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
9TH DECember 1983
NEW YORK CITY - Madison Square Garden
Benefit-concert for A.R.M.S. (Action For Research Into Multiple Sclerosis).

9th 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)
Note: Guest appearances by Ron Wood (gtr, bvoc) and Glyn Johns (bvoc on Goodnight
Irene).

For the last show of this series lots of versions were circulating but coming from 3 sources.

Source #1 can be found on ‘Grand Finale ‘, the boxset from Beano (Beano 028) which is a
good lossless audience.
Source #2 corresponds to ‘The Lostbrook Tape Series - Volume 22’ - it is an alternative but
saturated source that I did not use here.
Source #3 is the DVD published by Hercules but it only contains the end of the concert (an
incomplete ‘Goodbye Irene’ plus the finale) which is tucked to the show of December 8 (see
vol 10).

Vol 11:

This volume is a rework of source # 1 (a lossless audience recording) on which I added (as
bonus) ‘Goodnight Irene’, merged from the soundtrack of the video and source #1 (and which
will be used by BT2G on the accompanying DVD to this project).

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 - Sad Sad Day/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 (probably 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)0
diginoises repaired at 0’30.
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)
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 vocals)
04 - Goodnight Irene (Ronnie Lane on vocals, Ron Wood on guitar and bvoc, Glyn Johns on bvoc)

Bonus
Merged version with the soundtrack of the video on the left channel and the source #1 on the
right. As usual, all tracks are reworked.
05 - Goodnight Irene (Ronnie Lane on vocals, Glyn Johns on bvoc and Ron Wood on guitar
and bvoc)
merged version except the first 45 seconds which are solely coming from the source #1
06 - ‘the last bow’ with band introduction
merged version except for the end (1’45) which is solely coming from the video soundtrack.

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







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This was the last show from this series but on next Friday we will upload a complement

Norbert
email: stonyroad58@gmail.com

Thanks a lot.

Thanks again for this great serie !



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2025-03-01 16:54 by Keessie.

Thanks a lot!

Thanks for this serie of concerts

Thank You for the series

Thanks very much!!!

Thank You Norbert!

Thank you.

What a great series - thanks a lot!

N

Thank you very much

Thanks a lot Norbert!

THX a lot