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
SAN FRANCISCO (Cow palace)
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 comes 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 05c:

This is the Frankenstein version, it’s an essay to get the more complete recording using both sources.
The common parts are merged:
source #2 is on the left channel and was used for the speed synchronization
source #1 is on the right channel.
These merges took a very long time to make because there are many small speed variations in one of the recordings (or both?).

CD1:
Part I: Eric Clapton-set:
01 - Band introduction
coming solely from source #2
02 - Everybody Oughta Make A Change (merged)
merged except for the first 5 seconds which are solely coming from #2
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
merged except 17 seconds (from 9’04 to 9’20) which are solely coming from #2
07 - Cocaine
fade in

Part II: Joe Cocker-set with Eric Clapton:
08 - Don’t Talk To Me
merged except for the last 5 seconds which are solely coming from #2
09 - Watching The River Flow
merged except for the first second which is solely coming from #2 and the last 20 seconds coming solely from #1
10 - Worried Life Blues
11 - You Are So Beautiful
12 - Feelin’ Alright (BW on bvoc)
Note a little default at 0’06
13 - Seven Days
merged except for the last 16 seconds which are solely coming from #1
short intermission

CD2:
Part III: Jeff Beck-set (part I):
01 - Star Cycle
merged except for the 1st minute which is solely coming from #1
02 - The Pump
merged except 11 seconds (from 4’59 to 5’10) which are solely coming from #2
03 - Definitely Maybe
merged except for the last 34 seconds which are solely coming from #2
04 - Blue Wind
05 - People Get Ready (Andy Fairweather Low on vocals)
06 - Going Down (Andy Fairweather Low on vocals)
merged except 29 seconds (from 1’45 to 2’14) and the 2 minutes intermission break which are solely coming from #1

Part V: Jimmy Page-set:
07 - Prelude
08 - Who’s To Blame (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
09 - City Sirens (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
merged except 11 seconds (from 3’35 to 3’46) which are solely coming from #2
10 - Boogie Mama (Paul Rodgers on vocals and guitar)
11 - Midnight Moonlight (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
merged except for the last 49 seconds which are solely coming from #2
12 - Stairway To Heaven (Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck on guitar)


CD3:
Part VI: Encores - all together:
01 - Layla
merged except for the first 29 seconds which are solely coming from #2 and the last 16 seconds which are solely coming from #1
02 - With A Little Help From My Friends
03 - Goodnight Irene (Ronnie Lane on vocals)

Note:
BW & CW play only on CD1 and CD3.

As usual all the infos are coming from Nico Zentgraf's Rolling Stones Complete Works Database: [www.nzentgraf.de]






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