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glasnostrd19: Marley's popularity was at or near its peak with the release of his
album "Exodus", and the Wailers deliver that kind of energy in this
show. The beginning seems almost mellow in mood (for a Bob Marley
concert) but that doesn't last very long. All in all for both
the music and sound, this is one of my 2 favorite BMW recordings.
Many I've heard sound either really bassy (almost all do), really
generated/saturated or distorted.
The King Biscuit Flower Hour radio series also recorded from one
or both these shows and broadcasted about 30 minutes.
This is not the same source recording made by/for that broadcast,
although I bet the KBFH people would not have been too upset
if they had to defer to this one instead of theirs,
because the tale of the tape on this is it was recorded using 2 mikes
(unknown make/model, but good ones), one on either side of the balcony
hung on or over the railing. Even though it has the classic bass heavy
BMW mix all their live recordings seem to have, on this one, you get the
rest of it too, you can hear the percussion and the guitar and keyboards
clearly, the bass is heavy, but doesn't drown out everything else.
The energy of the last half (or so) of the show is very high, with the
Jammin' and a nice encore medley. It is an audience tape, but the quality
almost defies that distinction. Whoever did this thing must really like
Bob Marley, and took great care to make this wonderful document of a
classic concert performance.