Bob Marley & the Wailers - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 5-24-1973

As I explained in my last post, I screwed up with a Bob Marley and the Wailers post I made a few days ago. I thought the band had done a full episode concert for the BBC TV show "The Old Grey Whistle Test," which happened for some musical artists at the time. But it turns out that actually was a performance for the "In Concert" BBC radio series. Luckily, a commenter pointed out my mistake. I deleted that post, because not only was it mislabeled, it wasn't the best version available. You should delete that and replace it with this instead.

This contains the same exact songs as the version I've just deleted. However, this is better, because it turns out that concert was emceed by BBC DJ Pete Drummond, and he introduced all the songs except for the first one. This is a less common version that includes all of Drummond's comments as separate tracks.

Like the other Bob Marley and the Wailers BBC volume I just posted, this remains officially unreleased. I'm surprised, since it's a rare, high quality recording of the band while Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer were still key members. In fact, Tosh wrote and sang lead vocals on "Stop That Train" and "400 Years," and shared the writing and singing on "Get Up, Stand Up."

The vocals were a bit low in the mix, so I used the audio editing program UVR5 too boost them some. Otherwise, there were no problems.

I had posted the mislabeled version of this concert as "BBC Sessions, Volume 1." But I got the date wrong. I thought this was from May 1, 1973, when in fact it was recorded on May 24th. There are some BBC studio sessions from May 1st, so I've called the album with those songs "Volume 1" and made this "Volume 2." It's also the last volume, because it seems there were no more extensive BBC appearances after this.

This album is 50 minutes long.

01 Rastafarian Chant (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
02 talk (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
03 Slave Driver (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
04 talk (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
05 Stop That Train (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
06 talk (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
07 No More Trouble (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
08 talk (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
09 400 Years (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
10 talk (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
11 Midnight Ravers (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
12 talk (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
13 Stir It Up (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
14 talk (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
15 Concrete Jungle (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
16 talk (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
17 Get Up, Stand Up (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
18 talk (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
19 Kinky Reggae (Bob Marley & the Wailers)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15328781/BobMar_1973b_BBSessionsVolum2InConcrtPrisTheatreLondnBritain__5-24-1973_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from the "Old Grey Whistle Test" performance they did earlier in May 1973. From left to right: Tosh, Marley, and Wailer. Other band members are cropped out. As a random aside, this is the second album cover in a week with big time lens flare after not having any of that pretty much ever.