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 10b:
Here you will find the merged version.
I used as reference the audio rip coming from the video (on the left channel) merged with the source #1 (in the right channel, decelerated by -0,11% to be in synch).
Because the video is incomplete, for the missing tracks, I merged source #1 (left channel) with source #2 (right channel decelerated by -1,92%).
All sources are declicked.

CD1:
Part I: Eric Clapton-set:
01 - band introduction
source #1 & #2 merged except the first 9 seconds which are solely coming from the source #1
02 - Everybody Oughta Make A Change
source #1 & #2 merged
03 - Lay Down Sally (Andy Fairweather Low on guitar)
source #1 & #2 merged
04 - Wonderful Tonight
source #1 & #2 merged
05 - Rita Mae
source #1 & #2 merged
06 - That’s All Right/Have You Ever Loved A Woman/Ramblin’ On My Mind
source #1 & #2 merged
07 - Cocaine (Ron Wood on guitar)
the first 12 seconds are the result from a merge between source #1 & #2 all the rest is coming from a merge between the video & source #1.

Part II: Joe Cocker-set with Eric Clapton:
08 - Don’t Talk To Me
source #1 & video merged
09 - Watching The River Flow
merged except the first 16 seconds which are solely coming from the video
10 - Worried Life Blues (Stu on piano)
source #1 & video merged
11 - You Are So Beautiful
source #1 & video merged
12 - Seven Days (Ron Wood on guitar)
source #1 & video merged
13 - Feelin’ Alright (BW on bvoc, Ron Wood on guitar)
source #1 & video merged
short intermission

CD2:
Part III: Jeff Beck-set:
01 - Star Cycle
source #1 & video merged except the first 19 seconds which are solely coming from the video
02 - The Pump
source #1 & video merged
03 - Definitely Maybe
source #1 & video merged
04 - Blue Wind
source #1 & video merged except the first 19 seconds which are solely coming from the video
05 - People Get Ready (Andy Fairweather Low on vocals)
source #1 & video merged except the first 25 seconds which are solely coming from source #1
06 - Going Down (Andy Fairweather Low on vocals)
source #1 & video merged except the first 25 seconds which are solely coming from the video
and the last 1’52 coming solely from the video

Part IV: Jimmy Page-set:
07 – Prelude
source #1 & video merged
08 - Who’s To Blame (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
source #1 & video merged
09 - City Sirens (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
I compensate a microgap in the video at around 2 minutes, source #1 & video merged
10 - Boogie Mama (Paul Rodgers on vocals and guitar)
source #1 & video merged
11 - Midnight Moonlight (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
source #1 & video merged except the last 36 seconds which are solely coming from the video
12 - Stairway To Heaven (Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck on guitar)
source #1 & video merged except the last 29 seconds which are solely coming from the video

CD3:
Part V: Encores - all together:
01 - Layla
In the video I compensate 2 little gaps in the final banter
source #1 & video merged except the last 21 seconds which are solely coming from the video
02 - With A Little Help From My Friends
merge #1 & #2 then last 40 seconds solely from source #2
03 - April Fool (Ronnie Lane on vocals)
source #1 & #2 merged
04 - Goodnight Irene (Ronnie Lane on vocals, Ron Wood on guitar and bvoc)
source #1 & #2 merged except the closing sequence which is solely coming from the source 1

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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Saturday I will upload the 2nd NYC show

Norbert
email: stonyroad58@gmail.com

Thank you very much for another great part of this series and for all your work to deliver the best audio for this project!

Thanks a lot StonyRoad!

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Thanks a lot Norbert!

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N

Thank You Norbert!

THX a lot