The 90-minute replay just ended on PBS. Anybody else watch it? (TutuSue is excused because the keiki hula was on at the same time.) Anybody else remember it from 1971?
George Harrison was awesome, of course. Ringo on drums, thankfully backed up by Jim Keltner on a second drumset. (He was Ringo's teacher, back in the day.) Jesse Ed Davis (R.I.P.) on guitar. (He taught Paul McCartney to play guitar.) A young Eric Clapton. Billy Preston (R.I.P.) on a classic old Hammond B-4 organ. Leon Russell on piano and his future ex wife Claudia Lennear as a backup singer. (He discovered her when she was a singing waitress at a coffeeshop called "Poppy's" at the corner of La Cienega and Santa Monica boulevards; near the Troubadour club.) A young-looking but still whiny-voiced Bob Dylan. And Ravi Shankar, of course.
The original mega-benefit concert, predecessor to LiveAid, BandAid, FarmAid, We Are The World, et al. What a great stroll down memory lane! Hope you saw it.
George Harrison was awesome, of course. Ringo on drums, thankfully backed up by Jim Keltner on a second drumset. (He was Ringo's teacher, back in the day.) Jesse Ed Davis (R.I.P.) on guitar. (He taught Paul McCartney to play guitar.) A young Eric Clapton. Billy Preston (R.I.P.) on a classic old Hammond B-4 organ. Leon Russell on piano and his future ex wife Claudia Lennear as a backup singer. (He discovered her when she was a singing waitress at a coffeeshop called "Poppy's" at the corner of La Cienega and Santa Monica boulevards; near the Troubadour club.) A young-looking but still whiny-voiced Bob Dylan. And Ravi Shankar, of course.
The original mega-benefit concert, predecessor to LiveAid, BandAid, FarmAid, We Are The World, et al. What a great stroll down memory lane! Hope you saw it.
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