Word: marley
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...crowd that heard Marley was varied: Harvard students, black and white high school kids, and some older folk who ranged from burnt out dead-heads to people in African garb. The crowd was controlled not by Harvard, Boston and MBC police, although there were some present. It was controlled by the "People's Security". They were dressed in black pants and red shirts with a fist on the back. Some wore berets or military fatigue hats. They were like South American guerillas, but badly organized. The gates to the concert were opened later than even the organizers expected, causing...
...Marley was once shot and wounded for his political activity in Jamaica. Consequently, at this concert everyone was checked by a metal detector on entering the stadium. Fifty security men surrounded Marley as they escorted him to and from his post-performance press conference. When Marley is on stage, there is unity, but when he is offstage there is fear. When he starts playing, he is bigger than life, when he stops he is again vulnerable, and those around him seem to know this. There is a customary search before many rock concerts, but at Marley's the search...
Dick Gregory, who introduced Marley and who was present at the press conference, also seemed to sense Marley's vulnerability. The singer was slow to respond to questions, and when he did so his words were almost inaudible. He was silent for very difficult questions and the articulate Gregory spoke for him almost every time he could not answer...
...Marley's face does not betray the fear that those around him feel, neither do his words. Marley is aware that his people are oppressed, his music does not lament; he is only optimistic. Marley's "positive vibration," is what causes the fear in those around...
...Marley's music gives them hope in a struggle which is long and difficult and this precious ability must be guarded carefully...