Didn't know about Derek and the Dominos until today... Layla (Reaction!)

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  • @janflewelling6277
    @janflewelling6277 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +237

    Yep, it's all one song, 7 minutes, and back in the day, we could hear it on the radio all the way through, uncut, everytime. Life was good.

    • @armadillotoe
      @armadillotoe 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

      I think people had longer attention spans back then. Many of us listened to complete albums instead of songs.

    • @sedatedape315
      @sedatedape315 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      Life Sure Was!
      And the best music. Hands down!

    • @threekidzmom04
      @threekidzmom04 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@armadillotoe yes. I agree

    • @ZacCostilla
      @ZacCostilla 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      FM radio was a totally different culture than AM back in the day. And while FM has better sound fidelity, it has a much shorter range, so AM radio was country, traditional folk/americana, gospel & worship, big band, and mainstream trad jazz. Rock, and folk revival (think protest stuff, like Bob Dylan & Woody Guthrie) thrived because people were reluctant to move the DJs and traditional stuff from AM to FM, so the new music thrived. FM was the place of college radio (and the young guys LOVED the new rock & roll, and college music always had classical stuff going on too), fusion jazz, etc. you should look up the early DJs of FM music, of whom Wolfman Jack was probably the most famous.

    • @janflewelling6277
      @janflewelling6277 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @@ZacCostilla discovering FM radio in the early 70s was a musical revelation.

  • @ericanderson8886
    @ericanderson8886 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +184

    Duanes slide outro is just a work of art. RIP he died so young.

    • @richardsims4779
      @richardsims4779 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      He came up with the opening riff too.

    • @warrenfoil6851
      @warrenfoil6851 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      I actually had a brief chat with Duane!
      I didn't know it but did lol.
      I was 16 in 1970 when they headlined a two day rock festival in Love Valley, NC.
      My much hipper friends and I stopped and had a couple minute how's it going kinda thing with this blonde guy. They all swear it was Duane to this day.
      PS
      I also went skinny dipping with naked women. I was 16 and rockin'.

    • @cathyhetzel7692
      @cathyhetzel7692 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@warrenfoil6851 The best!!

  • @davidprocaccini8935
    @davidprocaccini8935 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +214

    Clapton was in the Yardbirds, John Mayalls Blues Breakers, Cream, Blind Faith and Delaney and Bonnie all before Derek and the Dominoes

    • @MrRiverfeverwa
      @MrRiverfeverwa 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

      Dont forget he was with the Beatles for one song!

    • @T-bone1950
      @T-bone1950 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      You're either a super fan or you've got a fantastic memory. Whichever, you've earned 👍👍👍❤

    • @meyerhave
      @meyerhave 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Thank-you @davidprocaccini8935.
      "Origins" my foot, the notion of "Derek and the Dominoes" being of Clapton's early musical roots here, circa 1970.

    • @James-cr3ps
      @James-cr3ps 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      A timeless classic from beginning to piano ending❤😊

    • @jessecrain7518
      @jessecrain7518 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Yes! The guitar solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Beautiful work.

  • @Eowyn187
    @Eowyn187 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +150

    "Bell Bottom Blues" ❤ 🎧

    • @danbenedict8375
      @danbenedict8375 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      One of the best Eric Clapton songs.

    • @guyray1504
      @guyray1504 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      This was another one he wrote about his wife ,Pattie Boyd, who was also married to George Harrison. She had many songs written to and about her.

    • @CreativeMagique
      @CreativeMagique 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      @@guyray1504between this song & “Something,” the music world is a richer place for the existence of Patti Boyd Harrison Clapton.

    • @uncledave9530
      @uncledave9530 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@guyray1504 You look wonderful tonight

    • @uncledave9530
      @uncledave9530 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      Bell bottom blues is never listed as one of his best but for some reason has always been my favorite.

  • @michaelgarrison1137
    @michaelgarrison1137 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +91

    Two of the greatest guitar players, Clapton and Duane Allman

    • @cube_2593
      @cube_2593 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Don’t forget Mark Knopfler and Hendrix

    • @dianer.9203
      @dianer.9203 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Amen! Clapton and Duanne Allman…skydog!

  • @wordgiesworld5483
    @wordgiesworld5483 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +58

    The subtle transition from Whitlock’s piano to EC’s acoustic always gets me. So smooth. All while Duane’s slide cries in the background. Best outro ever.

    • @MartinBuck-n8n
      @MartinBuck-n8n 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      The piano outdoors is actually the drummer Jim Gordon, who wound up in a metal hospital after murdering his mother.

    • @wordgiesworld5483
      @wordgiesworld5483 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ wow! Didn’t know that back story.

    • @stevebengel1346
      @stevebengel1346 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@MartinBuck-n8nactually it's both on piano because Tom Dowd didn't think that Gordon had enough "feel" on the keys like he did on the drums, so he had Bobby overdub

  • @stevem-h3562
    @stevem-h3562 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +113

    Man, Patty Boyd must have really been something..... at least three of the greatest songs of the rock and roll era written about the same girl.... Something, Layla and Wonderful Tonight, at a minimum.
    She must have been something else......

    • @tomwilliams5137
      @tomwilliams5137 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

      And George Harrison wrote While my guitar gently weeps for her as well.

    • @threekidzmom04
      @threekidzmom04 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      Never thought of it before but you are right. Wasn't she in A Hard Days Night?

    • @guyray1504
      @guyray1504 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Bell Bottom Blues also and a drummer she was with after Eric also wrote a song about her.

    • @deborahdean
      @deborahdean 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@threekidzmom04 Yes, that's where she met George.

    • @threekidzmom04
      @threekidzmom04 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ I thought so

  • @bluesrock1
    @bluesrock1 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +43

    The origins of Eric Clapton as well known guitarist began with The Yardbirds in 1963. He went on to play with John Mayall and the Bluebreakers, he was a founding member of Cream and Blind Faith, and then he toured with Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett just before releasing his first self-titled solo album in 1970. Derek and the Dominos came later that same year. He's been a solo artist ever since.

  • @patclark3024
    @patclark3024 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +78

    The slide guitar was played by Duane Allman, my favorite guitarist of all time.

    • @richardsims4779
      @richardsims4779 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      His slide work on Mountain Jam is the first time I got tears in my eyes listening to a guitarist.

    • @ZackHamlin1
      @ZackHamlin1 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@richardsims4779allman bros are so awesome

    • @tedschmidt3288
      @tedschmidt3288 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Same here right after the drum solo on Barry Oakley's intro​@@richardsims4779

  • @jimedwards1955
    @jimedwards1955 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    This album is solid gold. No throw away songs and some of the best musicians on the planet at this time. So many back stories for the musicians and the songs. Thorn tree inthe Garden, Have You EverLoved a Woman, Key to the Highway, Little Wing, god this brings back a flood of really fond memories.

  • @lindasalvaterra1304
    @lindasalvaterra1304 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Masterpiece song! Love the opening riff. Always been my favorite.

    • @MartinBuck-n8n
      @MartinBuck-n8n 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Opening riff was all Duane Allman. Eric was stuck on how to get the song started. Duane also habitually played slide way above the frets and his signature was the little bird whistle at the end. Note the Robert Johnson song with " I have a bird who whistles, and I have a bird who sings"

  • @MrPreacherman75
    @MrPreacherman75 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +56

    Duane Allman on the slide guitar…amazing

    • @T-bone1950
      @T-bone1950 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Seb won't know what you're saying unless you call it a "slider" ! 😊

    • @kevinthrift9655
      @kevinthrift9655 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Duane used an empty Coracidin bottle for a slide.​ It was a cold medicine.@@T-bone1950

    • @dianer.9203
      @dianer.9203 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Skydog was a master of the slide!

  • @TheGreatGig73
    @TheGreatGig73 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    The second half I would listen to until the end of time. Brings me back to a special time in '72 and in '77

  • @doyledeclue282
    @doyledeclue282 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +70

    On that same album Bell. bottom blues blues

    • @stevem-h3562
      @stevem-h3562 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      YES!!!!!! Absolutely!!

    • @RoSaWa386-33
      @RoSaWa386-33 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      The entire album.

    • @JonathanFreise
      @JonathanFreise 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      And Little Wing

    • @TonyR57
      @TonyR57 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Listen to the attack on Clapton’s solo in Have You Ever Loved a Woman. My favorite guitar moment ever.

  • @mbh2743
    @mbh2743 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +39

    The thing to realize about the 60s and 70s is all these musicians knew each other and often Jam together. They appeared on each other's albums play regrouped in different ways to make new groups they party together it was a tight community

    • @janflewelling6277
      @janflewelling6277 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      In the days of vinyl, I spent countless hours reading the liner notes, the lyrics, who played what, who did vocals. It was a huge communal music fest for years. What a golden age (We had the BEST music).

    • @GregCombs100
      @GregCombs100 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That is, until Clapton stole George Harrison's wife. Part of what inspired this song.

  • @mickeyneal6374
    @mickeyneal6374 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    If not the best song ever it is definitely in the top five. Never tire of listening to this song.

  • @dangoodall-williams4200
    @dangoodall-williams4200 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    I love seeing you learn about the history of musicians and their music. The 70's had some of THE best music EVER.

  • @DrJ4712
    @DrJ4712 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +28

    I've noticed several of you young reactors😂 ask " When are the lyrics gonna come in?" Or " Are there any more lyrics?" WHO CARES when you have that intro and outro to listen to! A lot of OUR music (I'm 63) have long intros! Nice reaction! Keep it up! I'm here for it😊❤

    • @nancyjohnson2070
      @nancyjohnson2070 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      I’m 68 but think I’m 35. 😂 No rules back in the day. I’m here to enjoy the music, see your reaction and reading other reactions. ❤❤❤

  • @ericzeichert511
    @ericzeichert511 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    In 1992, Clapton completely reworked this song into a slow, acoustic ballad that was more ear worthy for his aging demographic. As an aging demograph, I really like both versions. By the way, you will definitely understand the words of the acoustic version.

    • @BRIDINC1972
      @BRIDINC1972 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Always loved both versions😎😍

    • @scottbrown4429
      @scottbrown4429 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      In 2004, "Layla" was ranked number 27 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and the acoustic version won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. In 1998, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

  • @edwardloomis887
    @edwardloomis887 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Layla's piano solo at 5:14 is one of my favorite instrumental solos in the entire rock and roll era. It's perfect for the song and overall.

  • @Mike-tg4ui
    @Mike-tg4ui 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    The outro was used in Goodfellas for the scene were Jimmy had wacked his crew and their bodies were turning up everywhere

    • @Rob-eo5ql
      @Rob-eo5ql 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      What a great scene. Fit perfectly

  • @tedjung3700
    @tedjung3700 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    One of the best rock songs ever recorded. It always leaves me smiling.

  • @col-hiwildcats6717
    @col-hiwildcats6717 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Duane "Skydog" Allman on slide guitar. He was in a hallway restroom/closet with headphone becauses there wasn't room for him in the main studio. THIS IS HIS FIRST TAKE! Awesome. Great song with great musicians. Crazy good stuff. Peace out.

  • @annafitzgerald9913
    @annafitzgerald9913 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Possibly the single greatest guitar riff in rock history❤️

  • @barbarakitt5948
    @barbarakitt5948 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Clapton’s acoustic version of this is absolute 🔥🔥🔥

  • @hobiwan9597
    @hobiwan9597 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

    The entire album is incredible.

  • @ElizabethLOhrn
    @ElizabethLOhrn 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +21

    It just hit me - you simply click your mouse and rewind to what you want to hear. Back in the day, we had to VERY carefully lift the needle and HOPE that we picked the right infinitesimally small vinyl track on which to put it back down. Technology has given you tools with which to create great review videos for us to watch!

    • @zwieseler
      @zwieseler 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      If you tap the left or right arrows on your keyboard you can bounce back and forward in 5 second intervals 👍

    • @cwcheese
      @cwcheese 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I loved my Technics turntable with the lifter lever to gently pick up the stylus, and the arm you could smoothly position over the lead in groove on the desired song track, then you slowly let the lever down till the stylus caught that groove.

    • @ElizabethLOhrn
      @ElizabethLOhrn 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@zwieseler Yes, but where was that on a turntable when I need it, LOL!

  • @ernee5
    @ernee5 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Thank You for having an OPEN mind

  • @mzluna313
    @mzluna313 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    This song is the subject of one of my best mom moments. When my daughter was 12 her dad got her a cellphone. This was the early 2000's, so not everyone was carrying a phone yet. She got a call and her ringtone was Layla. So when she got off the phone I asked her, "So what was that song?" My 12 year old got into a stance that screamed, "I'm about to school my mom!" She's like "Mom!! This is Layla. Eric Clapton is the singer but the band is Derek and the Dominoes!" I just said, "You don't say!" I then turned around and quietly celebrated, "Yes!!! That's my girl!" And she still listens to Clapton!

    • @sippa5
      @sippa5 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Love it!!!

    • @jimmoore8951
      @jimmoore8951 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      There’s hope after all

  • @kareng4658
    @kareng4658 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    The beginning of this song is my phone ringtone!! I've seen Clapton 3 times, what talent!

  • @-R.Gray-
    @-R.Gray- 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

    They say that although Jim Gordon claimed co-writing credits for the outro, the piano part should really have been credited to Rita Coolidge, Gordon's girlfriend at the time. She and Gordon wrote it as a vocal song, and she played it on piano for Clapton, but he wasn't interested at the time. She was shocked to hear it on the album, but couldn't afford to sue the record company.

    • @jimmoore8951
      @jimmoore8951 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@-R.Gray- to say that Jim Gordon had issues is an understatement. At least Rita survived to tell the story

  • @scuppernog1
    @scuppernog1 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Two guitar gods on one song. What’s not to like. 🔥🤘🏻😎

    • @dianer.9203
      @dianer.9203 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yep! Skydog and Clapton

  • @bobb9541
    @bobb9541 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

    One of the best albums of all time in my opinion. You could throw a dart at any of the songs and hit a winner every time.

  • @simonatkinson1107
    @simonatkinson1107 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    An acoustic version he did of this was on the MTV Unplugged concert he did. It’s the same song but such a totally different feel to it.

  • @HydeCharlie
    @HydeCharlie 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    The opening notes and slide outro are Duane on a '56 or '57 LesPaul goldtop. A few years after Duane's death a neighbor of mine was able to buy it for $450, from a music store where it had been left for repairs that it's next owner couildn't pay for. Just a few years ago he sold it at auction for $1.2 million.

  • @davidkettell1073
    @davidkettell1073 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    That closeout with the piano will forever be one of my favorite pieces and cemrnted Clapton as a musical genius .

  • @kevinayme
    @kevinayme 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    The acoustic version was on MTV Unplugged, which was bands who weren't normally acoustic. The show was also live with a fairly small audience, so this was the first time anyone ever heard the acoustic version. It was recorded as an album that sold 26 million copies.
    There were a number of bands and singers, but you might also like Nirvana.

  • @viviankilloran385
    @viviankilloran385 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Layla…in my top 3 of favorite songs EVER. I remember when it came out. Stared at my radio (yes, radio) the whole time it played.
    Good times!!

  • @bobfoutch5238
    @bobfoutch5238 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +25

    The piano coda was actually written by Rita Coolidge, drummer Jim Gordon's girlfriend at the time. She was in the studio next to the band. Clapton heard the piano and wanted to put the piano piece in the song, but he never got Rita's permission.

    • @HRConsultant_Jeff
      @HRConsultant_Jeff 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      And she never got credit on the album and had to bring suit many years later.

    • @tcspur1
      @tcspur1 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      That's not entirely true - Clapton heard Jim Gordon playing it, he had no idea at the time that it was from something Rita Coolidge had written.

    • @tcspur1
      @tcspur1 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@HRConsultant_JeffI don't think she's ever done that.

    • @suzannekile
      @suzannekile 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I saw a interview where she talks about some of her music was stolen

    • @alysmyers8772
      @alysmyers8772 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@tcspur1 Sounds like they were both to blame for not giving her credit.

  •  3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This song is so beautiful it makes me cry 😢

    • @dianer.9203
      @dianer.9203 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Same. It is a masterpiece!

  • @robinjoseph9430
    @robinjoseph9430 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    The piano riff is at the end of the movie Goodfellows

  • @lisamanteio7751
    @lisamanteio7751 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This is my all time favorite.❤

  • @jimmoore8951
    @jimmoore8951 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The opening guitar riff was lifted from an Albert King blues tune, the piano outro from a Rita Coolidge lick, and the lyrics from a novel that Eric adapted to his love triangle with his best friend’s wife. Definitely checks the It’s Complicated box on social media.

  • @alysonhaas86
    @alysonhaas86 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    Eric Clapton is Awesome!!!!! So many good songs!

  • @gkiferonhs
    @gkiferonhs 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    And this complicated sound was made by only five guys. No autotune, very few studio effects (they had fuzz tone and echo and that was about all).

  • @rickfortier8664
    @rickfortier8664 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +50

    Written about his future wife, he was pinning for Pattie Boyd who was married to George Harrison at the time.

    • @franksullivan1873
      @franksullivan1873 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Not true.This song was stolen from Rita Coolidge and the melody is from her song ,Time.

    • @lockedouttv8617
      @lockedouttv8617 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@franksullivan1873You’re both correct. The first half is indeed written by Clapton about Boyd. The second half (the outro) is credited to Jim Gordon but was actually written by his then-girlfriend, Rita Coolidge.

  • @mikeconners1648
    @mikeconners1648 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Just a great tune, you gotta check out more of his stuff, you won’t be disappointed. Thanks for playing.

  • @fredjones7675
    @fredjones7675 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    the story of the CODA and all the players involved is, to say the least, fascinating

    • @richardsims4779
      @richardsims4779 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Stolen from Rita Coolidge is the story I heard. Evidently Gordon was not a nice guy.

    • @lockedouttv8617
      @lockedouttv8617 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@richardsims4779He was convicted of murdering his own mother.

    • @mikemike1425
      @mikemike1425 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The Dominos broke up because of Gordon. During what was going to be the 2nd album.

  • @rickmeister
    @rickmeister 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    About 10 years ago, I had two tickets to see Eric Clapton, but my wife got sick the day before the concert. I asked my son if he'd like to go with me. He asked me "who's Eric Clapton?" (he was 30 something then) I said to just go and maybe you'll enjoy seeing him. After the concert, he was stunned and now a fan of Slowhand. For me, it was 2.5 hours of pure bliss!!

  • @FencePost-2024
    @FencePost-2024 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    We LOVE this. Watching someone 'unbox' Layla, love the concept and format, .super cool channel!

  • @6159mibo
    @6159mibo 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

    That slide is Duane Allman.

    • @robertredden4429
      @robertredden4429 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Duane Allman heard Eric Clapton was in Mussel Sholes cutting the album went there to see Eric Clapton and wound up playing on the album that was the story that I heard in a interview with I think that it was with Greg Allman on a music history show in PBS turns out it was in Florida and Eric Clapton invited him to come play was a.long Time ago my memory is not what it was

    • @mikefannon6994
      @mikefannon6994 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      ​@robertredden4429 Sorry, my friend, the album was cut in Miami, produced by Tom Dowd. Clapton had heard Wilson Pickett's recording of "Hey Jude" and loved Duane's guitar on that.
      The Allman Brothers were playing in Miami, Clapton went to see them when he was cutting Layla. He and Duane got together after that show and Clapton asked him to sit in.

    • @robertgrosek1124
      @robertgrosek1124 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      A big chunk of the outtro is captured in a scene of Goodfellas. Classic

    • @MartinBuck-n8n
      @MartinBuck-n8n 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Duane Allman is one of my all time favorite musicians, not only for his incredible mastery of all guitar styles, but also because of his immense generosity in training and mentoring musicians who emerged later on. I see you have a video on Hotel California. Both Joe Walsh and Don Felder received slide guitar tutoring from Duane, and he shared live recordings of Lynyrd Skynyrd with Jimi Hendrix, who confirmed Duane's high opinion of the band. He died riding his Harley Sportster fast, as always. Harley brakes sucked in those days.

    • @MartinBuck-n8n
      @MartinBuck-n8n 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@robertredden4429 Duane was installed as first guitar soloist at Muscle Shoals after pitching his tent in the carport, then demonstrating his awesome guitar skills to a somewhat skeptical Rick Hall. To traverse his huge catalogue of studio output, one can buy two anthology albums or everything with his name on it, as I did. Duane playing rhythm guitar behind any number of obscure undocumented soul singers is a special joy, but his incendiary rock solos at full blast are the stuff of legend. One guarantee is that any session with Duane on guitar immediately lifted the spirits of all who performed with him. He always got the absolute best out of anyone playing with him. The Allman Brothers Band was his peak achievement. He did more in 24 years than 99% in a long lifetime.

  • @soccertl
    @soccertl 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    This was one of my favorites growing up. Thanks for sharing.

  • @markdrum2392
    @markdrum2392 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    That piano riff was stolen by the drummer, Jim Gordon, from his then girlfriend Rita Coolidge. She was also a kick ass backup singer.

  • @threekidzmom04
    @threekidzmom04 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    EPIC!!! This song takes me right back to freshman year of high school! oh the 70's!!! We were so lucky because the musicians were not afraid to do something different! It is awesome played LOUD!

  • @BruceTimberlake
    @BruceTimberlake 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Hard to hear this without thinking of Goodfellas nowadays :)

  • @jackiebardsley9946
    @jackiebardsley9946 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I was in high school when this came out. For years it was my favourite all time record. I was a big Clapton fan in all his various bands over the years. Saw him live a few times.

  • @BosLady-w3k
    @BosLady-w3k 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Heard streaming from every open car window that summer. Great memories.

  • @stevenmix3723
    @stevenmix3723 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    "This song does not go where I think it would." You can say that again.

  • @RaymondCarver-vy9uk
    @RaymondCarver-vy9uk 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm the biggest Clapton fan in the world!! Seen him live 11 times in Dallas, close to where I live. Have the majority of his albums as well!! You should look up some of his live stuff from the 90s as well. He was on fire!!!!

  • @mikefetterman6782
    @mikefetterman6782 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    "If I needed someone"/"I need you"/"within you without you"/"For you blue"/ "Something"/ (G. Harrison) and "Layla"/Bell Bottom Blues/Wonderful Tonight (Clapton) All these songs were written about Patti Boyd the wife of first George Harrison and then, she left him for his best mate, Eric Clapton. This woman had more songs written about her than any other rock muse. Eric Clapton got started in The Yardbirds, then went to the Butterfield Blues band for a year before joining Cream. Also playing on a Beatles hit in 1968. Derek and the Dominos, and Bonnie and Delaney and company were 2 other bands he was in, in the early 70s before going solo by 1975. Dwayne does the slide on this song.

    • @mikefetterman6782
      @mikefetterman6782 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I only listed the songs I could remember off the top of my head. I am missing a few.

    • @jimmoore8951
      @jimmoore8951 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Nice, Mike… point taken. Patti Boyd was very inspirational to say the least

  • @cheampeake1680
    @cheampeake1680 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Eric got the name Layla for the 7th Century Arabian story of Layla and Majnun where Layla was not allowed to see her lover Majnun. Eric’s Layla was Pattie Boyd, George Harrison’s wife. Tedeschi Trucks band has a wonderful song called I Am the Moon where Susan Tedeschi sings as Layla of her love for Majnun who she is forbidden to ever see.

  • @bg129
    @bg129 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    local radio jocks used to play this one when they needed a bathroom break

  • @ellencourtney7187
    @ellencourtney7187 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    People of a certain age, not just dudes, know every note of this song. Yes, it’s one epic song. A classic

  • @mdtippett
    @mdtippett 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Sometime in the late 70s or mid 80s, the rock stations in Memphis had all become formalized and weak. But one afternoon, I was sitting out in the sunshine by the lake, anticipating the preannounced format change, I think it was 3pm, someone came on and announced, “in an effort to bring rock back to Memphis,” and immediately they opened with Derek and the dominoes Layla. I remember grabbing my beer and celebrating.

  • @kevinl.johnson4549
    @kevinl.johnson4549 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    The first time hearing the opening riffs, I knew I would be listening to it several hundred more times.

  • @graciezundt4201
    @graciezundt4201 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I've seen Eric Clapton 4 times in concert. Including once in the late 90's at an NA convention in San Jose California where he introduced himself " hello, my name is Eric and I am an addict"

  • @terri8988
    @terri8988 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Layla was George Harrison’s wife that Clapton fell in love with..

  • @mikefannon6994
    @mikefannon6994 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Bought this LP when it first came out, still have it, listen to it often.
    A buddy back then called it "going to heaven music."
    I still get goosebumps.

  • @mikemike1425
    @mikemike1425 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    The pain in Clapton's voice. One of the best vocal performances ever.
    The soul of Bobby Whitlock!

  • @sheriandreas8260
    @sheriandreas8260 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Part of that song is used in “Goodfellas”.

  • @naustin0630
    @naustin0630 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The Tedeschi Trucks Band did an amazing cover of this song (actually the entire album) at LOCKN' featuring Trey Anastasio of Phish and Doyle Bramhall II.

  • @kellieprice8776
    @kellieprice8776 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Absolutely love watching Clapton play. It's almost magical

  • @JamesCole-ep4df
    @JamesCole-ep4df 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The intro of the song was written by Duane Allman. He was not on the first three songs of the album because he hadn’t met Eric yet Tom Dowd, the producer got him and Duane together at one of the Allman Brothers concerts in Miami after the concert they went back to Criteria records and Duane and Eric were up all night trading licks back-and-forth face-to-face, sitting in chairs. That’s when he asked Dwayne to join them. They had recorded the first three songs and kind of hit a wall and was having trouble putting the album together and Duane came in and the rest is history at that meeting, Clapton declared I finally met my musical brother. You definitely want to check out the whole album. It is brilliant and a masterpiece, and again it’s Duane on slide Clapton, playing the lead and singing. The little sound the Dwayne makes at the end of the song is his little bird sound he does on the slide.

  • @joelilley6603
    @joelilley6603 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    This is the most epic song intro in history to me, and the outro as well. 👍

  • @douglasmarkussen8529
    @douglasmarkussen8529 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    You just listened to one of the Kings of guitar and rock music, in general, and Layla is among rock's greatest songs. Glad you also read the background of the tune - rock history is really rich.

  • @NedKLee
    @NedKLee 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Great reaction.
    I've been listening to Clapton since the days of John Mayall, have most of his albums, his collaborations are legendary.

  • @sc2824
    @sc2824 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    One of the great albums of the early 70s. Bobby Whitlock was a huge part of it. He sang, played keyboards and co-wrote most of the songs with Clapton. Carl Radle on bass and Jim Gordon on drums - two of the best of the day. Allman was kind of an accidental late addition. He passed away a year after Layla was released.

  • @buckinjb
    @buckinjb 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    You are correct, no one writes music today that comes close to the music from mid-'50's through 2000. People will balk at that statement, but I stopped listening to any music on the radio starting in the 2000's....people like Foo Fighters are the exception.

  • @fricky11111
    @fricky11111 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    First time heard it was 1970...hitch hiking to Atlanta on I-75....we had to pull over and smoke one!

  • @ronstoner1823
    @ronstoner1823 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    EVERYTHING Clapton touched was GOLD!

  • @glennhall9257
    @glennhall9257 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    The opening riff was made by Duane...

    • @mikemike1425
      @mikemike1425 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      The riff is from Albert King's As The Years Go Passing By. EC wanted it to be a slow ballad. The Dominos suggested he speed it up. Listen to it. There is nothin' I can do. Speed it up, there ya go!

  • @RandyGabbert
    @RandyGabbert 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    The actual origin of Clapton started out with The Yardbirds, John Mayall, the god father of British blues then Cream all before Derek and the Dominos.

    • @twentyfiveyears5010
      @twentyfiveyears5010 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thanks, now I don't have to tell him.

    • @richdiddens4059
      @richdiddens4059 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Also Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, plus 3 or 4 groups that were never much. The Immediate Allstars with Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton's Powerhouse with Steve Winwood, and Dirty Mac with John Lennon and Kieth Richards. Plus a couple of garage bands before The Yardbirds and multiple recording sessions with several big name groups all before Derek and the Dominos. He was a restless and busy boy.

  • @CC-Wulf
    @CC-Wulf 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    That was Duane Allman from the Allman Brothers band doing that main riff and with the slide guitar.

  • @wwhtp
    @wwhtp 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Please listen to the entire 2 record set. I've been listening to it for more than 50 years and can't live without it.

  • @tommydevlin702
    @tommydevlin702 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hi and thanks for this - I really enjoyed your reaction to this great piece of music. I did enjoy your surprise at the twists and turns that Layla took, but I guess for me personally one of the things that make a great song great is that they go in directions we don't usually expect - "Tomorrow Never Knows" "A Day in the Life" "Strawberry Fields Forever" "Whiter Shade of Pale" Space Oddity" "Bohemian Rhapsody" "Wish You Were Here" "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" "Comfortably Numb" "The Chain" "Wuthering Heights" "Breathing" "Hello Earth" "Vienna" etc, etc.
    Thanks again.

  • @elceenomoun8115
    @elceenomoun8115 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Duane came up with the 7 note opener. It's a sped up version of bluesman Albert King's "As the Years Go Passing By".

  • @aaron18132
    @aaron18132 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    One of the greatest rock songs ever written.....Tedeschi Trucks Band does a great live cover of this tune as well.

  • @jeffvail9335
    @jeffvail9335 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    You need to hear the Derek Trucks live version. The one at Lock'n with Trey Anastasio is just magic!

  • @beverlybrown2673
    @beverlybrown2673 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Check out the acoustic version of this song Clapton did on his episode of MTV Unplugged. Completely different vibe, but still great. This is one of the songs Clapton wrote about Pattie Boyd, who was married to George Harrison of the Beatles when he and Eric became friends. Clapton fell for her, and she eventually left Harrison for him.

  • @chitownlee
    @chitownlee 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Eric was in The Yardbirds, John Mayalls Blues Breakers and Cream before Derek and the Dominos starting in 1963.

  • @davidcochran6291
    @davidcochran6291 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Hey Sebs, Eric wrote the first half of the song and Duane Allman wrote the second half, the instrumental part. Eric was hopelessly in love his best friends wife. That was Patty Boyd the wife of George Harrison. Duane wrote the second part as his gift to Eric. Eric and Patty eventually got together but it didn't last, but his friendship with George did survive. Eric got together all the musicians to give a tribute concert when George passed. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

    • @art4ever565
      @art4ever565 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      and art imitating life..

  • @Calistogakid2u
    @Calistogakid2u 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I was a busboy at a diner in the early 70s and this was on the table jukeboxes. Because of the length, you needed to pay for 2 songs to hear the whole thing. Sometimes, after the 3AM rush, I’d play the piano exit. To this day, hearing it brings me to a happier time for a few minutes.

  • @miketalcott5180
    @miketalcott5180 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The best Piano Outro EVAH.

  • @1955billc
    @1955billc 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Clapton did a 'Derek and the Dominos' tour with Derek Trucks playing the Duane Allman parts. Find some video of that for your further education.

  • @williamward446
    @williamward446 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I had the great good fortune to see them at the Eastown Theater in Detroit in December 1970... just fantastic... Also was fortunate to have seen Duane Allman several times -- hands down the best guitarist I ever saw... This is probably the album that comes closest to perfection in the history of Rock & Roll...

  • @z-man2343
    @z-man2343 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This song is rightfully ranked amongst the best ever...right up there with Stairway, Hey Jude, Echoes, Roundabout, etc...

  • @lisazaccardimeunier8378
    @lisazaccardimeunier8378 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    He’s got an unplugged version done in a shuffle arrangement. Very cool.

  • @denisetowe895
    @denisetowe895 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A fav since it came out! It’s still in regular play in our house! ❤

  • @geezerracing2895
    @geezerracing2895 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It's brilliant watching you experience these epic tunes, carry on sir!

  • @ianstringer4086
    @ianstringer4086 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I play a little and makes me proud 😢 when I hear our lads n lasses still current today . Uk 🇬🇧