"One good thing about music -- when it hits, you feel no pain." So proclaims Bob Marley in the opening line of this concert recording, and he and his band proceed to brutalize the crowd with the finest reggae then being produced. Live! can be taken on either of two levels: First, as one of the greatest live albums of all time, and second, for the uninitiated, as an excellent introduction to the music Marley & the Wailers were making in the early to mid-'70s. It is, in a very real sense, Marley's "greatest hits" collection of the 1973-1975 era. ~ Jim Newsom, All Music Guide