Bob Marley On Suffering In The West, Consciousness & The Human Struggle || Nov, 25, 1979

Rare Bob Marley & The Wailers interview with Bill Phelps, connected to the Santa Barbara County Bowl on November 25, 1979 during the Survival Tour.

This late-1979 period is one of the most important in Marley’s career. Survival had been released that year, carrying a sharper political and Pan-African message through songs like “Africa Unite,” “Zimbabwe,” and “One Drop.” Around this same Santa Barbara performance, professionally filmed material was captured and later issued in home-video form, with Bill Phelps credited as producer and an interview segment associated with the release.

In circulating excerpts from this Bill Phelps interview, Marley speaks on themes that still resonate today like the suffering in the West, consciousness, spiritual understanding, and the deeper meaning behind human struggle. That makes this more than just a rare clip it is a window into Bob Marley’s thinking near the end of the 1970s, when his music and message were reaching a global peak.