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, 8th & 9TH DECember 1983
NEW YORK CITY – SAN FRANCISCO
Benefit-concerts for A.R.M.S.
(Action For Research Into Multiple Sclerosis).

3rd December 1983: ALL STAR BAND. San Francisco, California, Cow Palace.
8th & 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 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).


Vol 12:
Complementary volume

To finish this series, we present you a volume that gathers soundboard recordings (or very high-quality recordings) that were compiled on 2 cd-rs that I had received many years ago (and whose lineage seems to be lost).
They have the same setlist as the DVD that we used for the previous volume but not the same sound quality or the same origins of the songs (since 2 titles come from San Francisco).
This soundtrack was used by BT2G to make his DVD that he will post in parallel.

These recordings have been reworked as usual and some diginoises have been compensated in the first titles.

The titles below date from the show of December 8 except for the last 3 (see comments below).

CD1:
Part I: end of Eric Clapton-set:
01 - Cocaine (Ron Wood on guitar)

Part II: Joe Cocker-set with Eric Clapton:
02 - Don’t Talk To Me
03 - Watching The River Flow
04 - Worried Life Blues (Stu on piano)
05 - You Are So Beautiful
06 - Seven Days (Ron Wood on guitar)
07 - Feelin’ Alright (BW on bvoc, Ron Wood on guitar)
short intermission

Part III: Jeff Beck-set:
08 - Star Cycle
09 - The Pump
10 - Definitely Maybe
11 - Blue Wind
12 - People Get Ready (Andy Fairweather Low on vocals)
I added 7,5 seconds in the banter before track 13
13 - Going Down (Andy Fairweather Low on vocals)

CD2:
Part IV: Jimmy Page-set:
01 - Prelude
02 - Who’s To Blame (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
03 - City Sirens (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
04 - Boogie Mama (Paul Rodgers on vocals and guitar)
05 - Midnight Moonlight (Paul Rodgers on vocals)
06 - Stairway To Heaven (Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck on guitar)

Part V: Encores - all together:
07 - Layla
Coming from December 8 (NYC I)
08 - With A Little Help From My Friends
Coming from December 3 (Frisco III)
09 - Goodnight Irene (Ronnie Lane on vocals, Ron Wood on guitar and bvoc)
Coming from December 3 (Frisco III)
10 - ‘the last bow’ with band introduction
Coming from December 9 (NYC II)

Note:
BW & CW play only on tracks 01-07 on CD1 and tracks 07-10 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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This is the last volume from this series: thanks to my accomplices without whom this project would never have seen the light of day!

Norbert
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Thanks a lot for reworking this complete series. Specially the last
edition is a great gem. Doing this together was such a nice experience.

Thanks a lot!

Obrigado SR!

Thanks for all the series!

Thank you.

Thank You

Thank you very much

Thanks a lot! :-)

N

THX a lot