And humble. Every time I go to see Eric in concert, he opens the stage up to younger guitarists, and sometimes just stands there and admires their talent. Passing the torch, I guess. But for me, he is still God!
You boys missed growing up in a great generation..the 70's, when music was unbelievably awesome. If I had a time macchine I would take both of you back to the 70's and let you spend a bit of time and then return you back. I am sure you would be blown away as there were also many, many "B" side songs that were awesome that will never see the light of day again.
He didn't swipe her. He waited several years to get her. Like, three or four years after this, during which time EC was a junkie. Edit: I checked. He actually waited 9 years after this record.
@Joan In Florida George not only cheated on Pattie, he cheated on her with the wife of one of his other close friends: Maureen Cox Starkey, Ringo's wife.
@@gregsager2062 Hada cHuGgLe and a flashback. 1977 our high school LRArMHS put on a GONG Show. A punk band for the occasion called themselves 'The Rolling SEX Beatles'.
The late great Duane Allman plays slide guitar on this epic tune ..so much history behind this tune ..it's just rich with rock n roll ..oozes it my brothers..
Duane was a great guitarist learned from the best Dickie Betts , a shout out to not mentioned Andy Fairweather Lowe very underrated for his input on this classic
@@18pauljanDuane was better guitarist then Dickey , Dickey had years and years to get better and evolve but as far as being an innovator and playing with feel Duane beats betts country major sound
I have a musician friend that lives in the Daytona Beach area. He has one of Duane Allman’s class course in bottles with all the documentation to prove it, he let me touch it. I got the whole that he keeps it in a microphone keys under a rock and key.😂❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
That same year, 1970, all of the musicians on this song (except for Duane Allman) also played on George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, probably the best solo album by a Beatle, which I’m sure you guys would love.
"Layla (this version, not unplugged release), the album "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" and the album "All Things Must Pass" have all been given the Grammy Hall of Fame Award.
@@michaelmurphy2234 Up there on my list of favorite all time albums is "Motel Shot". I have an affinity for acoustic music. Motel Shot has some of the greatest musicians just hanging out in hotel/motel rooms, recording the resulting jams while on the road. Country, blues, gospel, and folk, sign me up!
British blues (Eric Clapton) meets Southern Rock (Duane Allman). This is one of the greatest songs of the rock era. They do a great southern rock influenced version of Hendrix' Little Wing. Definitely worth a reaction.
So howz come muzic so crappy nowadays? I saw youtube said nearly all songs written by couple writers and always includes millinum "whoop" which can best be described as annoying howling.
Both this and 'Bell Bottom Blues' were written for Patti Harrison, George Harrison's wife. The emotion in Clapton's voice is real, even more so on 'Bell Bottom Blues'. Mrs. Harrison must have been one amazing woman, not only did she inspire those two songs but George Harrison's 'Something' was written for her too.
I remember when this song first came out. Gotta be one of the best songs ever. Just to let you know, I always follow your videos all the time. I'm 64 years old and really enjoy your reactions to the music I grew up with.
I'm 62 and I must say, I get real enjoyment, from listening to young people, listen to the music, I grew up, listening to. I was 11, or 12 years old, when it came out.
I'm telling ya that being in my early 20s when this song came out, that the early 70's was of the best times for great music and this one one of them if not in the top 5 IMHO.
John Dalley - I turned 25 the year this came out, and it still 'grabs' me at almost 77! We had it all man. You know it has to be good for guys the age of Alex and Andy to be listening to and rating it.
I recorded in the studio where Layla was recorded - I have a picture of myself seated right next to the piano used in this song and one of my friends was a studio engineer on that album and song and I will always envy him for being part of the magic as it was happening. This is, to this day, one of my all-time-favorite songs.
The DEREK & THE DONIMOS is one of the greatest albums ever recorded. BELL BOTTOM BLUES, HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN, WAY DOES LOVE HAVE TO BE SO SAD, just on and on. The best version of Hendrix's LITTLE WING too. Play more....it's epic in every way.
One of the greatest songs of all time (IMO). You should definitely do some more Clapton. Cocaine, Tears in Heaven, Pretending, Wonderful Tonight, etc. Keep up the great work guys!!
That whole instrumental last half of the song was played at my uncle's funeral many years ago. It was ethereal hearing that coming from speakers all around the room and watching all of his military buddies (they were Vietnam vets) standing together in a circle around his casket. It was sad but beautiful.
If I could only have three albums to listen to the rest of my life this would be one of them. You were born 30 years too late to experience the best musical period in history.
@@tedschmidt3288 what’s your point? The song should have been credited to Duane?? It was published under the name of the band and Eric Clapton is lead singer and guitarist. Stop being such a petty person.
@@lisal6121 There was nothing petty there. Just a bit of interesting background about the song. Easy to not know this when somebody as famous as Clapton is associated with the song.
If you listen to Layla from Clapton's Unplugged album, you'll hear an amazing reworking of the song. The album and the song won Grammy awards. It's a great compare and contrast with both versions being powerful.
I cant stand that version. It's just a lazy sound. This song wasnt written to be laid back and quiet. It was meant to be heart wrenchingly powerful,carrying all Eric's pain through to the end.
The album "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" is one of the landmarks of rock and roll - one of the top albums ever recorded. The album does contain love songs, but they're all songs about tortured love; love that is tearing someone apart. It is full of the best blues-rock ever recorded by an outstanding band.
This comment is proof that, no matter what album or song we’re listening to, there will always be some boomer in the comments who thinks it’s the best music of all time. Layla is fine, it’s not among the greatest songs ever
@@jacksonfitzsimmons4253 hey don't we have a right to a opinion or the 21 century only the left has the right to a opinion .i like the album but CREAM OR BLIND FAITH have song's just as good . I am not going into DUANE ALLMAN good night my friend ROCK ON
This is the record that made me fall in love with the blues. 13 years old listening to my sisters records in the basement. Later that summer I went to my first rock concert... Derek and the Dominos and Santana.
Some credit needs to go to the inspiration of this song -- Pattie Boyd. Especially since she was also the inspiration behind Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" as well as one of the best love songs ever -- "Something" by the Beatles (George Harrison).
A straight ahead jam. Eric and the band were taking a break and Sam the Sham and the Pharaoh's were in another room jamming to Key to the Highway an old blues song. When the Dominoes got back to their studio room they started jamming it too and the engineer was smart enough to start rolling tape. that's why the begging fades in.
I heard Layla for the first time in college with friends as we drove out for our weekly cheeseburger and beer night. I fell in love with the song and it was played at my 21st party - best birthday song ever! And, at 73, I continue to play it on my trip around the Sun celebration. 👍🎉❤️
You don't play this well without endless hours of practise, rehearsal and performing. Then applied to a great song. This is top notch, top tier performance. Musicians nowadays don't even think this way let alone put out a performance like this. It was a golden age. A golden age happens when genius is commonplace. But it all starts with a good song.
I'm happy you said you got lost in the sauce. I still do after all these years of hearing Layla. S tier all the way. That piano is EVERYTHING to me. Thanks for reacting to this one!
@@aquatarkus2022 It was a genius move on his part then. The piano solo IMHO helped take the song into another amazing direction. Lost in the sauce indeed!
@@Cheryl_Haydon That part of the song takes me into another dimension! It sets up a kind of meditative state of mind in spite of it sounding kind of raw and ragged. I am grateful to have been alive and remember when this was 'new'. music.
"You got me on my knees, beggin' darling please". That cry of pain coming from the deepest part of Clapton's soul, a man just spilling his messed up life out on stage for all to see with Duane Allman's slide guitar shining light on the scene. S-tier all the way. Allman Bros "Whippin' Post" is one of the few songs that I think matches that intensity of feeling. And if you want the perfect trifecta, follow up those 2 songs with Boz Skaggs "Loan Me a Dime", lead guitar also courtesy of Duane.
Didn't he steal that girl for George Harrison. She was George's wife. I don't feel the least bit bad for Clapton. He got what he deserved. Good song, tho...
@@tristramcoffin926 George was cheating on Patti. Eric was in love with Patti. Eric and George were best friends. This is the stuff the blues are made of. BTW, I'm descended from T.C.
S tier if anything is. The guitar wails, the cracking voice, the tortured start and the comforting outro, and the brilliant half-step down into the chorus and up into the verse.... And that classic unforgettable riff!
Clapton has so many sounds, rock, blues, country, he is probably the most diverse Rocker over 6+ decades 🤯 and also a great singer🎤🎸🤘not to mention every band he was in deserves to be in the Rock and roll Hall of Fame 😎
err Jeff Beck has had a much more varied career and is a far more interesting guitar player who has evolved his playing over the years, Eric Clapton's playing today is identical to the how he played on the Beano album.
I love Clapton but for me, when I want to hear his stuff it is primarily from the 1960s through this song and album. He just seemed to lose some fire after his heroin addiction in the early 70s and his switch from primarily Gibson to Fender guitars when he came back. He was often in a more diverse and mellow mood afterward though still a great in every decade. Back in the day his only rival for a bit was Hendrix. Those were the days...
@@vicprovost2561 A contemporaneous observer in the music press in 66-67 said something to the effect that Beck was better than Clapton and Hendrix was better than them both. I really recommend the recent JHS take on Clapton and Hendrix th-cam.com/video/eqOyJbCxyp0/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/VjZZHYviWVQ/w-d-xo.html
@@johnthursfield3056 Cool, my all time top 5 is Hendrix at 1 and you pick the order of the rest: David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck.
This song will go down in history with The 1812 Overture etc...Written from the gut you can feel the emotion. I still get goosebumps listening to Duane and Erics guitars weave in and out of each other. Best song of my generation.
I was waiting, waiting and waiting towards the end for your rating. If you guys hadn't given this an "S" you would've been damned to eternal Rock Purgatory!
Apparently, the band was going to be call "The Dynamics" but, at a concert where Ashton, Gardner & Dyke was performing before them, Tony Ashton, who used to call Clapton "Derek", introduced them as "Derek and the Dominoes", mispronoucing "Dynamics"
I was a high school freshman when this was released. Definitely a major element in the soundtrack of my youth. Still an epic song (and a treat to hear) over 50 years later.
Now you know why Eric Clapton is on the top of most peoples list of all-time great rock guitar players. He is amazing. For those of us in our 60s and 70s; we have had the privilege and pleasure of hearing this for 3 decades.
This album is one of THE classic 70s jam albums. Recorded live and pretty raw for the most part. Derek and the Dominoes were formed when Clapton joined a previously existing band called Delaney & Bonnie. He didn't use his own name for the band because he was sick and tired of the "God" stuff and just wanted to go back to basics and jam. Duane Allman plays slide on a bunch of the tracks as well. "Key To The Highway" is a must-listen!
I am so relieved you gave this an S this is such an iconic song. Probably my #1 rock song of all time. I must say I cringe when you rank my all time favorites. I 💕 When you honor them
This is a song you can't take in on first listen. It still feels good and relevant 40 years after the first time I heard it. That whole album in the pinnacle of what musicians with instruments and amps can do. I love the way Clapton strums in that little chord after the piano intro before Duane starts in on that slide section
Great opening choice for Eric reaction."I looked Away" and "Bell bottom Blues " are a couple other selections from this album you would surely enjoy.If no one has pointed it out yet Duane Allman played some guitar in this one.
Ok. My top ten rock and roll songs. Stairway to Heaven (Zeppelin), Layla (Eric) , HEY Jude (Beatles), the Doors Light Fire, Antoher Brick in the wall (Pink ), Baba O'Riley (Who), Blowin in the wind (Bob Dylan) Carry On (CSNY), I know what I like (Genesis) and Sunshine of your love(Cream).
Hearing this song as an 8 year old back in 1970 was pure magic. The guitars and vocals and tempo just SOARED, pulled you in and took you on a journey! Personally, I felt the unplugged version was a bummer, but, to each his own. A & A, I’m glad you did this one. I guess you are, too.
"Bell Bottom Blues" next, please! Clapton has an excellent voice, he was so deeply in love with the wife of one of his close friends that the frustration he felt came out in his performance. You can hear the desperation very clearly. There's so much in the Clapton catalog that it almost blows your mind. From Cream, Derek and the Domino's to a duo album with B.B. King called Riding with the King (excellent) plus some 24 solo albums! Get to listening guys...you got a lot of sauce to get lost in :)
Andy, you can credit that sweet piano "extended outro" melody that you love at the end to a song that Rita Coolidge wrote who didn't get a single writing credit on the song! The song was called "Time" (You can hear it on TH-cam). Clapton fans like to say it wasn't Eric's fault she didn't get credit because Jim Gordon just didn't tell Eric she was a writer. Actually that's false. Rita and Jim both submitted the song to Eric in person at the studio. And he listened to it in their presence! Clapton already knew Rita was a writer on that song long before he recorded it. Rita was the one that left a copy of the tape with him to listen to again at a later time.
Interesting how few people on this video are mentioning that. It's of major importance and yet gets skipped over by so many. Clapton has an interesting personal history, that's all I'm going to say.
Thank you for recognizing her contribution. Jim Gordon ripped off her music according to both Bobby Whitlock and Graham Nash. Karma exacted a heavy price for Gordon.
@@lizetteolsen3218 Another fun fact about Rita Coolidge. Although the previous song that Andy & Alex reacted to by the Carpenters, "Superstar" was written by Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell and Delaney Bramlett in 1969, the idea for the song actually came from Rita Coolidge.
@@aarlavaan when I first heard this song at eight years old, the opening guitar riff, with its speed and deftness, grabbed me… the slide guitar lifted me up and flung me into the air and I found myself holding on for the journey that the guitars, vocals, and tempo took me on. I can relate it to my profession of flying jets but also to the first drop in a roller coaster. The piano outro is like soaring on a thermal. It’s an adrenaline thing. It still feels that way to this day. Unfortunately, at least for me (and it could be the comparison to that feeling I get from the original and that magical feeling it provided) the unplugged version feels like coming down from drinking too much. It’s kind of a bummer to me. Music is emotion to me and the original has a hook, emotionally, that is hard to beat.
In the late '60s in London the graffiti read "Clapton is God" and, yes, he's considered one of the best guitar players ever. Check out his early work when he was part of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
No way you cannot think this is his best song. My introduction to real, good, classic artists. 5th grade. I was there oldest child so I was behind all my friends with older siblings. I was blown away.
So I guess you know by now that Duane Allman collaborated on this album, that Layla is Patti Harrison (George’s wife), that Derek and the Dominos really formed during the recording of George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” album with Bobby Whitlock and JIm Gordon appearing with Clapton on that album. There’s tons more to know about this song, album, and band. Take the dive!!
@@user-ky6vw5up9m Wow! Really? Interesting. Did not know that! Have always liked that song too. Definitely must have been something in the Boyd DNA to have inspired all these great songwriters! 😌
If you want some comparable English Blues, listen to ‘Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mack’. After Peter Green left it became a very different group, but when he was there his guitar playing was sublime. It would easily stand up against Clapton’s
I was a baby when this came out…but to show the brilliance and absolute staying power of this song..it was just as popular in the 80s and 90s when I was old enough to appreciate it. It also reminds me of the scene in good fellows of the couple killed in the caddy. Powerful scene! RIP Ray 😘🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Duane Allman died only a year after this was recorded and less than a year after its release. What he did with this song was otherworldly. I'm so glad he gave us this gift before he left. Next check out "Bell Bottom Blues" from the same album. Then, check out some of Eric Clapton's tasty solo work. I love the songs "Lay Down Sally," "Cocaine," and "Wonderful Tonight" from his album "Slowhand." His vocals are much closer to the front of the mix on these songs.
We have "Cocaine" and "Casey Jones" and probably many more. But the one singer who totally nailed what being on Cocaine must be like is Jackson Browne.
This is a mandatory requirement of any classic rock playlist. The instrumental interlude at the end was inspired by the end of Oh Well, the Peter Green era classic of Fleetwood Mac. I agree with the comments to listen to the acoustic version from his Unplugged set. Different but equally epic.
To be in your twenties, in the spring, with your friends and living in a really cool city and this song was everywhere you went was such a great gift and wonderful memory. Still brings happy tears.
Synergy: the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects. And 50 years later, it still brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it!
The legendary Pattie Boyd. Went from a teen actress on a train in A Hard Day’s Night to THE definitive Rock Star’s girl. Along the way, we found out she’s witty, talented and an artist herself. 😬
She modeled first for several years when she was asked to show up as an extra for the HDN movie. She continued to model after she & George married as well and took pictures along the way to remember what she'd been up to in life. She has a great memoir out. Worth reading to learn her side of the story with George and Eric. Definitely a survivor.
Love Clapton but Duane's my man. Also, the rest of the band is fantastic. I live in Austin, Tx and in the early twenty tens the Keyboardist, Bobby Whitlock, played every Sunday at The Saxon pub. Caught many a show. Drummer and composer of the piano outrance, Jim Gordon, played with many artists in the sixties and seventies. Unfortunately, he suffered from severe mental illness and murdered his mother in 1983. He is still in a prison psych hospital. Three years earlier, bassist Carl Radle died from substance abuse at the age of 37.
Only one of the top three iconic rock and roll guitar riffs of all time, imho. Saw him in Chicago 1985-ish. About midway through the set after a couple of minutes fumbling around on the strings trying to find some note on the guitar he suddenly tears into that riff. It was as if a powerful spring had went off under everybody's seat as the entire main floor leapt to their feet in unison. I actually have pictures of it from around the 10th row which is no big deal today but was quite an accomplishment back then since everyone was given a full body search upon entering a venue to make sure no cameras were smuggled in. That was a big deal back then. Must have hid it on the girl I was with since females weren't subjected to as strenuous a search. You gotta check out "I Shot the Sheriff" by him. A Bob Marley song that he did a pretty good job with.
For saying that Patti Boyd's contribution to "A Hard Day's Night" was to look beautiful and say "Prisoners?" She inspired some incredible masterpieces, Layla, Something, Wonderful tonight! and probably more.
Clapton is one of the GOATS of classic rock. He started in the Yardbirds, then Mayoll's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes and a ton of solo work.
‘Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs’ is one of the greatest albums ever made. I really hope you react to more songs from this album. I recommend ‘Keep on Growing’ and ‘Anyday’.
Eric Clapton, Duane Allman on tasty slide, Jim Gordon on Drums (that is another story in and of itself), Bobby Whitlock on keyboards, Carl Radle on bass. Eric heard Duane's Solo on the Wilson Picket/Duane Allman version of the Beetles "Hey Jude" and was blown away, and informed his producers that he had to meet Duane. He dropped in on an Allman Brothers show and invited Duane to perform with his band. Bobby Whitlock related that the chemistry and bond between Duane and Eric was instantaneous and very strong, they were two rock artists extraordinaire, who were drawn to and feed off the blues. "Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad" off the say Album, displays amazing guitar interplay between Duane and Eric, but you have to listen to this song on an original vinyl recording, because during the conversion from analog to digital, some of the higher and lower ranges of music have been edited out, particular when Bobby Whitlock implored Duane to do it during a ripping solo. This tune was written about Pattie Boyd, who was the George Harrison's (beetles fame) wife. Clapton was best friends with George Harrison, but fell hard for Pattie and eventually, George gave them his blessing to become romantically involved. Eric being self destructive at that time, could not maintain a healthy relationship with Pattie or anyone else for the matter. He straightened himself out some years latter and opened an addiction counseling/rehap center in the caribbean. Duane's slide and lead guitar solos on Layla tune and "Why does Love Got To be So Sad" are things legends are made of.
Duane Allman doing the heavy lifting on this. Written about Eric's infatuation with Patty Harrison, George's wife at the time. This band was mostly former members of Delaney & Bonnie, which Eric toured with. There are some great jams on this album.
One of Clapton's greatest. His MTV Unplugged, acoustic version, is also very impressive. He wrote this for Patty Boyd Harrison, George Harrison's wife. She left George for Eric. George and Eric remained lifelong friends though.
This takes me back to middle school and picking blackberries and listening to this on my little transistor radio. Tan, skinny and happy. I miss the 70s.
Every time I listen to this song I have to remember to breathe during the outro. I have listened to it at least 250 times in my 53 years and it ALWAYS gives me those same chills like I felt when I discovered this song in 1981 when I started making enough money to buy my own music. It is a classy, beautiful jam session mixed with heart felt lyrics... Thank you guys, a great pick me up at 2am on Monday morning... Insomnia SUCKS
If you ever meet someone named Layla, there’s a 98% chance it’s because of this song.
Rick Beato's daughter is named Layla, after this song
Either that or Crowley.
Unless she is of Middle-East heritage.
My brother-in-law has a yellow (platinum blonde) Labrador retriever named Layla. Her predecessors were Lacy and Lady, all yellow labs.
I've had 4 Rottweilers named Layla.
That riff may just be the best sounding thing any musician has ever created. Every time I hear it it's just like the first time
Created by the late, great Duane Allman.
I’ve listened to this song so many times in my life, but it still sounds as good as it did the first time I heard it. An absolute classic!!
isnt that weird? same thing here its fukn crazy
Without Duane Allman's slide guitar this a really good song. With Duane's slide it's a masterpiece!
I'm tone deaf and Duane Allman could have made me a great player. He could have changed so many more lives. Just ask Wilson Pickett.
Along with the ending Piano Coda...written by Rita Coolidge.
@@sdcashman45 right stolen by Jim Gordon.
Clapton was in The Yardbirds, Cream, Delaney and Bonney, Derek and the Dominoes, Blind Faith and his solo career. Such a massive catalogue
The Blues Breakers before Peter Green.
Yes, Clapton was in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers for a minute. Clapton credits Delaney Bramlett with teaching him how to sing better.
and a guest appearance with the Beatles!
And humble. Every time I go to see Eric in concert, he opens the stage up to younger guitarists, and sometimes just stands there and admires their talent. Passing the torch, I guess. But for me, he is still God!
He's a super group unto himself.
You boys missed growing up in a great generation..the 70's, when music was unbelievably awesome. If I had a time macchine I would take both of you back to the 70's and let you spend a bit of time and then return you back. I am sure you would be blown away as there were also many, many "B" side songs that were awesome that will never see the light of day again.
Scorsese used this song so brilliantly in Goodfellas, R.I.P. Ray Liotta
The last film Liotta apeared is Cocain Bear, which came recently.
RIP
Yeah it’s scene when De Niro’s character is cleaning house following the heist. Goat movie
Can't believe he's gone. 😢 RIP RAY🕊🙏✌🌻🌻
Absolutely Epic.....
@@gorgesmiffthat’s sunshine of your love by cream
Clapton, Duane Allman, and a bunch of unbelievable musicians. Layla was Patti Boyd Harrison, George Harrison's wife that Eric swiped.
He didn't swipe her. He waited several years to get her. Like, three or four years after this, during which time EC was a junkie.
Edit: I checked. He actually waited 9 years after this record.
@@thomasbell7033 she wasn't still married to George when Eric started a relationship with her?
And George was actually cool with it...
@Joan In Florida George not only cheated on Pattie, he cheated on her with the wife of one of his other close friends: Maureen Cox Starkey, Ringo's wife.
@@gregsager2062 Hada cHuGgLe and a flashback. 1977 our high school LRArMHS put on a GONG Show. A punk band for the occasion called themselves 'The Rolling SEX Beatles'.
Will forever remind me of Goodfellas which is fitting given the lead actors recent passing. Big love to the channel from the UK 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
It's the first thing I always think of too 💯
Indeed!! Love E.C. and the movie "Good fellas" and oh yeah 😘😘😘😘 Ray!!!!!!
@@klasseact6663 such an iconic scene mate
Btw my response was to Mr. Mullins 🎶💖✌️
@@barbiejohnson2813 R.I.P Ray - Good fellas is a masterpiece 👏 X
Still breaks my heart to think that the world was denied what Duane Allman could have given it with his amazing talent
Uh he did give us his slide guitar talent on this tune ..beautiful..Duane died way too young..
Ikr it’s so sad 😭
The late great Duane Allman plays slide guitar on this epic tune ..so much history behind this tune ..it's just rich with rock n roll ..oozes it my brothers..
Duane was a great guitarist learned from the best Dickie Betts , a shout out to not mentioned Andy Fairweather Lowe very underrated for his input on this classic
@@18pauljanDuane was better guitarist then Dickey , Dickey had years and years to get better and evolve but as far as being an innovator and playing with feel Duane beats betts country major sound
Duane Allman was so vital in this song. Many consider Duane one of the greats even though his body of work was cut so tragically short.
He’s top 5, if not the best ever. He was so young and playing this well.
I have a musician friend that lives in the Daytona Beach area. He has one of Duane Allman’s class course in bottles with all the documentation to prove it, he let me touch it. I got the whole that he keeps it in a microphone keys under a rock and key.😂❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Include me in. Best slide man ever. Check out Butch Trucks for Duane's reincarnation.
@@Michael-xk3sp Derek, not his uncle Butch.
That same year, 1970, all of the musicians on this song (except for Duane Allman) also played on George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, probably the best solo album by a Beatle, which I’m sure you guys would love.
Beware of Darkness is still an amazing piece of work.
"Layla (this version, not unplugged release), the album "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" and the album "All Things Must Pass" have all been given the Grammy Hall of Fame Award.
They also played in Delaney and Bonnie & Friends together.
@@michaelmurphy2234 Up there on my list of favorite all time albums is "Motel Shot". I have an affinity for acoustic music. Motel Shot has some of the greatest musicians just hanging out in hotel/motel rooms, recording the resulting jams while on the road. Country, blues, gospel, and folk, sign me up!
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British blues (Eric Clapton) meets Southern Rock (Duane Allman). This is one of the greatest songs of the rock era. They do a great southern rock influenced version of Hendrix' Little Wing. Definitely worth a reaction.
@Andy & Alex called it timeless and I couldn't agree more!
Their version of Little Wing is my favorite. No disrespect to Jimi or SRV. Derek and the Dominos is my favorite of Clapton’s many projects.
Dude... they're version of little Wing is the greatest of all.
So howz come muzic so crappy nowadays? I saw youtube said nearly all songs written by couple writers and always includes millinum "whoop" which can best be described as annoying howling.
@@Mike-ky9jz I also love Sting’s version. I used to listen to the guitar solo over and over.
Both this and 'Bell Bottom Blues' were written for Patti Harrison, George Harrison's wife. The emotion in Clapton's voice is real, even more so on 'Bell Bottom Blues'.
Mrs. Harrison must have been one amazing woman, not only did she inspire those two songs but George Harrison's 'Something' was written for her too.
And Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight”
Didn't know about "Bell Bottom Blues" but Clapton also wrote "Wonderful Tonight" about Patti. An inspiring lady.
The whole album was a cry to Patti Harrison ...
I think I read somewhere that “Old Love” was about Patti, too.
And the Beatles' "It's All Too Much."
I remember when this song first came out. Gotta be one of the best songs ever. Just to let you know, I always follow your videos all the time. I'm 64 years old and really enjoy your reactions to the music I grew up with.
i'm 65 and feel the same way...they make me laugh a lot.
And no interruptions. It's sacrilege to stop these songs. 🤣🤣✌🌻🌻 64 here.
I'm 62 and I must say, I get real enjoyment, from listening to young people, listen to the music, I grew up, listening to. I was 11, or 12 years old, when it came out.
Me too
I feel you. I just turned 66, and enjoy the way these guys express the things they hear in the music.
This is my forever favorite version of Layla. You can hear the guitar crying over unrequited love.
Perfectly stated, thank you.
Definitely
Brilliant defination
Thank you Duane Allman for the crying guitar
I am so glad you said that! I have thought that or that the guitarist is pleading with Layla through it. Just wonderful.
Rock doesn’t get any more classic than this! One of those songs that I absolutely need to crank up whenever it’s on! Love it! ✌️❤️
Try Clapton and Steve Winwood's live version of Can't Find My Way Home. It's epic.
Now that you mention it, has Steve Winwood been covered here?
I was lucky to see Blind Faith in '69. Great Concert!!
The Bonnie Raitt- Lowell George version is damn good too
Awesome song !!
I'm telling ya that being in my early 20s when this song came out, that the early 70's was of the best times for great music and this one one of them if not in the top 5 IMHO.
Absolutely 100% agree, nothing like it since, oh to be back there again.....
John Dalley - I turned 25 the year this came out, and it still 'grabs' me at almost 77! We had it all man. You know it has to be good for guys the age of Alex and Andy to be listening to and rating it.
The great time for music was the early 70's. Anyone saying otherwise knows little about life itself. Music pulled us all together back then.
I recorded in the studio where Layla was recorded - I have a picture of myself seated right next to the piano used in this song and one of my friends was a studio engineer on that album and song and I will always envy him for being part of the magic as it was happening. This is, to this day, one of my all-time-favorite songs.
That's so cool.
WOWZER 😍
What a great memory to have ! What a great time in music history. What a great story to claim!👍💥💫
I lived in Macon Ga. Was in Capricorn when Duane was working the slide parts out. It's amazing what he could do with that old excedrin bottle.
Muscle Shoals Sound Studios
The early 1970s was the best, most ecelctic era in rock music. So many all-time classic songs come from this time period.
The DEREK & THE DONIMOS is one of the greatest albums ever recorded. BELL BOTTOM BLUES, HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN,
WAY DOES LOVE HAVE TO BE SO SAD, just on and on. The best version of Hendrix's LITTLE WING too. Play more....it's epic in every way.
I looked away is another low key banger...the whole double album is pretty epic
Let it Rain as well.
@@antarcticorb9197 that was off his solo album but around the very same period...
Bell Bottom Blues needs a listen as does It's In The Way That You Use It.
I've come to the point in my life when I actually prefer Bell Bottom Blues to Layla. Can't really explain why. Just do.
One of the most iconic guitar intros and the first thing Alex says “those drums are so good” 😂 😂
I caught that too. 🤣🤣🎸🎸🎸🎸
Lol
Jim Gordon, excellent!
I mean the drums ARE really good...
Yes. These guys listen to a lot of music but they don't hear a lot of it.
One of the greatest songs of all time (IMO). You should definitely do some more Clapton. Cocaine, Tears in Heaven, Pretending, Wonderful Tonight, etc. Keep up the great work guys!!
Also After Midnight
And White Room
@@suehollar2578 White Room is clear Jack Bruce, how and all Cream
Or anything from John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers introducing Eric Clapton.
Check out Bell Bottom Blues, After Midnight, Let It Rain, and Let it Grow
That whole instrumental last half of the song was played at my uncle's funeral many years ago. It was ethereal hearing that coming from speakers all around the room and watching all of his military buddies (they were Vietnam vets) standing together in a circle around his casket. It was sad but beautiful.
I'd have to been carried out...Bless him for his service!
This sounds so great to do!! God Bless him and my condolences to you.
@@quinny6920 Hey there! Fancy see you here!
Great story...Thanks for sharing it.
If I could only have three albums to listen to the rest of my life this would be one of them. You were born 30 years too late to experience the best musical period in history.
One of the most beautiful albums ever. Eric Clapton has tons of brilliant solo stuff too. Let it Rain is a good one to listen to. 😊
That initial riff is so clean and crisp. It’s legendary.
Initial riff was created by Duane Allman who also does all the slide work.
@@tedschmidt3288 what’s your point? The song should have been credited to Duane?? It was published under the name of the band and Eric Clapton is lead singer and guitarist. Stop being such a petty person.
@@lisal6121 There was nothing petty there. Just a bit of interesting background about the song. Easy to not know this when somebody as famous as Clapton is associated with the song.
@@lisal6121 Simply that he created it. Thought you would like to know if you didn't know.
@@lisal6121 pretty harsh reaction to someone pointing out a fact.
Can’t go wrong with Clapton and Duane Allman on guitar.
If you listen to Layla from Clapton's Unplugged album, you'll hear an amazing reworking of the song. The album and the song won Grammy awards. It's a great compare and contrast with both versions being powerful.
Totally agree!!!
It’s nice but lacks the greatest out-tro in rock
history. Rip mr Allman.
I cant stand that version. It's just a lazy sound. This song wasnt written to be laid back and quiet. It was meant to be heart wrenchingly powerful,carrying all Eric's pain through to the end.
@@xScooterAZx damn straight!
I hate that version, and every time they play it instead of this one I am bummed.
The album "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" is one of the landmarks of rock and roll - one of the top albums ever recorded. The album does contain love songs, but they're all songs about tortured love; love that is tearing someone apart. It is full of the best blues-rock ever recorded by an outstanding band.
This comment is proof that, no matter what album or song we’re listening to, there will always be some boomer in the comments who thinks it’s the best music of all time.
Layla is fine, it’s not among the greatest songs ever
@@jacksonfitzsimmons4253 That's fair. I don't think its even the greatest song on that album. LOL
@@jacksonfitzsimmons4253 hey don't we have a right to a opinion or the 21 century only the left has the right to a opinion .i like the album but CREAM OR BLIND FAITH have song's just as good . I am not going into DUANE ALLMAN good night my friend ROCK ON
This is the record that made me fall in love with the blues. 13 years old listening to my sisters records in the basement. Later that summer I went to my first rock concert... Derek and the Dominos and Santana.
@@jacksonfitzsimmons4253 incorrect.
Some credit needs to go to the inspiration of this song -- Pattie Boyd. Especially since she was also the inspiration behind Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" as well as one of the best love songs ever -- "Something" by the Beatles (George Harrison).
She's like a modern day musical Helen of Troy. The face that inspired a thousand songs. :)
I believe she was also the inspiration for "Creams" song "Badge". Must have been a very remarkable lady.
The song about stealing another guy's woman 🤣
@@clbdyc Strangely enough, women aren't possessions.
she probably holds the record for most songs inspired by same person. at least for someone not really famous ;)
Key to the highway, from this album is guitar magic. Clapton and Duane Allman maxing each other out.
HA! We both recommended Key to the Highway and we are both named Sonny, And I made my post before I saw this one so truly a coincidence :)
@@sonnymaupin9267 , in a somewhat related coincidence, I've been married 28 years to a Laila. Close...
A straight ahead jam. Eric and the band were taking a break and Sam the Sham and the Pharaoh's were in another room jamming to Key to the Highway an old blues song. When the Dominoes got back to their studio room they started jamming it too and the engineer was smart enough to start rolling tape. that's why the begging fades in.
I heard Layla for the first time in college with friends as we drove out for our weekly cheeseburger and beer night. I fell in love with the song and it was played at my 21st party - best birthday song ever! And, at 73, I continue to play it on my trip around the Sun celebration. 👍🎉❤️
You don't play this well without endless hours of practise, rehearsal and performing. Then applied to a great song. This is top notch, top tier performance. Musicians nowadays don't even think this way let alone put out a performance like this. It was a golden age. A golden age happens when genius is commonplace. But it all starts with a good song.
I'm happy you said you got lost in the sauce. I still do after all these years of hearing Layla. S tier all the way. That piano is EVERYTHING to me. Thanks for reacting to this one!
Bobby Whitlock wrote that. He continued playing while others joined in.
@@aquatarkus2022 It was a genius move on his part then. The piano solo IMHO helped take the song into another amazing direction. Lost in the sauce indeed!
@@Cheryl_Haydon That part of the song takes me into another dimension! It sets up a kind of meditative state of mind in spite of it sounding kind of raw and ragged. I am grateful to have been alive and remember when this was 'new'. music.
@@aquatarkus2022 I think it was the drummer Jim Gordon who's old lady at the time we Rita Coolidge who may have had a hand in it also
Duane Allman’s incredible slide guitar takes this song from really good to amazingly great!
My favorite song on this album is “Any Day” Duane Allman rips it up on slide. Bobby Whitlock’s counter singing is epic.
Duane Allman was a gift from God
"You got me on my knees, beggin' darling please". That cry of pain coming from the deepest part of Clapton's soul, a man just spilling his messed up life out on stage for all to see with Duane Allman's slide guitar shining light on the scene. S-tier all the way. Allman Bros "Whippin' Post" is one of the few songs that I think matches that intensity of feeling. And if you want the perfect trifecta, follow up those 2 songs with Boz Skaggs "Loan Me a Dime", lead guitar also courtesy of Duane.
👍
Didn't he steal that girl for George Harrison. She was George's wife. I don't feel the least bit bad for Clapton. He got what he deserved. Good song, tho...
@@tristramcoffin926 George was cheating on Patti. Eric was in love with Patti. Eric and George were best friends.
This is the stuff the blues are made of.
BTW, I'm descended from T.C.
Thanks for mentioning “Loan Me A Dime”. What a classic sorry it never gets a mention
Agree! Whippping Post.
The whole album rocked my 13 year old world when it came out. I still have my original dog-eared copy. Masterpiece.
I know tte feeling. It was such a hugebalbum.
I was 12. Right there with you man!
Greatness song ever. Summer of ‘72. I cry every time I hear it. So beautiful.
S tier if anything is. The guitar wails, the cracking voice, the tortured start and the comforting outro, and the brilliant half-step down into the chorus and up into the verse.... And that classic unforgettable riff!
"I can’t stand it" is by him alone and as good. Worth a 🎧
Clapton has so many sounds, rock, blues, country, he is probably the most diverse Rocker over 6+ decades 🤯 and also a great singer🎤🎸🤘not to mention every band he was in deserves to be in the Rock and roll Hall of Fame 😎
You forget his reggae outings like "I Shot the Sheriff" :-) But yeah, ain't no genre he can't do.
err Jeff Beck has had a much more varied career and is a far more interesting guitar player who has evolved his playing over the years, Eric Clapton's playing today is identical to the how he played on the Beano album.
I love Clapton but for me, when I want to hear his stuff it is primarily from the 1960s through this song and album. He just seemed to lose some fire after his heroin addiction in the early 70s and his switch from primarily Gibson to Fender guitars when he came back. He was often in a more diverse and mellow mood afterward though still a great in every decade. Back in the day his only rival for a bit was Hendrix. Those were the days...
@@vicprovost2561 A contemporaneous observer in the music press in 66-67 said something to the effect that Beck was better than Clapton and Hendrix was better than them both. I really recommend the recent JHS take on Clapton and Hendrix th-cam.com/video/eqOyJbCxyp0/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/VjZZHYviWVQ/w-d-xo.html
@@johnthursfield3056 Cool, my all time top 5 is Hendrix at 1 and you pick the order of the rest: David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck.
This song will go down in history with The 1812 Overture etc...Written from the gut you can feel the emotion. I still get goosebumps listening to Duane and Erics guitars weave in and out of each other. Best song of my generation.
Don't forget Bobby Witlocks keyboard work.
One of the best guitar riffs of all time. Which also made Eric Clapton one of the best guitarists of all time!
I was waiting, waiting and waiting towards the end for your rating. If you guys hadn't given this an "S" you would've been damned to eternal Rock Purgatory!
So strange hearing you saying,
"I've heard of him here and there."
Hahahaha!
Thank goodness now you know who Eric Clapton is. ♡
“Derek” = Duane + Eric. The whole album is full of desperate, ferocious love.
I never knew that! Damn
@@blowholeproductions1265 because there is no truth to that
They were already in the studio when Duane came to visit and ended up hanging out for a while.
Apparently, the band was going to be call "The Dynamics" but, at a concert where Ashton, Gardner & Dyke was performing before them, Tony Ashton, who used to call Clapton "Derek", introduced them as "Derek and the Dominoes", mispronoucing "Dynamics"
I was a high school freshman when this was released. Definitely a major element in the soundtrack of my youth. Still an epic song (and a treat to hear) over 50 years later.
Now you know why Eric Clapton is on the top of most peoples list of all-time great rock guitar players. He is amazing. For those of us in our 60s and 70s; we have had the privilege and pleasure of hearing this for 3 decades.
This album is one of THE classic 70s jam albums. Recorded live and pretty raw for the most part. Derek and the Dominoes were formed when Clapton joined a previously existing band called Delaney & Bonnie. He didn't use his own name for the band because he was sick and tired of the "God" stuff and just wanted to go back to basics and jam. Duane Allman plays slide on a bunch of the tracks as well. "Key To The Highway" is a must-listen!
Actually he was a sideman with delany and bonnie. He used their rhythm section for the layla album.
Didn't Delaney & Bonnie record "Afternoon Delight"?
@@kens32052 no that was starland vocal band. You might be thinking of never ending song of love that has a little bit of the same feel to it.
Key To The Highway is a great Eric and Duane song.
I am so relieved you gave this an S this is such an iconic song. Probably my #1 rock song of all time. I must say I cringe when you rank my all time favorites. I 💕
When you honor them
Yes the ranking has to stop it’s inane.
This is a song you can't take in on first listen. It still feels good and relevant 40 years after the first time I heard it. That whole album in the pinnacle of what musicians with instruments and amps can do. I love the way Clapton strums in that little chord after the piano intro before Duane starts in on that slide section
I've heard this song maybe a million times, it NEVER gets old!
Great opening choice for Eric reaction."I looked Away" and "Bell bottom Blues " are a couple other selections from this album you would surely enjoy.If no one has pointed it out yet Duane Allman played some guitar in this one.
Duane played the the high, ethereal slide.
Absolute “S” tier. In the ‘70s it was rated the #2 best rock song ever by a NYC rock station. Only “Stairway to Heaven” rated higher.
undisputable, the best two rock songs. Hey Jude comes third
@@AlexSilva-zu3te It’s a long time ago, but I seem to recall Hey, Jude in the top 5.
Stairway
Layla
Hey Jude
Satisfaction
Baba O'Reilly
Year after year lol
NYC rock station? Which one, WNEW or WPLJ?
Ok. My top ten rock and roll songs. Stairway to Heaven (Zeppelin), Layla (Eric) , HEY Jude (Beatles), the Doors Light Fire, Antoher Brick in the wall (Pink ), Baba O'Riley (Who), Blowin in the wind (Bob Dylan) Carry On (CSNY), I know what I like (Genesis) and Sunshine of your love(Cream).
Hearing this song as an 8 year old back in 1970 was pure magic. The guitars and vocals and tempo just SOARED, pulled you in and took you on a journey! Personally, I felt the unplugged version was a bummer, but, to each his own. A & A, I’m glad you did this one. I guess you are, too.
Agreed. Same age, here. So many rave about his unplugged version, but to me it's kinda "meh".
You did Layla, my favorite song. Duane Allman did the slide. The song is powerful, really two songs.
That guitar riff is incredible & it is just rammed down your throat to endless perfection.
Some of Duane Allman’s best slide guitar work. Iconic song.
"Bell Bottom Blues" next, please! Clapton has an excellent voice, he was so deeply in love with the wife of one of his close friends that the frustration he felt came out in his performance. You can hear the desperation very clearly. There's so much in the Clapton catalog that it almost blows your mind. From Cream, Derek and the Domino's to a duo album with B.B. King called Riding with the King (excellent) plus some 24 solo albums! Get to listening guys...you got a lot of sauce to get lost in :)
I know it's not the original, but the live "24 Nights" version is perfect.✌️
Cream not Crème!
@@joelliebler5690 Sorry, typo a little ADD here. But the message is still the f-n same. I have no clue why I spelled it that way, but I fixed it!
'Riding With The King" is my go to when driving my convertible. Not sure why, but the vibe is there! ✌💙😎
good luck begging haha.
Andy, you can credit that sweet piano "extended outro" melody that you love at the end to a song that Rita Coolidge wrote who didn't get a single writing credit on the song! The song was called "Time" (You can hear it on TH-cam). Clapton fans like to say it wasn't Eric's fault she didn't get credit because Jim Gordon just didn't tell Eric she was a writer. Actually that's false. Rita and Jim both submitted the song to Eric in person at the studio. And he listened to it in their presence! Clapton already knew Rita was a writer on that song long before he recorded it. Rita was the one that left a copy of the tape with him to listen to again at a later time.
Interesting how few people on this video are mentioning that. It's of major importance and yet gets skipped over by so many. Clapton has an interesting personal history, that's all I'm going to say.
@@davidschecter5247 you can say that again lol
Thank you for recognizing her contribution. Jim Gordon ripped off her music according to both Bobby Whitlock and Graham Nash. Karma exacted a heavy price for Gordon.
That would be convicted murderer Jim Gordon, serving life for murdering his mother in 1983.
@@lizetteolsen3218 Another fun fact about Rita Coolidge. Although the previous song that Andy & Alex reacted to by the Carpenters, "Superstar" was written by Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell and Delaney Bramlett in 1969, the idea for the song actually came from Rita Coolidge.
You absolutely must see/hear the unplugged version of this. ❤️
Easily my favorite version.
Yes!
Respectfully disagree.
@@dlenajohnson9015 how come?
@@aarlavaan when I first heard this song at eight years old, the opening guitar riff, with its speed and deftness, grabbed me… the slide guitar lifted me up and flung me into the air and I found myself holding on for the journey that the guitars, vocals, and tempo took me on. I can relate it to my profession of flying jets but also to the first drop in a roller coaster. The piano outro is like soaring on a thermal. It’s an adrenaline thing. It still feels that way to this day. Unfortunately, at least for me (and it could be the comparison to that feeling I get from the original and that magical feeling it provided) the unplugged version feels like coming down from drinking too much. It’s kind of a bummer to me. Music is emotion to me and the original has a hook, emotionally, that is hard to beat.
In the late '60s in London the graffiti read "Clapton is God" and, yes, he's considered one of the best guitar players ever. Check out his early work when he was part of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
@Joan In Florida one should never forget peter green. as an english blues player, he was even better than clapton
No way you cannot think this is his best song. My introduction to real, good, classic artists. 5th grade. I was there oldest child so I was behind all my friends with older siblings. I was blown away.
So I guess you know by now that Duane Allman collaborated on this album, that Layla is Patti Harrison (George’s wife), that Derek and the Dominos really formed during the recording of George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” album with Bobby Whitlock and JIm Gordon appearing with Clapton on that album. There’s tons more to know about this song, album, and band. Take the dive!!
Patti Boyd-a Muse, if there ever was one…
@@margaretanscombe730 her sister Jennifer , was not left out either. Donovan had a hit with Jennifer Juniper written about her.
@@user-ky6vw5up9m Wow! Really? Interesting. Did not know that! Have always liked that song too. Definitely must have been something in the Boyd DNA to have inspired all these great songwriters! 😌
@@margaretanscombe730
So was Patti D’Arbanville
Wonderful Tonight is supposed to have been inspired by Patti
I think it is unclear if George had anyone in mind when he wrote Something.
Should also do the unplugged version of this. So amazing!
Yes! Accoustic, slower and equally good!
Yes, but there's still someone magical about this version.
@@emilyflotilla931 totally agree. I think both versions are awesome.
If you want some comparable English Blues, listen to ‘Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mack’.
After Peter Green left it became a very different group, but when he was there his guitar playing was sublime. It would easily stand up against Clapton’s
John Mayall thought so, Green was Clapton's replacement in the Bluesbreakers.
"Albatross" by Fleetwood Mac - mmmmmm
I agree. Peter Green is the best for me. I got to see him live in his Splinter Group in the 90's. He had a troubled life and died in 2020.
Check out Supernatural on The Hard Road
"Black Magic Woman" is another great Fleetwood Mac track. Santana's version is a cover of Fleetwood Mac's!
Eric Clapton is a very deep rabbit hole. You haven't even scratched the surface.
“He’s dynamic“, to quote Andy. Please do the unplugged version to see just how true that is!
Yes, do unplugged version as well. It's such a treat!!
@@scottwoodworth6082 Neil Young's unplugged stuff is amazing.
I was a baby when this came out…but to show the brilliance and absolute staying power of this song..it was just as popular in the 80s and 90s when I was old enough to appreciate it. It also reminds me of the scene in good fellows of the couple killed in the caddy. Powerful scene!
RIP Ray 😘🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Duane Allman died only a year after this was recorded and less than a year after its release. What he did with this song was otherworldly. I'm so glad he gave us this gift before he left. Next check out "Bell Bottom Blues" from the same album. Then, check out some of Eric Clapton's tasty solo work. I love the songs "Lay Down Sally," "Cocaine," and "Wonderful Tonight" from his album "Slowhand." His vocals are much closer to the front of the mix on these songs.
Have a beautiful day Allison!
You, too, @@Shadowrider1872!!!
Also, "Promises"
@@johnhughes3214 love that one, too!
We have "Cocaine" and "Casey Jones" and probably many more. But the one singer who totally nailed what being on Cocaine must be like is Jackson Browne.
Next Derek and The Dominos song needs to be Bell Bottom Blues 🙏🤘
One of the greatest riffs of all time.
Classic and a million little girls named Layla from the '70s. Can't believe this takes me bavk 50+ years. That guitar!!!!
This is a mandatory requirement of any classic rock playlist. The instrumental interlude at the end was inspired by the end of Oh Well, the Peter Green era classic of Fleetwood Mac. I agree with the comments to listen to the acoustic version from his Unplugged set. Different but equally epic.
The unplugged version is stupendous!! Epitome of cool.
Since Duane Allman was on this, please get to the brilliant Boz Scaggs and Duane Allman early collaboration, "Loan Me a Dime."
Clapton's pain filled vocals and Duane Allman's guitar make it an S for sure.
To be in your twenties, in the spring, with your friends and living in a really cool city and this song was everywhere you went was such a great gift and wonderful memory. Still brings happy tears.
Or in your teens in a small Kansas town!!!!!
Synergy: the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.
And 50 years later, it still brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it!
Clapton, “If I Could Change The World”. Amazing lyrics and vocals.
Wynonna Judd did that song first though.
The legendary Pattie Boyd. Went from a teen actress on a train in A Hard Day’s Night to THE definitive Rock Star’s girl. Along the way, we found out she’s witty, talented and an artist herself. 😬
Although at the end of their relationship, he wrote "Promises" about her as well: "I don't like you and you don't like me."
She modeled first for several years when she was asked to show up as an extra for the HDN movie. She continued to model after she & George married as well and took pictures along the way to remember what she'd been up to in life. She has a great memoir out. Worth reading to learn her side of the story with George and Eric. Definitely a survivor.
Duane Allman on slide guitar ✌️
The moment the music began my entire body got chills! It was like being back to that time again!
Check out "Bell Bottom Blues", from the same album as this. It's a great song. I love Clapton's voice as much as I like his guitar playage.
Duane the legend. A perfect composition. That piano outro could be an hour long and still too short…❤️
Now that's R&R. Unrepeatable.
Love Clapton but Duane's my man. Also, the rest of the band is fantastic. I live in Austin, Tx and in the early twenty tens the Keyboardist, Bobby Whitlock, played every Sunday at The Saxon pub. Caught many a show. Drummer and composer of the piano outrance, Jim Gordon, played with many artists in the sixties and seventies. Unfortunately, he suffered from severe mental illness and murdered his mother in 1983. He is still in a prison psych hospital. Three years earlier, bassist Carl Radle died from substance abuse at the age of 37.
Only one of the top three iconic rock and roll guitar riffs of all time, imho. Saw him in Chicago 1985-ish. About midway through the set after a couple of minutes fumbling around on the strings trying to find some note on the guitar he suddenly tears into that riff. It was as if a powerful spring had went off under everybody's seat as the entire main floor leapt to their feet in unison. I actually have pictures of it from around the 10th row which is no big deal today but was quite an accomplishment back then since everyone was given a full body search upon entering a venue to make sure no cameras were smuggled in. That was a big deal back then. Must have hid it on the girl I was with since females weren't subjected to as strenuous a search.
You gotta check out "I Shot the Sheriff" by him. A Bob Marley song that he did a pretty good job with.
For saying that Patti Boyd's contribution to "A Hard Day's Night" was to look beautiful and say "Prisoners?" She inspired some incredible masterpieces, Layla, Something, Wonderful tonight! and probably more.
Clapton is one of the GOATS of classic rock. He started in the Yardbirds, then Mayoll's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes and a ton of solo work.
This song was powerful when used in Goodfelllas, A&A!
A little long and drawn out here! \|/
The long and drawn out part is my favorite.
‘Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs’ is one of the greatest albums ever made. I really hope you react to more songs from this album. I recommend ‘Keep on Growing’ and ‘Anyday’.
One of the greatest masterpieces ever created.
Eric Clapton, Duane Allman on tasty slide, Jim Gordon on Drums (that is another story in and of itself), Bobby Whitlock on keyboards, Carl Radle on bass. Eric heard Duane's Solo on the Wilson Picket/Duane Allman version of the Beetles "Hey Jude" and was blown away, and informed his producers that he had to meet Duane. He dropped in on an Allman Brothers show and invited Duane to perform with his band. Bobby Whitlock related that the chemistry and bond between Duane and Eric was instantaneous and very strong, they were two rock artists extraordinaire, who were drawn to and feed off the blues. "Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad" off the say Album, displays amazing guitar interplay between Duane and Eric, but you have to listen to this song on an original vinyl recording, because during the conversion from analog to digital, some of the higher and lower ranges of music have been edited out, particular when Bobby Whitlock implored Duane to do it during a ripping solo. This tune was written about Pattie Boyd, who was the George Harrison's (beetles fame) wife. Clapton was best friends with George Harrison, but fell hard for Pattie and eventually, George gave them his blessing to become romantically involved. Eric being self destructive at that time, could not maintain a healthy relationship with Pattie or anyone else for the matter. He straightened himself out some years latter and opened an addiction counseling/rehap center in the caribbean. Duane's slide and lead guitar solos on Layla tune and "Why does Love Got To be So Sad" are things legends are made of.
Duane Allman doing the heavy lifting on this. Written about Eric's infatuation with Patty Harrison, George's wife at the time. This band was mostly former members of Delaney & Bonnie, which Eric toured with. There are some great jams on this album.
Have to disagree. His slide solo is definitely instrumental to the entire song, but the initial riff is killer.
One of Clapton's greatest. His MTV Unplugged, acoustic version, is also very impressive. He wrote this for Patty Boyd Harrison, George Harrison's wife. She left George for Eric. George and Eric remained lifelong friends though.
This takes me back to middle school and picking blackberries and listening to this on my little transistor radio. Tan, skinny and happy. I miss the 70s.
Eric Clapton has been inducted into the "Rock& Roll "Hall of Fame 3 times 1) Yardbirds 2)Cream 3) By Himself.
When this song first came out I listened to it over and over. This boys, is the real deal. Its on a higher level of some kind.
Every time I listen to this song I have to remember to breathe during the outro. I have listened to it at least 250 times in my 53 years and it ALWAYS gives me those same chills like I felt when I discovered this song in 1981 when I started making enough money to buy my own music. It is a classy, beautiful jam session mixed with heart felt lyrics...
Thank you guys, a great pick me up at 2am on Monday morning... Insomnia SUCKS
Yes, it sucks. Thank goodness we have great music to help us through!