I usually hate tribute concerts, but I just saw this DVD for the first time and was totally blown away. Now I may be getting sentimental here, but I was f*cking crying during Billy Preston's version of My Sweet Lord.

Your thoughts if you seen this concert? And if you haven't, look it up on YouTube. Almost all songs are there.

When it first came out it played for a week in the local theatre.

I remember choking up a few times...like when Dhani (sp?) called him "Uncle Ringo."

A young guy I met who loved the Beatles told me that when he saw it he and his girlfriend were crying in the theatre.

For a fan, it's a pretty powerful movie.

Bloody fantastic !

Truly one of the great gigs (tribute or otherwise) of recent times.

Clapton is on fire during 'Gently weeps'.

Shame Dylan didn't make it - he should have been there. Ron Wood too for that matter.

yeah i cried too, despite all my cynical armour of dislike for this kind of show.
love & light to George, and thanks & praises

Crying? Oh please!!! ;o)

oh please what?

Dylan was playing New York at the time i think, he did "something" for george. It was a download at bobdylan.com
This is a pretty good movie, also pretty good record

Yes very nice video. The closing song, "See You In My Dreams" is incredibly moving.

Billy Preston also was a highlight in the Concert for Bangla Desh in the early '70s --1971, I think.

I was joking sssoul

Yes there are some wild reports of prominent people of this board who cried when Preston did My Sweet Lord....
I did not cry - but it's a very nice concert.

Erik_Snow Wrote:
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> Yes there are some wild reports of prominent
> people of this board who cried when Preston did My
> Sweet Lord....
> I did not cry - but it's a very nice concert.


I've never actually cried over someone I didn't know personally. I remember being very upset when George died, but it had been coming for a LONG time.

Well, I'm not one who cries easily, and I don't know why Preston's MSL, or the whole concert really, got to me like this. It's not because Harrison passed away, because like Big Al I don't cry over someone I never met. Perhaps it's the whole setting, the atmosphere, I don't know. It's just very touching.

Anyway, I'm sorry if this concert has already been a topic here. I'll do a board search next time I want to share something ;-).



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Big Al Wrote:
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> Erik_Snow Wrote:
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> > Yes there are some wild reports of prominent
> > people of this board who cried when Preston did
> My
> > Sweet Lord....
> > I did not cry - but it's a very nice concert.
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> I've never actually cried over someone I didn't
> know personally. I remember being very upset when
> George died, but it had been coming for a LONG
> time.


It's the same for me, I have hardly cried since the 80s - allthough I can be upset of course. Well there are tears coming out if I laugh real hard.
I think it's something you can't help - either you are able to cry or you're not.



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>> prominent people of this board who cried when Preston did My Sweet Lord <<

my protest is twofold: that is not when i cried, and i am only partly prominent :E

love & light to Billy as well as George, of course, and thanks & praises

with sssoul Wrote:
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> >> prominent people of this board who cried when
> Preston did My Sweet Lord <<
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> my protest is twofold: that is not when i cried,
> and i am only partly prominent :E

With Sssoul, I was thinking about someone else - not involved in this thread, but I don't want to mention names.....
There has been threads about this Sweet Lord moment before. But you're a prominent member, no doubt.



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I love this concert. I was particularly moved when Joe Brown sang "I'll See You in My Dreams" at the end. Many highlights. I really liked Sam Brown's "You Can Lead a Horse to Water". Man, that chick can sing!

Fantastic concert, and yes I have to admit, very moving at times.

A lot of credit must go to Eric Clapton for directing/rehearsing much of the musical arrangements. The houseband were magnificent throughout.

A fitting and very perfect tribute to an absolute musical legend. He is still missed.

I was impressed too seeing this concert

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Whaaaaaaa.........I'm blubbering like a baby just thinking about it.....the part at the end killed me.......I had to have surgery to my tear ducts I cried so much......installed little faucets to control it better......whaaaaaaaa!!!!!

Mann Lukester my old friend are you kidding or is this for real ????????

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....I'm kidding, my old Dutch friend Nico........I mean the faucets in my eyelids are real, but the rest is just a joke....

....but I really did get a little bit emotional during that last song....damn it...

The last song on Concert For Bangla Desh is quite moving as well - an eyeopener after being completely into the music for 2 hours.

Where on one line Lukester and Erik ...........phhh open up the beer

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....let's party Nico...

>> But you're a prominent member, no doubt. <<

i am not - i'm a she-sssoul!
(the jokes are going over real well on this thread, aren't they - never mind.)

You guys that don't cry a lot are Heart Attacks waiting to happen....look at women, they cry about anything and live about 10 years longer than men. The Helter cries all the time...... last time was when I got my private area skin caught in my zipper cause the GF came home too soon and her sister was laid out on the bed bare ass naked moanin' like a wounded panda bear.... Damn did that effing hurt, blood everywhere....



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Great show! And very moving. Some incredible song selections too. I loved The Inner Light at the beginning, and as was said above Clapton doing While My Guitar was great, and made even better with Paul on piano and doing the high end backing vocals just like on The White Album.
A very moving show! Great DVD package out of it which included the full concert.