No Nukes Concerts, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 9-22-1979: Peter Tosh

For the 12th album of the 1979 No Nukes concerts, I'm presenting a set by Peter Tosh.

Tosh is one of the legends of reggae music. He was a member of the Wailers with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer until 1973, when he went solo. He had a successful solo career internationally. However, he was killed in 1987 at the age of 42 when an armed gang robbed his house in Jamaica.

The only set I know that Tosh did was on September 22nd. So all the songs here are from that.

There was one problem though. As you may have noticed by now, many of these sets had a song or two that was only partially recorded. That's the case here with the song "African." Most of it is recorded with soundboard quality, like the rest of the set. However, there's a section near the front of the song that lasts about a minute that comes from an audience bootleg instead. The quality of this bit is much lower than the rest. Unfortunately, I'm sure you'll notice. So please just bear with that little bit. I wanted to include that section to make the set as complete and as accurate as possible. 

Tosh released the album "Mystic Man" in 1979, but I think that was after this concert, because he didn't play any of the songs from it. However, he did play two songs from his 1978 album, "Bush Doctor:" "Don't Look Back" and "Bush Doctor." On the record, "Don't Look Back" was a duet with Mick Jagger, and it was a hit in some countries. But the version here was sung by Tosh alone.

Note that the last song here, "Get Up, Stand Up," is known as a Bob Marley classic. But this song was actually co-written by Tosh and Marley, and they sang different verses on it as well. Additionally, "400 Years" was originally sung by Tosh when he was part of Bob Marley and the Wailers.

None of his songs made the official No Nukes album. Therefore, everything here is officially released.

This album is 34 minutes long.

01 talk (Peter Tosh)
02 400 Years (Peter Tosh)
03 Steppin' Razor (Peter Tosh)
04 African [Edit] (Peter Tosh)
05 Bush Doctor (Peter Tosh)
06 Don't Look Back (Peter Tosh)
07 Get Up, Stand Up (Peter Tosh) 

https://www.upload.ee/files/16254103/VA-NONUKS1979MdisnSqurGrdnNwYrkC__9-22-1979_PetrTshatse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from this exact No Nukes concert.