese. Features Definitive Live Versions Of Bob Marley Classics, “Lively Up Yourself”, “No Woman No Cry”, “I Shot The Sheriff”, “Get Up Stand Up” & More!
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Nice condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT! Couple of light surface marks, which do not affect play at all. Sounds amazing!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Hard to believe this record is over 48 years old!
Side 1:
Trenchtown Rock
Burnin’ & Lootin’
Them Belly Full
Lively Up Yourself
Side 2:
No Woman, No Cry
I Shot The Sheriff
Get Up, Stand Up
AMG –
Passionate and symbiotic energies constantly cycle between the band and audience -- one of the most memorable concert recordings of the pop music era! As the title implies, this is indeed Bob Marley & the Wailers captured in performance at the Lyceum Ballroom in London during the final U.K. leg of the Natty Dread tour. Passionate and symbiotic energies constantly cycle between the band and audience, the net result of which is one of the most memorable concert recordings of the pop music era. Al Anderson's bluesy guitar runs liberate "Burnin' and Lootin'" as well as "Trench Town Rock," the only new composition on Live! Anderson bobs and weaves his supple-toned fretwork among the somewhat staid rhythms common to reggae. The mutual affinity that binds Marley with his audience is evident in the roars of approval that greet the opening notes of "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)," "I Shot the Sheriff," and "Kinky Reggae." Likewise, "No Woman, No Cry" elicits a group singalong as the sheer volume of the audience challenges that of the amplified musicians. With this evidence, there is no denying that Bob Marley & the Wailers were becoming the unlikeliest of pop music icons. Additionally, Live! underscores the underrated talents of the Wailers as musicians. Older works such as "Burnin' and Lootin'" and "I Shot the Sheriff" benefit greatly from Tyrone Downie's keyboard punctuation and the soulful backing vocals of the I-Threes.