Billy Preston - Tramp's, New York City, NY 02-02-1996 - First Set (SBD)

Billy Preston
Tramp's
New York City, NY
February 2, 1996 - First Set
Soundboard Recording
Flac Level 8 24 Bit & MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

01 Introduction
02 Space Race
03 Its My Pleasure
04 With You I'm Born Again
05 Nothing From Nothing
06 Banter
07 Lonely Avenue (incl/ Bach interlude and Ray Charles Medley)
08 Hoochie Coochie Man
09 Banter
10 Yesterday / Imagine / Give Peace A Chance / Let It Be
11 Get Back
12 Banter
13 You Are So Beautiful
14 Will It Go Round in Circles

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Billy Preston - Chestnut Cabaret, Philadelphia, PA 01-23-1988 (SBD)

Billy Preston
Chestnut Cabaret
Philadelphia, PA
January 23, 1988
Soundboard Recording
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

recording info: Soundboard > vhs Hi Fi Master
transfer: Master VHS > Mytek 8x96 ADC > wav @ 24bit/48Khz
processing: adobe audition > CD wav > r8brain (16bit/44.1kHz) > tlh flac 8 (these are 16bit/44.1kHz flac files)

a 'billydee' VHS-Hi Fi Soundboard Master

01 Instrumental and Welcome
02 It's My Pleasure
03 With You I'm Born Again
04 Will It Go Round In Circles
05 Unknown Title
06 You Can't Keep a Good Man Down
07 Tribute To The Beatles
08 Get Back
09 That's The Way (God Planned It)
10 Nothing From Nothing
11 You Are So Beautiful
12 Jam

Billy kicks this audience's ass...what a show!

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Billy Preston - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert 01-29-1974 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip

Billy Preston
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
January 29, 1974
Season One Episode 15
TV Broadcast/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320 kbps
No Cover Art

01 - We're Gonna Make It
02 - Space Race
03 - Will It Go Round In Circles
04 - I Wrote a Simple Song
05 - Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music
06 - You're So Unique
07 - Outta-Space

Billy Preston, sometimes called The 5th Beatle, was a integral part of a few major rock acts. The Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, Mahalia Jackson, Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, and many others owe credit to Billy's keyboard talents. The Beatles actually gave him equal billing on the "Get Back" single releasing it as The Beatles & Billy Preston, and yes he was on that rooftop for that famous concert. This is a great although short set from Billy, show casing some of his hits. Billy dances, sings , and plays his heart out.

Preston had battled kidney disease in his later years, brought on by his hypertension. He received a kidney transplant in 2002, but his health continued to deteriorate. He died on June 6, 2006 in Scottsdale, Arizona, of complications of malignant hypertension that resulted in kidney failure and other complications. He had voluntarily entered a drug rehabilitation clinic in Malibu, CA, at the suggestion of guitarist Is'real Benton and suffered pericarditis there, leading to respiratory failure that left him in a coma from November 21, 2005. His funeral was held on June 20 at the Faithful Central Bible Church in Inglewood, California, where his remains were interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California.

There still remains an unreleased CD of Beatles covers that he had been working on for several years before his death. Many tracks from this CD were previewed by him at The Fest for Beatles Fans shows in the years before his death.

 

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