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
5TH DECember 1983
LOS ANGELES - Forum
Benefit-concert for A.R.M.S. (Action For Research Into Multiple Sclerosis).

5th December 1983: ALL STAR BAND. Los Angeles, California, Forum
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 the two last songs)/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:
Version #1 is a distant audience recording, it’s lossless but incomplete (3 songs are incomplete).
Version #2 is coming from ‘Rickey L. Master Series Vol 3’ and was uploaded by JEMS at Dimeadozen (sorry I miss the link). It has the better sound and it’s lossless but it’s incomplete (1 song missing, 2 songs incomplete). You can find the original text for it in the ‘docs’ file.
Version #3 can be found on ‘Two Nights At The Forum’. It’s complete, with an average sound and lossy (it’s not used in this series).
The two interesting sources are incomplete but don’t have mutual missing parts, so we decided to post 2 versions for this show.

Vol 08a is a mix of both sources to get the complete show. Source #2 was used in priority and completed with source #1.

Vol 08a:

In this volume you will find the second source speed corrected (decelerated by -1,5%)
completed with source #2 (accelerated by +0,3%). As usual all sources were declicked and some small flaws were repaired.

CD1:
Part I: Eric Clapton-set:
01 - Band introduction
Source #1
02 - Everybody Oughta Make A Change
Source #1
03 - Lay Down Sally (Andy Fairweather Low on guitar)
Source #2
04 - Wonderful Tonight
Source #2
05 - Rita Mae
Source #2
06 - Sad Sad Day/Have You Ever Loved A Woman/Ramblin’ On My Mind
Source #2 except for the last 3 seconds which are coming from source #1
07 - Cocaine
Source #2

Part II: Joe Cocker-set with Eric Clapton:
08 - Don’t Talk To Me
Source #2
09 - Watching The River Flow
Source #2
10 - Worried Life Blues
Source #2
11 - You Are So Beautiful
Source #2 except for the last 20 seconds which are coming from source #1
12 - Seven Days
Source #2 except for the first 5 seconds which are coming from source #1
13 - Feelin’ Alright (BW on bvoc)
Source #2
short intermission (note a fade in/out before the next part)

CD2:
Part III: Jeff Beck-set:
01 - Star Cycle
Source #2 except for the first 10 seconds which are coming from source #1
02 - The Pump
Source #2
03 - Definitely Maybe
Source #2
04 - Blue Wind
Source #2
05 - People Get Ready (Andy Fairweather Low on vocals)
Source #2
06 - Going Down (Andy Fairweather Low on vocals)
Source #2 except for the last seconds from the song and the intermission which are coming from source #1

Part IV: Jimmy Page-set:
07 - Prelude
Source #2
08 - Who’s To Blame (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
Source #2
09 - City Sirens (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
Source #2
10 - Boogie Mama (Paul Rodgers on vocals and guitar, probably Stu on piano)
Source #2
11 - Midnight Moonlight (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
Source #2, note that the song is still introduced as ‘Bird On The Wing’
12 - Stairway To Heaven (Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck on guitar)
Source #2

CD3:
Part V: Encores - all together:
01 - Layla
Source #2 except for the part from 7’21 until 9’42 which is coming from source #1
02 - With A Little Help From My Friends
Source #2
03 - April Fool (Ronnie Lane on vocals)
Source #2
04 - Goodnight Irene (Ronnie Lane on vocals)
Source #2

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

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







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On Tuesday I will upload the merged version.

Norbert
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