Bob Marley "Live" Old Grey Whistle Test "Stir It Up" playback comparison

Bob Marley & The Wailers
"Live" at The Old Grey Whistle Test, BBC 1973
"Stir It Up"
A comparison of the "live" audio (LEFT channel)
with the studio recording
from the album "Catch a Fire" (RIGHT channel)
The Old Grey Whistle Test uses a shortened and remixed version
of the original studio session recorded for "Catch a Fire",
cutting it down and re-arranging the segments a bit.
Only the vocals appear to have been re-recorded - probably done live during the video recording.
The solo guitar from the studio version, played by Wayne Perkins, is mostly removed from the video mix, as are organ and piano.
(Just before the Clavinet solo, they actually have a bit of guitar in the mix that is nowhere to be found on the original album mix.)
I have cut and edited the studio version to match
the Old Grey Whistle Test version, as best I could.
Made in deference and utmost respect to
Robert Nesta Marley
May he live forever

[@timtim4664]

Still a great song!

[@analogikahamburg]

LOVE the album. And the Clavinet solo is one of the major reasons I bought one, more than 25 years ago.

[@EaglesChat]

I had a question, in the original recording their is a part they left out before the solo in the old Grey whistle test, why did they not do that in this version. Also part of the guitar solo is different in the old Grey whistle one.

[@analogikahamburg]

There is no guitar solo on the Old Grey Whistle Test version. What you hear that sounds like a "guitar" is a keyboard instrument called the Clavinet. I point it out in the video. With arrow to the instrument.
Which part do you think is "different" from the original?
The part they cut from the studio recording is a chorus and a brief solo guitar feature by Wayne Perkins. They removed almost all the lead guitar from this TV mix, because Wayne obviously isn't there to play it, and without it, the instrumental section makes no sense.
Of course, they left in the lengthy Clavinet solo at the end, which isn't played by any of the Wailers seen in the video either, so… go figure.

[@mequetri]

I always wondered how he got that sound out of a guitar on the solo... by the way, I love that solo, do we know who plays it?

[@analogikahamburg]

John “Rabbit” Bundrick, keyboard player for Eric Burdon, Free, and The Who recorded that Clavinet solo.

[@mequetri]

🎵🎶♥@@analogikahamburg

[@nukaprix]

RIP these original wailers! All resting now. Do you think they didn’t use the original vocals, guitar, & percussion because of legal rights/disputes of Peter & Bunny? I know in the top pop performances of posititive vibration & roots rock reggae that those are just lip syncing music videos, but this one it seems like they tried to make it appear like it was actually recorded live? (Because of the vocals) Like why did they take out peters guitar solo, and why is the video cut short? Sometimes I get upset about bobs estate managers (kids and wife) because so much of his material is witheld and hidden from us that they uncover and decide to sell 40+ years later. I feel like powerful music like this should not be molested and exploited but I guess god made their hearts so wicked and deceitful that they just can’t help themselves. Oh well. Rant over. Jah bless ❤️💛💚

[@analogikahamburg]

Well, we can only hypothesise, but I assume that they used a cut-up version to get the band into the rigid air-time set aside for individual performances. The tracks would be selected by the label, and they'd have to figure out a way to make them fit into the what? seven minutes available.
At least the lead vocals actually seem to be live in this recording, so there's that. 😉 I'm sure the band was extremely unhappy with the arrangement. They certainly don't seem very motivated.
Throwing out the guitar makes sense, though, since Peter didn't play it - that was Wayne Perkins.

[@pedromq7807]

It seems to me its kinda of a mix

[@analogikahamburg]

The vocals are live. Everything else is playback.