The Rastaman Vibration Tour was a concert tour

Concert

A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...

 organised to support the album Rastaman Vibration

Rastaman Vibration

Rastaman Vibration is a roots reggae album by Bob Marley & The Wailers released on April 30, 1976. The album was a great success in the USA, becoming the first Bob Marley release to reach the top ten on the Billboard 200 charts Rastaman Vibration is a roots reggae album by Bob Marley & The Wailers...

by Bob Marley & The Wailers

Bob Marley & The Wailers

Bob Marley & The Wailers were a Jamaican reggae, ska and rocksteady band formed by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963. Additional members were Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, Cherry Smith and Aston and Carlton Barrett...

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The tour began at the Tower Theater

Tower Theater

The Tower Theater is located in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania at the intersection of 69th and Ludlow Streets. It is adjacent to 69th Street Terminal and is just west of Philadelphia. Since the 1970s, it has been a popular venue for music acts...

 in Upper Darby

Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania

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, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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, on April 23, 1976, and ended in Manchester

Manchester

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, England

England

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, on June 27, 1976. On the tour's second leg Marley performed for the first time in continental Europe and premiered in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

, France

France

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 and the Netherlands

Netherlands

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. After the tour Marley performed the Smile Jamaica Concert

Smile Jamaica Concert

The Smile Jamaica Concert was a concert held on December 5, 1976, at the National Heroes Park, Kingston, Jamaica, performed by Bob Marley & The Wailers. Only 2 days after Marley had almost been killed by gunmen in his house, but survived and was driven up in the Blue Mountains...

 in his homeland Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

, after being shot a couple of days before.
The album Live At the Roxy was recorded during this tour, on May 26.
After the first third of the tour the setlists became more standardised and mostly looked like the following:

• "Trenchtown Rock"
• "Burnin' And Lootin'"
• "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)"
• "Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)"
• "I Shot The Sheriff"
• "Want More"
• "No Woman, No Cry"
• "Lively Up Yourself"
• "Roots, Rock, Reggae"
• "Rat Race"
• "Positive Vibration"
• "Get Up, Stand Up" / "War" / "No More Trouble" (medley)

At the beginning of the tour, for example during the four shows at the Beacon Theater when Marley experimented and changed the setlist much more than later during the tour, a gospel-like medley of two Nyabinghi chants ("Rastaman Chant" and "Lion Of Judah") and a brief reggae riff ("Keep The Faith") had been performed at the beginning instead of "Trenchtown Rock".