Wilson Pickett with Edwin Starr - Rose d'Or Festival, Pavillon Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland, 5-3-1972

I keep coming across really interesting music on YouTube that doesn't ever make it to audio bootlegs. I keep trying to fix that. Here's another example. It's a Wilson Pickett concert from 1972. Edwin Starr is here too, but he only has a lesser role on one song.

In my opinion, the prime period of Pickett's music career was from about 1965 to 1973. When it comes to live recordings, surprisingly, there never has been an official live album from those years. And when it comes to bootlegs, there's only one well known one, which I've posted here at this blog, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1969. So it's quite nice to find this second one.

The sound quality is good, due to the fact that it was broadcast on TV. You can find multiple versions on YouTube. A couple of them have lots of little gaps of silence in the songs, but I was able to find a version without those.

This concert was part of a four-day-long festival. For this year, it was known as the Rose d'Or Festival, but it would soon be renamed the Montreux Jazz Festival, which continues until the present. Most years, this was held at the Montreux Casino, but it had to be moved for this year, due to the fire at the casino documented in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water." I looked up the schedule, and Edwin Starr performed at the festival one day later, so it was easy for him to drop in on Wilson Pickett's set.

By the way, I think "I'm a Midnight Mover" turned into a different song halfway through, but if so, I don't know the name of that other song. If anyone does, let me know, and I'll fix the song list. 

Also, it's kind of hard to tell just when Edwin Starr was involved, since neither his arrival nor his departure was clearly announced. But he joined the song "People Make the World (What It Is)" right after Pickett asked if any members of the Rolling Stones in the audience wanted to join him on stage. (Either they weren't there, or didn't want to join.) Then Starr traded lead vocals through the end of the song. 

This album is 43 minutes long. 

01 Funky Broadway (Wilson Pickett)
02 People Make the World [What It Is] (Wilson Pickett & Edwin Starr)
03 I'm a Midnight Mover (Wilson Pickett)
04 I'm in Love (Wilson Pickett)
05 Fire and Water (Wilson Pickett)
06 Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You (Wilson Pickett)
07 Don't Knock My Love (Wilson Pickett)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6cTwjNTi

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NExW4kGTp6meNAW/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. That's Edwin Starr closer to the camera, and Wilson Pickett slightly behind him. Although Starr didn't have that big of a role in this concert, finding an image like this showing the top of them together was too good to pass up.