POST : Charlie WATTS & Bill WYMAN coming together for benefit-concerts Vol 01a – 20th September 1983 (ARMS in LONDON I) (audience source)
Bill WYMAN and Charlie WATTS
Coming together
for A.R.M.S
(Action into Research for Multiple Sclerosis)
Benefit-concerts
(20th September – 9th December 1983)
This series presents the shows in which Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts teamed up in 1983 to support a string of charity concerts (2 in London and 9 in the US). Our original intention was to present the A.R.M.S. shows (see below) but since the players (and the songs played) were almost the same for the charity gala organized for the Prince Of Wales Trust on September 21 we decided to include it in this series.
In 1983, Ronnie Lane’s girlfriend Boo Oldfield contacted Glyn Johns with a view to organizing a concert to help fund Action for Research into Multiple Sclerosis. Johns was already arranging Clapton's Command Performance for Prince Charles so they decided to book the Royal Albert Hall for a further two nights and host a benefit concert. The first ARMS Charity Concerts (and initially planned to be the only) event took place at the Royal Albert Hall on September 20, 1983, with subsequent dates occurring in the United States, with slightly different lineups of musicians.
Thanks to those who recorded and shared their recordings, to BT2G for his suggestions and the available video versions he will add to complement this series and to nzb for his irreplaceable help.
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ALL STAR BAND
20th September 1983
London, Royal Albert Hall
Benefit-concert for A.R.M.S. (Action For Research Into Multiple Sclerosis).
Musicians: CW (dr)/BW (bass)/Eric Clapton (gtr,voc)/Jimmy Page (gtr)/Jeff Beck (gtr, voc) Steve Winwood (org, harm, voc, gtr)/Kenney Jones (dr)/Andy Fairweather Low (gtr,voc)/
Chris Stainton (keyb)/Tony Hymas (keyb)/Ray Cooper (perc)/Simon Philipps (dr)/ Ronnie Lane (voc in the 2 last song)
Additional musicians for the Steve Winwood-set, the Jeff Beck-set and the Jimmy Page-set: Fernando Saunders (bass) and James Hooker (keyb)
The whole show was professionally filmed (directed by Stanley Dorfman) and telecast on US MTV in late May 1984 (and repeated in December 1984). It was also released on video in August 1984 as ‘The Ronnie Lane Appeal For A.R.M.S.: The Royal Albert Hall Concert” (Videoform VFV 16&17). Both videos were later re-released as ‘A.R.M.S. - The Complete Concert’(Channel 5 CFV 00482) in 1986 and on DVD in 2005
A professional audio recording was made by Glyn Johns with The Rolling Stones Mobile Recording Unit (sound engineer: Mick McKenna).
STU also had his hand in the production/organization!
Several audio versions circulate “half-official” on the grey market, often as ‘Eric Clapton & Friends’, and often in lossy form.
For this project we propose to upload 3 versions (only with lossless material)
- Vol 01a: is a complete audience recording
- Vol 01b: is the incomplete soundboard version (but not the half-official brickwalled one)
- Vol 01c: is a 'Frankenstein version': the most complete recording as a merging of the 2 previous versions.
Apart from this, BlueTurns2Grey will upload his video version dubbed with the lossless/ merged tracks (Vol 01c).
Vol 01a:
This is a reworked lossless version of ‘Three Yardbirds In The Hall” (Beano Records). Here the recording is declicked, the channels equilibrated (+10 to +20% to the right channel), speed corrected and slightly amplified.
CD1:
Part I: Eric Clapton-set:
01 - Band introduction
02 - Everybody Oughta Make A Change
03 - Lay Down Sally (Andy Fairweather Low on guitar)
04 - Wonderful Tonight (Andy Fairweather Low on guitar and harmony vocals)
05 - Ramblin’ On My Mind/Have You Ever Loved A Woman
06 - Rita Mae
07 - Cocaine
Part II: Eric Clapton with Andy Fairweather Low on vocals:
08 - Man Smart, Woman Smarter
Part III: Steve Winwood-set with Eric Clapton:
09 - Hound Dog
10 - Doin’ The Best I Can
11 - Road Runner (Steve Winwood on guitar)
12 - Slowdown Sundown (Steve Winwood on mandolin)
13 - Take Me To The River
14 - Gimme Some Lovin’
Short intermission
CD2:
Part IV: Jeff Beck-set:
01 - Star Cycle
02 - The Pump
03 - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
04 - Led Boots
05 - People Get Ready (Andy Fairweather Low on vocals)
06 - HI-Ho Silver Lining (Jeff Beck on vocals)
Part V: Jimmy Page-set:
07 - Prelude
08 - Who’s To Blame (Steve Winwood on vocals)
09 - City Sirens (Steve Winwood on vocals)
10 - Stairway To Heaven
Part VI: Encores: all together:
11 - Tulsa Time
12 - Wee Wee Baby
13 - Layla
14 - Bombers Moon (Ronnie Lane on vocals)
15 - Goodnight Irene (Ronnie Lane on vocals)
Note:
BW plays only on tracks 01-08 of CD1 and on tracks 11-15 on CD2.
CW plays on all tracks of CD1 and on tracks 11-15 on CD2.
As usual all the infos are coming from Nico Zentgraf's Rolling Stones Complete Works Database: [
www.nzentgraf.de]


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