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
3rd DECember 1983
SAN FRANCISCO Cow Palace
Benefit-concert for A.R.M.S. (Action For Research Into Multiple Sclerosis).

3rd December 1983: 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 3 sources:
Source #1 is a good lossless recording sent by nzb.
Source #2 is ‘God Bless Ronnie Lane’ (Rockin’ Rott), recorded by Musigny23 but it’s lossy and with an average sound.
Source #3 is the soundtrack of an incomplete video.

Our idea is to post 2 versions:
7a: source #1.
7b: merges of sources #1 and #3: This merged version will be used by BlueTurns2Grey in his video reworking project.

Vol 07a:
Here is the version sent by nzb. As usual it’s now declicked, slightly amplified and speed corrected (+1% to be in synch with the video).

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
05 - Rita Mae
06 - That’s All Right/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
09 - Watching The River Flow
Note a gap before the next track
10 - Worried Life Blues
11 - You Are So Beautiful
12 - Seven Days
13 - Feelin’ Alright (BW on bvoc)
short intermission

Part III: Jeff Beck-set (part I):
14 - Star Cycle
15 - The Pump
16 - Definitely Maybe

CD2:
Part III: Jeff Beck-set (cont.):
01 - Blue Wind
02 - People Get Ready (Andy Fairweather Low on vocals)
03 - Going Down (Andy Fairweather Low on vocals)
Note a fade in/out before the next set

Part IV: Jimmy Page-set:
04 - Prelude
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, Stu on piano)
08 - Midnight Moonlight (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
09 - Stairway To Heaven (Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck on guitar)
Note a fade in/out before the encores

Part V: 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 01-13 of CD1 and on tracks 10-12 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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