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Nice!

I love at around 4:12 on for a few seconds: eye contact and smiles between two mates, and we're still able to
share the enjoyment nearly 40 years on...

Thanks for posting that vid. It brought a smile to my face.

JimK

Very cool! IMHO, George's voice was always under-appreciated during the Beatle years and his guitar work was always spot on. Is that Ringo on the drums as well?
Bob

Yes, it is Ringo!

1OUfan wrote:Very cool! IMHO, George's voice was always under-appreciated during the Beatle years and his guitar work was always spot on. Is that Ringo on the drums as well?
Bob

yessir.

John COULD Have been there, but George said No-Yoko, and Yoko said "No John"

Paul was invited, but he thought it would cause lots of legal problems to have them all there what with the bands divorce and all

Awesome show.

I always thought Eric brought the wrong guitar. Shout-out to Jesse Ed Davis, Klaus Voorman, Jim Keltner, Leon Russell and Billy Preston, and so many more, and thanks to George for inventing the benefit concert as we know it.

kiramdear wrote:Awesome show.

I always thought Eric brought the wrong guitar. Shout-out to Jesse Ed Davis, Klaus Voorman, Jim Keltner, Leon Russell and Billy Preston, and so many more, and thanks to George for inventing the benefit concert as we know it.

Even Eric thought he brought the wrong guitar in retrospect!

WARNING WARNING WARNING

Cocaine and Alcohol adversely affect your tone.

I think it was heroin at that point, Nick. They had Eric booked on every single flight from London to NYC in the week leading up to the show, just hoping that he'd get on one of them (which he did).

sloop_john_b wrote:I think it was heroin at that point, Nick. They had Eric booked on every single flight from London to NYC in the week leading up to the show, just hoping that he'd get on one of them (which he did).

Well, add that to the list then!

The Byrdland was weak. Eric should have played his SG for those shows, or a Paul. And bought a decent suit

kiramdear wrote:The Byrdland was weak. Eric should have played his SG for those shows, or a Paul. And bought a decent suit

That's funny, he specifically mentioned that he SHOULD have used a Solidbody Gibson!

Well, if you listen to them trade licks the Strat sort of overwhelms the Byrdland. His playing is satisfactory but the pickups sound weak. Aren't they some kind of jazzy humbuckers?

kiramdear wrote:Well, if you listen to them trade licks the Strat sort of overwhelms the Byrdland. His playing is satisfactory but the pickups sound weak. Aren't they some kind of jazzy humbuckers?

In that era of Gibsons, there's an equal chance that they're wound super low or super high.

I have a feeling the mix we're hearing is more a choice of whoever did the mixing for the Album/Concert, but the tone sounding so "tiny" is more of a factor of the Byrdland being way big and prone to feedback in a R&R situation.

I think John's Casino with the P-90s would have cut it. Even an ES 335 would have been better, though more suited to blues than to George's work IMO.