On March 8, 2008, I presented a BROW that featured Ringo Starr’s performance, at a Lennon tribute concert, of The Beatles classic, I Call Your Name (view that post here). Originally penned and sung by John Lennon in 1964, it was a great choice for Ringo, as it was a good straightforward rocker, and he sang it well. I’ve decided here to “complete the picture” and give you the video performance this week.

Twenty-three other artists were in attendance at this event, aptly titled Lennon: A Tribute, including Elton John (performing Imagine), U2, and Cyndi Lauper. It was held in Liverpool in May 1990. Ringo plays drums and sings I Call Your Name with Tom Petty on bass, Jeff Lynne on electric guitar and Jim Keltner playing a cowbell. Ringo also says a few words about John before the performance. If this ever comes out on DVD/Blu-Ray, I’ll be the first in line at the store to pick it up.

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1) Lennon:a Tribute [VHS] – Original 1991 VHS of film Lennon: A Tribute (not currently available on DVD/Blu-Ray) with 23 artists including Elton John, U2, Cyndi Lauper and Ringo Starr’s performance of I Call Your Name.

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The five piece supergroup, Traveling Wilburys, released their first CD, Volume One, in October of 1988, and two months later one member, the rock legend, Roy Orbison, died of a massive heart attack. This was just before a planned trip to London to make two music videos for the album. The surviving members carried on with a follow up album released in October 1990 with the title Volume Three. In case you’re wondering what happened to ‘Volume Two’, the name Volume Three was simply credited to “George (Harrison) being George.”

Inside Out followed the opening single for Volume Three which was titled She’s My Baby and featured lead vocals from Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Tom Petty. All were using their Wilbury pseudonyms, which were respectively Boo, Spike and Muddy. Jeff Lynne, as Clayton Wilbury, plays guitar and provides backing vocals while Jim Keltner, as Buster Sidebury, plays drums. For more on the history of the Traveling Wilburys check out this post and/or this post.

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George Harrison

A press release issued yesterday (July 14, 2011) gives further info on the upcoming film by Martin Scorsese covering the fascinating life of George Harrison. In the U.S., it will make it’s debut on HBO in two parts. The first will air on October 5th and the second part will air the following day. The U.K. televised version will appear on BBC2 in November to coincide with the tenth anniversary of George’s death with cancer. In Britain, it will be released on October 10th on DVD, and Blue Ray along with a bonus double disc set that will add an exclusive CD of previously unheard tracks from George (U.S. release date for DVD packages is not available as of this writing). Titled, George Harrison: Living In The Material World, after his solo album from 1973, the film examines George’s life through archive footage and interviews with those who knew him well, such as Eric Clapton, Sir George Martin, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty, Phil Spector, Ringo Starr and Sir Paul McCartney. Varying facets of George’s life as a musician, seeker, philanthropist and filmmaker will all be covered with much footage that has never been seen or heard before. Also, on September 15, the hardcover book version by George’s widow Olivia Harrison and Mark Holborn will be released.

Here are some Amazon links to read more on, or purchase, material related to this post:

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George Harrison’s last concert tour was done in Japan in December 1991 with the Eric Clapton Band. Eric, who had been a long time friend of George’s, talked him into touring with him, and the shows included both his and George’s songs. This recording, from December 15, 1991, ended up on the Live In Japan double CD by George, released on July 13, 1992. Oddly enough, the production credits for that release go to Spike and Nelson Wilbury, the two names George used on the Traveling Wilbury releases. Besides George and Eric, there are some other musicians here that you might recognize, such as Andy Fairweather-Low (Roger Waters, Bill Wyman Rhythm Kings), Steve Ferrone (Slash, Chaka Khan, Average White Band, Tom Petty) and Ray Cooper (Elton John, Billy Joel).

Give Me Love was George’s fourth single after the breakup of The Beatles and was released in the U.S. on May 7, 1973. It was also the opening track on George’s Living In The Material World album, released on May 30, 1973 in the U.S. It replaced Paul McCartney’s My Love as the #1 single in Billboard magazine on June 30, 1973. George describes the song as a prayer in his book I, Me, Mine. It was performed by his friend and collaborator, Jeff Lynne, at the Concert For George in November 2002, one year after George’s death with cancer.

We’ve all heard it before, but the message in this song remains strong today; so let’s have just a few minutes onstage with George Harrison playing one of the warmest songs I know.

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Welcome to the Beatles Rarity of the Week. By the summer of 1998, Ringo Starr was way overdue to get a CD out. He had not had a studio release since 1992′s Time Takes Time and had since struck up a musical partnership with musician/songwriter Mark Hudson. Besides, the recent success of the Beatles Anthology series had effectively added a lot to the younger generation of Beatles fans, making the timing of a fresh new release a good bet. Most of the tracks on Vertical Man were actually recorded the previous year and included an impressive list of supporting musicians other than Ringo and Mark. Among them were Ozzy Osbourne, Tom Petty, Joe Walsh, Scott Weiland, Brian Wilson, Steven Tyler, Alanis Morissette, and Timothy B. Schmidt. I should probably mention that Paul McCartney and George Harrison made a few contributions as well. Additionally, Steve Dudas began playing bass and guitar for Ringo on this CD and is still with him today.

While not a huge commercial success, Vertical Man is one of my favorite solo efforts by Ringo and it was his biggest seller since his 1976 album Ringo’s Rotogravure. The CD was released in June of 1998, with a single release out the following month of a track on the CD called La De Da. The La De Da single contained the album track, plus a rearranged edit of the song that differs from the album version. There was also a song called Everyday that was not included on Vertical Man. The first 30, or so, copies of ‘VM’ delivered to each Best Buy store received a free 3-track second CD of bonus music (called a Best Buy Exclusive, or BBE). The BBE’s track listing was Mr. Doubleitup, Sometimes and Good News. Mr. Doubleitup and the La De Da b-side Everyday also appeared as bonus tracks on the Japanese edition of VM, but the other two BBE tracks, to my knowledge, have never surfaced anywhere else. I have decided to include one of these as this week’s BROW. Sometimes is Ringo back in that country vein he’s been known to be partial to over the years, which makes for a unique sort of BROW. Ringo sings, plays drums and a little piano on the track. Mark Hudson plays bass, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, some piano and shares background vocals with ex-Eagle Timothy B. Schmidt. Steve Dudas also plays electric and acoustic guitar. Pedal steel guitar is played by Jeff “Skunk” Baxter and the main pianist is Jim Cox.

Cover art for Vertical Man BBE Bonus Disc, 1998

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Although, I have featured the Traveling Wilburys a couple of times in the past on the site, this will be the first video feature with the super group. A BROW posted in December 2009 (accessible here) went over some background information on the band and goes on to feature a b-side to their She’s My Baby single, the subject of this week’s VOW. The group decided to put out another album after the death of legendary former bandmate, Roy Orbison and the album was titled Volume 3. She’s My Baby was the lead single for the release and has lead vocals from all four surviving members (Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan & George Harrison, in order of appearance). The exciting lead guitar solo was handled by Irish blues rock guitarist Gary Moore (not seen in the video) and the drums are played by old friend, Jim Keltner, who worked with George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr throughout the 70′s and 80′s. Jim also played on the other Traveling Wilburys album Volume One.

The aliases the Wilbury’s used for Volume 3 are as follows:

* Clayton Wilbury (Jeff Lynne) – acoustic guitar, bass, keyboards, lead & backing vocals
* Spike Wilbury (George Harrison) – acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, sitar, lead & backing vocals
* Boo Wilbury (Bob Dylan) – acoustic guitar, harmonica, lead & backing vocals
* Muddy Wilbury (Tom Petty) – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, lead & backing vocals
* Buster Sidebury (Jim Keltner) – drums

Click the image above to play the video.

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This Friday, the 68th birthday of George Harrison, GeorgeHarrison.com will celebrate his life and music with a free streaming of the entire Concert For George event from November 29, 2002. There are performances by Dhani Harrison, Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney, Joe Brown, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty and more. More details here.

Also, next month the Concert For George event will be released to Blu-Ray for the first time on March 22. You can pre-order your copy here.

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Welcome to the BROW. A couple of months ago when I made a post about The Traveling Wilburys, the song I featured had no vocal, so I’ve decided to let you hear them sing this time. The lead vocals here are handled by Clayton Wilbury (i.e. Jeff Lynne), though you can hear, Spike, Muddy and Boo (i.e. George Harrison, Tom Petty & Bob Dylan) singing right along with him in the background of the chorus.

Runaway as you may know was a major international hit in 1961 by Del Shannon and written by him and keyboardist Max Crook. Back in June of 2007, a remixed version of this great cover by the Wilburys appeared as a bonus track on the Traveling Wilburys Collection CD/DVD set. It had never appeared on LP/CD, but the original mix appeared in the UK on the 12 inch vinyl single and CD single of She’s My Baby (no longer available), as a b-side, in November of 1990. It was never released in the US.

The remixed version on the newer CD has a new clavioline solo replacing the guitar/harmonica solo heard on the original. This was such a “full-circle” addition considering that Max Crook was actually the inventor of his own clavioline-based keyboard which he called a musitron back around 1960. The recording below illustrates how the 2 mixes differ and show you first, the original solo (also heard above), then, the remixed 2007 solo.

My personal copy of the 12 inch UK single She's My Baby by The Traveling Wilburys, released in 1990

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For every October since it’s origin in 1986 (except 1987), musician extraordinaire Neil Young and his wife Pegi have organized the Bridge School Benefit Concerts. The concerts are always held in Mountain View, California as the Bridge School is in nearby Hillsborough. Proceeds benefit the Bridge School, which assists children with severe physical impairments and complex communication needs. A main emphasis of the charity effort is the use of advanced augmentative and alternative communication systems and assistive technology. Neil always hosts the benefit and, of course, performs at each of them, as well. Over the years he has had a very impressive line-up of musicians in the line-up including Crosby, Stills & Nash, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Don Henly, Jackson Browne, Sammy Hagar, Elton John, Pearl Jam, Elvis Costello, Steve Miller, REM, Metallica…and the list goes on and on. As a general rule, the performers use acoustic instruments.

The 18th Bridge School Benefit Concert from October 23-24, 2004 included The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tony Bennett, Sonic Youth, Eddie Vedder and Paul McCartney, among others. This week’s BROW was recorded midway through Paul’s performance when he calls Neil Young up on stage with him to perform together on one of Neil’s classics from the 1970 album After The Gold Rush. This is Only Love Can Break Your Heart, a change-of-pace feature that I hope you’ll enjoy. Thanks much for stopping by this week.

Paul McCartney (left) and Neil Young performing together at the 2004 Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, CA

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I’m going to break some ice with this week’s BROW. This will be my first post to feature this amazing Beatles-related supergroup.

George Harrison wanted to come up with a unique B-side for his upcoming This Is Love single release of May 1988 and rounded up some of his friends to help him on the recording: Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan & Roy Orbison. George had left his guitar over at another friend’s house: Tom Petty. When George swung by to pick it up, he told Tom about the plans and Tom offered to come along and help out with the record too. When the resulting song, Handle With Care, was recorded, it was decided that it was just too good for a B-side filler track. George used the already recorded Cloud Nine track Breath Away From Heaven as his needed B-side and the five musicians decided to make a whole album together. Besides, they were having fun.

This, of course, is the story of how the Traveling Wilburys were born. The name stemmed from the slang term Wilbury coined by George and Jeff Lynne during the making of George’s Cloud Nine album to describe various pieces of equipment laying around the studio. In October 1988, their very successful debut LP Volume One was released which included Handle With Care along with another all-to-familiar big hit called End Of The Line. Unfortunately, Roy Orbison died of a massive heart attack in December 1988 just prior to a planned trip to London to make two music videos for the album.

The four surviving Wilbury’s reunited for the 1990 CD Volume Three. In case you’re wondering what happened to Volume Two, the name Volume Three was credited to “George being George”. On both albums the musicians used aliases with the surname Wilbury. On Volume One George was Nelson and on Volume Three he was Spike.

On November 5, 1990 a 12 inch single was released of the Volume Three hit, She’s My Baby. One of the B-sides is an instrumental version of New Blue Moon, which is featured with vocal on the album. The instrumental version is pretty catchy and never appeared anywhere else. The single, never released in the U.S. has been out of print since the early 1990′s. But now you can hear it any time you like, on the BROW.

The Traveling Wilburys, circa 1990

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