Peter Tosh Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1979

Travel back in time thirty years to Montreux, Switzerland and watch a great concert by Peter Tosh. The concert was performed in The Casino which is mostly known for having been burnt down eight  years earlier and memorialized in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water." Read more and watch the full concert after the jump.

The band line-up (as best as I can figure out) is:
Lead Guitar:  Darryl Thompson or Ed Elizalde
Rhythm Guitar:  Mikey Chung
Bass:  Robbie Shakespeare
Drums:  Sly Dunbar
Keyboards:  Robert Lynn
Keyboards:  Keith Sterling
Backing Vocals:  The Tamlins

Playlist:

1. 400 Years
2. Steppin' Razor
3. African
4. Get Up, Stand Up
5. Don't Look Back
6. I'm the Toughest
7. Bush Doctor
8. The Day the Dollar Die
9. Burial
10. Buk-In-Hamm Palace
11. Mystic Man (encore)
12. Pick Myself Up (encore)

I think the song highlights for me at this show would be "I'm the Toughest" which has a great bass solo at the end that leads the band into "Bush Doctor."  I also really like "Burial" with Tosh talking to the audience:

"Everyone feeling good?  Do you love Reggae Music?  It makes all the funky get kinky, but don't watch that this is the people's music.  The only music that can bring you to love and reality and life, and bring you into knowing that Rastafari is the almighty."

Let Tosh praise Jah...and I'll praise Tosh!

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Many thanks to orgyfication for posting this concert to YouTube.