I’ve come to realise more and more that Bobby W, along with EC was the musical heart of that seminal album. So much energy and confidence…vox as well as instruments. Duane’s guitarwork is beautiful and lifts the sound that’s already been established by the four-piece.
Probably one of the best bands ever created, and definitely one of the top 20 albums ever done, a super bunch of real people, Great job, help to mold be into the musician and man i am today.
Michael Rudnick agree. Imagine adding Dave Mason and Duane Allman to your band. I’m sure winwood sat in as well. Joe cocker and Leon Russell were no fools grabbing Carl and Jim after the breakup.
And then we walked in the door and I love the idea of a unreal record and. The power of the band is playing with everything about that first broken 💔😢😥 heart and every song feels like wow I didn't realize that Eric Clapton feels like me and then you grab your guitar and amp 😂 and then play it by ear and then the next song feels like it's all how u. Feel your love for her will never go away and then anyway comes on and tears running down my face and then 😭💔 sing 😭 anayday and the power of Bobby's voice is so like Eric you know you have a lot of power and that record is what heals my torn up and broken heat 😷 and made me play and be the. Guitar and songwriter singer IAM I trueley think about that record it is the best memories and insperation of all time never forget you no this record is the best ever done
+Marty C : Yes, I agree with you. But I also saw....totally my opinion here only.....that she was almost sitting with her arm around him to kind of keep him focused maybe.....keeping him from going off and speaking inappropriately (which he gave no indication of) or going "off the rails" in a sense. She def. whispered something at him very quickly towards the end of his telling his tale, I don't know what it was. Maybe to "cut it short". Hey.....I could be totally wrong, but watch her eyes......she's scrutinizing every word he's saying and I think I'm not wrong here. Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed his tale and could have listened to him for much longer. Who knows.
It's an absolute tragedy that they lasted as long as they did, thankfully the one album they did was a masterpiece as well their untouchable live recordings.
I loved John Mayall and Cream, but just lately getting into the whole Delaney and Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos period. Of course I loved Layla but all the stuff that gang put out was terrific, and more easy going than Cream. Having Duane Allman join in was a real inspiration but even without Duane those groups were great.
I saw the AllmanBrothers at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh , Pa. on October 15 , 1971. Unbelievable nite. Duane played half the nite on the S.G. and half on the L.P. Dicky played a Gold Top. I think they both had 50 watt Marshalls. I think it was on "You don't love me" .Duane takes a solo by himself on the burst and gos a little out of tune , hits a 5th frett barred A, tunes the G string up and dives right back into it . No stopping him . He left us days latter. That concert is online or U-Tube .
Cool. I remember when he went to Millington High, or somewhere in Millington, TN. We have mutual friends. Don’t wanna name drop. Hope he’s doing well. He’s always been a great musician.
Hey Garrett i'm an ol Millington boy and I knew Nate in 70's and met Bobby when he came through and played the Longbranch in Millington 40 somethin years ago. George Eubanks introduced me to him. George was a classmate of Bobby's at MCHS.
If I had your memory I could have made it through Medical School sane AND famous 😆😉🎼🎶🎵🎸👨🏼⚕️🎸!!! I enjoy your recollections (and paintings) immensely. God's blessings be yours throughout this Christmas Season with CoCo! Keep up the good work, my friend.
I was fortunate enough to see the ABB play a Sunday afternoon gig at a small park in Macon Ga. Must have been 1970/71.I was 12 or 13 y/o at the time. I was standing maybe 10-15 feet from Duane, ....to say he was a stunning guitarist is an understatement, at certain points he was just scary great! The thing i remember most though while watching/listening to him was that it seemed to me that his guitar sounded like it was breathing in between notes, like it was alive. (I wasn't doing drink or drugs by the way) Not normal gtr amp hiss or effects or anything, Very strange in a good way and VERY cool! I've never since heard any guitarist sound the way he made that guitar sound that day and i probably never will.
According to Bobby he waited for Eric to do something, start playing again post Layla, for 2 years but couldn’t wait anymore. He was willing but Clapton didn’t have his shit together then. I think that’s how it went.
Back in late ’69 I was visiting my cousin who was a DJ at a radio station in Chicago. We were at his house getting ready to go out for the evening when he suggested we listen to a promo album the station just got. It was the Allman Brothers’ first album. We listened to the whole thing and were of course blown away. After, we went to a club on State Street in Chicago called “Beavers” which was a favorite of ours. If any of you were around at that time and frequented Beavers you may recall that when you entered the club you walked through a long corridor before entering the main room during which you could hear whoever was on stage. What we heard sounded familiar and once inside we saw it was the Brothers. The stage wasn’t really big enough to hold the whole group so they were tightly packed but still a couple of guys had to spill over onto the floor. They were phenomenal! Before that I was lucky enough to see John Mayall with Clapton as the Bluesbreakers at a small teen club in a Chicago suburb called the Cellar in, I want to say 1965 and then in ’66 or ’67 saw Cream there, so I got to see two of the greatest guitarists of my generation (actually three as I saw Hendrix in Chicago as well). Interesting note about the Cellar: my wife and I met there in ’64 at a Who show (during their first American tour). At the time I think admission was like $2.00 or $2.50. Many years later we saw them again but the tickets were $250! If any film makers are reading this…someone has to do a documentary about the Cellar. For those who don’t know, all the local bands played there as well as tons of international Rock acts (the above plus The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, The Spencer Davis Group, Three Dog Night, The Steve Miller Band, and a whole lot more). Man, the ‘60s were great!
Saw Crow at the Cellar in 69...was too young for those other shows but all us locals knew about them...did see DD in Nov 1970 at Painters Mill Md. They opened the show with Layla.
Here is Greg Allmans side of it, excerpt from Greg's book entitled...'My Cross to Bear'. On August 26, 1970, we were down in Miami Beach, playing a free gig on a stage that the city set up on a big median on Collins Avenue. We were playing "Don't Keep Me Wondering'", which was next-to-last song of the night. It would segue with a little jam into "Whipping Post," and i looked out over the crowd, and the people were all standing on the grass, listening. Nobody was doing the Grateful Dead waltz, and there weren't no spinners. I looked over, and i saw this set of beautiful burnt sienna suede boots on this cat who was sitting on the grass with one leg out in front of him. I followed that boot up the pants, up the body to the head, and there was Mr. Eric Clapton. Next to him was Tommy Dowd, grinning like a fucking mule eating in the briars. Jim Gordon, Carl Radle, and Bobby Whitlock were there too--all of the Dominoes, but i didn't recognize them. After i shit myself, i looked over to Duane, thinking, "I hope to Christ he doesn't see him, because this will either be the finest 'Whipping Post' we'll ever play, or this fucker's going to fall apart." But Duane didn't notice anything, so we finished the show with a real good "Whipping Post," and then Duane eases over to me and said, "Baybrah, dig who the fuck is sitting over there." "Man i saw him two songs ago," I said. "Do you see them fucking boots, man"? Duane had a real thing for clothes back then---we both did. I'd advise reading this book, it's one of those that's hard to put down once You get going!!! *P.s. At 1:40 Use some common practical logic here--Do You honestly think that being the professional musicians Duane and Dickey already were at the time, that they would stop playing just because they seen...GOD? I mean Eric Clapton---hahahaha. **Whitlock is acting like a... DOMINOGOODNIK!!! hahaha
Nice to hear Bobby's recollection because I've heard the same story told several times, by several different people, including Tom Dowd and Eric Clapton and they all say the same thing. It must have made an incredible impression on Duane because he wasn't the type of player to just stop in the middle of a song because he was so focused...
We were playing Layla and Bell Bottom Blues with Blue Skies and Tied to the Whipping Post. The only one left that I'm still riffing off on is Blue Skies. I'm playing both lead guitar parts together now. Oh yeah... I was doing that back then...
i missed out out on d and d back in the day, but with the power of the internet, i have found this group, their album and the great bobby whitlock, as well as delaney and bonnie. are d and d in the hall of fame.....they should be. by the way, bobby wears the best shirts and has the best wife in rock n roll
That's about how many people were at their show in San Diego I was at . Late 60s early 70 . It's kind of foggy . Super group for sure. Bonnie and Delaney was warm up group .
I wish we knew what really happened. Their is also Bill Dowds story, Butches story, and Duanes, and lots of Differences in all from what I listened to. The rest is history from a great band.
Bobby douche bag said this about Duane:According to Whitlock, Allman was "a hired gun" and an "unnecessary" addition; Whitlock added, "He played with us twice, and it was not good both times he played, because he was not a fluid player ... He could play parts, but he couldn’t sing with his guitar." Duane " was not a fluid player"? yet Clap asked Duane to join his band? LAYLA would NOT be the masterpiece it is without Duane's opening riff which Butch said Duane did indeed compose, Butch was there. Duane's INCREDIBLE slide throughout LAYLA and Duane's birdy chirps on slide which end the song. Duane was named 2nd greatest guitarits after Hendrix for decades until this new crop of "experts" dropped Duane down to #10, REALLY?
@@gingermurray Hmmm ... I read a quote from Whitlock DECADES ago where he said that ALL the best guitar parts on that recording were played by Duane Allman!
Bobby and CoCo live in Austin and play regularly at the Saxon Pub, usually an early Saturday show. Been to see them often. He tells stories like these throughout their shows. Musically they are great, with Coco singing the high harmonies and an occasional lead while adding guitar and some sweet sax solos. Bobby plays both guitar and piano but, to me, his singing is in a class of its own. What feeling!
You Americans don't know how lucky you are. In comparison, we have no choice, and the only claim to fame our live band has - the lead singer was a contestant in The Biggest Loser!
ABB performed a free outdoor concert that night at Miami Beach. I recall the boys at the top of their game and watching from the lawn, noticed EC on stage using the bass cab as a conga drum. Totally in the groove. History unfolding before my eyes. As Tom Dowd produced Atlantic ' s best talent it was no surprise that after the sh. ne woun d up at Criteria. BTW, the piano e
Oops, Layla ' s ending was called "Jimmie ' s Theme" as JG wrote it. Ironically, EC didn't care to include it in the stage show, so George Terry sometimes would force it into the performance. George turned EC onto Bob Marley.
Bobby did the piano on Layla I learned recently, Clapton said he had more energy than most, I was into the Allmans, never knew about Bobby at the time. Keep on keepin on!
@@professormacdeezy The piano outro originally was Gordon. According to another post by Bobby, what happened was the band had finished the album and returned to London. Then, apparently Gordon met with D & the D's manager Robert Stigwood and struck a deal whereby the coda would be tagged onto the original track. Much to the chagrin of the rest of the band, they had to fly back to Florida to record that coda. Gordon had laid down the original piano but it was considered weak, so Bobby played over it, resulting in the dynamic rendering we all love so much. By all accounts, Gordon was an erratic individual, and this incident was one of several that ultimately led to the band dissolving, with the final straw apparently being him taking receipt of a large new drum kit and assembling that during a session when the band was to have been recording. It seems that Gordon, who was one of America's top session players prior to joining the band (he was enlisted after Jim Keltner was unable to accept the invitation due to a scheduling conflict), saw himself as being above the rest. Possibly you are also aware that the piano coda originated with Gordon's previous girlfriend, singer Rita Coolidge (that relationship ended when he punched her in the face during the Mad Dogs & Englismen tour). According to Ms. Coolidge (and supported by Stephen Stills and Graham Nash), the music Gordon used and took credit for came from her tune 'Time', which was recorded by Booker T Jones (of MGs fame) and Coolidge's sister (and Jones's wife) Priscilla. th-cam.com/video/9IJPLcwHOes/w-d-xo.html
Not technically a super-group, but the case could be made after Allman contributed to the album. I don't think Allman actually ever went on tour with the Dominos.
According to Jim Gordon (drums) Duane played guitar with them for a few gigs. Eric asked Duane to join the group, & he almost did, but decided to stick with his brother & The Allman Brothers.
I absolutely love Derek and the Dominoes Live at the Fillmore.....it's pure Clapton wailage....what a difference with an incredible rock solid bottom end ( plenty of fills and runs but they stay in key ) with Gordon ...Radle....Whitlock...as opposed to 3 virtuosos at war with each other going off in 3 different directions with no cohesion....love Clapton solo in the 70's thru 83.....Clapton hid behind the Derek name but proved he could carry an ensemble no problem...Live at the Fillmore for all intents and purposes is Clapton solo....Gordon ..Radle....Whitlock are all on Clapton's first solo album...which came out before Layla....the 4 of them were rockin Live at the Fillmore...hell.....on the Johnny Cash show they kicked ass....
Larry Noletti... that live version of Presence Of The Lord from that album has become my favorite version. Besides its wonderful raw soloing, EC'S vocals on the number absolutely slay me..! I was blessed to have been at the Fillmore East that evening and I can remember it so vividly to this day. The Studio Album as well as that evening's performance had a profound effect on music in my life. I don't know how else to describe it any other way..!
I thought this was gonna be something I didn’t already know. I’ve read and heard this same story already many times. Oh well. Now I’ve heard it from Whitlock.
@@chrisanthony7552 Yeah man, most people do not realize the talent of Duane. Maybe because he died so young. I read in a Clapton book where they were having trouble figuring out an intro on Layla. Duane came up with it and everyone was like....yeah thats it !
I think the fateful day that Paul McCartney met John Lennon at the village fête - Lennon was playing on the back of a flatbed truck as well. Same kind of deal.
That is a pant-load. The concert was at the convention center, it was an outdoor concert. Hay-bails and 175 people, nonsense? Watch Tom Dowd the Language of Music as that is the best discussion of what happened by Tom Dowd who was there. There was a stage and security up front at the concert, that is where Tom and Eric took a seat. Bobby has changed his story over the years and now tries to minimize Brother Duane's contributions to what was an album stuck that needed energy and direction. Without Duane there would be no Layla.
Bobby might have burned a few to many brain cells. All as we have to do is listen to the music and know What DA did for that album but for 2 songs. @@Bubbette23
Anybody interested in the Layla album should check out Coco and Bobby's thread on forums.stevehoffman.tv where Bobby answers a lot of questions and tells a bunch of great tales. Internet gold.
Didn't the drummer use a hammer for some very not recommended non carpentry purposes?I seem to remember something about that ,and him going to where non carpentry hammer users go.
oleole52 hey Oleole... yep the guy suffered for years of undiagnosed schizophrenia and eventually lost it. It’s a very tragic story all the way around. Jim Gordon could play..
I don't think Derek and the Dominos were considered a "super group," especially originally before Duane. If anything, they were EC's attempt at an anti-super group, including not having his name on top of the band. It's also kind of funny that this piece ends with the piano coda to "Layla," which Whitlock despised because he thought Jim Gordon stole it from Rita C.
dejordyball Check out the Speakeasy episode with Graham Nash and Rita Coolidge. Nash asks her about Layla and she opens up and says she wrote the vast majority of the music and the lyrics
It isn't that unusual a chord sequence for a piano part, similar parts abound in mainstream 1970's rock/pop/country. "Steal" is an overstatement on Bobby's part.
The title track and the album would never be eternal without Duane Allman ("all man" and more . The drummer Jim Gordon was played the piano for the interlude between part 1 and part 2 of the song . Whether or not Gordon came up with the idea of the beautiful second part i don't know . Gordon was classically trained as a percussionist and could read music probably better than anyone in Derek and the Dominos . He was a workaholic . many times: morning he'd be a session in studio recordings including steely dan, in the afternoon playing a gig and at night playing percussionist with a symphony ( a modern day percussionist or timpanist does a hell of a lot more than bang on the big kettle drum . for example he or she also has to know how to play vibraphone like marimba which has wood slats . tubular bells each for a certain note or chord etc . that over work caused him to become violent and he lost his mind. On June 3, 1983, he attacked his 72-year-old mother, Osa Marie Gordon, with a hammer before fatally stabbing her with a butcher knife; he claimed that a voice told him to kill her.[7][10][11] He has been in a prison for violently insane ever since .... tragic story . the fucking anti psychotic drugs they have been forcing into him ever since have inhumane torture like side effects have probably made him worse . At a 2005 hearing, he claimed his mother was still alive . He's up for parole in 2018. Of course i don't find mental illness as an excuse for murder or homicide . Fact is the majority of crazy people don't commit violence and its not because there on the evil medication . I'm 60 now and i use to be a urban person for many years . these crazy loons on the street corners babbling nonsense , thinking they are the king of spain , gesticulating wildly at the sky etc i have never found to be violent . it's best to leave them alone . i had many a conversation with a crazy guy or woman after he got tired of ranting at a mcdonald's or coffee shop and found them quite interesting . But Jim Gordon was the rare dangerous "mentally ill" person . I'm the kind of person who can't help but have some pity for a single murder prisoner . those i have no pity for are like the corporate driven US government and military who kill millions directly or by proxy so the elites can plunder third world countries' resources
There were 4 only great American Rock n Blurs Bands and not necessarily in this order! The Band Little Feat The Allman Bros Band and The Amazing Rhythm Aces! No band other than The Beatles came near these 4 Bands for Vocals Musicianship virtuosos! Maybe Blind Faith and prior Cream but they were essentially great British Bands!
Jeremy Green Solo Greg is awesome too.....Laid back and Playing up a storm are perfect for dim lights, a bourbon and coke and maybe a little pillow talk while "Come and go blues" gets you in that emotional state of mind as you drift off to a place where there is no space and time.........imho...... Peace from Texas
Allmans were the likely the best American rock band with every element clicking--vocals, guitars, songwriting, and incomparably interpretations of the blues. The Doors made every blues song they touched the best version (Who Do You Love, Little Red Rooster, Crawling King Snake, Back Door Man, etc.) Amazingly underrated no-frills band with the best vocalist in rock. The Band had three virtuosic singers (!), perfect musicians, and excellent, unique songwriting and composition. Springsteen's band in the 70s could not be topped--doubters only need see the Hammersmith Odeon in London concert in '75. That there are the greatest four American rock bands, though it pains me to leave Hendrix out of any sentence with the word "greatest," as he was on an entirely different level as everyone else.
I’ve come to realise more and more that Bobby W, along with EC was the musical heart of that seminal album. So much energy and confidence…vox as well as instruments. Duane’s guitarwork is beautiful and lifts the sound that’s already been established by the four-piece.
Bobby and CoCo sound great doing the old songs. When you hear them you realize how important Whitlock was to the sound of Layla album.
Agreed!
I’m always remembering Duane ALLMAN! ❤️ 🍄 🍑
Probably one of the best bands ever created, and definitely one of the top 20 albums ever done, a super bunch of real people, Great job, help to mold be into the musician and man i am today.
Michael Rudnick agree. Imagine adding Dave Mason and Duane Allman to your band. I’m sure winwood sat in as well.
Joe cocker and Leon Russell were no fools grabbing Carl and Jim after the breakup.
And then we walked in the door and I love the idea of a unreal record and. The power of the band is playing with everything about that first broken 💔😢😥 heart and every song feels like wow I didn't realize that Eric Clapton feels like me and then you grab your guitar and amp 😂 and then play it by ear and then the next song feels like it's all how u. Feel your love for her will never go away and then anyway comes on and tears running down my face and then 😭💔 sing 😭 anayday and the power of Bobby's voice is so like Eric you know you have a lot of power and that record is what heals my torn up and broken heat 😷 and made me play and be the. Guitar and songwriter singer IAM I trueley think about that record it is the best memories and insperation of all time never forget you no this record is the best ever done
Layla/ Exile on Main Street - for me - greatest albums of all time.
RIP Gregg Allman, you and skydog are rocking in heaven now.
Layla is my all-time favorite song.
One of the greatest songs, but IMHO Anyday is better.
Just love how Coco puts her arm around Bobby. Great to see two people in love.
+Marty C : Yes, I agree with you. But I also saw....totally my opinion here only.....that she was almost sitting with her arm around him to kind of keep him focused maybe.....keeping him from going off and speaking inappropriately (which he gave no indication of) or going "off the rails" in a sense. She def. whispered something at him very quickly towards the end of his telling his tale, I don't know what it was. Maybe to "cut it short". Hey.....I could be totally wrong, but watch her eyes......she's scrutinizing every word he's saying and I think I'm not wrong here. Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed his tale and could have listened to him for much longer. Who knows.
It's an absolute tragedy that they lasted as long as they did, thankfully the one album they did was a masterpiece as well their untouchable live recordings.
Bobby's vocals on those DTD tracks are really great. It's Too Late and I Looked Away are super.
Decades later & I Looked Away Still absolutely blows me away!! Great songwriter team Clapton /Whitlock!!!
@@davidmartin7081 Did Bobby also do vocals or co-lead vocals on "Any Day"?
Bobby wrote and did the lead vocal on Thorn Tree in the Garden.
I also like "Thorntree in the garden- still makes me cry every time I hear it. Just beautiful!
@@basilmarasco1975 yes bobby did vocals on any day. I’m pretty sure he has the second verse as well.
I loved John Mayall and Cream, but just lately getting into the whole Delaney and Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos period. Of course I loved Layla but all the stuff that gang put out was terrific, and more easy going than Cream. Having Duane Allman join in was a real inspiration but even without Duane those groups were great.
its still the # 1 album of all time, I have all of there recordings
I saw the AllmanBrothers at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh , Pa. on October 15 , 1971. Unbelievable nite. Duane played half the nite on the S.G. and half on the L.P. Dicky played a Gold Top. I think they both had 50 watt Marshalls. I think it was on "You don't love me" .Duane takes a solo by himself on the burst and gos a little out of tune , hits a 5th frett barred A, tunes the G string up and dives right back into it . No stopping him . He left us days latter. That concert is online or U-Tube .
Bobby is my Uncle. Idk if he will see this but i am Garrett Whitlock.
Cool. I remember when he went to Millington High, or somewhere in Millington, TN. We have mutual friends. Don’t wanna name drop. Hope he’s doing well. He’s always been a great musician.
Hi Garrett, your Uncle was a great musician!
So far, he hasn't.
Hey Garrett i'm an ol Millington boy and I knew Nate in 70's and met Bobby when he came through and played the Longbranch in Millington 40 somethin years ago. George Eubanks introduced me to him. George was a classmate of Bobby's at MCHS.
@@shawnathon60 IS a great musician
Eric Clapton said that Duane Allman was the musical brother he wished he had!
For all these decades of hearing "Layla", I never knew Duane was that guitar until a couple of months ago - WOW...
I read DECADES ago where Whitlock said it was easy to tell who was playing guitar as he said ALL the best guitar parts were Duane Allman!
@@notadoc2130 whoever said that is stupid
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I don't believe that was said..!
...WHYYYY does Bobby Whitlock look EXACTLY like one of Clapton’s incarnations..:)?!
If I had your memory I could have made it through Medical School sane AND famous 😆😉🎼🎶🎵🎸👨🏼⚕️🎸!!! I enjoy your recollections (and paintings) immensely. God's blessings be yours throughout this Christmas Season with CoCo! Keep up the good work, my friend.
I was fortunate enough to see the ABB play a Sunday afternoon gig at a small park in Macon Ga. Must have been 1970/71.I was 12 or 13 y/o at the time. I was standing maybe 10-15 feet from Duane, ....to say he was a stunning guitarist is an understatement, at certain points he was just scary great! The thing i remember most though while watching/listening to him was that it seemed to me that his guitar sounded like it was breathing in between notes, like it was alive. (I wasn't doing drink or drugs by the way) Not normal gtr amp hiss or effects or anything, Very strange in a good way and VERY cool! I've never since heard any guitarist sound the way he made that guitar sound that day and i probably never will.
Man I love your stories could listen all day, keep them coming Brother.
I wish that Bobbie would have stayed with Eric. It would have made Eric better.
According to Bobby he waited for Eric to do something, start playing again post Layla, for 2 years but couldn’t wait anymore. He was willing but Clapton didn’t have his shit together then. I think that’s how it went.
I wore out 2 copies of this in vinyl.
One of my favorite Eric Clapton tunes now I know why.
R.I.P Gregg it was an absolute pleasure to meet you.
I’m envious that man is part of history
I only wish I could’ve met Gregg, that’s cool.🤜🏼🤛🏼
Back in late ’69 I was visiting my cousin who was a DJ at a radio station in Chicago. We were at his house getting ready to go out for the evening when he suggested we listen to a promo album the station just got. It was the Allman Brothers’ first album. We listened to the whole thing and were of course blown away. After, we went to a club on State Street in Chicago called “Beavers” which was a favorite of ours. If any of you were around at that time and frequented Beavers you may recall that when you entered the club you walked through a long corridor before entering the main room during which you could hear whoever was on stage. What we heard sounded familiar and once inside we saw it was the Brothers. The stage wasn’t really big enough to hold the whole group so they were tightly packed but still a couple of guys had to spill over onto the floor. They were phenomenal! Before that I was lucky enough to see John Mayall with Clapton as the Bluesbreakers at a small teen club in a Chicago suburb called the Cellar in, I want to say 1965 and then in ’66 or ’67 saw Cream there, so I got to see two of the greatest guitarists of my generation (actually three as I saw Hendrix in Chicago as well).
Interesting note about the Cellar: my wife and I met there in ’64 at a Who show (during their first American tour). At the time I think admission was like $2.00 or $2.50. Many years later we saw them again but the tickets were $250! If any film makers are reading this…someone has to do a documentary about the Cellar. For those who don’t know, all the local bands played there as well as tons of international Rock acts (the above plus The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, The Spencer Davis Group, Three Dog Night, The Steve Miller Band, and a whole lot more). Man, the ‘60s were great!
Saw Crow at the Cellar in 69...was too young for those other shows but all us locals knew about them...did see DD in Nov 1970 at Painters Mill Md. They opened the show with Layla.
Great musicians,great music.!!!
All bc of patti boyd, the heart and soul of layla.
Love stories like this! :-)
What days those were. Gawd!
The good ones. When Rock was raw and young.
Very early 70's youngin. COCO 's a real trip.
It was wonderful growing up in jax with all the great music locally with ABB and LS.
i saw derek and and dominos, with the alllman bros/humble pie at the filmier east amazing regards bart cohen
yeah we wont have any more like that bro
That's a helluva story...thanks!
Here is Greg Allmans side of it, excerpt from Greg's book entitled...'My Cross to Bear'.
On August 26, 1970, we were down in Miami Beach, playing a free gig on a stage that the city set up on a big median on Collins Avenue. We were playing "Don't Keep Me Wondering'", which was next-to-last song of the night. It would segue with a little jam into "Whipping Post," and i looked out over the crowd, and the people were all standing on the grass, listening. Nobody was doing the Grateful Dead waltz, and there weren't no spinners.
I looked over, and i saw this set of beautiful burnt sienna suede boots on this cat who was sitting on the grass with one leg out in front of him. I followed that boot up the pants, up the body to the head, and there was Mr. Eric Clapton. Next to him was Tommy Dowd, grinning like a fucking mule eating in the briars. Jim Gordon, Carl Radle, and Bobby Whitlock were there too--all of the Dominoes, but i didn't recognize them.
After i shit myself, i looked over to Duane, thinking, "I hope to Christ he doesn't see him, because this will either be the finest 'Whipping Post' we'll ever play, or this fucker's going to fall apart." But Duane didn't notice anything, so we finished the show with a real good "Whipping Post," and then Duane eases over to me and said, "Baybrah, dig who the fuck is sitting over there." "Man i saw him two songs ago," I said. "Do you see them fucking boots, man"? Duane had a real thing for clothes back then---we both did.
I'd advise reading this book, it's one of those that's hard to put down once You get going!!! *P.s. At 1:40 Use some common practical logic here--Do You honestly think that being the professional musicians Duane and Dickey already were at the time, that they would stop playing just because they seen...GOD? I mean Eric Clapton---hahahaha. **Whitlock is acting like a... DOMINOGOODNIK!!! hahaha
Nice description of Tom Dowd lol :D "After I shit myself...." er quite. :)
A meeting of minds that was.
Nice to hear Bobby's recollection because I've heard the same story told several times, by several different people, including Tom Dowd and Eric Clapton and they all say the same thing. It must have made an incredible impression on Duane because he wasn't the type of player to just stop in the middle of a song because he was so focused...
Nor would Dickie Betts have typically been..!
If you read greggs book it definitely doesn’t go down like that
I met and saw Bobby and Coco perform. Their music was great and they're really nice people.
👍 Layla is a masterpiece.
Of course Greg has passed on since this video was made. R.I.P. to Duane and Greg.
What a great great story
Last I heard Bobby is living and playing in Austin.
Still is!
he is also doing a lot of paintings , talked to him a couple days ago
He has a Facebook page and often posts his paintings forsale and some guitar and piano videos
We were playing Layla and Bell Bottom Blues with Blue Skies and Tied to the Whipping Post.
The only one left that I'm still riffing off on is Blue Skies. I'm playing both lead guitar parts together now.
Oh yeah... I was doing that back then...
What was actually happening there was Clapton was watching carefully, Sneaking a peek to pick up what he could from the Master, Duane!! ~The Best!!
i missed out out on d and d back in the day, but with the power of the internet, i have found this group, their album and the great bobby whitlock, as well as delaney and bonnie. are d and d in the hall of fame.....they should be. by the way, bobby wears the best shirts and has the best wife in rock n roll
One of my favorite music segments is the Layla piano Coda - it is the foundation of the soundtrack of my youth.
what a story...top marks for the shirt as well
Best story ever!!
CREOLE VIKING it's SLIGHTLY different from what Greg says in his book.......
Great story Bobby!
That's about how many people were at their show in San Diego I was at . Late 60s early 70 . It's kind of foggy . Super group for sure. Bonnie and Delaney was warm up group .
I wish we knew what really happened. Their is also Bill Dowds story, Butches story, and Duanes, and lots of Differences in all from what I listened to. The rest is history from a great band.
Bobby douche bag said this about Duane:According to Whitlock, Allman was "a hired gun" and an "unnecessary" addition; Whitlock added, "He played with us twice, and it was not good both times he played, because he was not a fluid player ... He could play parts, but he couldn’t sing with his guitar." Duane " was not a fluid player"? yet Clap asked Duane to join his band? LAYLA would NOT be the masterpiece it is without Duane's opening riff which Butch said Duane did indeed compose, Butch was there. Duane's INCREDIBLE slide throughout LAYLA and Duane's birdy chirps on slide which end the song. Duane was named 2nd greatest guitarits after Hendrix for decades until this new crop of "experts" dropped Duane down to #10, REALLY?
@@gingermurray Hmmm ... I read a quote from Whitlock DECADES ago where he said that ALL the best guitar parts on that recording were played by Duane Allman!
@@notadoc2130 He changed his tune. Too coked up
Wow I have this Record and have put in on A CD to Keep !!!!!!
Whatever Bobby is doing now, he wrote or co wrote all of the original songs on the D&D record...They are his songs to play...
Bobby and CoCo live in Austin and play regularly at the Saxon Pub, usually an early Saturday show. Been to see them often. He tells stories like these throughout their shows. Musically they are great, with Coco singing the high harmonies and an occasional lead while adding guitar and some sweet sax solos. Bobby plays both guitar and piano but, to me, his singing is in a class of its own. What feeling!
You Americans don't know how lucky you are. In comparison, we have no choice, and the only claim to fame our live band has - the lead singer was a contestant in The Biggest Loser!
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I hope I can catch that show one of these days..!
great story.
Great story !!!
The throng of 175 people! I love it.
Imagine the music that could have been made if Duane would have been alive,longer
ABB performed a free outdoor concert that night at Miami Beach. I recall the boys at the top of their game and watching from the lawn, noticed EC on stage using the bass cab as a conga drum. Totally in the groove. History unfolding before my eyes. As Tom Dowd produced Atlantic ' s best talent it was no surprise that after the sh. ne woun d up at Criteria. BTW, the piano e
Oops, Layla ' s ending was called "Jimmie ' s Theme" as JG wrote it. Ironically, EC didn't care to include it in the stage show, so George Terry sometimes would force it into the performance. George turned EC onto Bob Marley.
And...Jim Gordon got it from...Rita C. And that's the rest of the story.
Yep - stole it from her, didn't he?
Bobby and Coco in 2021 have a wonderful channel on TH-cam.
Such a cool story
South Carolina say yahoooooooooooooooooo
Bobby did the piano on Layla I learned recently, Clapton said he had more energy than most, I was into the Allmans, never knew about Bobby at the time. Keep on keepin on!
I’ve heard the piano on the outro was drummer Jim Gordon
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I do believe that he composed that part; the coda at the end..!
And a great voice too
@@professormacdeezy The piano outro originally was Gordon. According to another post by Bobby, what happened was the band had finished the album and returned to London. Then, apparently Gordon met with D & the D's manager Robert Stigwood and struck a deal whereby the coda would be tagged onto the original track. Much to the chagrin of the rest of the band, they had to fly back to Florida to record that coda. Gordon had laid down the original piano but it was considered weak, so Bobby played over it, resulting in the dynamic rendering we all love so much.
By all accounts, Gordon was an erratic individual, and this incident was one of several that ultimately led to the band dissolving, with the final straw apparently being him taking receipt of a large new drum kit and assembling that during a session when the band was to have been recording. It seems that Gordon, who was one of America's top session players prior to joining the band (he was enlisted after Jim Keltner was unable to accept the invitation due to a scheduling conflict), saw himself as being above the rest.
Possibly you are also aware that the piano coda originated with Gordon's previous girlfriend, singer Rita Coolidge (that relationship ended when he punched her in the face during the Mad Dogs & Englismen tour). According to Ms. Coolidge (and supported by Stephen Stills and Graham Nash), the music Gordon used and took credit for came from her tune 'Time', which was recorded by Booker T Jones (of MGs fame) and Coolidge's sister (and Jones's wife) Priscilla. th-cam.com/video/9IJPLcwHOes/w-d-xo.html
Duane Allman was the real deal.
To a large extent, Eric Clapton was the product of serious marketing.
Super slide guitar
Legends !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
great stuff
You gotta love Bobby Whitlock!!
50th Jubilee! Everyone has their particular place in Time,
Love the shirt, Bobby....
Not technically a super-group, but the case could be made after Allman contributed to the album. I don't think Allman actually ever went on tour with the Dominos.
MerkinMuffly I may be wrong but I think they played live only twice,once in Florida and again up north in NJ or NY.
According to Jim Gordon (drums) Duane played guitar with them for a few gigs. Eric asked Duane to join the group, & he almost did, but decided to stick with his brother & The Allman Brothers.
Duane did do a handful of shows with them. I've heard them on TH-cam.
Love this story.
Very 😎 Legends!
Was this guy in King of the Hill?
I absolutely love Derek and the Dominoes Live at the Fillmore.....it's pure Clapton wailage....what a difference with an incredible rock solid bottom end ( plenty of fills and runs but they stay in key ) with Gordon ...Radle....Whitlock...as opposed to 3 virtuosos at war with each other going off in 3 different directions with no cohesion....love Clapton solo in the 70's thru 83.....Clapton hid behind the Derek name but proved he could carry an ensemble no problem...Live at the Fillmore for all intents and purposes is Clapton solo....Gordon ..Radle....Whitlock are all on Clapton's first solo album...which came out before Layla....the 4 of them were rockin Live at the Fillmore...hell.....on the Johnny Cash show they kicked ass....
Larry Noletti... that live version of Presence Of The Lord from that album has become my favorite version. Besides its wonderful raw soloing, EC'S vocals on the number absolutely slay me..!
I was blessed to have been at the Fillmore East that evening and I can remember it so vividly to this day. The Studio Album as well as that evening's performance had a profound effect on music in my life. I don't know how else to describe it any other way..!
@@iconoclastKM wow....seeing that live.....that's awesome !!!!
I thought this was gonna be something I didn’t already know. I’ve read and heard this same story already many times. Oh well. Now I’ve heard it from Whitlock.
Is there a bootleg somewhere of the Allman Brothers show that The Dominoes went to? I'd love to hear that moment when Duane and Eric's eyes met :)
here you go.. you tube Eric Clapton - Derek & The Dominos and the making of "Layla" with Duane Allman.
Aqui somos fãs de Clapton e suas andanças...
essa guitarra geme mais do que a do Jimy Hendrix!
Duane was the genius guitarist in Derek and The Dominos, Clapton was along enjoying the ride.
Ya' kiddin' right ??!!
You realize half the record was done before he "stopped in" AND played the slide on Layla out of tune.
@@stevegrabher111 Nice try. Duane could play circles around E.
@@chrisanthony7552 Yeah man, most people do not realize the talent of Duane. Maybe because he died so young. I read in a Clapton book where they were having trouble figuring out an intro on Layla. Duane came up with it and everyone was like....yeah thats it !
Without Duane's solo that song is no where near as iconic.@@stevegrabher111
Cool story
I didn't realize Dave Mason had anything to do with this great album! I'm going to have to go thru the credits and see for myself!
Great story
Love chick rock doc narrators
I think the fateful day that Paul McCartney met John Lennon at the village fête - Lennon was playing on the back of a flatbed truck as well. Same kind of deal.
Allman Brothers playing on a flatbed truck with Eric looking up a Duane & 175 people at the concert !
That is a pant-load. The concert was at the convention center, it was an outdoor concert. Hay-bails and 175 people, nonsense? Watch Tom Dowd the Language of Music as that is the best discussion of what happened by Tom Dowd who was there. There was a stage and security up front at the concert, that is where Tom and Eric took a seat. Bobby has changed his story over the years and now tries to minimize Brother Duane's contributions to what was an album stuck that needed energy and direction. Without Duane there would be no Layla.
Bobby might have burned a few to many brain cells. All as we have to do is listen to the music and know What DA did for that album but for 2 songs.
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Bobby is a great guy
I would posit that cream was the start of heavy metal
Anybody interested in the Layla album should check out Coco and Bobby's thread on forums.stevehoffman.tv where Bobby answers a lot of questions and tells a bunch of great tales. Internet gold.
Bobby's a great storyteller
When he's not on tour with this promo,...is Bobby touring with national acts anymore?
Isn't Coco Carmel a flavor at Dairy Queen?
RIP GREG
Just watched Butch Trucks tell this same story on another recent YT video.
Love to hear this guy when he's straight
He’s been straight for 20 years.
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Wrong person
@@neilangus4401 Bobby Whitlock.
High or straight, hell of a musician and amazing vocalist!
Mr. Mackey anyone? is like old friends, part of my life
He told this story for the book "One Way Out" by Alan Paul.
Didn't the drummer use a hammer for some very not recommended non carpentry purposes?I seem to remember something about that ,and him going to where non carpentry hammer users go.
oleole52 hey Oleole... yep the guy suffered for years of undiagnosed schizophrenia and eventually lost it. It’s a very tragic story all the way around. Jim Gordon could play..
nice. read about the encounter way after. coco's hot.
I don't think Derek and the Dominos were considered a "super group," especially originally before Duane. If anything, they were EC's attempt at an anti-super group, including not having his name on top of the band. It's also kind of funny that this piece ends with the piano coda to "Layla," which Whitlock despised because he thought Jim Gordon stole it from Rita C.
dejordyball Check out the Speakeasy episode with Graham Nash and Rita Coolidge. Nash asks her about Layla and she opens up and says she wrote the vast majority of the music and the lyrics
I believe she wrote the melody that is the piano coda. But the actual song--not buyin' it.
It isn't that unusual a chord sequence for a piano part, similar parts abound in mainstream 1970's rock/pop/country. "Steal" is an overstatement on Bobby's part.
The coda was written by their drummer crazy Jim Gordon
No, it was written By Rita...
Jim was dating her- he stole it.
A 19 wheeler give me a break. 18 wheels
A bit too much Cheech and Chong...probably thought it was real. And lived it!
"Eric Clapton? Yeah, he's good but he's no Dickey Betts", (Duane Allman)
Bs!
The title track and the album would never be eternal without Duane Allman ("all man" and more . The drummer Jim Gordon was played the piano for the interlude between part 1 and part 2 of the song . Whether or not Gordon came up with the idea of the beautiful second part i don't know . Gordon was classically trained as a percussionist and could read music probably better than anyone in Derek and the Dominos . He was a workaholic . many times: morning he'd be a session in studio recordings including steely dan, in the afternoon playing a gig and at night playing percussionist with a symphony ( a modern day percussionist or timpanist does a hell of a lot more than bang on the big kettle drum . for example he or she also has to know how to play vibraphone like marimba which has wood slats . tubular bells each for a certain note or chord etc . that over work caused him to become violent and he lost his mind.
On June 3, 1983, he attacked his 72-year-old mother, Osa Marie Gordon, with a hammer before fatally stabbing her with a butcher knife; he claimed that a voice told him to kill her.[7][10][11]
He has been in a prison for violently insane ever since .... tragic story . the fucking anti psychotic drugs they have been forcing into him ever since have inhumane torture like side effects have probably made him worse .
At a 2005 hearing, he claimed his mother was still alive . He's up for parole in 2018.
Of course i don't find mental illness as an excuse for murder or homicide . Fact is the majority of crazy people don't commit violence and its not because there on the evil medication . I'm 60 now and i use to be a urban person for many years . these crazy loons on the street corners babbling nonsense , thinking they are the king of spain , gesticulating wildly at the sky etc i have never found to be violent . it's best to leave them alone . i had many a conversation with a crazy guy or woman after he got tired of ranting at a mcdonald's or coffee shop and found them quite interesting . But Jim Gordon was the rare dangerous "mentally ill" person . I'm the kind of person who can't help but have some pity for a single murder prisoner . those i have no pity for are like the corporate driven US government and military who kill millions directly or by proxy so the elites can plunder third world countries' resources
Bobby 4real mon
If you know your guitarist it Duane and the Dominos. Eric stood down.
There were 4 only great American Rock n Blurs Bands and not necessarily in this order! The Band Little Feat The Allman Bros Band and The Amazing Rhythm Aces! No band other than The Beatles came near these 4 Bands for Vocals Musicianship virtuosos! Maybe Blind Faith and prior Cream but they were essentially great British Bands!
Jeremy Green Solo Greg is awesome too.....Laid back and Playing up a storm are perfect for dim lights, a bourbon and coke and maybe a little pillow talk while "Come and go blues" gets you in that emotional state of mind as you drift off to a place where there is no space and time.........imho......
Peace from Texas
Nice to see the Aces mentioned almost forgotten now.
B.S.
Never heard of the Aces and I've followed music for over 50 years.
Allmans were the likely the best American rock band with every element clicking--vocals, guitars, songwriting, and incomparably interpretations of the blues. The Doors made every blues song they touched the best version (Who Do You Love, Little Red Rooster, Crawling King Snake, Back Door Man, etc.) Amazingly underrated no-frills band with the best vocalist in rock. The Band had three virtuosic singers (!), perfect musicians, and excellent, unique songwriting and composition. Springsteen's band in the 70s could not be topped--doubters only need see the Hammersmith Odeon in London concert in '75. That there are the greatest four American rock bands, though it pains me to leave Hendrix out of any sentence with the word "greatest," as he was on an entirely different level as everyone else.