Oil Well Bootlegs - RSC CD: John Lennon – Come Together Oil Well

John Lennon – Come Together
Oil Well – RSC 025 CD

1 Mother 4:57
2 Imagine 3:27
3 Come Together 4:17
4 Give Peace a Chance 7:41
5 Cold Turkey #1 3:31
6 Too Much Monkey Business 1:15
7 Brown Eyed Handsome Man 2:44
8 Rock Island Line # 1 2:31
9 Chords of Fame 4:07
10 Rock Island Line # 2 2:47
11 Jealous Guy 4:08
12 Dear Prudence 4:38
13 Cold Turkey # 2 4:11
14 New York City 2:56
15 Watching The Wheels 3:51
16 Dear Yoko 3:45
17 My Life 2:29
18 (Just Like) Starting Over 4:55
Total length: 68:10

Note:
All songs by John Lennon unless noted.
~~Live Providence, Rhode Island 1973~~

Tracks 1,2,3,4,14 recorded live at Madison Square Garden NY - 30 August 1972
Tracks 5,6,7,8 are from acoustic demos from John Lennon personal archive
Track 10 recorded live in studio
Track 11 with Plastic Ono Band 1971, Imagine sessions
Track 12 from White Album Demo Tape 1968
Track 13 from rehearsal in New York 1972
Track 15 John Lennon demo tape of 1980
Track 16 from John Lennon Early Bermuda Tape 1980
Track 17 from Bermuda demo tape - private archive
Track 18 from John Early Rough Mix, august 1980

Lineup
John Lennon – vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards
Yoko Ono – keyboards
Wayne 'Tex' Gabriel – lead guitar
Gary Van Scyoc – bass guitar
John Ward – bass guitar
Stan Bronstein – saxophone
Adam Ippolito – keyboards
Richard Frank Jr. – drums

Jim Keltner – drums on "Jealous Guy"
Joey Molland, Tom Evans – acoustic guitar on "Jealous Guy"
Nicky Hopkins – piano on "Jealous Guy"
Alan White – vibraphone on "Jealous Guy"
John Barham – harmonium on "Jealous Guy"
Mike Pinder – tambourine on "Jealous Guy"
The Flux Fiddlers (members of the New York Philharmonic) – orchestral strings on "Jealous Guy"
Klaus Voormann – bass guitar on "Jealous Guy"

This album is a partial clone of "Christmas Present" CD1 - White Fly Records – WF 001/3
This Oil Well version has a fine cover, fine quality. Fold-out insert shows details of other CDs in the series. Limited to 200 copies only. Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended.

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© Official released material:
Tracks 1,2,3,4,14 have been released on: Live In New York City
Track 11 has been released on Imagine (The Ultimate Collection)
Track 12 has been released on The Beatles (White Album - Super Deluxe edition)
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Live in New York City
Live in New York City is a posthumous live album by English rock musician John Lennon with the Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band. It was prepared under the supervision of his widow, Yoko Ono, and released in 1986 as his second official live album, the first being Live Peace in Toronto 1969.

Recorded on 30 August 1972 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Lennon performed two shows, one in the afternoon and one in the evening, a benefit concert for the Willowbrook State School for Retarded Children in New York,[5] at friend Geraldo Rivera's request. Rivera introduces Lennon and Ono at the beginning of the album, and he is referenced in Lennon's impromptu revised lyrics in the opening song, "New York City".

The benefit concerts, billed as One to One, also featured other performers in addition to Lennon, including Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Melanie Safka and Sha-Na-Na, although their performances are not included on this album, nor on the simultaneous video release.

Upon its early 1986 release, Ono was criticised by former members of Elephant's Memory for using the first – and weaker – performance instead of the stronger evening show. They also took issue with the simultaneous video release of the concert, which it was alleged had been edited to show Ono as prominently as Lennon. However, on the album release, Ono's vocal performances on such numbers as "Hound Dog" had been mixed out completely. Additionally, all of her solo performances, which included "Sisters, O Sisters", "Born in a Prison", "We're All Water", "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)", "Move on Fast" and "Open Your Box", were deleted from the audio edition of the concert, to create a pure Lennon album. The video release retained the Lennon complete set-list including Ono's "Sisters, O Sisters" and "Born in a Prison".
Portions of the evening performance later saw release on the John Lennon Anthology.

Live in New York City reached No. 55 in the UK, and No. 41 in the U.S., and eventually went gold.
The concerts documented on Live in New York City were Lennon's only rehearsed and full-length live performances in his solo career, and his first – and last – formal, full-fledged live concerts since the Beatles retired from the road in 1966. Lennon never mounted a tour during his post-Beatles career. The concerts also marked the last time he performed live with Ono or with Elephant's Memory.

Political activism.
In September of 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono relocated to Greenwich Village in New York City and found themselves at the epicenter of political activism. They soon became friends with high profile activists Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman and began making public appearances protesting the Vietnam War and the imprisonment of Angela Davis and John Sinclair. Fearing Lennon's influence and more specifically, that he had the ability to humiliate President Richard Nixon, the FBI began investigating, documenting John and Yoko's every move in an effort to find grounds on which to deport him.

It was against this highly charged political backdrop that John and Yoko began recording their album, Sometime In New York City, with an agenda to protest against the social injustices they observed in the United States. With Phil Spector producing and accompanied by members of the Plastic Ono Band and Elephant's Memory, the album was completed in March of 1972 and remains the most overtly political recordings Lennon ever recorded.

Live in New York City captures Lennon's last full-length concert performance, coming right after the release of Some Time in New York City. Backing Lennon and Ono were Elephant's Memory, who had served as Lennon and Ono's backing band on Some Time in New York City. Although the material Lennon performed was largely drawn from his three most recent albums of the period (John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Imagine and Some Time in New York City), he also included in the setlist his Beatles hit "Come Together" and paid tribute to Elvis Presley with "Hound Dog" before leading the audience in a singalong of "Give Peace a Chance". "Come Together", originally in the key of D minor, was performed in E minor.