Showing posts with label Billy Preston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Billy Preston. Show all posts

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Various Artists - Playboy After Dark (CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA), Volume 11: April to May 1970

Sadly, this is the eleventh and final volume of my compilation of "Playboy After Dark" T.V. show episodes. There's a lot of excellent music here, but the show got cancelled after just two seasons.

This last volume mostly consists of performers from earlier episodes coming back. Perhaps Playboy head Hugh Hefner already known the show was going to be cancelled so he wanted to have a last hurrah with some of his favorite acts. I think Spanky Wilson and Sue Raney are the only ones who weren't repeat guests. The Cowsills performed another time, but lip-synced their performance then, so I didn't include that. But they played live here.

The first act here, Bill Medley, was half of the Righteous Brothers duo. He didn't have much success with his solo career in this era, but in 1987 he would have a Number One hit in the U.S. with "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" in a duet with Jennifer Warnes.

Like most of the volumes for the second season, there are some songs with "[Edit]" in their titles. As I explained in previous volumes, that's mostly from talking over the music during the last songs of each episode, especially thanks to a voice-over advertisement for the airline company T.W.A. 

There are a number of songs here that weren't put on record, similar to earlier volumes. That's especially true for the duets and other collaborations. For instance, I couldn't find any evidence of Billy Preston performing "It's Your Thing" on any record - a big hit for the Isley Brothers around this time - much less doing it with Joanne Vent, Bill Medley, and Blinky!  

I hope you enjoyed all the volumes in this series. And I hope now that I've done this, the music from this show will be appreciated by a wider audience. 

This album is an hour and three minutes long. 

01 Hold On, I'm Coming (Bill Medley)
02 You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin' (Bill Medley & Sammy Davis, Jr.)
03 Here's That Rainy Day - My Funny Valentine (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
04 For Once in My Life (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
05 It's Your Thing [Edit] (Billy Preston, Joanne Vent, Bill Medley & Blinky)
06 Them Changes [Edit] (Buddy Miles)
07 Dreams (Buddy Miles)
08 Alfie (Spanky Wilson)
09 Bring Me Sunshine (Spanky Wilson)
10 You've Made Me So Very Happy (Lou Rawls)
11 All God's Children Got Soul (Lou Rawls)
12 Where Is Love (Cowsills)
13 Two by Two (Cowsills)
14 Games People Play (Sue Raney)
15 Whoever You Are, I Love You (Sue Raney)
16 Poor Boy [Edit] (Cowsills)
17 A Lot of Livin' to Do (Hal Frazier with Buddy Rich)
18 Workout [Instrumental] (Buddy Rich)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uvnZesz3

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/omCInq9OR6LQQ0h/file

The cover image shows Lou Rawls. It's a screenshot I took from one of the videos of the episodes presented here. 

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Various Artists - Playboy After Dark (CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA), Volume 10: April 1970

Here's another volume of music I compiled from episodes of the "Playboy After Dark" TV show. This is the tenth. There's only one more after this.

There's a lot of variety on this album, with country, soul, jazz, and rock. Some highlights are B.B. King, Billy Preston, and Linda Ronstadt making her second appearance. 

A couple of songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. This is due to the usual problem with this series, of people talking over the music. (Especially the T.W.A. advertisements I keep mentioning.) So I fixed those in the usual way, with the help of the MVSEP program. 

By the way, Barbara McNair is a rare case of one of the performers for this show who also posed naked for Playboy Magazine. But it's not like she had to do that in order to get on the show. She'd had an established career starting in the late 1950s, as a singer and an actress for plays, T.V., and movies. She was signed to Motown Records from around 1966 to 1969. She even had her own T.V. show from 1969 to 1971, called "The Barbara McNair Show." 

Her career would take a hit in 1972, however, when she was arrested for heroin possession, because she signed for a package sent to her house containing heroin. However, charges against her were later dropped, and her husband was charged instead. It seems like her husband was a seriously bad dude. He was murdered in 1976. It was alleged he was involved in the Mafia, and was killed at the same time he was trying to put a hit out on someone else.

You can read her Wikipedia entry here:

Barbara McNair - Wikipedia 

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and ten minutes long. 

01 Nobody Knows (Dillards)
02 Hey Boys (Dillards)
03 My Shining Hour (Carmen McRae)
04 I Love You More than You'll Ever Know (Carmen McRae)
05 Bending the Strings [Instrumental] [Edit] (Dillards)
06 Stand by Your Man (Lola Falana)
07 It Takes a Little Longer (Sonny Charles)
08 Friendship Train (Sonny Charles)
09 Walk a Mile in My Shoes [Edit] (Sonny Charles & Lola Falana)
10 Until It's Time for You to Go (Barbara McNair)
11 Son of a Preacher Man (Barbara McNair)
12 So Excited (B. B. King)
13 The Thrill Is Gone (B. B. King)
14 Lovesick Blues (Linda Ronstadt)
15 Long, Long Time (Linda Ronstadt)
16 Sing, Sing, Sing (Country Joe & the Fish)
17 The 'Fish' Cheer - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag (Country Joe & the Fish)
18 Everything's All Right (Billy Preston)
19 You've Made Me So Very Happy (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
20 God Bless the Child (Blinky)
21 Let's Get Together (Joanne Vent & Muscatel)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UK1WoH6B

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Ox0RbnXqeJIZP7N/file

The cover image of Linda Ronstadt is a screenshot I took from a video of one of these episodes. 

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Billy Preston with Buddy Miles - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 8-31-1973

It's time for another episode from that fantastic TV show, "The Midnight Special." This one stars Billy Preston, with Buddy Miles as his guest.

Preston started his music career quite young. Having taught himself how to play piano, he began performing on stage by the time he was ten. In 1963, he released his first studio album, at the age of 16. But he didn't have a lot of success at first, and mostly worked as a backing musician for Ray Charles and others. He got a big break in early 1969 when he backed the Beatles in the studio for a couple of weeks during their Get Back / Let It Be sessions. And when the song "Get Back" was released as a single that year, it was credited to "The Beatles with Billy Preston." He had his first big hit later in 1969 with "That's the Way God Planned It." It didn't do much in the U.S., but it almost reached the Top Ten in Britain. More hits followed by the time of this show, especially "Outa-Space," "Will It Go Round in Circles," and "Space Race."

Here's his Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

Billy Preston - Wikipedia 

This album is a combination of three episodes. Most of the songs come from the August 31, 1973 episode named in the album title. But "Blackbird" and "That's the Way God Planned It" come from a February 16, 1973 episode. Actually, "That's the Way God Planned It" was played twice, in the August and February episodes. But the August version faded out before the end of the song. So I used the complete February version. However, the talking right before it is from the August version. Also, tracks 11, 12 and 13 come from the December 14, 1973 episode.

Preston hosted the show again in 1975. I plan on posting that again. It seems he and Buddy Miles actually were friends (as they said on this episode), because Miles was a guest on that episode as well. It seems the host often had some say on who the guests for their episodes would be. 

I included Miles as the guest mostly because they performed "My Sweet Lord" together, as you can see from the cover image. Also, they had similar soul music styles. In case you're curious, the other guests on the August 1973 episode that Preston hosted were: Steely Dan, Bo Diddley, Maureen McGovern, Ned Doheny, and Gladstone. For the opening talk by Wolfman Jack, I edited it so that mentions of the those other guests weren't included. That's what that track has "[Edit]" in the title. I also included only part of the next track, which consisted of some comments by comedian Tommy Smothers.

By the way, "I'm So Tired" is not the Beatles song of the same name. However, "Blackbird" is a Beatles cover. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 talk [Edit] (Wolfman Jack)
02 talk (Tommy Smothers)
03 Will It Go Round in Circles (Billy Preston)
04 talk (Billy Preston)
05 Them Changes (Buddy Miles)
06 talk (Wolfman Jack)
07 My Sweet Lord (Billy Preston & Buddy Miles)
08 talk (Billy Preston)
09 All Spaced Out (Billy Preston)
10 Music's My Life (Billy Preston)
11 Space Race [Instrumental] (Billy Preston)
12 How Long Has the Train Been Gone (Billy Preston)
13 I'm So Tired (Billy Preston)
14 Blackbird (Billy Preston)
15 Thinking of You (Buddy Miles)
16 talk (Billy Preston)
17 That's the Way God Planned It (Billy Preston)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/2vHo8jnd

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/PCrntjhghM3NAH8/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. That's Buddy Miles playing drums, and Billy Preston looking over at him while playing keyboards. I used Photoshop to remove some mostly empty space between them.

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Michael McDonald & Friends - A Tribute to Motown, PBS Soundstage, Nashville, TN, 6-2005

Here is another episode of the great "PBS Soundstage" T.V. show. This one stars, Michael McDonald, but it has a bunch of special guests as well: Billy Preston, Toni Braxton, Take 6, and Indie.Arie. All the songs they performed are covers of Motown classics from the 1960s and 70s.

McDonald has been on the Soundstage show quite a lot. He was a key member of the Doobie Brothers when they hosted the show in 1979. He also hosted it in 2003 with some other guests. And he was a guest on an episode hosted by Kenny Loggins. And I believe he will be on at least one more episode that I have yet to post.

In this case, I would bet the show had him back because of the Motown theme to the episode, meaning that the songs were different from the ones he played on other episodes. At the time he was going through quite a Motown phase. In 2003, he released an all covers album just called "Motown," And in 2004, he released a sequel called "Motown 2." The special guests were not on those albums, with the exception of Toni Braxton. The duet she sang here with McDonald, "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)," also appeared as a duet on his "Motown 2" album. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

An hour and six minutes long. 

01 I Second That Emotion (Michael McDonald)
02 talk (Michael McDonald)
03 I Was Made to Love Her (Michael McDonald & Billy Preston)
04 talk (Michael McDonald)
05 What's Going On (Michael McDonald & Billy Preston)
06 I Heard It through the Grapevine (Michael McDonald)
07 talk (Michael McDonald)
08 All in Love Is Fair (Michael McDonald)
09 talk (Michael McDonald)
10 Stop, Look, Listen [To Your Heart] (Michael McDonald & Toni Braxton)
11 talk (Michael McDonald)
12 Baby I'm for Real (Michael McDonald)
13 talk (Michael McDonald)
14 Tracks of My Tears (Michael McDonald & Take 6)
15 talk (Michael McDonald)
16 Since I Lost My Baby (Michael McDonald & Take 6)
17 talk (Michael McDonald)
18 Loving You Is Sweeter than Ever (Michael McDonald)
19 talk (Michael McDonald)
20 You're All I Need to Get By (Michael McDonald & India.Arie)
21 Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Ain't Nothing like the Real Thing (Michael McDonald & India.Arie)
22 talk (Michael McDonald)
23 Nowhere to Run (Michael McDonald & Billy Preston)
24 talk (Michael McDonald) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vR3Pfbkj 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/4RldNOOrxv6NA5X/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. It shows Toni Braxton standing in the foreground and Michael McDonald sitting at the keyboards further back. 

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Various Artists - MusiCares Tribute to Brian Wilson, Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, CA, 2-11-2005

As I mentioned in my last post, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys died a few days ago as I write this, on June 11, 2025. He's such an important musical figure that I considered it a must to post something in his memory. I did a little Internet browsing, and came across mentions of this tribute concert. However, I could only find a few songs from it, far from the whole thing. But luckily I've recently been getting some assistance from Fabio from Rio, who is a big Brian Wilson / Beach Boys fan. It turned out he had the DVD of this. He then figured out how to convert it to audio format, and sent it to me. So here you are. Earlier today, I posted an album that pays tribute to Brian Wilson created by Fabio, but two tribute albums is better than one.

MusiCares is a non-profit charity that is connected to the organization that runs the yearly Grammy music awards. Since 1991, they've been giving out a yearly award, MusiCares Person of the Year. They have a benefit concert celebrate the music of that person. It takes place in the same town and week as the Grammy awards, so lots of music stars are there to perform on stage or at least attend. The money raised from the benefit concert (and other activities) goes to an organization that helps struggling musicians, for instance those who are having medical trouble or drug addiction and can't afford treatment.

It seems that bootlegs of these yearly MusiCares concerts are basically non-existent. The audiences are relatively small and are mostly made up of music industry insiders who aren't likely to secretly tape record the show and then share that with the public. However, a handful of the concerts have been officially released on DVD. These are generally rare and already out of print. But I've managed to find most of them, concerts for: Paul Simon, James Taylor, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, and Bruce Springsteen (plus this one). I plan on posting all of those here eventually. I know of two more that exist: Barbra Streisand and Carole King. I'm not that interested in the Streisand one, but I'd be very interested in the King one, if anyone has that. (Or, heck, if anyone has any of the other concerts not on DVD!)

For this album, I don't feel I need to explain what happened in the concert, because I found not one, but two, articles that give good summaries. Here they are (with the second one from Rolling Stone): 

MusiCares Celebrates Brian Wilson As Person Of The Year | RECORDINGACADEMY.com 

Musicians Serenade Brian Wilson at MusiCares Gala 

I do want to mention though that I'm very disappointed this isn't the complete concert. Almost complete, but a couple of songs are missing, at least. One song that got left off the DVD, and thus left off this album, is a performance by Neil Young of the Beach Boys classic "In My Room." It seems to be the one and only time Young ever publicly performed this song, so it's a real loss. Another one that wasn't included is a duet between India.Arie and Brian Wilson on the even greater classic "God Only Knows." If anyone has either or both of those, please let me know so I can add them in.

Thanks again to Fabio from Rio. I looked everywhere and couldn't find this, so I was very pleasantly surprised to find he had it. After he sent it to me, I broke the audio into mp3s. So I think it's a safe bet that this is the first time this full concert is being shared in an audio format. 

This album is an hour and nine minutes long. 

01 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
02 I Get Around (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
03 talk (Richie Sambora)
04 City Blues (Richie Sambora)
05 Sail On, Sailor (Jamie Cullum)
06 talk (Barenaked Ladies)
07 Brian Wilson - 'Til I Die (Barenaked Ladies)
08 talk (John Legend)
09 I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (John Legend)
10 talk (Backstreet Boys)
11 When I Grow Up [To Be a Man] (Backstreet Boys)
12 talk (Shelby Lynne)
13 Surfer Girl (Shelby Lynne)
14 talk (Michael McDonald & Billy Preston)
15 Don't Worry Baby (Michael McDonald & Billy Preston)
16 Surf's Up [Instrumental Version] (Jeff Beck)
17 Surfin' U.S.A. (Jeff Beck)
18 talk (Earth, Wind & Fire)
19 Don't Talk [Put Your Head on My Shoulder] (Earth, Wind & Fire)
20 talk (Darlene Love)
21 Wouldn't It Be Nice (Darlene Love)
22 Pet Sounds [Instrumental] (Brian Wilson Band)
23 talk (Neil Portnow & Brian Wilson)
24 Our Prayer - Heroes and Villains (Brian Wilson)
25 Good Vibrations (Brian Wilson)
26 Fun, Fun, Fun (Brian Wilson)
27 Love and Mercy (Brian Wilson)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gzQuD2sf

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/6nJGwuHSdbQCB1H/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. That's India.Arie with Brian Wilson. 

Thursday, October 17, 2024

The Rolling Stones - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: In Concert, Earl's Court, London, Britain, 5-22-1976

I mentioned about a week ago that I recently discovered a few BBC albums that I had missed, which is resulting in some renumbering. This is another case of that. I had previously posted a "BBC Sessions, Volume 5" for a 1990 Rolling Stones concert. But now that I've stumbled upon this concert, from 1976, I'm renaming that one "Volume 6." Here's the download link if you want to get the updated version:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-rolling-stones-bbc-sessions-volume.html

I'm happy I came across this concert, though I'm a bit bummed it's from 1976. I consider that the low point for the band in the 1970s, as I don't like much of their 1976 album "Black and Blue." That said, pretty much any Rolling Stones concert is solid, and that's the case here. 

It's also nice that the keyboardist the band was using at the time was none other than Billy Preston, who was a big star in his own right. So he was rewarded with the spotlight for two songs in the middle of the concert. Both of his songs were huge hits (and actually bigger than recent Stones hits.) "Outa-Space" went to Number Two in the U.S. singles chart in 1972, and "Nothing from Nothing" was a Number One hit in 1974. Apparently, during "Outa-Space," Stones lead singer Mick Jagger was sent on wires way up above the crowd to make it look like he was flying, which is why Preston can be heard mentioning something to the crowd about Jagger flying.

Perhaps the reason I didn't find this bootleg concert sooner is because it had a very big flaw: it seems the BBC only broadcast part of it, and a few songs they didn't broadcast were filled in with an audio bootleg that sounded terrible. I specifically refer to the first song, plus the last three songs. I decided it was better to use versions from another concert instead. For the first song and two of the last three, I found a soundboard bootleg of a concert in Paris, France, two weeks later that sounds about as good. However, for the very last song, "Sympathy for the Devil," I couldn't find anything with similar sound quality in 1976. So I had to resort to a recording from 1975. You can find all the details in the mp3 tags.

This album is an hour and 45 minutes long.

01 Honky Tonk Women (Rolling Stones)
02 If You Can't Rock Me - Get Off of My Cloud (Rolling Stones)
03 talk (Rolling Stones)
04 Hand of Fate (Rolling Stones)
05 talk (Rolling Stones)
06 Hey Negrita (Rolling Stones)
07 talk (Rolling Stones)
08 Ain't Too Proud to Beg (Rolling Stones)
09 talk (Rolling Stones)
10 Fool to Cry (Rolling Stones)
11 talk (Rolling Stones)
12 Hot Stuff (Rolling Stones)
13 Starfucker (Rolling Stones)
14 You Gotta Move (Rolling Stones)
15 You Can't Always Get What You Want (Rolling Stones)
16 talk (Rolling Stones)
17 Happy (Rolling Stones)
18 talk (Rolling Stones)
19 Tumbling Dice (Rolling Stones)
20 talk (Rolling Stones)
21 Nothing from Nothing (Billy Preston & the Rolling Stones)
22 Outa-Space [Instrumental] (Billy Preston & the Rolling Stones)
23 talk (Rolling Stones)
24 Midnight Rambler (Rolling Stones)
25 talk (Rolling Stones)
26 It's Only Rock 'n Roll [But I Like It] (Rolling Stones)
27 Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones)
28 talk (Rolling Stones)
29 Jumping Jack Flash (Rolling Stones)
30 Street Fighting Man (Rolling Stones)
31 Sympathy for the Devil (Rolling Stones)

https://www.imagenetz.de/a8tXN

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1tVajsJa

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/otrB6UdRePHA5Mz/file

Luckily, the cover photo is from this exact concert. However, it only shows the band's two most famous members, Mick Jagger (left) and Keith Richards (right).

Sunday, November 19, 2023

George Harrison with Billy Preston and Ravi Shankar - The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, 11-12-1974

George Harrison only went on tour twice as a solo artist, in 1974 and 1992. Up until recently, I had avoided any recordings from his 1974 tour, because I'd heard it was a musical disappointment, and because I'd heard there were no good bootleg recordings at the soundboard level. (There's never been an official album from the tour.) I'd glad to say that I was wrong on both accounts. This is a soundboard recording that's very nice in terms of sound quality. And I think people who listen this this will reassess the idea that the tour was a bust in terms of musical performance.

The posting of this album wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the always excellent music editing work of Captain Acid. I saw that he'd found a soundboard of most of one of the concerts from the tour (the Los Angeles Forum), and that's what made me consider posting something from this tour.  I'm using Captain Acid's remixing work for all the songs sourced to the Forum show. He sprinkled his usual magic dust on the recording to make it sound even better.

Unfortunately, the soundboard recording ended before the show did. So Captain Acid used an audience recording from a Seattle, Washington on November 4, 1974 for the last five songs. I listened to that portion and wasn't so impressed, because even Captain Acid can only do so much with poor source material. 

So I looked around for a better source for those remaining songs, and found it with a concert in Fort Worth, Texas, on November 22, 1974. Like the Seattle show, it was just an audience bootleg, but it was a better recording, for whatever reason. The main problem with it was the lead vocals were too low in the mix, but I used the UVR5 audio editing program to fix that. Furthermore, I took extra care with the banter between songs for the Fort Worth tracks, using the Enhanced Speech program by Adobe to add clarity to the words. The result was that portion now sounds nearly as good as a typical soundboard. I doubt you'll notice the difference between the two sources.

However, there were additional problems with the Forum section of the show. Three songs were incomplete: "Cheparte" was only missing about the last 30 seconds, "Hari's On Tour [Express]" was missing only the very beginning, and "Tom Cat" had over half missing. I used the Fort Worth tracks to fill in the missing portions. So that's why those songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. Additionally, one song in the Forum section, "Sound Stage of Mind," was missing altogether, so I used the Fort Worth version for that. Finally, the first ten seconds or so of "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" sounded dull and muddy. Luckily, that spot was an instrumental bit that was repeated later in the song, so I patched in the better audio. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in the title too.

After all that editing, I think the whole show sounds pretty darn good. But what about the actual musical content? The shows on the tour got a lot of bad reviews. From what I read, I think there were four main reasons. 

One, Harrison was really into the music of India, and wanted to use the tour to introduce people to that. So a big section in the middle of the concert - about 32 minutes on this recording - prominently featured Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. Nowadays, many people are open to different types of world music, but back in 1974 a lot of people were hostile to that. They wanted to hear more Harrison songs instead. But I was pleasantly surprised by this section of the concert. It wasn't the type of Indian music that sounds alien to most Western ears. Instead, it was more of a union of Indian and Western music. In fact, Harrison and members of his band often played with the Indian musicians for that section of the concerts, and I believe that's the case here. For instance, I'm sure I could hear the organ of Billy Preston on some of the Indian songs. So give this section a try, you might just like it.

A second problem had to do with Harrison's voice. He was suffering from laryngitis even before the tour began, causing his voice to sound hoarse for the entire tour. That problem only got worse as the tour went on, because he played something like 49 concerts in 45 days, due to often doing two shows a day. Harrison realized this was a problem, but it would have cost him a ton of money to reschedule the tours, so he just suffered through it, hoarse voice and all. But, listening to this recording, I was pleasantly surprised. Yeah, his voice sounded different, but I quickly got used to it, and it certainly didn't ruin the show for me. We're lucky that the Forum show was relatively early in the tour. Later on, apparently his problem got worse, to the point that he was unable to hit many notes and Billy Preston often doubled the vocals to help out. 

A third problem had to do with song selection. At this point in Harrison's life, he was burned out on his Beatles experience and he was tired of most of the Beatles songs. Audiences expected him to play lots of Beatles songs, but for this concert, like all the concerts on the tour, he only sang four Beatles songs: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Something," "For You Blue," and "In My Life." He also largely avoided songs from his massively popular solo album "All Things Must Pass," only playing "What Is Life" and "My Sweet Lord."

A fourth and related problem had to do with song lyrics. Probably because he was tired of Beatles songs but felt obliged to play at least a few of them, he changed the lyrics to them. For instance, I've renamed "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" to "While My Guitar Tries to Smile" because of the new lyrics. Perhaps most controversially, he changed the lyrics to "In My Life," a song actually written and sung by John Lennon, with the final line changed from "In my life, I love you more" to "In my life, I love God more."

Yeah, in a better world I too wish he would have sung more Beatles songs and more "All Things Must Pass" songs, and I wish he wouldn't have changed the lyrics. People weren't exactly clamoring for songs like "Hari's On Tour [Express]" and "Maya Love." But we can't change the past. It's understandable that Harrison wanted to try new things, and play different and new songs.

By the way, one reason he didn't sing more expected songs was because simply he didn't sing lead at all on many songs. Probably that was related to his hoarse voice. Note, for instance, that two of his songs were instrumentals. Organist Billy Preston was a big star at the time, with three Number One hits in the U.S., and he performed all three: "Will It Go Round in Circles," "Nothing from Nothing," and "Outa-Space." A lot of people who attended the concerts say Preston stole the shows with his energy. Additionally, saxophonist Tom Scott was the leader of the band (which also included lead guitarist Robben Ford), and he had the spotlight on the instrumental "Tom Cat."

So yeah, ideally, the concerts could have been better, for a number of reasons. But overall, I was pleasantly surprised by both the sound quality and musical performance, and I hope you'll feel the same.

This album is an hour and 50 minutes long.

01 Hari's On Tour [Express] [Instrumental] [Edit] (George Harrison)
02 While My Guitar Tries to Smile [While My Guitar Gently Weeps] (George Harrison)
03 Something (George Harrison)
04 talk (George Harrison)
05 Will It Go Round in Circles (George Harrison & Billy Preston)
06 talk (George Harrison)
07 Sue Me, Sue You Blues [Edit] (George Harrison)
08 talk (George Harrison & Ravi Shankar)
09 Zoom, Zoom, Zoom (George Harrison & Ravi Shankar)
10 talk (George Harrison & Ravi Shankar)
11 Na Na Dahni (George Harrison & Ravi Shankar)
12 talk (George Harrison & Ravi Shankar)
13 Cheparte [Edit] (George Harrison & Ravi Shankar)
14 talk (George Harrison & Ravi Shankar)
15 I Am Missing You (George Harrison & Ravi Shankar)
16 talk (George Harrison & Ravi Shankar)
17 Dispute and Violence (George Harrison & Ravi Shankar)
18 For You Blue (George Harrison)
19 talk (George Harrison)
20 Give Me Love [Give Me Peace on Earth] (George Harrison)
21 talk (George Harrison)
22 Sound Stage of Mind [Instrumental] (George Harrison)
23 talk (George Harrison)
24 In My Life (George Harrison)
25 talk (George Harrison)
26 Tom Cat [Instrumental] [Edit] (George Harrison & Tom Scott)
27 talk (George Harrison)
28 Maya Love (George Harrison)
29 talk (George Harrison)
30 Dark Horse (George Harrison)
31 talk (George Harrison)
32 Nothing from Nothing (George Harrison & Billy Preston)
33 Outa-Space [Instrumental] (George Harrison & Billy Preston)
34 talk (George Harrison)
35 What Is Life (George Harrison)
36 My Sweet Lord (George Harrison)

https://www.imagenetz.de/dZhC6

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZwczLkyB

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/aH3xLPd82CRYRSE/file 

The cover photo of Harrison is from this tour, but I don't know the details.