The Uprising Live! CD/DVD set is irrefutable proof there should be a universal mandate requiring any and all holders of professionally-recorded footage of Bob Marley and the Wailers make such available to the general public as soon as possible. It’s that important musically and that important historically. Taken from the Rockpalast television broadcast captured on June 13, 1980, this is the Rasta revolutionary and his 10-piece ensemble at the peak of the final European tour in Marley’s career and, sadly less than a year from his death. With four songs from the I Threes opening the show, Marley arrives onstage with the pot simmering, rolling to a boil. The shaman stalks the stage, nimble and flexing before the genuflecting German audience, through 19 tracks of vintage Bob. By this point in his life, Marley and company had worked exceptionally hard on the road to orchestrate a set that left ample space for the increasingly funky keyboard corner of ‘Wire’ Lindo and Tyrone Downie, as well as the guitar prowess of Al Anderson and Junior Marvin, within lock-tight arrangements. A far cry from the Trenchtown trio of Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer, this Wailers incarnation was as large and as musically diverse as it got, melding the roots reggae of his humble island origins with a global arena rock sensibility. Uprising Live! stands up as a terrific memento from the last year of a most prolific and profound musical legend and his band.