@@stillstanding8286Yeah you are correct. I forgot this was done before Duane arrived at the sessions. However I was referring to the whole album and the concept of the group.
The name has nothing to do with Duane From Wikipedia: The group had been billed as "Eric Clapton and Friends", but a discussion ensued backstage just before their appearance, with Harrison and pianist Tony Ashton among those involved, in an effort to find a proper band name. Clapton recalls that Ashton suggested "Del and the Dominos", having taken to calling the guitarist "Derek" or "Del" since the Delaney & Bonnie tour the previous year. Whitlock maintains that "the Dynamics" was the name chosen and that Ashton, following his opening set with Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, mispronounced it when introducing the band. Writing in 2013, Clapton and Whitlock biographer Marc Roberty quoted Jeff Dexter, the compere at the Lyceum show, who recalled that "Derek and the Dominos" had already been decided on before they went on stage. According to Dexter, Clapton was immediately taken with the name, but Whitlock, Radle and Gordon - all Americans - were concerned that they might be mistaken for a doo-wop act.
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is one of the greatest albums of all time; there's not a bad song on the entire album. Clapton and Duane Allman playing together is worth the album's price alone. Thanks for all the time and hard work you put in to bring us great music and reactions. Airplay Beats-The Collage of Musical Knowledge!
2 of the greatest guitarists of all time bringing out the best in each other!! Eric Clapton (mistakenly called "Derek" once, hence the name of the band) and Duane Allman!!
Some folks here are under the impression that Duane played on this tune... There were three songs on the album which were recorded before he joined the recording session -- "I Looked Away," "Bell Bottom Blues," and "Keep on Growing"
Oh yeah. The great Bobby Whitlock on organ and backup vocals and Jim Gordon on drums. However a lot of you people are wrong about Duane Allman playing on this tune. It was recorded before he joined the festivities. This one is all Eric C.
The entire album is classic. Eric and Duane Allman on dual lead guitars, Bobby Whitlock on keys and backing vocals, Jim Gordon on drums, and Carl Radle on bass. Wow!
One of Eric's more underrated songs... wish he played it more often in concert. The passion in his vocals, along with Bobby Whitlock and the Dominos band, featuring Skydog himself make this a classic
Bobby Whitlock’s backing vocals are what gives Derrick & the Dominoes so much grit and soul. He’s never gotten the credit he deserves for his contributions to this album and short lived group imo.
There’s a reason you two like this album and George Harrison’s ‘All Things Must Pass’. Bobby Whitlock on Hammond B3 and Jim Gordon on drums are all over both albums. Great reaction. Love the channel!!
“All Things Must Pass” was for all intents and purposes the first studio recordings of Derek And The Dominoes, so said Eric in the Clapton documentary. Still a personal favorite post Beatles album from any member. Regards
My favorite album. Saw Clapton live a few years back and he played several songs off this Album. The crowd exploded when he played Layla. We lost Duane Allman at too young an age. His influence was all over this album. Wear your damn helmet if you ride a motorcycle.
The core of Derek and the Dominoes came together as the backing band for George Harrison while he was recording "All Things Must Pass" and also included Duane Allman on several tracks.
You caught what a lot of other drummers miss...the playing the snare on the 1s and 3s. But only through parts of the song! Jim Gordon was an amazing drummer, a protégé of Wrecking Crew drummer extraordinaire Hal Blaine. I doubt he was asked to play that way; I think he just wanted to put a twist on the song.
A one album musical project with Clapton and Duane Allman. Jim Gordon was the drummer. In Cream, Ginger Baker did the same kind of inversion in putting the snare on 1 and 3 with Sunshine Of Your Love.
What a great song from a great album. The drummer is Jim Gordon, who also drummed on the Pretzel Logic album by Steely Dan a few years later. Sad history with him, Google it. My high school friends and I could have never imagined that our HS mate a few years later would be double drumming on a Steely Dan song with that very Jim Gordon. My HS mate was Jeff Porcaro, and the song was Parkers Band off Pretzel Logic. True story, Jim Gordon also went to our high school. Night By Night was Jeff's first recorded track with SD. He apparently impressed Gordon, who was one of Jeff's heroes.
A MUST SEE/HEAR performance from a since passed music icon,, Richie Havens "Here Comes The Sun" 🌞 (Live At The Cellar Door Performance)...TRUST ME on this one!! 🔥
Hey La and Che, this whole album is fantastic. Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon. Clapton met them playing with Delaney and Bonnie and Friends. George Harrison also played with D & B and Friends and used the same guys on his All Things Must Pass record. What really makes this album special is the presence of Duane Allman on a bunch of the songs. Tedeschi Trucks does a great cover of lots of the songs on the album; they play every song on the record!
Duane and Eric's version of the Big Bill Broonzy's hit Key To The Highway on this album is legendary. Duane and Eric returned from lunch and passed a studio where Sam The Sham and the Pharoah's were performing Key To The Highway. They entered their studio and began performing the same song they had just heard. When Tom Dowd the producer entered the control room and heard them he immediately started rolling tape. That is why the song has an intro like it has. The song was already in progress when the tape started rolling.
I've been listening to, enjoying and loving music for more than 50 years. But guys like you two make me realize that I've never really known exactly what I've been hearing. "The snare on the 1 and the kick on the 2". I'd have never picked up on that. And Djembe? I couldn't even spell it. (had to look it up ).
Talk about the hardest-working man in the music biz. This guy released nearly 70 albums in bands such as Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos and worked with damn near every musician under the sun. D&D was a one-shot deal but produced what many say is one of Clapton's greatest achievements: Laya.
This album is just packed with songs about Pattie Harrison (George Harrisons wife at the time of the recording). Bell Bottom Blues is one of the most anguished songs about Eric's secret love. Factoid: While Eric was writing love songs to Pattie, he was living with Patties sister Jenny. Patie would eventually leave George to be with Eric, because she found out George was having an affair with Maureen Starkey (Ringo Starrs wife at the time). There's movie potential in there somewhere folks.
What a catch on the change between the snare and the kick. My dad's a jazz drummer so I said "what do you here in this drummer and he said" he's open- handed he can change time signatures easier".
Jim Gordon played on more songs you would likely know than just about any drummer from the mid to late 60’s up until the mid 70’s. Also played on the most sampled beat in hip hop. But he’s also one of the most troubling stories in rock n roll
@@TR-yi8up wow I just looked that up. I'll probably look it up more but it reminded me of Rick Stevens the first singer in Tower of Power and by far the best. He went to jail for murder in a botched drug deal. He get out and then he died.
