Steve Forbert will never forget the performance of Bob Marley and the Wailers with the I-Threes at New York’s Madison Square Garden in June 1978. It was “the best rock show I ever saw,” says Forbert. “Those girls in their red, green, and yellow [clothing] moved and looked like apparitions around a campfire – and it was smoky. The venue air had a certain thick, pungent odor that night as Bob rather quickly turned that cavern into, oh, The Rainbow in London – a regular night club.” Forbert attended that concert with Linda Stein, who managed Forbert and the Ramones. Attending with Stein “made it even more fun,” Forbert recalls, because “this was right up her alley. All she ever listened to was Bob Marley and [The Rolling Stones album] Some Girls. Marley … Read entire article »