Elton John - Honky Tonk Women (New York 1970)

17th of November 1970
Recorded at A&R Recording Studios, New York, for a live radio broadcast on WABC-FM, and then released on the album 17-11-70 (11-17-70 in the US).
Nigel Olsson on drums and backing vocals, and Dee Murray on bass and backing vocals. This was the entire Elton John Band on Elton's first world tours in 1970 and 71. The trio performed this Rolling Stones song at most of their shows in those years.

[judyblower]

Dee Murray was a beast on the bass. My #1 bassist of all time.

[AlbertoOlivieri]

The one and only Dee Murray..Genius...the most underrated Bassist of all time...

[usmcfutball]

Always wondered at the shenanigans at the beginning of this song that made everyone laugh. Pity there's no video of this landmark performance...

[peterg.bassist]

Elton's Bass Player, British Bassist, Dee Murray, really mastered the Art of playing bass along with Elton and so many of his Hit songs!

[cricketbat]

Elton's piano playing is amazing on this.

[raydodson]

Heard this song on am radio. A milestone... and non of my friends heard this version. EVEN so called classic rock stations would take it as a request 😊

[scotthite]

Couldn't agree more with regard to comment about Dee. Love Lies Bleeding is another great song in which Dee shines.

[PeachPie]

Ronnie, thank you for this!
Rare audio and video.

[gegification]

amazing times amazing years this cover trio version is awesome and so so so grOOvy !

[juliocesarpereira]

This album was released with the title 'Bad Side Of The Moon' here in Brasil. I hated the quality of the cut. Later, I'd acquire a small cd collection called 'Elton John's Classic Years' that included his first albums from 1969-1976, i.e. from 'Empty Sky' to 'Blue Moves'. Gus Dudgeon remastered it from the original tapes. In a footnote, he said that Elton prefered the US cut than the British to '11-11-70'. And he was right, in Brasil, we had the British cut and it sounded muffled. So Gugdeon ended up saying (I'm paraphrasing): 'Now let's see what he (Elton) thinks of it.' He made a terrific job on remastering these albums, spcecially this one, which improved a great deal. Gus was right about being proud of it.

[glennmercier]

I have the complete recording on reel to reel