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
8TH December 1983
NEW YORK CITY - Madison Square Garden
Benefit-concert for A.R.M.S. (Action For Research Into Multiple Sclerosis).

8th December 1983: ALL STAR BAND. New York City, Madison Square Garden 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 some tracks, incl. Worried Life Blues)/Joe Cocker (voc)/Paul Rodgers (voc, gtr)/Fernando Saunders (bass)/ James Hooker (keyb)/Jan Hammer (keyb)
Special guest: Ron Wood (gtr,bvoc))

For this show we have 3 sources:
Two good quality and lossless audio sources (the first one that we found on the version of ‘Beano’ is my favorite).
The 3rd source is the video. It is incomplete: the first 5 tracks and the last 2 are missing (‘Goodbye Irene’ on the video is from December 9!).
The merging tests with the 2 audio sources are interesting but those using the audio of the video are even better.
We offer you 2 versions:
Vol 10a: complete version using the 1st source.
Vol 10b: also complete that contains
- a merge of the 2 audio sources for the 5 tracks missing from the video
- a merge of source #1 and the audio of the video: this version will be used by
BlueTurns2Grey in his video reworking project.

Vol 10a:
The version used here is the same that can be found on the box “Grand Finale” (Beano 028) but here it’s in lossless format. The recording is now declicked, slightly amplified, and speed corrected to be in synch with the video (decelerated by -0,11%).

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 (Ron Wood on guitar)

Part II: Joe Cocker-set with Eric Clapton:
08 - Don’t Talk To Me
09 - Watching The River Flow
10 - Worried Life Blues (Stu on piano)
11 - You Are So Beautiful
12 - Seven Days (Ron Wood on guitar)
13 - Feelin’ Alright (BW on bvoc, Ron Wood on guitar)
short intermission

CD2:
Part III: Jeff Beck-set:
01 - Star Cycle
02 - The Pump
03 - Definitely Maybe
04 - Blue Wind
05 - People Get Ready (Andy Fairweather Low on vocals)
06 - Going Down (Andy Fairweather Low on vocals)
Note a gap before the next set.

Part IV: Jimmy Page-set:
07 - Prelude
08 - Who’s To Blame (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
09 - City Sirens (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
10 - Boogie Mama (Paul Rodgers on vocals and guitar)
11 - Midnight Moonlight (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
Digital noise deleted at 2’15
12 - Stairway To Heaven (Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck on guitar)

CD3:
Part V: Encores - all together:
01 - Layla
02 - With A Little Help From My Friends
03 - April Fool (Ronnie Lane on vocal)
04 - Goodnight Irene (Ronnie Lane on vocals, Ron Wood on guitar and bvoc)

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]






Posted in 2025 by StonyRoad at IORR [iorr.org]

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The merged version will be post Wednesday.

Norbert
email: stonyroad58@gmail.com



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