Various Artists - 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 10-30-2009

I just posted the first day of the two-day long 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert, in 2009. Here's the second day.

This second day concert followed the same format as the one on the first day. Read my write-up for more details about this two-day concert in general. Suffice to say that for this day, four major musical acts were chosen: Aretha Franklin, Jeff Beck, Metallica, and U2. Each of them hosted one fourth of the concert, and each had special guests join them during their sections. 

I was a bit surprised by the choice of Jeff Beck, since his record sales weren't nearly as big as the others. It turns out that section was supposed to be for Eric Clapton, but he got sick at the last minute and had to back out. So Beck was another "guitar hero" to fill a similar role.

I detailed in my write-up for the first day of this concert how I put a longer concert out of material from a DVD, plus the HBO broadcast, plus an audience bootleg. That's the same case here, except I didn't find an audience boot for all the otherwise missing songs. I did find such a boot for some of the Metallica songs, but that didn't even have the entire Metallica set. But it did get me "You Really Got Me," with Ray Davies of the Kinks as the guest. 

The Wikipedia page for this concert lists all the songs that were performed, in their correct order. Here's that page:

25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts - Wikipedia 

Based on that, it looks like I'm missing five songs. Here are the songs that I couldn't find:

Drown in My Own Tears - Jeff Beck (or possibly Aretha Franklin, I'm not sure)
Cause We've Ended as Lovers - Jeff Beck
Rough Boy - Jeff Beck & Billy Gibbons
One - Metallica
Stone Cold Crazy - Metallica 

That's too bad, but at least the vast majority is here. If anyone has any of the missing songs, please let me know. The first day concert that I posted is a little over four hours long, whereas this one is two and a half hours long. If you add in the missing songs, this probably totals about three hours, not four. So I think the first day one is a little longer, and better. I'll bet some of that was due to Bruce Springsteen, as his section on the first day was extra long.

One interesting note about this concert is that the collaboration of Metallica with Lou Reed - a very unexpected pairing - eventually led to the recordings of the album "Lulu," a joint Metallica and Lou Reed release, in 2011. 

A couple of performers who appeared in the first day concert also appeared in this one. Jeff Beck played a song on the first day, and had his own section here. Sting sang duets on both days. And Bruce Springsteen had his own section on the first day, and sang two songs with U2 here. Jerry Lee Lewis also opened both days with a song.

The sound quality is generally excellent. The quality is actually higher here than on the first day, because I only have one song sourced from an audience boot this time ("You Really Got Me," as mentioned above). I ran into many of the same problems with the first day, such as having to smooth over the transitions between songs by adding extra cheering noises. Read my write-up about the other concert for more details on all that. 

This album is two hours and 33 minutes long.

01 talk (Tom Hanks)
02 Great Balls of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis)
03 Baby, I Love You (Aretha Franklin)
04 Don't Play That Song [You Lied] (Aretha Franklin)
05 Make Them Hear You (Aretha Franklin)
06 talk (Aretha Franklin)
07 Chain of Fools (Aretha Franklin & Annie Lennox)
08 Theme from New York, New York (Aretha Franklin)
09 Think (Aretha Franklin & Lenny Kravitz)
10 [I Never Loved a Man] The Way I Love You (Aretha Franklin)
11 Respect (Aretha Franklin)
12 People Get Ready (Sting & Jeff Beck)
13 Freeway Jam [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
14 talk (Jeff Beck)
15 Let Me Love You Baby (Buddy Guy & Jeff Beck)
16 Big Block [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
17 Rice Pudding [Instrumental] (Billy Gibbons & Jeff Beck)
18 Foxy Lady (Billy Gibbons & Jeff Beck)
19 A Day in the Life [Instrumental Version] (Jeff Beck)
20 For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica)
21 talk (Metallica)
22 Turn the Page (Metallica)
23 talk (Metallica)
24 Sweet Jane (Lou Reed & Metallica)
25 talk (Metallica)
26 White Light-White Heat (Lou Reed & Metallica)
27 talk (Metallica)
28 Iron Man (Ozzy Osbourne & Metallica)
29 Paranoid (Ozzy Osbourne & Metallica)
30 talk (Metallica)
31 You Really Got Me (Ray Davies & Metallica)
32 All Day and All of the Night (Ray Davies & Metallica)
33 Enter Sandman (Metallica)
34 Vertigo (U2)
35 Magnificent (U2)
36 talk (U2)
37 Because the Night (U2, Bruce Springsteen & Patti Smith)
38 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2 & Bruce Springsteen)
39 Mysterious Ways (U2)
40 Where Is the Love - One (U2 & the Black Eyed Peas)
41 talk (U2)
42 Gimme Shelter (U2, Mick Jagger, Fergie & will.i.am)
43 talk (U2)
44 Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of (U2 & Mick Jagger)
45 Beautiful Day (U2)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UZjACSG5

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/mtktsXHvZPk8rgE/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. From left to right: Bono, The Edge, Fergie, and Mick Jagger.

Various Artists - MusiCares Tribute to Barbra Streisand, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2-11-2011

I have to be honest: I've never been a fan of Barbra Streisand's music. It's too show tune theatrical for me. But I'm planning to post all the MusiCares tributes I could find, and this was the next one to randomly get chosen for posting. And hearing the likes of Seal, Stevie Wonder, and Beck perform her songs help make this more palatable for me.

As with virtually all the MusiCares tribute concerts I post, the only reason we have worthy sound quality recordings of them is because some of them were released on DVD (but not in any audio format). This is another one of those lucky ones. I converted it from video to audio, then broke it into mp3s.

Unfortunately, in this case, it seems to have been edited down, though I don't know how much is missing. One thing that was definitely missing here though was her acceptance speech. I figured there had to have been one, so I did some searching. I couldn't find it, but I did find a few snippets from it, with some of her songs loudly playing in the background (which obviously wasn't played like that in the concert). I used MVSEP to remove the music but keep the talking and the applause. Then I arranged what I had. Clearly, that's not all of it. But I figure some of it is better than nothing. Hopefully more of it will emerge, plus whatever else was left off the DVD.

By the way, it was interesting that Prince, of all people, was the one to introduce her before her acceptance speech. That same recording of her speech included him saying a few words, so I put that in here as well, after removing the background music. However, I don't know if his short comments are complete or not. So that's why the Streisand's speech and Prince's introduction both have "[Edit]" in their titles.

As is typical for these things, the recipient of the award performed a couple of songs at the end of the concert. That's exactly what Streisand did here.  

Oh, one more thing. An unusual track here is from comedian and talk show host Bill Maher, since it was just comments about her instead of music. He also had some political jokes, but they were only relevant in 2011 politics, and they didn't have anything to do with Streisand anyway, so I cut those out. That's why that track has "[Edit]" in its title. 

Here's a Rolling Stone Magazine link with very little text but lots of photos from the event:

2011 MusiCares Person of the Year Tribute to Barbra Streisand 

This album is an hour and three minutes long. 

01 talk (Diana Krall)
02 Down with Love (Diana Krall)
03 Guilty (Seal)
04 Somewhere (Leona Lewis)
05 My Man (Lea Michele)
06 On a Clear Day [You Can See Forever] - Lazy Afternoon (Herbie Hancock & Nikki Yanofsky)
07 talk [Edit] (Bill Maher)
08 Come Rain or Come Shine (LeAnn Rimes, Jeff Beck & BeBe Winans)
09 Send in the Clowns (Faith Hill)
10 One Less Bell to Answer - A House Is Not a Home (Kristin Chenoweth & Matthew Morrison)
11 Memory (Barry Manilow)
12 Smile (Tony Bennett)
13 People (Stevie Wonder & Arturo Sandoval)
14 talk [Edit] (Prince)
15 talk [Edit] (Barbra Streisand)
16 Windmills of Your Mind (Barbra Streisand)
17 The Promise [I'll Never Say Goodbye] (Barbra Streisand) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ndNRYeAj

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/Bxx0HNXUQhayQxK/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

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. 

The Jeff Beck Group - BBC In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 6-29-1972

In 1967, lead guitarist Jeff Beck formed the Jeff Beck Group, with Rod Stewart as lead vocalist. This band was critically and commercially successful, putting out two albums. But the band broke up in mid-1969. Shortly after that, Beck was in a car accident and had to recouperate for about a year. When he finished, he created a new Jeff Beck Group with entirely different personnel. The new lead vocalist was Bobby Tench.

That is the version of the band on this album. It's lucky the band played this concert for the BBC, because they didn't leave much behind in the way of excellent sounding live recordings. But this one does sound excellent. 

The Jeff Beck Group broke up for good in July 1972, just one month after this concert. After that, Beck lost the "Group" and performed under his own name.

Strangely, although Beck was active at the BBC in the 1960s with the Yardbirds and then the first Jeff Beck Group, he seems to have done very little with the BBC after this. I found a mention of a Beck concert for the BBC in 1980. A recording of it must exist, because it's mentioned at the discogs.com database. But I've never come across it. If you know of it, or other BBC recordings from him, please let me know.

This album is 60 minutes long.

01 talk (Jeff Beck Group)
02 Ice Cream Cakes (Jeff Beck Group)
03 talk (Jeff Beck Group)
04 Morning Dew (Jeff Beck Group)
05 Going Down (Jeff Beck Group)
06 talk (Jeff Beck Group)
07 Definitely Maybe [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck Group)
08 talk (Jeff Beck Group)
09 Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You (Jeff Beck Group)
10 talk (Jeff Beck Group)
11 New Was - Plynth [Water Down the Drain] - Train Train (Jeff Beck Group)
12 talk (Jeff Beck Group)
13 Ain't No Sunshine (Jeff Beck Group)
14 talk (Jeff Beck Group)
15 Got the Feeling (Jeff Beck Group)
16 talk (Jeff Beck Group)
17 Let Me Love You (Jeff Beck Group)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15275986/JeffB_1972_BBConcertParisTheatre__6-29-1972_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken at the Crystal Palace in London in 1972.

The Jeff Beck Group - Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 7-24-1968

This is easily the best sounding bootleg from when Rod Stewart was a part of the Jeff Beck Group in the 1960s. It has gotten around publicly, including with several grey market releases (meaning they look like official releases but the original artist has no say and gets no profit). In 2023, I found a recently posted version that was edited by Captain Acid and Professor Goody to fix speed and pitch issues. It's the best sounding version yet.

However, that version still had big sound quality issues, in my opinion. Some people, such as those two, are purists who only want to fix technical flaws. I'm more than willing to go further and tinker with whatever I think makes a recording sound better. In this case, I thought the lead vocals were too low in many places. So, using the audio editing program X-Minus, I went through the entire recording line and line, and made lots of little adjustments. That's because some areas needed much more volume boosting than others. For instance, Jeff Beck sang only one song, "Hi Ho Silver Lining." His vocals had to be boosted more than Stewart's. He's a lead guitarist, not really a singer, so I suspect his microphone was turned down lower. And on "Morning Dew," there were parts where Stewart's vocals were so low they could barely be heard at all. But now they come through loud and clear.

But I made some other edits as well. This is an excellent soundboard bootleg, overall. But one problem with excellent soundboards is that they sometimes capture the sound on stage so well that barely any audience cheering is heard. That was the case here, so I boosted the audience reactions at the ends of songs quite a bit. I also boosted what little banter there was between songs. Finally, the first fifteen or so seconds of the first song, "You Shook Me," were missing. I used the BBC version of that song, which I've also posted at this blog, to fill in that missing part. The two versions matched very well. That's why the first song has "[Edit]" in the title, although in fact I made many edits to all the songs.

The one downside to this concert is that it's relatively short. But it appears to be the whole thing. I found set lists of some other concerts they did around this time with the exact same songs in the same order. They weren't well known yet - their first album "Truth" came out several days AFTER this concert - so they only had a short opening slot. You can hear Beck mention at the end that Moby Grape was going to come to the stage next.

It's true this concert is short, only 32 minutes long. But the sound quality is fantastic for a 1968 live recording, and the band was on fire.

01 You Shook Me [Edit] (Jeff Beck Group)
02 Let Me Love You (Jeff Beck Group)
03 talk (Jeff Beck Group)
04 Morning Dew (Jeff Beck Group)
05 Jeff's Boogie [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck Group)
06 The Sun Is Shining (Jeff Beck Group)
07 talk (Jeff Beck Group)
08 Hi Ho Silver Lining (Jeff Beck Group)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15275902/JeffB_1968_FillmoreWstSanFranciscoCA__7-24-1968_atse.zip.html

I'm really happy with how the cover photo of Beck came out. It was taken at the Fillmore West in 1968, but later in the year, in December. The original was in black and white. However, I've found a new program to colorize pictures. It's called Palette and it does an even better job than Pixbim does, using the same kind of new AI (artificial intelligence) technology as that used in ChatGPT and other revolutionary programs. It's free, and you can find it here:

Palette - Colorize Photos

Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck - Tacoma Dome, Seattle, WA, 7-8-1984

The great lead guitarist Jeff Beck died a couple of days ago (as I write this in January 2023). I wanted to post something to mark his death, and I decided on this. It's much more of a Rod Stewart concert, but Beck played guitar on six songs. I figure it's a lesser known thing that may be a surprise to many of his fans.

Stewart and Beck played together for a couple of years in the late 1960s in the Jeff Beck Group. They got along well musically but clashed on a personal level. Then Beck played on Stewart's single "Infatuation" in 1984. Beck then agreed to play in Stewart's next concert tour. I'll let Stewart explain what happened next, from his autobiography:

"The problem with this, from the outset, was that it all too obviously cast Jeff in a supporting role, which he was pretty much guaranteed to hate, however handsomely remunerated. The tour was set for 74 dates over four months. Behind the scenes, a lot of people were muttering and saying, 'This is doomed - he won’t last two shows.' But they were all wrong. He lasted three. And then he left, saying something about how the audience were all housewives, which was a little bit rude of the old scamp."

Stewart exaggerates a bit. Beck actually lasted six shows. This one was the fourth. But still, that wasn't long. Luckily, this bootleg exists of their brief 1984 reunion, and it's an excellent soundboard. There was only one problem with the sound: it was such an excellent soundboard that you couldn't hear much of the audience. So I boosted the cheering at the end of each song.

I lost most of my interest in Stewart after he went full disco with songs like his 1978 Number One single "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy." In the early 1980s, he went all the way into the synth-heavy new wave sound. That sound has not dated well for him. He did put out some good singles, but his 1980s albums generally get lower ratings than those from the 1970s or 1990s. Luckily, this concert is more of a throwback to his 1960s and 1970s blues rock sound. I'm sure a big part of that was due to the presence of Beck. I highly doubt he would have done songs like "Rock My Plimsoul" and "I Ain't Superstitious" - both from the Jeff Beck Group days - otherwise. But most of the other songs have more of a rock sound than being dated by 1984 sounds. However, there are exceptions, like the cover of the Free classic "All Right Now," redone in synth-heavy new wave style. 

This album is an hour and 26 minutes long.

01 talk (Rod Stewart)
02 Sweet Little Rock and Roller (Rod Stewart)
03 talk (Rod Stewart)
04 You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart)
05 talk (Rod Stewart)
06 Hot Legs (Rod Stewart)
07 talk (Rod Stewart)
08 Tonight's the Night [Gonna Be Alright] (Rod Stewart)
09 talk (Rod Stewart)
10 You're in My Heart [The Final Acclaim] (Rod Stewart)
11 talk (Rod Stewart)
12 She Won't Dance with Me (Rod Stewart)
13 talk (Rod Stewart)
14 All Right Now (Rod Stewart)
15 talk (Rod Stewart)
16 Young Turks (Rod Stewart)
17 Infatuation (Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck)
18 talk (Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck)
19 People Get Ready (Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck)
20 talk (Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck)
21 Rock My Plimsoul (Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck)
22 I Ain't Superstitious (Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck)
23 talk (Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck)
24 The Pump [Instrumental] (Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck)
25 talk (Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck)
26 Bad for You (Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck)
27 talk (Rod Stewart)
28 Passion (Rod Stewart)
29 talk (Rod Stewart)
30 Gasoline Alley (Rod Stewart)
31 Maggie May (Rod Stewart)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16697094/RODSTWRT1984_TacmaDmeSettleWA__7-8-1984_atse.zip.html

The cover photo of Stewart and Beck was taken in New York City in 1984. For once, I didn't use Photoshop to bring them closer together. Apparently they were hugging while at a press conference to start the concert tour.

Various Artists - Apollo Hall of Fame, Apollo Theatre, New York City, 7-15-1993

The Apollo Theatre is a concert venue in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem with a legendary history. With Harlem being a predominantly black neighborhood and a center of black cultural trends, it's best known for featuring black musicians, especially in the soul genre. In 1993, the people running the venue decided to start a yearly hall of fame ceremony. For their first one, they had a two hour show broadcast on national TV honoring the first few inductees. Apparently, this hall of fame tradition has continued, but I've only found good recordings from the 1993 one.

I haven't been able to find the full show, so I only know bits and pieces. But it seems that year's inductees included Ray Charles, James Brown, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald.

Here's an article about it, from Variety Magazine at the time:

Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame - Variety

Ray Charles showed up and played, but James Brown did not. Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald had passed away by that time. But many other famous musicians performed. Some were in tribute to the inductees. For instance, Diana Ross sang two of Billie Holiday's songs. But other performers just seemed to be celebrating the legacy of the Apollo Theatre in general. 

When it comes to bootleg recordings, this concert is best known for the last few songs, led by blues guitarist B. B. King. First, he did a duet with guitarist Eric Clapton on the song "Rock Me Baby." Then he brought on guitarists Jeff Beck, Albert Collins, and Buddy Guy as well. The five of them all played solos on the same song, "Sweet Little Angel." After that, they were joined by everyone else from earlier in the show for the finale "Let the Good Times Roll." That probably was the only time those five guitar legends all played on stage together.

But the rest of the show has a lot going for it. Many soul legends from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s played. Some of them were getting up there in age and this would be their last time on a national TV, a kind of last hurrah.

This album is 54 minutes long. The TV special was two hours long. Even if you figure in time for commercials, there are songs I've missed. I found about half of this from a high quality bootleg, and the other half from YouTube videos. But, in my opinion, the sound quality is about the same from the two sources.

By the way, note that the shows two hosts were the actors Danny Glover and Bill Cosby. Since then, Cosby has been hit by sex scandal and has been imprisoned. It's strange for me to hear him host this show in light of what's happened to him. I've tried to minimize his comments between songs, but I kept the bare minimum in for things to be understood.

01 talk (Smokey Robinson)
02 This Little Light of Mine (Smokey Robinson & the Dixie Hummingbirds)
03 talk (Smokey Robinson)
04 Little Girl of Mine (Smokey Robinson & the Cleftones)
05 talk (Smokey Robinson)
06 Good Times (Bryan Adams & Smokey Robinson)
07 talk (Chuck Jackson)
08 Any Day Now (Chuck Jackson)
09 talk (Ben E. King)
10 Save the Last Dance (Ben E. King)
11 talk (Al Green)
12 Let's Stay Together (Al Green)
13 talk (Teddy Pendergrass)
14 Close the Door (Teddy Pendergrass)
15 Stand by Me (Ben E. King, Chuck Jackson, Al Green & Teddy Pendergrass)
16 Still Crazy After All These Years (Ray Charles)
17 talk (Diana Ross)
18 God Bless the Child (Diana Ross)
19 Fine and Mellow (Diana Ross)
20 talk (B. B. King)
21 Rock Me Baby (B. B. King & Eric Clapton)
22 talk (B. B. King)
23 Sweet Little Angel (B. B. King, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Albert Collins & Buddy Guy)
24 talk (B. B. King)
25 Let the Good Times Roll (B. B. King & Everyone)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701193/VA-ApolloHallFmeAplloThetreNYC__7-15-1993_atse.zip.html

For the cover, I found a photo of all five guitarists that played together near the end of the show. From left to right, it's Jeff Beck, Albert Collins, B. B. King, Eric Clapton, and Buddy Guy. It looks like the photo was taken backstage before or after the show. It's rather blurry, so if you know of a better version, or a better one, please let me know.

The Yardbirds - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: 1966-1968

Here's the third and final volume of the Yardbirds at the BBC. However, I made one more album of all the additional versions of songs the band did more than once for the BBC. I can post that here as well if there's interest.

The first three songs here, from June 1966, feature Jeff Beck as lead guitarist. Shortly afterwards, Jimmy Page joined the band, and the band coexisted with two lead guitarists until about November 1966. Unfortunately, none of the performances here are from that period. Instead, from the fourth song to the end, it's just Page as lead guitarist. 

So this should be of interest for Led Zeppelin fans, since of course Page would be the lead guitarist in that band starting in late 1968. In fact, if you're a serious Zeppelin fan, you probably know that band was billed as the Yardbirds when they first started out.

Speaking of Led Zeppelin, if you listen to "Dazed and Confused" here, you'd be forgiven if you'd think this is Led Zeppelin already, but with a different lead vocalist. "White Summer" is a song that band would play in concert sometimes. And this version of "Train Kept A-Rollin'" has some parts that sounds like another Zep song.

By the way, "Train Kept A-Rollin'" and "Jeff's Boogie" are songs that were featured on earlier volumes in this series. I've included them here both because those earlier versions were separated in time by a year or more, and also because the soloing is significantly different from version to version.

The sound quality is generally excellent. The one exception is "Rack My Mind." It's the only song here that is officially unreleased. But I've included it because it's a very rare song for the band to have played live, and I think the sound quality just barely makes the cut.

Six of the songs were hindered by the usual BBC problem of DJs talking over the music. (They're the ones with "[Edit]" in their names.) But I used the X-Minus audio editing software to wipe out the talking while keeping the underlying music.

This album is 40 minutes long.

01 The Sun Is Shining (Yardbirds)
02 Jeff's Boogie [Instrumental] (Yardbirds)
03 Rack My Mind [Live] (Yardbirds)
04 Drinking Muddy Water [Edit] (Yardbirds)
05 Little Games (Yardbirds)
06 Most Likely You Go Your Way [And I'll Go Mine] (Yardbirds)
07 Goodnight Sweet Josephine [Edit] (Yardbirds)
08 My Baby [Edit] (Yardbirds)
09 Think about It [Edit] (Yardbirds)
10 White Summer [Instrumental] [Edit] (Yardbirds)
11 Dazed and Confused [Edit] (Yardbirds)
12 Train Kept A-Rollin' (Yardbirds)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701164/TYARDBRDS1966-1968_BBSssonsVolum3_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo is from 1967. You may recognize Jimmy Page - he's the one with the brown tie and the blue striped shirt.

The Yardbirds - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1965-1966

Yesterday, I posted Volume 1 in this series of three albums of the Yardbirds at the BBC. I sorted out all three albums at the same time, and I'm keen on posting them, so here's Volume 2 already.

This album represents the peak of the band's popularity. As a result, they were able to have many BBC sessions. As I explained for Volume 1, when I had the choice of different versions of the same song, I went with the one with the best sound quality (assuming the band's performances would always be solid). So that's what you'll find here. But I've gathered the other versions and will post those later.

Although there are no songs repeated on this album, the first two songs also appeared on Volume 1 in this series. That's because the versions of Volume 1 featured Eric Clapton on lead guitar. These versions feature Jeff Beck instead, and I figure that's a big enough difference to include them here and not on the repeats album that will come later.

You may note that six of the songs have "[Edit]" in their names. Those are the cases where BBC DJs talked over parts of the music. Using the X-Minus audio editing program, I was able to wipe their talking while keeping the underlying music.

All the versions here have been officially released. But I was able to use the work of Yardbirds fan DocDandy to select the official releases that sounded the best for each song.

Generally speaking, the band liked to frequently promote their best known songs, like "I'm a Man" and "Shapes of Things." But there also are some rare songs here where the only recorded version known is the BBC one, such as "The Stumble," "Dust My Blues," and "Baby Scratch My Back."

The previous volume in this series has one song that doesn't sound as good as the others, and the next volume has one like that too. But all the songs in this volume sound great.

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 I Wish You Would [Edit] (Yardbirds)
02 Louise (Yardbirds)
03 I'm a Man [Edit] (Yardbirds)
04 The Stumble [Instrumental] (Yardbirds)
05 Evil Hearted You (Yardbirds)
06 Still I'm Sad (Yardbirds)
07 Hang On Sloopy [Edit] (Yardbirds)
08 Smokestack Lightning (Yardbirds)
09 You're a Better Man than I (Yardbirds)
10 Train Kept A-Rollin' [Edit] (Yardbirds)
11 Dust My Blues (Yardbirds)
12 Shapes of Things [Edit] (Yardbirds)
13 Over, Under, Sideways, Down (Yardbirds)
14 Baby Scratch My Back [Edit] (Yardbirds)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701163/TYARDBRDS1965-1966_BBSssonsVolum2_atse.zip.html

The album cover photo was taken in early 1966, while Jeff Beck was in the band, but before Jimmy Page joined. (The two lead guitarists were in the band together for a few months.) Also, Beck is the one sitting at the bottom in front of the others. Originally, he was much lower, so only his head was showing. But I used Photoshop to raise him up. I think that improved the composition of the photo.

The Yardbirds - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1964-1965

Boy, am I glad to post this album. The Yardbirds are a no-brainer fit for the kind of music I post at this blog, but up until now I hadn't posted any of their music. For some artists, that's just because I hadn't gotten around to them yet. But for the Yardbirds, I wanted to, but I was daunted by the sheer mess of their musical discography.

In my opinion, the Yardbirds' musical legacy has been treated shabbily from day one up until current day as I write this (in November 2021). Some artists have been treated great, with lovingly created deluxe editions, box sets, and the like. While others have been treated terribly, or ignored, like the Easybeats. The Yardbirds are a more confounding case, because many archival releases and editions have come out, but few of them have hit the nail of the head. One gets some things right, another gets other things right, etc... So that leaves it to someone like me to have to sort through all that stuff.

Luckily, when it comes to the Yardbirds' BBC recordings, someone else has paved the way for me. A music collector named DocDandy created a list of what he considered the best sounding version of each BBC performance the band did. So I almost always followed his advice.

But there is another problem. As a rule, I don't like having multiple versions of the same song on the same album, yet the Yardbirds tended to play their small number of hits on TV and radio over and over again. So I listened to each version, and chose the one that I thought had the best sound quality. However, a big part of the Yardbirds' appeal, maybe the biggest part, are the guitar solos from their three stellar lead guitarists, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. That means even versions with lesser sound quality are desired by many fans. So I'll be posting this album, plus two more, with almost no repeated songs. Then I plan on posting a fourth album that has all the other unique BBC performances, usually with poorer sound quality.

Speaking of those famous lead guitarists, although many fans know Eric Clapton was a member of the Yardbirds, he actually wasn't with the band for that long. As soon as they started to get famous with their first big hit, "For Your Love," in early 1965, he jumped ship, feeling the band was too poppy and not bluesy enough. As luck would have it, he's only on the first two songs here, which also happen to be the only ones from 1964. All the rest feature Jeff Beck on lead guitar.

There have been a few official Yardbirds BBC albums over the years. But I'll argue that, once this three-album series is done, you'll find these albums sound better than any of those, thanks to that list made by DocDandy. All but one of the songs in the three albums have been officially released, including all the songs here. But these are the best sounding from those various albums.

Furthermore, sometimes BBC DJs talked over the song's intros. I've used the X-Minus sound editing program to remove such talking while keeping the underlying music. Luckily, that only happened once on this album, on the last song. But it's more common on the other two (as well as the extra fourth album of duplicated songs).

Only the first two songs here were done before a cheering audience, the same two 1964 songs with Clapton. But luckily those were recorded with excellent sound quality, especially for the 1964 Yardbirds. Frankly, those songs (taken from a TV show) sound better than the songs from their early live albums.

By the way, the sound quality of the song "I've Been Trying" isn't as good as the others. But I figured it was worth including, and not as a bonus track, because this is the only known recording of the song by the band. It was originally done by the Impressions.

This album is 38 minutes long.

01 Louise (Yardbirds)
02 I Wish You Would (Yardbirds)
03 I Ain't Got You (Yardbirds)
04 For Your Love (Yardbirds)
05 I'm Not Talkin' (Yardbirds)
06 Spoonful (Yardbirds)
07 Bottle Up and Go (Yardbirds)
08 Hushabye [All the Pretty Little Horses] (Yardbirds)
09 Steeled Blues (Yardbirds)
10 Heart Full of Soul (Yardbirds)
11 I Ain't Done Wrong (Yardbirds)
12 I've Been Trying (Yardbirds)
13 Jeff's Boogie [Instrumental] (Yardbirds)
14 Love Me like I Love You (Yardbirds)
15 Too Much Monkey Business [Edit] (Yardbirds)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701185/TYARDBRDS1964-1965_BBSssonsVolum1_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from 1964, and includes Eric Clapton. It would have been more accurate for me to use a photo with Jeff Beck in the band, since he's on most of the songs here, but I figured this was my only opportunity to use the Clapton photo, so I took it. In case you're curious, he's on the right, in the back row.

The Jeff Beck Group - Throw Down a Line - Non-Album Tracks (1967-1969)

A few weeks back, I posted an album of the Jeff Beck Group playing at the BBC for the few years that Rod Stewart was the lead singer of the band. I'm particularly interested in that time, so here are all the quality stray tracks I could find from the same period.

The Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart are known for two classic albums, "Truth" in 1968 and "Beck-Ola" in 1969. Before that though, there were three singles in 1967: "Hi Ho Silver Lining," "Tallyman," and "Love Is Blue." They were all minor hits in Britain, especially "Hi Ho Silver Lining," which made the top twenty twice, once in 1967 and again in 1972. Beck actually sang lead vocals on "Hi Ho Silver Lining" and "Tallyman," which was an oddity for him, since he almost never did that for the rest of his long career. 

The singles were credited to "Jeff Beck" instead of "The Jeff Beck Group," because the band was still coalescing. But various band members were usually involved, especially with each succeeding single. Stewart even sang backing vocals on the first one, "Hi Ho Silver Lining," and lead vocals on the second B-side, "I've Been Drinking "Drinking Again)." 

There was an especially notable and different group of musicians who played on the instrumental "Beck's Bolero," though, which was actually recorded in 1966. In addition to Beck, there was Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones (future members of Led Zeppelin) and Keith Moon (a member of the Who), and the well-known session player Nicky Hopkins. I've included it here even though it was also on the album "Truth" because the album version is edited and remixed.

The sixth through eighth songs are ones the band rarely played in concert. Don't be deceived by the title "Oh Pretty Woman." This is not the classic Roy Orbison hit. (That has a comma in the name after the "Oh.") Instead, it's a blues song by Albert King. "Jeff's Boogie" was originally done by the Yardbirds when Beck was a member of that band. "(You Make me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" is the classic soul song made famous by Aretha Franklin, but this is an instrumental version that highlights Nicky Hopkins' keyboard skills. For all of these, I removed the audience response as best I could so they'd fit in with the studio tracks.

The song "Throw Down a Line" was considered for the A-side of a single in 1969, but was never released, maybe because the band was breaking up by then. It and "Sweet Little Angel" (a B. B. King song) only came out decades later as bonus tracks.

Speaking of bonus tracks, I have four of my own here. These are all different versions of songs on the "Truth" and "Beck-Ola" albums, and eventually appeared as bonus tracks to those albums. I've included them because they're often quite different. 

This album is 39 minutes long, not including the four bonus tracks.

01 Hi Ho Silver Lining (Jeff Beck Group)
02 Beck's Bolero [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck Group)
03 Tallyman (Jeff Beck Group)
04 Love Is Blue (Jeff Beck Group)
05 I've Been Drinking [Drinking Again] (Jeff Beck Group)
06 Oh Pretty Woman (Jeff Beck Group)
07 Jeff's Boogie [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck Group)
08 [You Make Me Feel Like] A Natural Woman [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck Group)
09 Throw Down a Line (Jeff Beck Group)
10 Sweet Little Angel (Jeff Beck Group)

All Shook Up [Early Version] (Jeff Beck Group)
Blues Deluxe [Gambler's Blues] [Early Version] (Jeff Beck Group)
Jailhouse Rock [Early Version] (Jeff Beck Group)
You Shook Me [Early Version] (Jeff Beck Group)

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The album cover art was a collaboration between PJ of his "Albums I Wish Existed" blog and myself. PJ made the original version using a black and white photo of Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck I'd suggested for him (due to a lack of good color photos from that time period). Then he colorized it using the Pixbim program. Later,  I made some improvements in Photoshop, mainly by fixing the colors of the clothes, which didn't look right. Also, the record company logo in the top left corner is the same as the one on at least some versions of the "Truth" album.  I used the Krea AI program to improve the image quality

The Jeff Beck Group - BBC Sessions (1967-1968)

In the late 1960s, the Jeff Beck Group was known for featuring Jeff Beck on lead guitar and Rod Stewart on lead vocals. This album consists of songs they played for the BBC (with one exception, which I will explain below). There have been so many official albums of BBC material by different artists over the decades that I'm surprised none of these performances have been officially released.

The sound quality is generally very good, but it's variable. Some of the BBC sessions were recorded very well, some not so well, and some weren't recorded at all and apparently have been lost forever. There also have been multiple versions of some songs floating around on bootlegs. I carefully checked all the versions I could find and picked the best ones. There were only a couple of songs performed more than once that made it to bootlegs. I didn't include any duplicates, because the extra versions weren't that different and has poorer sound quality.

One typical problem with BBC recordings is when the BBC DJs talked over the beginnings or endings of songs. Luckily, the DJs seemed to respect the musicianship of the band enough to not talk over the music much. There were only about three cases where I had to make edits to patch over the talking. Those have "[Edit]" in the song titles.

The song "Shapes of Things" was especially tricky. Sometimes, the BBC performances were broadcast overseas in versions without the DJ talking. That was the case here with "Shapes of Things." Furthermore, by chance, the overseas version was recorded with much better quality. But unfortunately, about a minute of Jeff Beck's guitar solo was edited out of that version. So what I did was I edited the guitar solo in from the lower quality version. There were brief pauses in the music at both ends of the cut out section, so it was easy to add back in. Although the quality for that section is noticeably lower, it isn't so bad since there aren't any vocals there.

As I mentioned above, all the songs here are from the BBC, except for one. That one is "Love Is Blue." Apparently, the band only played the song in concert once, even though they released it as a single. The recording of that song comes from a bootleg with excellent quality - except for the vocals, which are terrible. But since this song is an instrumental, that doesn't matter. Due to the great sound quality, and the lack of any audible crowd noise, I figure it fits in well with the other songs here.

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 Hi Ho Silver Lining (Jeff Beck Group)
02 [I Know] I'm Losing You [Edit] (Jeff Beck Group)
03 Let Me Love You (Jeff Beck Group)
04 Stone Crazy [Edit] (Jeff Beck Group)
05 Rock My Plimsoul [Rock Me Baby] (Jeff Beck Group)
06 The Sun Is Shining [This Morning] [Edit] (Jeff Beck Group)
07 Tallyman (Jeff Beck Group)
08 I Ain't Superstitious (Jeff Beck Group)
09 Beck's Bolero [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck Group)
10 You'll Never Get to Heaven [If You Break My Heart] (Jeff Beck Group)
11 You Shook Me (Jeff Beck Group)
12 Loving You Is Sweeter than Ever (Jeff Beck Group)
13 Love Is Blue [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck Group)
14 Shapes of Things [Edit] (Jeff Beck Group)
15 Sweet Little Angel (Jeff Beck Group)
16 Rice Pudding [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck Group)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16693321/JEFFBCK1967-1968_BBSessons_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo is a promotional photo from 1967. Once again, thank to PJ of his "Albums I Wish Existed" blog, who put the cover together for me.

Various Artists - ARMS Benefit Concert, Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX, 11-28-1983

This looks a heck of a lot like my last post, and for good reason. But there enough differences that it's worth listening to both.

In short, in September 1983, some big-name musicians led a concert to benefit ARMS, a charity helping to find a cure for multiple sclerosis. The main stars were Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page (all lead guitarists for the Yardbirds in the 1960s), plus Steve Winwood. At first, the concert was meant to be a one-night only, in London. But it was such a success that it was decided to continue with a short US tour later that year. I believe nine more concerts were played.

Most of the same musicians appeared for the US shows, including Clapton, Beck, and Page. But Winwood couldn't make it, due to other commitments. So he was replaced by Joe Cocker. Also, Winwood sang the songs with vocals in Page's set. He was replaced by Paul Rodgers, former lead vocalist for Bad Company.

These personnel changes mean many of the songs were different. Most noticeably, one-fourth of the concert are Joe Cocker songs, in which Clapton plays all the lead guitar. He also sings "With a Little Help from My Friends" as one of the encores. I don't know if there's been any other time when Clapton played so many songs with Cocker.

The involvement of Paul Rodgers is even more interesting in terms of musical history. Page had pretty much been at loose ends since Led Zeppelin came to an end in 1981. Similarly, Rodgers had been looking for something new after Bad Company ended in 1982. Their collaboration for these ARMS concerts led to them forming the band The Firm, which was fairly successful, with two albums released in 1984 and 1985. The last song in their set, "Midnight Moonlight," appeared on the first Firm album, but originally started as an unreleased Led Zeppelin song.

Clapton's set, while nice, has almost the exact same setlist as the London show. The only major difference is the addition of "Sad Sad Day." For Beck's set, half of the songs are different. For the concert as a whole, I'd say about half of the songs are different from the London show. It's fairly different from after the Clapton set.

In terms of sound quality, I chose the Dallas show out of the nine US dates because it has the best sound. It sounds professionally recorded. I think it was played on the radio at the time. Unlike the London show, I didn't have any problems finding missing songs from different sources.

01 talk (Eric Clapton)
02 Everybody Oughta Make a Change (Eric Clapton)
03 Lay Down Sally (Eric Clapton)
04 Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)
05 Rita Mae (Eric Clapton)
06 Sad Sad Day (Eric Clapton)
07 Have You Ever Loved a Woman - Ramblin' on My Mind (Eric Clapton)
08 Cocaine (Eric Clapton)
09 Don't Talk to Me (Joe Cocker with Eric Clapton)
10 Watching the River Flow (Joe Cocker with Eric Clapton)
11 Worried Life Blues (Joe Cocker with Eric Clapton)
12 You Are So Beautiful (Joe Cocker with Eric Clapton)
13 Seven Days (Joe Cocker with Eric Clapton)
14 Feelin' Alright (Joe Cocker with Eric Clapton)
15 talk (Eric Clapton)
16 Star Cycle [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
17 The Pump [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
18 Definitely Maybe [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
19 Blue Wind [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
20 People Get Ready (Andy Fairweather Low with Jeff Beck)
21 Going Down (Andy Fairweather Low with Jeff Beck)
22 talk (Jimmy Page)
23 Prelude [Instrumental] (Jimmy Page)
24 talk (Jimmy Page)
25 Who's to Blame (Paul Rodgers with Jimmy Page)
26 City Sirens (Paul Rodgers with Jimmy Page)
27 talk (Paul Rodgers with Jimmy Page)
28 Boogie Mama (Paul Rodgers with Jimmy Page)
29 talk (Paul Rodgers with Jimmy Page)
30 Midnight Moonlight (Paul Rodgers with Jimmy Page)
31 talk (Jimmy Page)
32 Stairway to Heaven [Instrumental] (Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page)
33 Layla (Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page)
34 With a Little Help from My Friends (Joe Cocker with Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page)
35 talk (Ronnie Lane with Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page)
36 Goodnight Irene (Ronnie Lane with Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page)

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https://bestfile.io/en/bVfiMx1F2qWJN9u/file

I deliberately made the cover similar to the cover for the London ARMS concert, since I consider the two of them closely related. The photo only shows some of the musicians involved, but it gets most of the big names. From left to right: Kenny Jones, Joe Cocker, Chris Stainton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Ronnie Lane, Eric Clapton, and Bill Wyman.

Various Artists - ARMS Benefit Concert, Royal Albert Hall, London, Britain, 9-20-1983

Do you like "guitar heroes?" Then you should love this. By the early 1980s, Ronnie Lane, former member of the Faces, essentially had to give up his solo career because he had multiple sclerosis, and it was steadily getting worse. In 1983, many of his musical friends got together for a benefit concerts for the charity group ARMS - Action into Research for Multiple Sclerosis. Originally, there was only one concert planned, in London, England, and this is the recording of it. But it was such a success that nine more concerts followed in the US, with a slightly different group of musicians.

So that's the basics. But the main reason these concerts was celebrated is that it's the only time the three former lead guitarists for the Yardbirds - Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page - were prominently featured at the same concerts, with each of them playing their own sets. I especially like the one London show, because it also prominently featured Steve Winwood, who also played his own set, singing and playing keyboards while Clapton helped him on lead guitar. He also sang a couple of songs during Page's set. (For the US concerts, due to a scheduling conflict, he was replaced by Joe Cocker.)

Those are four very big names in music. Many other prominent musicians took part in the various supporting bands, including Andy Fairweather Low, James Hooker, Bill Wyman, Chris Stainton, Ray Cooper, Kenny Jones, and Charlie Watts. Ronnie Lane himself made a guest appearance at the end, singing a couple of songs. In addition to playing their own sets, Clapton, Beck, and Page also played a few songs together at the end.

Strangely, this concert seems largely forgotten today. I didn't even find many recordings of it on-line, and none of them were complete. I think that's largely because no album of it (or the following US shows) was ever released, so if you weren't there in person, you missed it. A video recording was eventually released, but it wasn't the full show, and it seems like it hasn't gotten around that much either.

I've attempted to compile the complete London show. The main basis is the audio of the video recording. It's very good sound quality, basically the same as a professionally recorded live album. But, as I said, it wasn't complete, so I tracked down the remaining songs. Here are all the ones I had to get from different sources:

Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Ramblin' on My Mind - Have You Ever Loved a Woman - Eric Clapton
Rita Mae - Eric Clapton
Hound Dog - Steve Winwood with Eric Clapton
The Best That I Can - Steve Winwood with Eric Clapton
Stairway to Heaven (Instrumental) - Jimmy Page
Wee Wee Baby - Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck

(On the other bootlegs that I've found, some of the other song titles were also mislabeled, especially the instrumentals.)

The good news is that most of these sound as good as the songs sourced from the video recording. The only trouble spots are "Hound Dog" and "The Best That I Can." Hound Dog" sounds a bit rougher. "The Best That I Can" sounds rougher than that. Worse, that sound isn't actually from the concert in question. But I've included it here for a couple of reasons. One is that the same group of musicians also performed one more concert, just one night later, also in London, but benefiting a different charity (the Prince's Trust Rock Gala). It's a far less known concert because no really good audio or video recording has emerged from it. The second reason I've included that song is because it's a Steve Winwood original that he apparently has never released in any form. If you don't like the sound quality, or the fact that it's from the next night, just remove it.

I really like this concert. It's really like four concerts in one. One can argue who is the better guitarist, Clapton, Beck, or Page, and which one played the better show. But I personally really like the Winwood set, because he played several cover versions he's never done before or since, and Clapton did all the guitar soloing on a bunch of songs he almost never played. The end of the show when all three famous lead guitarists came together is very nice too, although I wish they'd played more together. (For the US shows, the three guitarists would also play together on the instrumental version of "Stairway to Heaven," but for this show, it's just Page.)

01 talk (Eric Clapton)
02 Everybody's Got to Change (Eric Clapton with Steve Winwood)
03 Lay Down Sally (Eric Clapton with Steve Winwood)
04 Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton with Steve Winwood)
05 Ramblin' on My Mind - Have You Ever Loved a Woman (Eric Clapton with Steve Winwood)
06 Rita Mae (Eric Clapton with Steve Winwood)
07 Cocaine (Eric Clapton with Steve Winwood)
08 Man Smart, Woman Smarter (Andy Fairweather Low with Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood)
09 Hound Dog (Steve Winwood with Eric Clapton)
10 The Best That I Can (Steve Winwood with Eric Clapton)
11 [I'm A] Road Runner (Steve Winwood with Eric Clapton)
12 Slowdown Sunrise (Steve Winwood with Eric Clapton)
13 Take Me to the River (Steve Winwood with Eric Clapton)
14 Gimme Some Lovin' (Steve Winwood with Eric Clapton)
15 talk (Jeff Beck)
16 Star Cycle [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
17 The Pump [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
18 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
19 talk (Jeff Beck)
20 Led Boots [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
21 People Get Ready (Jeff Beck with Andy Fairweather Low)
22 Hi Ho Silver Lining (Jeff Beck)
23 Prelude [Instrumental] (Jimmy Page with James Hooker)
24 Who's to Blame (Jimmy Page with Steve Winwood)
25 City Sirens (Jimmy Page with Steve Winwood)
26 Stairway to Heaven [Instrumental] (Jimmy Page)
27 Tulsa Time (Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck)
28 Wee Wee Baby (Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck)
29 talk (Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck)
30 Layla (Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck)
31 talk (Ronnie Lane)
32 Bomber's Moon (Ronnie Lane)
33 talk (Ronnie Lane)
34 Goodnight Irene (Ronnie Lane with Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck)

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https://bestfile.io/en/2KKlOV1nQNGZvYW/file

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https://www.imagenetz.de/fZDA7

For the cover art, I'm glad to say I found a photo from the actual concert. From left to right, that's Andy Fairweather Low, Chris Stainton, Eric Clapton (at the microphone), Jimmy Page, Bill Wyman, and Jeff Beck.

Imelda May with Jeff Beck - Iridium Jazz Club, New York City, 6-9-2010

I must say, I'm disappointed at the number of people so far who have downloaded the two Imelda May albums I've posted. I'm guessing that's due to the people who don't know her music and are reluctant to try something new. So I'm going to step away from my usual chronological approach to post this album that features May with famed guitarist Jeff Beck on every song. Maybe this can serve as a kind of "gateway drug" - come for the Beck guitar, but stay for the May vocals. ;)

For a couple of years around 2010, May and Beck toured together as part of a tribute to guitarist Les Paul. In 2011, an official album was released from one of these shows called "Rock 'n' Roll Party Honoring Les Paul." If you don't have it, you should get it. It features May singing on about 30 minutes of music, but features another 30 minutes of music, some of those instrumentals and some sung by others, including some famous guest singers like Brian Setzer and Gary U.S. Bonds.

This is similar to that album, but it's not the same. This is taken from a DVD of another Les Paul tribute show put on by Beck, May, and others at the Iridium Jazz Club in 2010. It only features the songs sung by May. She sings more here, for about 42 minutes of music instead of the 30 on the official album.

The show entirely consists of classic songs from the 1960s or earlier (mostly earlier). It's a good mix of lively rockabilly numbers and romantic torch songs. Most of them were hits by Les Paul and his wife Mary Ford in the early 1950s. All of them, in my opinion, show what a great singer May is, as well as what a great guitarist Beck is.

01 Poor Boy (Jeff Beck with Imelda May)
02 Cry Me a River (Jeff Beck with Imelda May)
03 My Baby Left Me (Jeff Beck with Imelda May)
04 How High the Moon (Jeff Beck with Imelda May)
05 Sitting on Top of the World (Jeff Beck with Imelda May)
06 Bye Bye Blues (Jeff Beck with Imelda May)
07 The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise (Jeff Beck with Imelda May)
08 Vaya Con Dios (Jeff Beck with Imelda May)
09 Mockin' Bird Hill (Jeff Beck with Imelda May)
10 I'm a Fool to Care (Jeff Beck with Imelda May)
11 Tiger Rag (Jeff Beck with Imelda May)
12 Remember [Walking in the Sand] (Jeff Beck with Imelda May)
13 Please Mr. Jailor (Jeff Beck with Imelda May)
14 Casting My Spell on You (Jeff Beck with Imelda May & Darrel Higham)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16693265/IMELDMY2010_IridiumJazzClbNewYrkCity__6-9-2010_atse.zip.html

I made the cover based on a photo of Beck and May that I found. But I'm not sure what concert it's from.