Bella Donna / Think About It piano demos

[blinker12]

Hi everyone!

The discussion about the piano demo of Bella Donna that will be released on the upcoming album remaster got me thinking about two of my very favorite Stevie demos:

Bella Donna
http://youtu.be/u5CCGf2qn_w

Think About It
http://youtu.be/fpckckD8vio

They are both piano demos, but clearly Stevie is not the one playing piano.

Does anyone know anything about them? Is it Roy Bittan playing? And most importantly, do any others exist in this style?

They are so, so beautiful.

[deribish]

I THINK that those piano demos were done with Benmont Tench. From what I think I've read, he worked up the arrangements for Stevie's Bella Donna songs for several months, fleshing them out chord-wise so that the band (who were mostly the Heartbreakers) could come in and play them like rock songs.