POST : Charlie WATTS & Bill WYMAN coming together for benefit-concerts Vol 05b – 1st December 1983 (ARMS in FRISCO I) – source #2
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
1st DECember 1983
DALLAS Reunion Arena
Benefit-concert for A.R.M.S. (Action For Research Into Multiple Sclerosis).
1st December1983: ALL STAR BAND. San Francisco, California, Cow Palace
Musicians: CW (dr)/BW (bass)/Eric Clapton (gtr, voc)/Jimmy Page (gtr)/Jeff Beck (gtr)/ Kenney Jones (dr)/Andy Fairweather Low (gtr, voc)/Chris Stainton (keyb, bvoc)/Ray Cooper (perc)/ Simon Phillips (dr)/Ronnie Lane (voc on Goodnight Irene)/Ian Stewart (p on Boogie Mama)/Joe Cocker (voc)/Paul Rodgers (voc, gtr)/Fernando Saunders (bass)/ James Hooker (keyb)/Jan Hammer (keyb)
For this show we have 2 sources:
The first one is coming from nzb. It is a lossless audience recording, running too fast but is more complete than source #2.
The second source, coming from JEMS, has a better sound as source #1, but has some dropouts and some parts were edited.
For this project we plan to upload 3 versions (only with lossless material):
- Vol 05a corresponding to the first source
- Vol 05b corresponding to the second source
- Vol 05c is a 'Frankenstein version': the most complete recording as a merge of the 2 circulating versions.
Vol 05b:
Here you will find source #2: all the infos concerning the initial post are in the ‘docs’ file. The recording is now declicked and the channels equilibrated (+10 to +20% to the left channel).
CD1:
Part I: Eric Clapton-set:
01 - Bill Graham intro
02 - Everybody Oughta Make A Change
03 - Lay Down Sally (Andy Fairweather Low on guitar)
04 - Wonderful Tonight
05 - Rita Mae
06 - Sad Sad Day/Have You Ever Loved A Woman/Ramblin’ On My Mind
07 - Cocaine
Part II: Joe Cocker-set with Eric Clapton:
08 - Don’t Talk To Me
Several dropouts, that I tried to attenuate
09 - Watching The River Flow
10 - Worried Life Blues
Several dropouts, that I tried to attenuate
11 - You Are So Beautiful
12 - Feelin’ Alright (BW on bvoc)
13 - Seven Days
short intermission
Part III: Jeff Beck-set (part I):
14 - Star Cycle
15 - The Pump
16 - Definitely Maybe
CD2:
01 - Blue Wind
02 - People Get Ready (Andy Fairweather Low on vocals)
03 - Going Down (Andy Fairweather Low on vocals)
A part of the song is missing at around the 2 minutes mark
Part V: Jimmy Page-set:
04 - Prelude
a gap deleted at 1’18
05 - Who’s To Blame (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
06 - City Sirens (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
07 - Boogie Mama (Paul Rodgers on vocals and guitar, perhaps Stu on piano)
08 - Midnight Moonlight (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
09 - Stairway To Heaven (Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck on guitar)
Part VI: Encores - all together:
10 - Layla
11 - With A Little Help From My Friends
12 - Goodnight Irene (Ronnie Lane on vocals)
Note:
BW & CW play only on tracks 02-13 of CD1 and on tracks 10-12 of CD2.
As usual all the infos are coming from Nico Zentgraf's Rolling Stones Complete Works Database: [
www.nzentgraf.de]


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