Natty Dread Tour

Natty Dread Tour 1975
Tour by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Start date	June 5, 1975
End date	July 20, 1975
Legs	2
Shows	34 in North America 4 in England 38 in total
Bob Marley & The Wailers tour chronology
Burnin' Tour (1973) Natty Dread Tour (1975) Rastaman Vibration Tour (1976)

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

The tour began in Miami, Florida, on June 5, 1975, and ended in Manchester, England, on July 20, 1975. In late June Marley did 14 shows in seven days at Paul's Mall in Boston. During the second tour leg in England the first live album Live! was recorded at the Lyceum Ballroom in London. Before the tour started Marley performed a concert along with Jackson Five in March in Kingston. After the tour Marley performed the Wonder Dream Concert, featuring Stevie Wonder and his old bandmates Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer.

While on the Natty Dread Tour Marley did his first performance outside Jamaica, England and the United States when playing the Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada.

Setlist

The standard setlist of the tour mostly looked like the following:

• "Trenchtown Rock"
• "Slave Driver"
• "Burnin' And Lootin'"
• "Concrete Jungle"
• "Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)"
• "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)" (frequently)
• "I Shot The Sheriff"
• "Kinky Reggae"
• "Midnight Ravers"
• "No Woman, No Cry"
• "Natty Dread"
• "Talkin' Blues"
• "Lively Up Yourself"
• "Get Up, Stand Up"

All songs from the Natty Dread album had been performed at least once, except for "Revolution" (which was a standard song during the Uprising Tour in 1980). There were performances of two earlier songs which are not featured on any of Marley's Island albums released at that time: "Trenchtown Rock" and "Nice Time".

From show to show sometimes an additional song was edged in the middle of the setlist, like "No More Trouble", "Nice Time", "So Jah Seh", "Bend Down Low" and "Stir It Up". Live performances of each of these songs happened very rarely during the tour.

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Notes
June 5, 1975	Miami, Florida	United States	Diplomat Hotel
June 8, 1975	Toronto, Ontario	Canada	Massey Hall
June 9, 1975	Chicago, Illinois	United States	Quiet Knight Club
June 10, 1975
June 14, 1975	Detroit, Michigan		Showcase Theater	Shotgun opened
June 16, 1975	Cleveland, Ohio		Agora Theater
June 18, 1975	New York City, New York		Schaefer Music Festival	Wollman Skating Rink
June 20, 1975	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania		The Spectrum Theater
June 21, 1975	New York City, New York		Manhattan Center
June 22, 1975	Hartford, Connecticut		Bushnell Memorial Hall
June 23, 1975	Boston, Massachusetts		Paul's Mall	2 shows per night
June 24, 1975				2 shows per night
June 25, 1975				2 shows per night
June 26, 1975				2 shows per night
June 27, 1975				2 shows per night
June 28, 1975				2 shows per night
June 29, 1975				2 shows per night
July 4, 1975	San Francisco, California		The Boarding House
July 5, 1975
July 6, 1975
July 7, 1975
July 8, 1975	Oakland, California		Paramount Theater
July 9, 1975	Los Angeles, California		Roxy Theatre
July 10, 1975
July 11, 1975
July 12, 1975
July 13, 1975
July 17, 1975	London	England	Lyceum Theatre
July 18, 1975
July 19, 1975	Birmingham		The Odeon	Third World opened
July 20, 1975	Manchester		The Hard Rock