{"id":41800,"date":"2019-04-25T15:11:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T14:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/lost-bob-marley-tapes-rescued-from-hotel-basement\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T10:48:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T08:48:29","slug":"bob-marley-lost-tapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/bob-marley-lost-tapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Bob Marley tapes rescued from hotel basement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24332 pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bob-marley-1979-live.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bob-marley-1979-live.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bob-marley-1979-live-759x435.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bob-marley-1979-live-1010x579.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bob-marley-1979-live-661x379.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bob-marley-1979-live-465x267.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bob-marley-1979-live-375x215.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>The ten tapes founded two years ago are now digitally restored and will be sold at auction this May in London.<\/h4>\n<p>Two years after a meticulous restoring made by sound engineer Martin Nichols, the lost tapes rescued in a damp cave of a West London hotel will be sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p>Among the&nbsp;tapes are recordings of Bob Marley and The Wailers in London at the Lyceum (1975), the Hammersmith Odeon (1976), the Rainbow (1977), and the Pavilion de Paris (1978) in France.<\/p>\n<p>As Nichols told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2017\/feb\/05\/spine-tingling-lost-bob-marley-tapes-restored-after-40-years-in-a-cellar?CMP=fb_gu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a>, \u201cThey really were in such an appalling condition they should have been binned, but I spent hours on hours, inch by inch, painstakingly cleaning all the gunge off until they were ready for a process called \u2018baking\u2019, to allow them to be played safely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The auction managed by Omega Auctions will take place on May 21 in London. 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