John Fogerty, Duane Eddy & Peter Frampton - Witness History III, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN, 4-5-2000

I really like concerts where we get to see musical legends perform together. Here's another one of those. It's from an event called "Witness History III." I'll explain what that was in a little bit. The main thing though is that it consists of short sets by Duane Eddy, John Fogerty, and Peter Frampton.

It seems there were three "Witness History" concerts. I've only found music from this one. All three of them were tribute concerts honoring guitarist Chet Aktins, and all were held at the same venue in Nashville, Tennessee. The first one took place in 1997, the second in 1998. This one, the third one in 2000, also was the last one. 

Pretty much everything I found out about this concert is due to a review by a person who attended it, which you can read here:

http://www.martystuart.com/witnessiii-review.htm

It seems some of the concert was broadcast on T.V., and some of that broadcast has made it to various bootlegs. But what we have here is surely incomplete. For instance, this starts with a set by Duane Eddy consisting of six songs. But the reviewer mentioned above says Eddy played 13 songs. It was probably similar with the Frampton and Fogerty sets as well. And there are other performers we don't have at all. The biggest loss is that Willie Nelson performed a set that we don't have. He was joined by Nanci Griffith and Bonnie Bramlett on a couple of songs. Chet Atkins was there, but it seems he'd suffered one or more strokes recently and wasn't able to perform. He died one year later, at the age of 77.

But on the plus side, what we do have is great, with excellent sound quality. John Fogerty has said that Duane Eddy was a big musical influence on him. He joined in on two songs in Eddy's set. Plus, he and Frampton joined Eddy for the final encore. Furthermore, Vince Gill joined in on lead guitar on songs in both Eddy's and Fogerty's sets. If Gill did any songs on his own, we don't have them.

I found most of this from one source. However, the first song comes from a video I found on YouTube. That makes me think there could be more out there that got broadcast. Hopefully, I'll be able to add to this eventually. But at least enjoy this much for now. 

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long

01 Three-30-Blues [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy & John Fogerty)
02 [Dance with The] Guitar Man (Duane Eddy)
03 talk (Duane Eddy)
04 Shazzam [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy with Vince Gill)
05 talk (Duane Eddy)
06 New Orleans Blues [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy with John Fogerty)
07 talk (Duane Eddy)
08 I Saw the Light [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy)
09 talk (Duane Eddy)
10 Rebel-'Rouser [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy)
11 Show Me the Way (Peter Frampton)
12 talk (Peter Frampton)
13 Can't Take That Away from Me (Peter Frampton)
14 Baby, I Love Your Way (Peter Frampton)
15 talk (Peter Frampton)
16 Do You Feel like We Do (Peter Frampton)
17 talk (John Fogerty)
18 Green River (John Fogerty)
19 Centerfield (John Fogerty)
20 talk (John Fogerty)
21 Proud Mary (John Fogerty with Vince Gill)
22 talk (John Fogerty)
23 Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty)
24 Hard Times [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy, Peter Frampton & John Fogerty)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MnzYYncD

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/18aCXULZBs7gBai/file

The cover is a screenshot I took from YouTube videos. The video quality was low. So I took several close-up screenshots and patched them together in order to capture more detail. Then the Krea AI program helped add to the image quality. 

Roy Orbison & Various Artists - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 2-15-1974

Here's a special theme edition of the "Midnight Special" TV show. The show's emcee Wolfman Jack called it the show's third "solid gold" show. What "solid gold" meant was what people were already starting to call "oldies," meaning musical acts that had hits in the 1950s and early 1960s, but generally stopped having them by the 1970s. Roy Orbison was the show's host. But in this case, that was a nominal position. He got to perform four songs, while the other guest stars got three or two.

The other performers on this show: Drifters, Del Shannon, Jackie Wilson, Bobby Vee, Lloyd Price, Duane Eddy, and Tommy Roe. That's a pretty impressive list, if you were looking for stars from that earlier era. 

Listening to this sounds a lot like listening to an oldies radio station playing one classic hit after another, except everything here was performed live. And while their hit-making days were generally over, they were all still relatively young and still in full capacity of their musical powers. 

This show started and edited a little different than most shows. Typically, the show started with about a minute of the song "Midnight Special," performed by Johnny Rivers. (I usually try to edit that out.) But this one began with just a few seconds of comments by Wolfman Jack, then bang, right into the first song. It also ended differently, with some final comments first by Wolfman Jack, and then Roy Orbison. As Orbison talked, the "Midnight Special" finally started to play, and then faded out. I got rid of that, and replaced it with audience applause. So that's why that track has "[Edit]" in its title. 

As usual with this show, the music is unreleased and the sound quality is excellent. Also as usual, I did a lot of editing to smooth over the gaps between songs by adding in extra audience applause. 

This album is an hour and five minutes long. I guess the usual format mentioned above allowed this episode to have slightly more music in it than usual. The show was an hour and a half long, but that included commercials, so this length is about as long as these albums from the show can get. 

01 talk [Edit] (Wolfman Jack)
02 Oh, Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison)
03 talk (Roy Orbison)
04 Up on the Roof (Drifters)
05 talk (Roy Orbison)
06 Runaway (Del Shannon)
07 talk (Roy Orbison & Del Shannon)
08 [Your Love Keeps Lifting Me] Higher and Higher (Jackie Wilson)
09 talk (Roy Orbison)
10 Take Good Care of My Baby (Bobby Vee)
11 talk (Wolfman Jack)
12 Personality (Lloyd Price)
13 talk (Roy Orbison)
14 Rebel-'Rouser [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy)
15 talk (Jackie Wilson)
16 Dream Baby [How Long Must I Dream] (Roy Orbison)
17 Save the Last Dance for Me (Drifters)
18 Hats Off to Larry (Del Shannon)
19 talk (Roy Orbison)
20 Sheila (Tommy Roe)
21 The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Bobby Vee)
22 Lonely Teardrops (Jackie Wilson)
23 Stagger Lee (Lloyd Price)
24 Running Scared (Roy Orbison)
25 talk (Roy Orbison & Wolfman Jack)
26 Everybody (Tommy Roe)
27 Ramrod [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy)
28 That's Why [I Love You So] (Jackie Wilson)
29 Keep Searching (Del Shannon)
30 Only the Lonely (Roy Orbison)
31 Jam Up Jelly Tight (Tommy Roe)
32 Devil or Angel (Bobby Vee)
33 talk (Wolfman Jack)
34 talk [Edit] (Roy Orbison)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/cSheycvb

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/pFyuyT0alyzHswm/file 

The cover image shows Wolfman Jack interviewing Roy Orbison (in the sunglasses). It's a screenshot I took from this exact concert.