Bob Marley & The Wailers
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
December 2, 1979
1st Generation pre-FM

Excellent sound quality pre-broadcast soundboard recording. New 24/96 2024 grner1 transfer - Speed/Pitch-adjustments etc. by Prof. Goody.

Early show

This is the 24/96 edition. A 16/44.1 set is also available.
If burning that one to audio disc, a suggested split would be after "The Heathen".


01 Bob's Opening Statements > 0:32
02 Rastaman Vibration 5:17
03 Wake Up and Live 5:20
04 Them Belly Full 3:27
05 Concrete Jungle 5:13
06 I Shot The Sheriff 4:31
07 Running Away > Crazy Baldhead 7:48
08 Ambush In The Night 3:58
09 The Heathen 5:11
10 War > No More Trouble 6:52
11 Ride Natty Ride 4:27
12 Africa Unite 4:28
13 One Drop 4:13
14 Jammin' 6:49
15 Is This Love? 3:31
16 Natty Dread 3:48
17 Exodus > Get Up Stand Up 10:18
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Runtime: 1:25:42


These shows were recorded and at least one show was broadcast live by KUSP-FM. KUSP-FM ceased to exist August 1, 2016. The original reels were retained by the KUSP-FM reggae DJ Lance Linares but he has not shared them since shortly after the concert date. These are from copies made in 1980 from those masters for one of the sound crew who mixed the show. They loaned him the reels and a Revox A77 so more than one copy was made at the time and these transfers are the best sounding of them.

I guess this wasn't the only live broadcast from their tour, but I remember that KUSP said that they convinced Bob Marley to let these shows be broadcast by telling Bob that KUSP was within range of Soledad Prison and that the prisoners would be allowed to listen to them, so he agreed.

These recordings have circulated widely, but usually as just one show and either from the FM broadcast or from multi-generation copies of these tapes.

Early show lineage: 7.5 ips 1/2 track reel master > Dolby B cassette recorded on Sony TCD5 by Steve S,

Transfer (grner1 - 2022-07-02): Nakamichi Dragon (Dolby B decoded) > Sound Devices MixPre-6 II @ 32bit(float)/96kHz > Pro Tools (normalize, minor seamless fixes, tracking on sector boundaries and down-sampling - no EQ or noise reduction) > WAV files >

(goody) > Audition (speed/pitch adjustments & retracking on sector boundaries) > WAV files >
TLH (FLAC Level 8; Align sector boundaries; .ffp) > foobar2000 (tags)

Thanks to grner1 for this great sounding new transfer to work with and for the included clippings and such...
This edition - January 2025

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