I did a number of sessions where both Jim’s were on the session and I sat between them. Pure heaven. Jim Gordon would hunker the groove down and Jim Keltner would create textures. They complimented each other so beautifully!
Lee, I just finished Joel Selvins book Drums and Demons. I assumed as much session work you did, and your influence during the incredible years 67-73 that you spent time with Jin Gordon. His story is truly a monumental tragedy. I hope someday a documentary or movie is done so more people could know his story. By the way, you help me during to Covid lockdowns with you home videos.
Delaney & Bonnie and Friends circa 1969-1970 was one of the best bands I ever heard live. Everybody in that band was great, right down to the back-up singer, Rita Coolidge.
Bobby, I saw you in the Dominos on November 26, 1970 (Thanksgiving Day) at Music Hall in Cincinnati and I’m still not over how great the concert was. Thank you for these videos.
Bobby's screams on the live version of Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad sound like a southern preacher trying to exorcise and send the devil back to hell! So much raw emotion and power, brings me goosebumps every time!
I'm so happy to find this channel. Bobby Whitlock us one my all time favourites but I had no idea he was such a wealth of grwat stories. Completely charming and utterly engrossing.
As a drummer/musician I have always wondered if it was Jim Gordon's idea to "invert" the snare/kick beat on the verses of "Bell Bottom Blues" or if it was someone else's idea? It's simple and subtle genius regardless.
I'm watching Bobby and Coco doing these and he's just hysterical. It just puts s smile on my face. Macon we had some great times back in back in the day....Bobby you look great, you've got great Gene's man! Wild Bill.
@Thomas Bell I loved that Mad Dogs & Englishmen band with Joe Cocker which, of course, featured both Jims playing drums at the same time. Saw the movie back when it came out in the early 70's and loved the album from that tour. I still listen to it sometimes. I have the 6-CD box set documenting their whole 3-night stand at the Fillmore East too, from which the original album is taken..
Agreed. Don't forget Derek and the dominos, Traffic. Jim Gordon wrote the piano outro for "Layla". I'm curious. When talking about Jim Gordon's decline, I didn't read the word schizophrenia once. Am I off base here?
@@chrismessenger9104 Actually Gordon didn't write the piano outro. Rita Coolidge did. Jim and Rita were a couple for awhile, and he heard her as she was working that part out. He later passed it off to Clapton as his own. Bobby Whitlock was the 1st I heard tell how that piano part came about. Wish Bobby would see this and tell that story because he was around the two of them while Rita was working on it. Plus he told that story a lot more interesting than I just did.
Love this series. Lost touch for awhile, but back before and during the pandemic I spent a lot of time listening to Bobby n Coco. She has a way of pushing his buttons (in a good way), and you can see his face light up with yet another memory... Still so passionate about the music...I can listen to him for hours. 😻 😎✌
I love the background stories! I've been a big Keltner fan for quite a while, I love his work with John Hiatt, Nick Lowe and Ry Cooder in the Little Village band. His Polyrythyms really stand out!
These talks are just phenomenal! Thank You soooooooooooo much you two. This is the music, I grew up with and it still moves me, till this day. That Grooooooooooooooove!
Both are Great drummers. Each with their own feel, approach, tone, & individuality. The 1st time I heard Jim Keltner's drumming was when I first heard Leon Russell's version of Dylan's Hard Rains Gonna Fall...Keltner's drumming is like a metronome, right on the money ! AWESOME.
Bob, I have been a huge fan of your playing/vocals ever since I first heard Layla but I am listening to the Live With Eric album for the first time ever and Gimme Some Lovin'. Nothing against Steve Winwood, but that version smokes all others imo. (Your vocals, along with Terry Kath's, are some of the most soulful I have ever heard.) These segments are total platinum. I love listening to the stories and am blown away by the musical history you have been an integral part of. I am using these videos (and the associated music) as some of the musical education I am giving my 19 year old daughter!
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I saw DB and friends at the Amphitheater in Chicago, August of 69….I’m thinking the two drummers were Gordon and Keltner. What a ridiculously solid powerhouse! They were on before Blind Faith.
@@ronhoffman7941 He and his wife and their band cut it live in concert. It was actually a surprise to the audience cause it wasn't announced beforehand. They did a great job. Of course Derek sounds a lot like Duane but the rest of their band is great as well. Also had Doyle Bramhall and Trey Anastasio sitting in. Some of the songs had a bit more jamming but it's a terrific album.
The last time I saw Jim Gordon was at Western-United ( which became OceanWay) doing the drums on a Johnny Rivers recording of “Hang On Sloopy” about late 1973.... Don Johnson’s a really nice cat! I met him through Dickey. 30 years ago!!
Thanks so much for the commentary on Jim. That's not the first time he's been called a freight train. I like to think of him as a locomotive with great feel. He really combined power and finesse like no other. Oh - and by the way - was Bobby talking about the California Dreamin' song, recorded by The Mamas and the Papas? I think that was Hal Blaine that played drums on that one, or so I've read. Also - I think Radle and Gordon were one of the best rhythm sections ever, period.
This whole series is like having a cup of coffee with old friends. Bobby's laugh is infectious, and your interviewing chops are first rate. I have a short story for Bob and Coco. In the winter of 2015 (if I recall correctly) my wife and I spent a week in Austin to see her niece, and I - an old best friend. The weather was cold and rainy, we probably dragged it down from Chicago. I caught up with my old friend and we were having a bite to eat on a raw and rainy late afternoon. We wanted to see some music and had a hard time finding anything that rang our bell. Flipping through the local entertainment publication (can't remember the name of it), I saw "Bobby Whitlock & Coco Carmel at the Saxon Pub"....my eyes widened and I had a lump in my throat. My buddy looked me - scared for moment - and I showed him the print, and he looked at me and said...(I'm so used to this) "who are they?". I told him about Bobby's history, what little I knew of your history; and the excitement grew as I ended and said, "I have to see them". He said The Saxon was next door to his guitar shop. We walked into the Saxon, the cover was what our band charged and I couldn't believe that I was going to see you two for 10 bucks or so...didn't even pay attention to it....there was hardly anyone in the place, and they were talking to you and Bob like they were neighbors,friends or family. I think your mailman was there in our small and devoted crowd. Listening to Bobby tell his stories through the evening and your musicianship Coco, I was nearly in a state of tears; I'm never inclined to cry, but grew up learning to play the drums by copying Jim Gordon with Bobby, EC, and Carl Dean...it took me right back to the release that that particular album gave me. When the show was over I had a chance to tell Bobby (always one of my musical icons...the passion, the soul, the effortlessness with which he works...) what it meant to see him that night and what D and The Dees did for an 11 year-old kid from South of Chicago; lifting me above an alcoholic father and some tough times growing up. You both are a gift, from your ego-free connection to us all and the vast amount of soul you put back into our lives. This mid-August I am having a "Last Waltz" on our outdoor patio (my bandmates call it "The Sanctuary")..we will don't do very many covers, but Tell The Truth and Keep On Growing will be in the setlists. I am leaving the US to retire in Europe...at 62 I am tired of the US and the only thing that keeps me going is music. Maybe I'll find some players in my new home country. Keep on playing and elevating us with with your passion,music , and art. Niel
Accept No Substitute is a unique album. Keltner on When the Battle is Over is so tasty it'll melt your mind. Jerry McGee plays masterful guitar throughout. Still my favorite Delaney and Bonnie album!
I’m drawn to Bobby’s nature, and see why, I loved his ability from the moment. Ya see, I was simply following Eric and company, and as a Del.and Bonnie fan I simply knew there was a kibbutz, in it . Thank you, again and again, it’s meaning full.🙏🏾
Pardon my ramblings, but my heart is touched by seeing all this Renée and Bobby are Facebook friends, but I'm away till the elections (bbc) study) I saw Jim Gordon in front of a Studio in '72 on way back from Silverlake to the Valley deep on Sunset (Roger Dollarhide's studio) So I parked and walked over to Jim, whose trap case said 'Dekek & the Dominos set no 2' The blonde Camcos? The 10 inch concert tom was the extra fizz that he brought.. Diamonds and Rust is very subtle, but with great effort, I found the live album on TH-cam, w Larry Carlton etc.(sorry I'll edit more names later) Knectal on Piano? On 'Rikki' he had the blue sparkle 10 inch concert tom, then Ringo's tom-toms..(I had to spell that out, lol) With his sliding stick on the snare style (making a circle on da head between beats) What's not to love? Jim came up behind me, at da drinking fountain, 'was that You playing my drums?' exact copy, Yes Jim, he was always nice to Me..as when I drove up at the studio 2 years before.. This was '74.. I called him from the union book originally..the 3rd time I called, after He took me to a session, (💚☺️) his Mother answered and said, 'Jim's on your with Joni Baez' No doubt! Sundown up in Toronto w Gordon(hah) Lightfoot was next..Alohas UK guys and Bobby! I'm goodman on Facebook.. Renée and Louise and Atticus are Mutuals.. Alohaa You All People..(from lonely kona mountain) Alohoho
I'm loving these interviews. I check in every morning and listen to at least one. I was so excited to Bobby's name. I had the pleasure for about 2 days to hang a little with Eric Clapton and I did ask Eric about if he ever saw Bobby any more this was in 1985 and he said you would show up in his driveway which I'm not sure what that exactly meant. Anyway I'm so glad to see Bobby looking so great still singing great and I'm so glad he found CoCo she is as beautiful as she is smart. She's an old soul. I'm so glad you two found love together. By the way my name is Vito Lafata I'm a guitarist originally from Detroit Michigan. I met Eric when we were both written about in the July 1985 issue of guitar player magazine. God bless you two. I hope your love lasts forever.
Bobby does tell the story about visiting Eric quite a bit right after the Dominoes split. He was kind of stuck without anything to do, and Eric was staying inside all the time...getting deeper into the smack. Wouldn't come out of the house. He ended up leaving Eric to his own devices and came back to the States to start up another band.
No doubt the Jim's were tough. Gordons an amazing drummer and Keltner got that Beatle magic as well. That session lineage of Blaine,Palmer,Gordon,Keltner and Porcaro is my holy grail. Bobby nails the musicality and creativity of these two...this is more a music theory class rather than a interview so kudos to you both.
😀Thanks for telling about how Keltner had good organization of his drum playing, which will help me to keep things in mind to enhance my drumming abilities 😊👍😊
Been playing drums for many years. Early influences were Ginger Baker & Mitch Mitchell. After listening to Layla I began studying Jim Gordon. Found out he was 2nd only to Hal Blaine as a go-to session/touring drummer. Sad what happened to him and from what I gather from your posts working with him could be a bit rough. Solid drummer tho' and you sure put out some memorable music. I like your stories of the inside info of your many years in the industry. Aloha!
Keltner & Gordon were both on the drum kits backing Joe Cocker on Maddogs & Englishmen. Listen to the drum intro to Honky Tonk Woman where they are both blasting away.
Bobby, I live in Scotland, lucky to see the Dominoes early 70's in Greens Playhouse which became the Apollo. Unfortunately it was knocked down a long time ago. It had a really high stage, you might remember it as you seem to have a great memory. What was it like working with Jim Gordon, any interesting stories?
Hi! My name is Keith R. Higgons, and I have a podcast called Abandoned Albums. I pulled a clip from this episode for my recent episode - it's an interview with writer Joel Selvin, who has a book coming out on drummer Jim Gordon. I credit your channel in the credits. The podcast dropped earlier today and is available all over. Anyway, I wanted you to be aware of both the book and my use of the clip. Thanks so much!
Bobby you’re beautiful man and thanks for sharing memories. Eric obviously loved The Band, Robbie, Levon, Rick etc and if I’m not mistaken when you got the Dominoes together Eric had just got back from spending time with those guys. You got any stories about Eric’s love of The Band.
This is fantastic! Delaney & Bonnie, Leon, Clapton, I dug all that stuff. I think it is important to point out that the music was part of and reflective of a whole different hippie, communal, revolutionary scene. Corporatism, materialism, ego, status symbols and the rat race were out. We were trying to avoid all that and do our own thing where we all shared what little we had and dreamed of getting a little stake out in the country where we could build a cabin, go off the grid, live a simple pioneer life, smoke pot and walk around outside naked. I don't know how it was for you guys because you had money. We were desperately poor, trying to find our way. The brotherly and sisterly ad hoc sort of nature of all this can be seen in the Delaney & Bonnie record "Motel Shot." One thing we sure got right was the whole peace and love theme that overlaid it all. Oh, man, we sure did have some great music to go along with it all. I always wondered what happened to Delaney & Bonnie. The last I heard of either was circa 1979 when Bonnie Bramlett came across Elvis Costello in a bar. Earlier, she had read an interview with him where he dropped the 'N' bomb in reference to Ray Charles, so Bonnie walked up to Costello and punched his lights out for it. Thanks a lot. I intend to check out all your videos.
Gordon has an interview on YT from Drummerworld Magazine (1982) where he said he was an ensemble drummer and did not like to solo. Have you heard seen that Video Bobby? I heard there was a funny story regarding Jim's LONG solo on Let It Rain like Eric wouldn't come back to the stage?
Ohhhh I have long wished that there were some kind of way to have Jim Gordon interviewed in recent years. I don't even know if he is still with us or not......or if he is.....if he is capable of speaking to what he remembers of those days AND if he could speak anymore about his theory of playing drums, etc. Bobby or CoCo....could you please comment, as an old basement drummer that I'll always be still feels that Gordon was something quite special. My heart just bleeds for his situation that locked him into his fate so very long ago. God Bless joel in tucson
Jim G took me to sessions after he played 'Rikki' as a Trio? Grant high buddies! 'Only you know and I know' was a masterpiece! Living in the material World was my fav Keltner tracks. Jim G had Ringo's Toms! Aloha
Bobby, listening to you is like going back home. As a kid I lived in Memphis, Oklahoma and Alabama and picked up those accents. Now I'm up here in Indiana with Yankee accents.
Recently saw Edward James Olmos is a documentary...the Bobby Keys doc?...and he was talking about that neighborhood he lived in that was just packed with famous musicians...Don Johnson co-wrote some songs for the Allman Bros. Band, I think!
@@ronniecohen5668 Yes. I only knew his work with Toto. I am curious to hear what other music he played on. I shall educate myself on this. Any tips welcome.
Keltner played on Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever album if I'm not mistaken . One of my favorite albums. Also there's a Whitlock family from my town in Indiana,. They were inventors , musicians and very eccentric but brilliant people. I'm friends with one of the grandchildren and he's a good musician and artist. A strange cat but a great bassist and an interesting fella.
@@BW-CC The patron of the family , JW Whiltock invented something called an automatic harp , which he received a patent on in 1900 and eventually sold the design to the Wurlitzer Company . H He was a businessman inventor , musician and all around brilliant man who is well known here in my hometown of Rising Sun, Indiana and the surrounding area . His life and work are worth reading about
Here's what I'd love to know: Did Jim Gordon do any professional drumming-whether on record or on tour-post-1978? The latest work of his I can find is touring Europe with Jackson Browne in 1978. In the documentary "Runnin' Down A Dream," Benmont Tench says Tom Petty tried him out during the "Damn The Torpedoes" sessions of 1978 and 1979, but he doesn't specify in which year; and ultimately his work wasn't used regardless. So again I wonder: Did Jim Gordon do any professional drumming after 1978?
@@theonlydjtopcat Thanks. And per the link below on just one song. I wonder whether they brought him in for the whole album, and replaced him after one song when the saw his condition (mental or drumming-wise): www.discogs.com/Phil-Keaggy-Phlip-Side/release/1476720
@@Ben-to8vt His playing style degraded after 1977-78. He played in Burton Cummings band for some time. You can compare his drumming on Burton's 1st album in 1976, and then his drumming on Burton Cummings TV special in 1977, which is available on TH-cam. He plays like a kid, who took drumming lessons for a year two. But definitely not as a professional session drummer. Really sad.
I love when Bobby says, “not technique, I hate that word,...(it’s) touch and feel”. That’s what Bobby and all the musicians he played with were all about.
Bobby, where would you but Don Poncher compared to the two Jim’s? Just curious as to your observation. I’ve played with Don on & off for 47 years. Thanks!
Heres that song Coco mentioned w JK (Get ourselves together )...th-cam.com/video/DptmgUfgiFY/w-d-xo.html EXCELLENT gtr -Jerry McGee I drove 5 hrs to Toronto to see them but we got there a little too late .I remember the poster looked like the first LP cover (I shoulda grabbed one!) I had the first LP and loved it Saw them open for Blind Faith .Also later in Buffalo with Kenny Gradney on bass I recall. I even saw the Dominoes @Kleinhans in Buffalo
@@BW-CC We had some interaction when he came to my school GIT in 78. I was the only guitarist that knew any Little Feat songs.He also got me into the Forum for the Lowell George tribute after LG passed.I got to hang in the backstage with Mike McDonald and Emilio Castillo Our mutual friend Kimbo Smith who along with KG recorded with Chico Hamilton at that time introduced us. Here is the Chico record. th-cam.com/video/tzkfYvB7D9c/w-d-xo.html Unfortunately later when I worked a show with Little Feat in NOLA in 1995 Kenny told me Kimbo had committed suicide
Hey Bobby, is there any truth to Rita Coolidge having been the actual composer of the Layla piano coda, not Jim G as was credited?? Not trying to offend anyone or imply anything here...Jim was amazing, without a doubt. Read about this controversy a while back, and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to ask someone who was actually there!
@@BW-CC Thanks. Was a little confused since the original question was specifically about "Layla". These stories by Bobby are great! The "Layla" album is my husband's favorite album ever. He has a tattoo of the cover on his arm.
Hi Kane, did you grow up in Huntington Beach, on Veronica Drive? Just before I left town to go to college in Fall '72, someone told me that the McGee family lived across our back fence (we lived on Warfield). I am a major fan of Gerry's playing on The Monkees first album.
I'm wondering when Bobby last had contact with Jim Gordon. There isn't much information about him since he went to prison. The fact he has been denied parole so many times would indicate he isn't doing well. I'm wondering if there were any signs that he might be capable of such things during those years playing together.
I did a number of sessions where both Jim’s were on the session and I sat between them. Pure heaven. Jim Gordon would hunker the groove down and Jim Keltner would create textures. They complimented each other so beautifully!
Lee, I just finished Joel Selvins book Drums and Demons. I assumed as much session work you did, and your influence during the incredible years 67-73 that you spent time with Jin Gordon. His story is truly a monumental tragedy. I hope someday a documentary or movie is done so more people could know his story.
By the way, you help me during to Covid lockdowns with you home videos.
What was it like working with Jim Gordon?
Did you ever play with Bobby
So cool
Delaney & Bonnie and Friends circa 1969-1970 was one of the best bands I ever heard live. Everybody in that band was great, right down to the back-up singer, Rita Coolidge.
CoCo you are excellent in bringing out Bobby's magical stories. Thank You
I really appreciate it
Bobby, I saw you in the Dominos on November 26, 1970 (Thanksgiving Day) at Music Hall in Cincinnati and I’m still not over how great the concert was. Thank you for these videos.
I grew up with Bobby's soulful vocals on the Derek and the Dominoes album. The definition of soul! All over that record...
Bobby's screams on the live version of Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad sound like a southern preacher trying to exorcise and send the devil back to hell! So much raw emotion and power, brings me goosebumps every time!
I really enjoy hearing Bobbie's memories, all the stories of time with fellow musicians, the recording experiences, the other off the cuff stories! ❤
Thank you Bobby and CoCo for the memories. I love that laugh of yours, man! Makes me smile.
I love your laugh Bobby! Thank you both for your time and stories......this is so cool. Peace and love to ya'll and all from Arkansas!
I'm so happy to find this channel. Bobby Whitlock us one my all time favourites but I had no idea he was such a wealth of grwat stories. Completely charming and utterly engrossing.
Clapton said Carl and Jim were the best rhythm section he played with . That’s amazing !
Yeah...but in all fairness, he also said that Enoch Powell was a great guy.
Neil McLaughlin your mother said you’re a fuck head
@@neilmclaughlin2347 Cool, Dude.. nevermind the idiot below..
Aloha
I can still play like JG. Bobby & I are f.b.friends under my other name! Alohoho
@@neilmclaughlin2347 ENOCH Powell WAS a great guy. Clapton was right!
Great stories. I can't get enough. Thanks for posting your memories.
You are both so sweet. Love the stories and the way you are with each other.
Thank you so much for sharing these great stories. I love inside stories about music and the artists that create it.
As a drummer/musician I have always wondered if it was Jim Gordon's idea to "invert" the snare/kick beat on the verses of "Bell Bottom Blues" or if it was someone else's idea? It's simple and subtle genius regardless.
He hits on the 1 and 3, just like Sunshine of your Love .....
I'm watching Bobby and Coco doing these and he's just hysterical. It just puts s smile on my face. Macon we had some great times back in back in the day....Bobby you look great, you've got great Gene's man! Wild Bill.
Man the times have change my vice still continues I just can’t shake it I’m an old soul I love the late sixties and seventies
That Delaney and Bonnie Band with Jim Gordan was one of the greatest bands in Rock History. God bless ya Bobby and Coco for doing these videos.
@Thomas Bell I loved that Mad Dogs & Englishmen band with Joe Cocker which, of course, featured both Jims playing drums at the same time. Saw the movie back when it came out in the early 70's and loved the album from that tour. I still listen to it sometimes. I have the 6-CD box set documenting their whole 3-night stand at the Fillmore East too, from which the original album is taken..
Agreed. Don't forget Derek and the dominos, Traffic. Jim Gordon wrote the piano outro for "Layla". I'm curious. When talking about Jim Gordon's decline, I didn't read the word schizophrenia once. Am I off base here?
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@@chrismessenger9104 Actually Gordon didn't write the piano outro. Rita Coolidge did. Jim and Rita were a couple for awhile, and he heard her as she was working that part out. He later passed it off to Clapton as his own. Bobby Whitlock was the 1st I heard tell how that piano part came about. Wish Bobby would see this and tell that story because he was around the two of them while Rita was working on it. Plus he told that story a lot more interesting than I just did.
@@roszela1⁶-go on the h&g&ó legends I had no reason to doubt. Art
Bobby is a southern gentleman
Love this series. Lost touch for awhile, but back before and during the pandemic I spent a lot of time listening to Bobby n Coco. She has a way of pushing his buttons (in a good way), and you can see his face light up with yet another memory...
Still so passionate about the music...I can listen to him for hours. 😻 😎✌
I love the background stories! I've been a big Keltner fan for quite a while, I love his work with John Hiatt, Nick Lowe and Ry Cooder in the Little Village band. His Polyrythyms really stand out!
Always a pleasure to hear him interviewed. Doesn't seem to have an ounce of guile to him. Truly under-rated.
What an incredible insight into musical history! Thanks Bobby!
Thanks...... I jam the Fillmore live album all the time to keep my chops up.....he was a freight train and Radle was as smooth as they come......
These talks are just phenomenal! Thank You soooooooooooo much you two.
This is the music, I grew up with and it still moves me, till
this day. That Grooooooooooooooove!
Alright!
Both are Great drummers. Each with their own feel, approach, tone, & individuality. The 1st time I heard Jim Keltner's drumming was when I first heard Leon Russell's version of Dylan's Hard Rains Gonna Fall...Keltner's drumming is like a metronome, right on the money ! AWESOME.
Bob, I have been a huge fan of your playing/vocals ever since I first heard Layla but I am listening to the Live With Eric album for the first time ever and Gimme Some Lovin'. Nothing against Steve Winwood, but that version smokes all others imo. (Your vocals, along with Terry Kath's, are some of the most soulful I have ever heard.) These segments are total platinum. I love listening to the stories and am blown away by the musical history you have been an integral part of. I am using these videos (and the associated music) as some of the musical education I am giving my 19 year old daughter!
I learn so much everytime you tell your great stories
Coco, only you could brings these fab stories/memories out of Bobby. Love both of u.
Thank you Douglas
I love the feeling of playing in a band that makes the stage and whole building dance...
Congratulations on the artwork on your friend’s CD cover. Love the comparison of the Memphis drummers, and Keltner and Gordon. Very cool. Thank you.
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Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel Very cool! Super talented guy!!
Another great interview. I love to hear these stories.
Both were amazing drummers great interview great stories 👍
Videos are fabulous!!!!...... keep them coming !!!
jim keltners work with attitudes, danny kortchmar, david foster and the terrific paul stallworth , was superb
Thanx for all this beautiful history. So interesting
Thank you
OMG, thank you for taking the time to do all these videos. You make me feel young again when in life, you would just roll with it. And it was nice.
Fantastic Carolyn
Bobby explains Keltner perfectly. Fascinating stuff.
I saw DB and friends at the Amphitheater in Chicago, August of 69….I’m thinking the two drummers were Gordon and Keltner. What a ridiculously solid powerhouse! They were on before Blind Faith.
Dylan called Keltkner the best session drummer in America
I just remember how great Jim Gordon sounded on the Dominos version of Little Wing... Sounded like Rolling Thunder!
Couldn't agree more.
Absolutely!! Love that track.
He sounded great on the whole album one of if not the greatest drummer ever
I heard Derek trucks re did the whole album. True ?
@@ronhoffman7941 He and his wife and their band cut it live in concert. It was actually a surprise to the audience cause it wasn't announced beforehand. They did a great job. Of course Derek sounds a lot like Duane but the rest of their band is great as well. Also had Doyle Bramhall and Trey Anastasio sitting in. Some of the songs had a bit more jamming but it's a terrific album.
Came across these videos, great stories. Thank You.
Hey Ray
@@BW-CC Will be quecking out more of these interviews, I could listen to them all day and night.
The last time I saw Jim Gordon was at Western-United ( which became OceanWay) doing the drums on a Johnny Rivers recording of “Hang On Sloopy” about late 1973.... Don Johnson’s a really nice cat! I met him through Dickey. 30 years ago!!
Thanks so much for the commentary on Jim. That's not the first time he's been called a freight train. I like to think of him as a locomotive with great feel. He really combined power and finesse like no other. Oh - and by the way - was Bobby talking about the California Dreamin' song, recorded by The Mamas and the Papas? I think that was Hal Blaine that played drums on that one, or so I've read. Also - I think Radle and Gordon were one of the best rhythm sections ever, period.
I think Bobby’s referring to the Jose Feliciano album entitled- “California Dreamin’” that Jim Gordon played on.
@@MattHamann89 Ahh cool. I didn't know he did that one!
Matt H that’s correct
California Dreaming by Jose Feliciano
@@theebobbywhitlock Ahh...brilliant and flawless record, that one.
This whole series is like having a cup of coffee with old friends. Bobby's laugh is infectious, and your interviewing chops are first rate. I have a short story for Bob and Coco. In the winter of 2015 (if I recall correctly) my wife and I spent a week in Austin to see her niece, and I - an old best friend. The weather was cold and rainy, we probably dragged it down from Chicago. I caught up with my old friend and we were having a bite to eat on a raw and rainy late afternoon. We wanted to see some music and had a hard time finding anything that rang our bell. Flipping through the local entertainment publication (can't remember the name of it), I saw "Bobby Whitlock & Coco Carmel at the Saxon Pub"....my eyes widened and I had a lump in my throat. My buddy looked me - scared for moment - and I showed him the print, and he looked at me and said...(I'm so used to this) "who are they?". I told him about Bobby's history, what little I knew of your history; and the excitement grew as I ended and said, "I have to see them". He said The Saxon was next door to his guitar shop.
We walked into the Saxon, the cover was what our band charged and I couldn't believe that I was going to see you two for 10 bucks or so...didn't even pay attention to it....there was hardly anyone in the place, and they were talking to you and Bob like they were neighbors,friends or family. I think your mailman was there in our small and devoted crowd. Listening to Bobby tell his stories through the evening and your musicianship Coco, I was nearly in a state of tears; I'm never inclined to cry, but grew up learning to play the drums by copying Jim Gordon with Bobby, EC, and Carl Dean...it took me right back to the release that that particular album gave me. When the show was over I had a chance to tell Bobby (always one of my musical icons...the passion, the soul, the effortlessness with which he works...) what it meant to see him that night and what D and The Dees did for an 11 year-old kid from South of Chicago; lifting me above an alcoholic father and some tough times growing up. You both are a gift, from your ego-free connection to us all and the vast amount of soul you put back into our lives.
This mid-August I am having a "Last Waltz" on our outdoor patio (my bandmates call it "The Sanctuary")..we will don't do very many covers, but Tell The Truth and Keep On Growing will be in the setlists. I am leaving the US to retire in Europe...at 62 I am tired of the US and the only thing that keeps me going is music. Maybe I'll find some players in my new home country. Keep on playing and elevating us with with your passion,music , and art.
Niel
That was great history, thanks 👍🏻
Accept No Substitute is a unique album. Keltner on When the Battle is Over is so tasty it'll melt your mind. Jerry McGee plays masterful guitar throughout. Still my favorite Delaney and Bonnie album!
Beautiful Art Work Bobby 🔥Love to see a larger version✊
I’m drawn to Bobby’s nature, and see why, I loved his ability from the moment. Ya see, I was simply following Eric and company, and as a Del.and Bonnie fan I simply knew there was a kibbutz, in it . Thank you, again and again, it’s meaning full.🙏🏾
Jim Gordon was a mould breaker .
Pardon my ramblings, but my heart is touched by seeing all this
Renée and Bobby are Facebook friends, but I'm away till the elections (bbc) study) I saw Jim Gordon in front of a Studio in '72 on way back from Silverlake to the Valley deep on Sunset (Roger Dollarhide's studio) So I parked and walked over to Jim, whose trap case said 'Dekek & the Dominos set no 2' The blonde Camcos?
The 10 inch concert tom was the extra fizz that he brought.. Diamonds and Rust is very subtle, but with great effort, I found the live album on TH-cam, w Larry Carlton etc.(sorry I'll edit more names later) Knectal on Piano? On 'Rikki'
he had the blue sparkle 10 inch concert tom, then Ringo's tom-toms..(I had to spell that out, lol) With his sliding stick on the snare style (making a circle on da head between beats) What's not to love? Jim came up behind me, at da drinking fountain, 'was that You playing my drums?' exact copy, Yes Jim,
he was always nice to Me..as when I drove up at the studio 2 years before..
This was '74..
I called him from the union book originally..the 3rd time I called, after He took me to a session, (💚☺️) his Mother answered and said, 'Jim's on your with Joni Baez' No doubt!
Sundown up in Toronto w Gordon(hah)
Lightfoot was next..Alohas UK guys and Bobby!
I'm goodman on Facebook.. Renée and Louise and Atticus are Mutuals..
Alohaa You All People..(from lonely kona mountain) Alohoho
I'm loving these interviews. I check in every morning and listen to at least one. I was so excited to Bobby's name. I had the pleasure for about 2 days to hang a little with Eric Clapton and I did ask Eric about if he ever saw Bobby any more this was in 1985 and he said you would show up in his driveway which I'm not sure what that exactly meant. Anyway I'm so glad to see Bobby looking so great still singing great and I'm so glad he found CoCo she is as beautiful as she is smart. She's an old soul. I'm so glad you two found love together. By the way my name is Vito Lafata I'm a guitarist originally from Detroit Michigan. I met Eric when we were both written about in the July 1985 issue of guitar player magazine. God bless you two. I hope your love lasts forever.
Bobby hadn't been in Eric's driveway since the seventies..Jesus Eric.
CoCo
Bobby does tell the story about visiting Eric quite a bit right after the Dominoes split. He was kind of stuck without anything to do, and Eric was staying inside all the time...getting deeper into the smack. Wouldn't come out of the house.
He ended up leaving Eric to his own devices and came back to the States to start up another band.
Jamie Oldacre, belongs here too. RIP, my drummin' brother!!!
When I think of that album w Eric, I imagine the snare stand bending and Rocking..
Jim Hodder is gone also.. Reelin' in da Years.. Alohas
He was a great drummer, perfect timing and understood that less was more behind the kit.
@@robertgosselin14Alohaas!
Yes he does. I think he was one of E.C.s favorite drummers.
Also a Tulsa boy
I was shocked by Gordon’s version of “Snapped” when I checked his bio decades ago.
Jim Gordon “he was the engine”. Absolutely. Wherever he played.
No doubt the Jim's were tough. Gordons an amazing drummer and Keltner got that Beatle magic as well. That session lineage of Blaine,Palmer,Gordon,Keltner and Porcaro is my holy grail. Bobby nails the musicality and creativity of these two...this is more a music theory class rather than a interview so kudos to you both.
What a rhythm section .... Carl Radle & Jim Gorden....... Clapton said they were the best rhythm section he ever played with......
Absolutely
Unfortunately, neither made it very far into the 80s before they were lost to personal demons
My Maria. Carl and Jim really laid it down.
John, that’s one hell of a compliment when one remembers he played with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker.
@@wecandobetter9821 I love Cream as much as the next guy, but Jack and Ginger had a tendency to overplay. Carl and Jim played to the song.
Your voice has not changed a bit Bobby !!! Dominos 'In Concert' the best record in the whole Universe !!!
I'd love to be in a room with Bobby Whitlock and Ace Frehley with both in a good mood and laughing. That would cheer me up for a year!
😀Thanks for telling about how Keltner had good organization of his drum playing, which will help me to keep things in mind to enhance my drumming abilities 😊👍😊
Outstanding videos ! Yes he’s a handsome man !
RIP Jim Gordon. Groovemaster. Jim has passed away.
Been playing drums for many years. Early influences were Ginger Baker & Mitch Mitchell. After listening to Layla I began studying Jim Gordon. Found out he was 2nd only to Hal Blaine as a go-to session/touring drummer. Sad what happened to him and from what I gather from your posts working with him could be a bit rough. Solid drummer tho' and you sure put out some memorable music. I like your stories of the inside info of your many years in the industry. Aloha!
Keltner & Gordon were both on the drum kits backing Joe Cocker on Maddogs & Englishmen. Listen to the drum intro to Honky Tonk Woman where they are both blasting away.
Except when Keltner got too high to play.. it didn't faze Jim.
Yes of course..
George, John and even Ringo used Good Old Jim Keltner!
And they all used Jim Gordon.
What a Great Guy!
Thank you! I Really enjoyed listening
Great couple!
Bobby, I live in Scotland, lucky to see the Dominoes early 70's in Greens Playhouse which became the Apollo. Unfortunately it was knocked down a long time ago. It had a really high stage, you might remember it as you seem to have a great memory. What was it like working with Jim Gordon, any interesting stories?
That was awesome! 👍🥁👍DC
I love the way Bobby just had to let us know that he was somehow watching Miami Mice because he was signed to Capricorn Records. : ).
I am loving these videos that’s so much!
Hi! My name is Keith R. Higgons, and I have a podcast called Abandoned Albums. I pulled a clip from this episode for my recent episode - it's an interview with writer Joel Selvin, who has a book coming out on drummer Jim Gordon. I credit your channel in the credits. The podcast dropped earlier today and is available all over. Anyway, I wanted you to be aware of both the book and my use of the clip. Thanks so much!
Of course we are aware of the book
Note to whoever: Great interview, but I turned it off because of the constant commercials. TH-cam, take note.
Thanks for letting me know..
CoCo
@@BW-CC Thank you for responding. Love your interviews!
Bobby it is so cool to hear your stories. Can you talk about the Eric Clapton Duane Allman relationship during the Layla Album? Thanks
Bobby you’re beautiful man and thanks for sharing memories. Eric obviously loved The Band, Robbie, Levon, Rick etc and if I’m not mistaken when you got the Dominoes together Eric had just got back from spending time with those guys. You got any stories about Eric’s love of The Band.
He says it was fleeting...
Keltner was such a dang good drummer! Listening to Derek & The D.'s he rocks! A shame his inner demons ...
Jim Gordon was the D&D drummer.
..and Maria Muldaur does a wonderful version of John The Generator on her 1976 album "Sweet Harmony" co-produced by Joe Boyd and Lenny Waronker.
I wish they'd put the cell phone horizontally. That screen extender annoys the hell out of me.
This is fantastic! Delaney & Bonnie, Leon, Clapton, I dug all that stuff.
I think it is important to point out that the music was part of and reflective of a whole different hippie, communal, revolutionary scene.
Corporatism, materialism, ego, status symbols and the rat race were out.
We were trying to avoid all that and do our own thing where we all shared what little we had and dreamed of getting a little stake out in the country where we could build a cabin, go off the grid, live a simple pioneer life, smoke pot and walk around outside naked.
I don't know how it was for you guys because you had money.
We were desperately poor, trying to find our way.
The brotherly and sisterly ad hoc sort of nature of all this can be seen in the Delaney & Bonnie record "Motel Shot."
One thing we sure got right was the whole peace and love theme that overlaid it all.
Oh, man, we sure did have some great music to go along with it all.
I always wondered what happened to Delaney & Bonnie.
The last I heard of either was circa 1979 when Bonnie Bramlett came across Elvis Costello in a bar. Earlier, she had read an interview with him where he dropped the 'N' bomb in reference to Ray Charles, so Bonnie walked up to Costello and punched his lights out for it.
Thanks a lot. I intend to check out all your videos.
Great share Bobby
Gordon has an interview on YT from Drummerworld Magazine (1982) where he said he was an ensemble drummer and did not like to solo. Have you heard seen that Video Bobby? I heard there was a funny story regarding Jim's LONG solo on Let It Rain like Eric wouldn't come back to the stage?
Ohhhh I have long wished that there were some kind of way to have Jim Gordon interviewed in recent years. I don't even know if he is still with us or not......or if he is.....if he is capable of speaking to what he remembers of those days AND if he could speak anymore about his theory of playing drums, etc. Bobby or CoCo....could you please comment, as an old basement drummer that I'll always be still feels that Gordon was something quite special. My heart just bleeds for his situation that locked him into his fate so very long ago. God Bless joel in tucson
Jim G took me to sessions after he played 'Rikki' as a Trio? Grant high buddies! 'Only you know and I know' was a masterpiece! Living in the material World was my fav Keltner tracks.
Jim G had Ringo's Toms!
Aloha
Love this.
The sound could use improving, though. Maybe a lavalier mic., and you could even route it into your 'phone.
I'll look into it
Bobby, listening to you is like going back home. As a kid I lived in Memphis, Oklahoma and Alabama and picked up those accents. Now I'm up here in Indiana with Yankee accents.
Recently saw Edward James Olmos is a documentary...the Bobby Keys doc?...and he was talking about that neighborhood he lived in that was just packed with famous musicians...Don Johnson co-wrote some songs for the Allman Bros. Band, I think!
Keltner has played with everyone who matters. Prolific doesn't begin to describe. His only rival would be Hal Blaine. Jim Gordon, tragic story.
Absolutely
@@ronniecohen5668 Yes. I only knew his work with Toto. I am curious to hear what other music he played on. I shall educate myself on this. Any tips welcome.
@@ronniecohen5668 thanks. I will check that out.
Unfortunately there are many sad stories in rock music with Jim Gordon’s tragic life being one of them
Keltner played on Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever album if I'm not mistaken . One of my favorite albums.
Also there's a Whitlock family from my town in Indiana,. They were inventors , musicians and very eccentric but brilliant people. I'm friends with one of the grandchildren and he's a good musician and artist. A strange cat but a great bassist and an interesting fella.
Cool
@@BW-CC The patron of the family , JW Whiltock invented something called an automatic harp , which he received a patent on in 1900 and eventually sold the design to the Wurlitzer Company . H He was a businessman inventor , musician and all around brilliant man who is well known here in my hometown of Rising Sun, Indiana and the surrounding area . His life and work are worth reading about
Here's what I'd love to know: Did Jim Gordon do any professional drumming-whether on record or on tour-post-1978? The latest work of his I can find is touring Europe with Jackson Browne in 1978. In the documentary "Runnin' Down A Dream," Benmont Tench says Tom Petty tried him out during the "Damn The Torpedoes" sessions of 1978 and 1979, but he doesn't specify in which year; and ultimately his work wasn't used regardless. So again I wonder: Did Jim Gordon do any professional drumming after 1978?
Phil Keaggy-Phlip Side 1980 might have been his last.
@@theonlydjtopcat Thanks. And per the link below on just one song. I wonder whether they brought him in for the whole album, and replaced him after one song when the saw his condition (mental or drumming-wise): www.discogs.com/Phil-Keaggy-Phlip-Side/release/1476720
@@theonlydjtopcat Plus, they removed the one song he played on for the 1982 reissue and for CD versions: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%27lip_Side#Personnel
@@Ben-to8vt His playing style degraded after 1977-78. He played in Burton Cummings band for some time. You can compare his drumming on Burton's 1st album in 1976, and then his drumming on Burton Cummings TV special in 1977, which is available on TH-cam. He plays like a kid, who took drumming lessons for a year two. But definitely not as a professional session drummer. Really sad.
He drummed on some of The Muppet Movie soundtrack. Circa 1979.
A video of Bobby's paintings with some music would be good. Might be a fun bit of art. Peace.
7:56 Good album title: For No Particular Reason
I love when Bobby says, “not technique, I hate that word,...(it’s) touch and feel”. That’s what Bobby and all the musicians he played with were all about.
Bobby, where would you but Don Poncher compared to the two Jim’s? Just curious as to your observation. I’ve played with Don on & off for 47 years. Thanks!
Love Don Poncher
Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel Me too! He’s been a great friend and we’ve traveled the world together playing!
Heres that song Coco mentioned w JK (Get ourselves together )...th-cam.com/video/DptmgUfgiFY/w-d-xo.html EXCELLENT gtr -Jerry McGee I drove 5 hrs to Toronto to see them but we got there a little too late .I remember the poster looked like the first LP cover (I shoulda grabbed one!) I had the first LP and loved it Saw them open for Blind Faith .Also later in Buffalo with Kenny Gradney on bass I recall. I even saw the Dominoes @Kleinhans in Buffalo
Kenny is a good guy
@@BW-CC We had some interaction when he came to my school GIT in 78. I was the only guitarist that knew any Little Feat songs.He also got me into the Forum for the Lowell George tribute after LG passed.I got to hang in the backstage with Mike McDonald and Emilio Castillo Our mutual friend Kimbo Smith who along with KG recorded with Chico Hamilton at that time introduced us. Here is the Chico record. th-cam.com/video/tzkfYvB7D9c/w-d-xo.html
Unfortunately later when I worked a show with Little Feat in NOLA in 1995 Kenny told me Kimbo had committed suicide
Hey Bobby, is there any truth to Rita Coolidge having been the actual composer of the Layla piano coda, not Jim G as was credited?? Not trying to offend anyone or imply anything here...Jim was amazing, without a doubt. Read about this controversy a while back, and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to ask someone who was actually there!
Jim wrote the music, she wrote the lyrics
@@BW-CC Fair enough! :>)
@@BW-CC Are you saying Rita Coolidge wrote all the lyrics to "Layla"?
@@bonniesemsey8539 of course not.. lyrics to her song.. not Layla
@@BW-CC Thanks. Was a little confused since the original question was specifically about "Layla". These stories by Bobby are great! The "Layla" album is my husband's favorite album ever. He has a tattoo of the cover on his arm.
Hey Bobby ! my Dad Gerry McGee played with ya years ago with Delaney & Bonnie!
Hi Kane!
Hi Kane, did you grow up in Huntington Beach, on Veronica Drive? Just before I left town to go to college in Fall '72, someone told me that the McGee family lived across our back fence (we lived on Warfield). I am a major fan of Gerry's playing on The Monkees first album.
@@blairhelsing630 we didn’t live there, I grew up in Northridge Ca. At that time in the 70’s 😎
Definitely miss those days .
@@KaneMcGeeMusic Thanks for the reply... mystery solved. Best regards.
Please, Mr Whitlock, write a book!
Bobby Whitlock A Rock and Roll Autobiography avail on amazon
@@BW-CC I will definitely buy.. Mr Whitlock is treasure and has led an absolutely fascinating life.. Thank you for sharing your stories
Hi Coco and Bobby! Ok I wasn’t sure that’s what he was saying so I looked it up. That’s Bobby’s art on the album cover! Cool!!! Hope y’all are well!
Yes it is Kevin thank you CC
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Love you all😀
I'm wondering when Bobby last had contact with Jim Gordon. There isn't much information about him since he went to prison. The fact he has been denied parole so many times would indicate he isn't doing well. I'm wondering if there were any signs that he might be capable of such things during those years playing together.
I read that he doesn't even show up for the parole hearings.
Very cool album cover. Congratulations. Does Bobby have a website or Instagram account for his artwork? I’d like to check more of his paintings out.
www.bobbywhitlockart.com
@@BW-CC right on! Thanks