Drummer reacts to "Layla" by Derek and the Dominoes
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#derekandthedominoes #layla #ericclapton #duaneallman
Let us not forget that the GREAT Duane Allman is playing that sweet slide!!!
Oh that sweet, sweet slide. Perfection.
And he is playing regular lead guitar - the opening riff throughout before we even get to his slide work. Someone in an interview asked him how can you tell the difference betwen his guitar and Eric's on this album and he said - I play the Gibson, Eric plays the Fender.
My generation might be old but we sure had fantastic music to listen to when we were growing up.
You got that right!
It was a lot more fun being 20 in the '70s than being 70 in the '20s.
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Oh! Well said!
@@jeffmartin1026That’s the truth!
Yet the best music never grows old.
This song is about George Harrison's wife, Pattie. She and Clapton began living together in 1974 and married in 1979. Clapton and Harrison remained good friends, with George playing at their wedding along with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Clapton left her for actress Lory Del Santo (with whom he had his son, Conor) in 1985. In an article published in The Guardian December 13, 2008, Pattie said: "I wasn't so happy when Eric wrote 'Layla,' while I was still married to George. I felt I was being exposed. I was amazed and thrilled at the song - it was so passionate and devastatingly dramatic - but I wanted to hang on to my marriage. Eric made this public declaration of love. I resisted his attentions for a long time - I didn't want to leave my husband. But obviously when things got so excruciatingly bad for George and me it was the end of our relationship. We both had to move on. Layla was based on a book by a 12th-century Persian poet called Nizami about a man who is in love with an unobtainable woman. The song was fantastically painful and beautiful.
And meanwhile George had an affair with Ringos wife. Broke Ringos heart. George then got a boll9cking from John for doing that to Ringo. Happy days,
@@Moz1011free love days.
Two other songs about Pattie: "Something" written by George Harrison and "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric
To add to this, you can read the lyrics of George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" album and Clapton's lyrics on the "Layla" album as a conversation about Patty and Clapton's feelings for her. George and Eric remained pretty civil through all of this. Also of note is that the band on both records was in great part the same. Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle, and Jim Gordon were all Dominos and all played on the ATMP sessions as core band members. Clapton and Harrison had both played with them while playing on the Delaney and Bonnie and Friends tour. Duane also played with D&B briefly.
There’s a really good documentary about all this that came out a few years ago (2018 maybe) called Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars. I have the Blu Ray but I have seen it streaming on various platforms. Check it out if you haven’t seen it.
It's a total joy to watch someone your age enjoy their first reaction to classic material.
"Layla" is one of THE most iconic songs in all of rock and roll.
Yes! A rock'n'roll Anthem, like Stairway and Freebird...
What I was going to say for sure. All of this great music came out of coke and heroin infused recording sessions that may have been a blur to the participants, but left us with a lifetime of iconic music
Indeed I still remember when it first came out and listening to it all the time, it was an instant classic.
I love "Layla" but I keep thinking "Bell Bottom Blues" is the best song on this album. The vocals are incredible as is the guitar playing. They are both masterpieces.
Yes. Here's my favorite version - it's a Bobby Whitlock song after all:
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That coda, with Gordon on piano and Duane Allman on slide is one of the greatest pieces of music ever recorded.
And Jim Gordon flat stole it from Rita Coolidge, his former lover and band mate on Joe Cocker's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" tour.
That’s wild he just straight up took it from Rita. It’s absolutely beautiful though
@@michaelgray4964 yeah, Jim Gordon wasn't exactly a good person...But as to who composed it, it's a bit 'he said, she said' I'm afraid. But I personally believe Rita Coolidge more than a convicted murderer.
Was that before or after he beat her up?
In Whitlock's book he says Clapton once fired Gordon by throwing his duffel out the window of a moving bus.
Clapton was very close friends with George Harrison. Then he fell intensely in love with George's wife, Patty Boyd. Although she was not happy in the marriage, Patty was not willing to leave George initially. Clapton was desperate for Patty, and felt terrible for betraying his friend. Clapton's conflicted emotions can be heard in these intense vocals. This desperate mood permeated the studio, and made these legendary recording sessions. The whole band knew what was going on with Clapton and Boyd, and Duane Allman's slide-guitar is searing. Another classic song from this album is "Bellbottom Blues".
I saw that was the other song from this album that was really popular. I will definitely be checking that out. And as for the meaning of the song… you can totally feel it. It’s written all over its sleeve. And I love it.
I don't know if you've done Something by the Beatles. George wrote it for Patti. She was quite the muse. At the Concert For George after George passed Eric and Paul McCartney sang this. Paul on Ukelele and Eric on guitar. Absolutely stunning performance.
“Bellbottom Blues” was also written for Patty Boyd.
When you think of the most iconic rock songs of all time .... "Layla" is near the top of that list......
Prior to Yoko Ono, Patti Boyd Harrison was the only woman allowed to be at a Beatles recording session. She sings in the chorus of “Yellow Submarine” and “All Together Now”. She and Yoko are the female voices singing “birthday” on “Birthday” by the Beatles.
This is one of the best albums ever.
This is another example of why you have to forgive us oldsters for being so snotty about music. LOL
In the 1970's, we rated the quality of an FM Radio Station based on how they played "Layla". If they played Layla all the way to the end, waiting patiently for the final "bird sounds", then it was a quality radio station. But if the DJ talked over the end, or interrupted it with a new song, we knew that radio "s-cked". It was so important to find DJs that respected the music. Albums were expensive, and quality radio was where you could hear a wide range of great music.
So true !
And they often played THE WHOLE ALBUM!
KSHE in St. Louis was a radio station like that back in the 60's and early 70's. Pretty much sucks today.
Absolutely
Lol
Patti Boyd. One of those few legit muses of popular culture.
Duane's bird whistles at the end...
The riff was brought to the song by Duane. Duane’s slide on the other parts is pure genius.
We listened to this endlessly in 1970. Knocked us out!
I find it amazing that someone hasn’t heard Layla.
The riff sounded familiar but I definitely haven’t heard anything but that
@@L33Reacts I think you’ll be surprised how often you hear a snippet of it in movies, tv shows and such.
@@brettv5967Like Goodfellas for one.
The lineup that eventually became Derek and the Dominoes started out at the backing band for Delaney & Bonnie and friends (including George Harrison). Then they were the backing band on George Harrison's All This Must Pass album. As they were about to record the Layla album, Eric Clapton saw the Allman Brothers Band. He invited Duane Allman to contribute slide guitar on the Layla album.
Bell bottom blues is right up there with Layla,on the same album
I haven't seen many reactions to Layla. Back in the day this song was huge and played all the time on rock radio.
The banger of all bangers ... then the sweet melody ... everybody had this record
This is a song written by a man *badly* in love...with another man's wife. Patti Harrison said that when she heard the song, she realized how much Clapton loved her.
It's called lust
@@garyfletcher844 😄 *nod*
It would be a crime if you didn't react to "Bell Bottom Blues" from this album. It's fabulous, I promise.
One of the best guitar riffs ever.
It's amazing how many great songs inspired by Patti Boyd. And it's amazing how George and Eric stayed such great friends and didn't let a woman come between them.
She was some looker from what I can see❤ inspired many more songs than this!!💯🎶🔥
And she wasn't even hot.
Patti inspired so many great songs. She definitely had something special about her. Some of the biggest stars were writing about her.
@mikewest6569 you are joking right?
@@visaman If you're into horrible crooked teeth and bad complexion, then go for it.
This is what it sounds like when guitars cry. Best song ever.
Imagine having a guitarist of Duane Allman's skill and stature available as a studio hack for a band that already features a great lead guitarist. Allman was pure taste/class and this song wouldn't come close to hitting like this without him.
Don't take this the wrong way, but I was thoroughly surprised that someone with your knowledge and taste didn't know this song. I say that without scorn or disgust. On the contrary. Thats what im here for. Thats why I watch reaction videos.
I always loved the form of this song - the fabulous coda, tranquil comedown, beautiful acceptance after the passionate intensity of the song itself
Every song on this album is 100% killer. BELL BOTTOM BLUES, WHY DOES LOVE HAVE TO BE SO SAD, HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN, THORN TREE IN THE GARDEN etc.
Clapton doesn’t mess around usually… everything from cream to blind faith to legends has been great
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I second the rec. for "Bell Bottom Blues"
@@L33Reacts Bell Bottom Blues is also about Pattie.
Just do the whole album L33
Bell Bottom Blues is gut wrenching in its pure anguish.
I can tell you for sure that when Layla was played on the radio in the day, it was a felony to end the song before the chirp.
Eric & Duane creating Rock magic. What a riff, and what slide. Layla, Stairway & Freebird, the three best Rock songs ever. We lost so much with Duane’s death. And we owe so much to Pattie Boyd, for all the great music she inspired.✌️❤️🎶
She also inspired Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight", another stone classic.
This whole album is a masterpiece. ✌️❤️🎶
and Lee, most of us have spent 50 years discovering this music; you're getting the crash course.😅
Eric Clapton's first solo hit -- "After Midnight" from 1970 -- isn't too shabby, either.
a melancholic end to a roller coaster of a track!
an album that has a special place in my collection & my heart.
Pattie Boyd recently had an auction of many of her things. The Layla original LP artwork sold for $2,527,304.
holy federally regulated currency. that's a lot of benjamins. good for whoever bought it. probably change to them!
I had the great good fortune to see Derek and the Dominos at the Eastown Theater in Detroit, December 1970... This is, arguably, the closest thing to a perfect album in the history of Rock & Roll...
The slide guitar parts are played by the late great Duane Allman
The last sound you hear ending the song is the famous bird chirp made by Duane Allman's guitar.
I am 71 and this has ALWAYS been one of my TOP 3 favorite songs of all time. The other 2 are “Darkness, Darkness” by the Youngbloods and “Can’t Find My Way Home” by Blind Faith. Deep, deep emotion resides in each of them.
Keep up the great work, Lee! Your music passion is contagious and I LOVE that you explore various genres. Congratulations!
Great reaction. When this song was released, it kicked Clapton's legend status to a whole other level. Clapton was definitely at the top of his game at this point of his career. Unfortunately, it was also the beginning of his addiction to heroin which, by the grace of God (and Pete Townsend), was a relatively short-lived experience. This album is packed with gems and contains only one or two mediocre tunes, but I still love every song. The absolute best tune on the LP is Key to the Highway. It was an impromptu jam session that was luckily captured on tape. The story is that the producer, Tom Dowd, was preoccupied in the bathroom when the song started. He apparently barged into the booth still holding his pants up and yelled at his assistant engineers to turn on the recording equipment. The result is an absolute masterpiece. The tradeoffs between Clapton and Allman solos are pure gold. There are times when it seems Clapton is finishing his lead when all of a sudden he kicks it into another gear and plays for an additional four bars. Aside from this one, there are two other songs that were recorded live in the studio: Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, and Have You Ever Loved a Woman. Both tunes are a joy to listen to, especially when you know that the band is playing it on the fly. I strongly encourage you to devote more time to explore this album.
See the doc "Tom Dowd and The Language Of Music". Fascinating career starting in the late forties. Engineered/Produced some of the greatest records ever made. He talks all about putting Duane and Eric together. Duane came up with the opening riff. Dowd also sits at the mixing board and deconstructs all the parts of Layla.
Check out "Belle Bottom Blues" from the same album.
Its not sad when it moves you like that. I was amazed the first time I heard it at ten years old. It has always been a favorite. You appreciate music and I appreciate your reactions.
Hey there, buddy! I love your stuff - and this song, Bell Bottom Blues, is why I love music. This song is an example of how true musical talent can take some nylon strings, a drum snake, amplifiers, plastic picks, etc., and create human emotion. It expresses love, passion, pain, and anguish. Clapton's guitar actually sounds like it's sobbing! (I've read that Clapton was in tears at the end of this song.) As much as I love Layla, this song is probably my favorite track off an awesome album! Have a rocking weekend, buddy! Lisa 💖🎸
This album is a banger from beginning to end......Bell Bottom Blues, Thorn Tree in the Garden, Why does love got to be So Sad". Bobby Whitlock is a great singer/piano player and song writer
Bellbottom Blues, Let It Rain, Let It Grow and Badge are some of the best songs Eric/Derek has played and sung on…
There’s a video out there with Tom Dowd, the producer/engineer that breaks down all the layers of music that went into this tune.
For any music fan, it’s a clinic!
The whole album "Layle and other assorted Love Songs" is great! An album filled with bangers, highly recommend you listen to the whole thing!
Duane is the one that came up with the opening guitar riff. He based it on an Albert King riff.
Shows how old i am and young you are, that you never heard this song before- true classic!
Pattie Boyd went to a convent school less than one mile from where l live in East Grinstead, West Sussex. To have three major hit songs written about one person is almost unprecedented.
Clapton's version of Jimi Hendrix's Little Wing is also worth checking out on this album.
The sweet coda attributed for years to troubled drummer Jim Gordon he actually lifted from then girlfriend singer Rita Coolidge. A perfect way to end what's already an absolute stunner of a song. Devastating anytime I hear it still, over a half century later.
🤟🏼🥹🎶❤️✨️🕊
This band formed after they all came together in England to help George Harrison record his landmark "All Things Must Pass" album in 1970. They quickly broke up amid drug problems and ego clashes. Layla is George's first wife, who Clapton fell in love with in the late 1960s. George and Pattie were already growing apart as George got obsessively into Eastern mysticism, drugs and drink and cheating on Pattie, although they were apparently both into the "free love" spirit in the late 1960s like many hippies were at the time. That is explained in the lyric "tried to give you consolation, when your old man had let you down, like a fool I fell in love with you." George was actually happy when Pattie ended up with Eric because it removed the burden from him of having to leave Pattie. George quickly met his second wife Olivia in 1974 after George later called Clapton his "Guitarist-in-law" and he attended Clapton and Pattie's wedding in 1979. Clapton treated Pattie like crap and later left her for another woman after being pretty abusive with Pattie amid all his alcoholic/drug excesses. George and Pattie remained close for the rest of George's life - he even later bought her a house and helped her out financially. Clapton and George were as close as brothers for the rest of George's life. Check out the spectacular "Concert for George" spearheaded by Clapton a year after George's death at 58 in 2001. Probably the best tribute show I have ever seen - Paul, Ringo, Clapton, Billy Preston, Tom Petty, Jeff Lyne - just an amazing show. Peace! Tragic sidebar - Jim Gordon later went insane and murdered his own mother with a hammer and spent the rest of his life in prison. He had also stole the "Layla" piano coda from his former girlfriend RIta Coolidge, who he broke up with after he inexplicably punched her full in the face without explanation about the moment she thought he was going to propose.
spot-on dude, spot on..... you picked up on Clapton's infinite sadness in this track.
Nice reaction; thanks for doing this song. If Duane hadn't gotten killed this band would have been one of the greatest bands ever.
The “infinite sadness” could very possibly been a reflection, in-part, of the inner conflict for Clapton. I get the impression that there was real mutual respect and friendship between himself and George Harrison. It couldn’t have been an easy situation to live through.
There's a great live version of this song from 1986 in Birmingham, UK with Clapton, Greg Phillinganes, Nathan East and Phil Collins. 🙂 I definitely recommend watching that.
This entire album is amazing
Love Derek and the Dominoes
Duane actually came up with that famous riff. He also played the slide solo at the end and added the little "bird tweets" at the end. Duane and Eric were locked into each other musically. Eric even asked Duane to join Derek and the Dominos, but Duane had his own little band he was cooking up... 😊
One of the truly beautiful rock songs.
Allman and Clapton trading guitar licks, Radle and Gordon with the rhythm section and Whitlock with vocals keys and writing. Favorite track on the album is "Why Does Love Got to be So Sad?".
No one who hears it will ever deny that Duane Allman deserves his place among the greats. He absolutely takes the song over and challenges Clapton to match him.
That was a great agricultural metaphor! A couple GOATS in that lineup, maybe?
There is that legendary enxing with Duanne making his slide guitar sound like a bird chirpinng
Can you imagine what the woman was like who inspired such great music? Haunting melancholy is such an apt description.
Eric Clapton had kind of a sweet, quiet single called "Promises." Anyone else recall that one?
A great song! Written for Pattie Boyd, as were Something, For You Blue, If I Needed Someone, Wonderful Tonight and Bell Bottom Blues!
Bell botton blues from this same album is also great. One of my favorite albums from my senior year in high school - 1970 to 1971.
One of my favorite songs ever. One of those that the volume gets turned way up.
absolutely. after 2 listens its already one of those for me! what a great track. i see why they say this is his magnum opus!
Awesome react to another awesome classic man! I see the story behind the song has been explained so i won't do it again. Like you said in a comment tho, gotta love the 60s man!✌️🌼😅
Clapton found out the Allmans were in town touring so Phil Walden took the Dominoes to see the ABB - they sat in front & shocked the hell out of Duane. Eric invited the ABB back to the studio - Eric & Duane immediately became guitar brothers - trading licks thru most of the album. The acoustic version of Layla Unplugged is how Eric planned the song - but Duane came up with the opening riff & sped the song up. Eric tried to get Duane to join the Dominos but Duane declined having his ABB - shortly thereafter - the ABB Live at Fllmore Album was born. Both legendary albums.
Actually Duane told Clapton “he would like to be a fly on the wall on this session”, then Eric asked him to play on it.
This was such a huge hit for him. You had a similiar reaction to this song as I did. The riff is so unique the first time you hear it you'll never forget it.
One of the greatest albums start to finish
Love "Bell Bottom Blues"
L33 ❤ your comment on fat. Fat is flavor such as a big prime rib and Layla is definitely a prime rib. Every bite is succulent.
Please take me back to those times, sweet Lord , a soulful journey .😊
Just listened to Eivor's new release ENN. One of the best albums I've ever heard. A masterpiece by the worlds greatest vocalist. Music isn't dead, it just moved to Scandinavia. Huge Clapton fan here also.
Every song they did was great.
One of the greatest guitar albums ever. Add to this the amazing Bellbottom Blues and my favorite - Why Does Love Got to be So Sad!
Clapton is why my brother became a musician.
I saw Clapton live.
This song reminds me of 1970 and being home from school with the mumps building a balsa wood sailboat. Listening to this on the radio. I can see my old bedroom in my mind.🤔
Thanks.
You've never heard that riff? This is one of 3 songs about Patti Boyd Harrison. "Something" from Abbey Road. "Layla." And "Wonderful Tonight." Clapton fell for his best friend's wife. George and Eric remained friends, having given us "Of While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Badge." You've never heard this? This IS 1970s radio.
Different people of different generations have exposure to different music sources. You can't realistically expect a 30-year-old man in 2024 to have the same familiarity with a 54-year-old song from 1970 (no matter how iconic) that those of us who were there at the time do.
This is the same core band that was with Delaney and Bonnie and on George Harrison's These Things Must Pass.
And the first Claoton solo album
Another one to cross off my list to request. Thanks, Scotty! :) I was hesitating because I thought surely you would have heard this before, Lee. It's so iconic. Whitlock hated the coda, but it's so good, discordant though it is. That makes it more melancholy, really.
It is evocative of a lot of feelings. This is how you write, arrange, sing, and play a song, love song or otherwise.
This song will never get old … its beautiful!!❤
Brilliant song. It's been around since I was 4
Maybe your BEST reaction video EVER!!! ❤🎶💯🔥
Eric Clapton. Blues Breakers with John Mayall, Yardbirds, Derek & the Dominos, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney & Bonnie plus all his solo albums. You have a lot to catch up on. Good listening!!!
Underlying melancholy...perfect!
The whole album is great--try next "Have you Ever Loved a Woman" for some of the best, fiery blues lead by Eric Clapton, supported by Duane playing slide again. Then listen to "Why Does Love Got to Be so Sad?" With Eric and Duane trading in a guitar duet at the end.
The song also features Duane Allman on slide guitar last recording he ever made
Also try, ‘Got To Get Better In A Little While,’ Derek and the Dominos live at the Fillmore East.
The version they played on The Johnny Cash Show is excellent too, but very fast! Eric Clapton called Bobby Whitlock 40 years later and asked if he would come finish the vocal on the studio version of “Got To Get Better…” that had been left unfinished when the band broke up. He did!
I'm so glad you didn't chose Clapton's later "unplugged" version. That song is a war crime.
LOL, agreed.
Sorry, but couldn't disagree more. While this is the definitive version, the unplugged version has a real swing to it that I really like.
@@deechatterton5828 And I also couldn't disagree more with your disagreement. The song is an expression of unbridled passion. The unplugged version is another of Clapton's absurd easy listening exercises, like "Wonderful Tonight" which a friend of mine always referred to as "Slumberful Tonight."
@@jpmnewyork Well, that's why they make more than one kind of recording.
Clapton on lead, Allman on slide and let’s not forget drummer Jim Gordon on that sumptuous 4 minute piano solo which is the coda of the song. Layla, maybe overplayed over the years, but who cares, it’s a damned classic. Thanks Scott for a great choice.
And Jim Gordon’s fabulous cymbal swells going in and out of the coda sections- so good
@@edwardmeradith2419Great interpretation of this powerful song L33. Yes Clapton is a genius and this song is beautiful.
Jim also played the piano part along with Bobby Whitlock and thee coda.
Rita Coolidge, uncredited, wrote the second half instrumental piece. She was Gordon's girlfriend at the time, and he just took it and said it was his. How many other times that happened in the history of rock and other music, we will just really never ever know
Epic is right. And I associate this magnificent piece with another epic magnificent piece of art, the literature of Tolkien, since I was experiencing both at the same time, along with some contact high from my older sisters' pot parties
The awesome just keeps going
This is one of those albums that have musical gems throughout.
It’s a pretty amazing story of how this band and album came together.
It’s a very fascinating rabbit hole to go down.there’s so much going on this song that you cannot catch it all on just one listen.
was lucky enough to be a teen when these brill songs come out, such a iconic hit. still luv this as a nearly 66 yr old.
We took so much for granted.
@ChasBeauregarde yes I agree 100%, we sure did, as have every teen no matter wot decade. Lol think we no it all.