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Club Meeting is the first live album by Billy Preston, recorded in 1965 at The Trip on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, and released in 1967. In 2004, Wildest Organ in Town! and Club Meeting were released together.
"Outa-Space" is an instrumental recorded by Billy Preston that originally appeared on his 1971 A&M Records-debut album, I Wrote a Simple Song. To create the primary instrumental sound, Preston played a clavinet through a wah wah pedal. The song was created by Preston improvising while calling out chord changes to the backing band.
Preston had a musical link to the Black church that was singular in the rock world and almost primal: He played the organ — in particular the Hammond B3, a complicated instrument with multiple ...
I Wrote a Simple Song was Preston's first self-produced album. [1] Preston's friend George Harrison played lead guitar on most of the songs, [1] and supplied dobro accompaniment on the title track. The album continued Preston's inclusion of gospel-themed songs which had started with the 1967 album Club Meeting.
An early recording of the song, also from Preston's 1969 sessions in London, was included as a bonus track on the 1991 and 2010 remastered That's the Way God Planned It album. The 2002 reissue of Preston's Live European Tour album added a live version of "That's the Way God Planned It", recorded during the Rolling Stones' 1973 European tour.
The song serves as an example of Preston's continuing association with Harrison after the Beatles' break-up, despite his departure for A&M. [8] Its release followed Preston's well-received performance of "That's the Way God Planned It" at Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh shows on August 1, 1971, which had raised Preston's public profile.
The album includes the instrumental "Space Race", which was released as a single and was a sequel of sorts to Preston's 1971 hit "Outa-Space". The instrumental proved popular enough that the musical variety show American Bandstand used it as the song for its mid-broadcast break from the mid-1970s until the show completed its run in 1989.
Live European Tour is the only live album by Billy Preston, released in 1974 in Europe and Japan. It was recorded during his opening act stint for the Rolling Stones 1973 European Tour , featuring Mick Taylor on lead guitar and Preston's own band "The God Squad".