Jimmy Grieves Most definitely! Whenever I hear that riff anywhere/anytime I always try to stop and listen to the entire song. Needless to say one of my favorites from back in the day.
Ricketik65 Absolutely! Duane Allman on the slide steel is unparalleled. If you like that particular instrument have a listen to Jerry Garcia playing in a song called Laughing with David Crosby singing the lyrics.
@@jaycorby , Definitely agree. The accustic version is nice, but this is the version that truly moves me the most. And I especially love the solo piano at the end, as it both complements the guitar part of the song and completes the song so perfectly. And you just have to love the bird chirping that ends the song.
@@everettewell6167 That it is! A dreamy kind of song, but very powerful in its execution. The trailing off slide steel at the end of that piece is so damned nice. Garcia was a talented man - it's a shame drugs cut his life short.
@Jay CORBY. ABSOLUTELY! By the way it's from a solo album by David Crosby whose title escapes me now even though I have the album. I'll have to look it up.
Two absolute guitar legends together - Eric Clapton and Duanne Allman. When he was asked who played which part Duanne said "If it sounds like a Stratocaster then it's Eric and if it sounds like a Les Paul then it's me." True guitar nerd comment.
lol Clapton wrote this song, its about his infatuation with Geroge Harrisons wife ( who he later married ), he played the guitar and sang in this version too.
Songfacts: This song is about George Harrison's wife, Pattie. She and Clapton began living together in 1974 and married in 1979. Clapton and Harrison remained good friends, with George playing at their wedding along with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Clapton left her for actress Lory Del Santo (with whom he had his son, Conor) in 1985. In an article published in The Guardian December 13, 2008, Pattie said: "I wasn't so happy when Eric wrote 'Layla,' while I was still married to George. I felt I was being exposed. I was amazed and thrilled at the song - it was so passionate and devastatingly dramatic - but I wanted to hang on to my marriage. Eric made this public declaration of love. I resisted his attentions for a long time - I didn't want to leave my husband. But obviously when things got so excruciatingly bad for George and me it was the end of our relationship. We both had to move on. Layla was based on a book by a 12th-century Persian poet called Nizami about a man who is in love with an unobtainable woman. The song was fantastically painful and beautiful. After I married Eric we were invited out for an evening and he was sitting round playing his guitar while I was trying on dresses upstairs. I was taking so long and I was panicking about my hair, my clothes, everything, and I came downstairs expecting him to really berate me but he said, 'Listen to this!' In the time I had taken to get ready he had written "Wonderful Tonight."
I knew that fact about Pattie but not that amount of detail , so thanks for that .i was trying to remember the third song that was written for her and I found this list! Songs written for Pattie Boyd For You Blue - The Beatles. I Need You - The Beatles. It's All Too Much - The Beatles. Layla - Derek & the Dominos. She's Waiting - Eric Clapton. Something - The Beatles. Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad - Derek & the Dominos. Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton. She must be a hella a woman!
I remember seeing this interview with George Harrison and he was asked how he knows Eric Clapton. To which he replied, "We shared the same wife." But, he also said that he always loved Eric.
@@flattoplarry39 Whoaaa . He really didn’t. He in fact said he wasn’t a good husband to her because he had changed and wanted a different life . Drugs , alcohol, fame , spirituality ..people change
At a dinner party with the Harrisons and a lot of others Eric announced to everyone that he was in love with Patti Boyd. Even she didn't know it was coming. They weren't fooling around either. How about that?
"...the same song?" Yeah I've always loved that transition. One of my favourite in any song. It smooth and eases you down at just the right time for sure. Almost like an instrumental cover of itself.
when i first heard this song in full and the transition happened, i was upset but now it’s what i listen to this song for. both parts are of course great.
I agree 100%! It is on my list of top three depending on the day. The others are sultans of swing and comfortable numb. Honorable mention Baba ‘O Riley
This is the version I love because of the way Clapton absolutely puts it ALL out there, with every raw edge of emotion still fresh. It's clear he's exorcising his inner demons through this song and holding nothing back. By comparison the later versions were almost phoning it in.
Eric was Derek, as graffiti in London said at the time. Clapton was pulling back from his public image and so worked under an assumed band name. It's a - if not the - classic song of unrequited love. Clapton had fallen in love with his friend George Harrison's wife Patti Boyd and the pain and guilt he was feeling spilled out on this track. That's Duane Allman on slide guitar and the piano coda, recorded some time later, was played by the drummer on the session, Jim Gordon. This is the full album version and not the single edit without the piano part. Still a wonderful, emotional track after all this time.
And it is all one song, with the writing credit going to Clapton and Jim Gordon (although Duane Allman's family still say he should have a credit too).
@@paulqueripel3493 Certainly Clapton is God was a graffito but around the time he was with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.. Clapton himself now says it may have been a hoax. I have to admit that I saw 'Eric is Derek' in a British TV drama set around that time, so maybe it was dramatic licence and not based on fact.
The name Derek is because it's Eric + Duane. Duane Allman played the slide guitar on the outro, best slide guitarist of all time, died at 24 from a motorcycle accident. He was part of the group The Allman Brothers
This is Eric Clapton and Duane Allman. Eric fell in love with Duane’s guitar playing after hearing him on Wilson Pickett’s version of Hey Jude which has one of the most powerful guitar solos ever. Duane was a session player on a lot of soul records including Aretha!
The slide guitar is Duane Allmann, which is the part that most people remember from the 1st part.. I'm still waiting patiently for the day you finally listen to Telegraph Road - Dire Straits
Too right! Lady writer, latest trick, tunnel of love too please. Then I want this guy to at least listen to Rosetta Thrape, Barbra Lynn. He’s getting boring.
This is the original, Clapton version! He formed a group called Derek and the Dominoes just for this album (including Duane Allman, who plays the awesome singing slide guitar alongside Eric). It's all one song, but there are clearly two parts! Eric Clapton released an acoustic version in 1992 that was very popular at the time, you may have heard that already. Great reaction! Two awesome bands (so far) in one day!!
Brother Eric is Derek and the Dominoes... and this was the first song in my entire life that I remember falling in love with so completely, I would drop everything to hear it. It still does it for me. It never never gets old. and now... for more of Brother Clapton's repertoire... the band is... Cream. White Room. Sunshine of Your Love. Strange Brew. That's a rabbit hole you won't regret.
Derek and The Dominos is sadly very underrated, yet it's an awesome and very influential superband, my favorites are Anyday, Tell the Truth and Bell Bottom Blues.
Eric Clapton and Duane Allman put together a masterpiece! I love this collaboration! One of the best rock songs of all time! They loved jamming together at this time! Virtuoso playing with virtuoso. Magic happened on this!
If you're looking into early Clapton, you might want to check out Cream (e.g. Sunshine of Your Love, Crossroads), Blind Faith (e.g. Can't Find My Way Home), John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (All Your Love, Steppin' Out) or the Yardbirds (For Your Love, Got to Hurry). Derek & the Dominoes was his first kind-of-solo project.
All great suggestions cliptych. Eric was and is the most iconic songwriter, player, and singer of my generation. Layla was a huge hit especially with Eric's opening riff and gritty, voice. This is still on my playlist 50 years later.
This was technically his 2nd 'solo project' as he had already recorded and released his debut solo album - which ironically had over 20 musicians and singers on it, most of them American (including Rita Coolidge) - earlier that year in 1970. That was the album that gave us the classics "After Midnight" and "Let It Rain." 😊
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Derek and the Dominos - Eric Clapton Guitar and Lead Vocals, Bobby Whitlock - Hammond Organ, Piano and Vocals, Carl Radle - Bass, Jim Gordon Drums, Percussion and Piano. Duane Allman - Guitar and Slide Guitar. This song was written by Eric Clapton (first half) and Jim Gordon (piano section - although it has been credited to Rita Coolidge, who was dating Jim Gordon at the time.) The 2 parts were recorded seperately then mixed together. The whole Derek and the Dominos/Layla story is fascinating and I highly recommend you read about it yourself!
Layla was a Persian love story about falling in love with your best friend’s wife. Clapton was in love with George Harrison’s wife at the time and wrote this “coded” love song to her!
I know people are saying that Duane Allman is playing slide guitar on this song, but he is also playing most of the guitar parts, including the main riff. He contributed heavily to the entire album.
He contributed heavily to the tracks in which he was part of. He “joined” after they wrote Bell Bottom Blues. But his work on Little Wing and other lesser known tracks on this album are fantastic.
not true, duane has two guitar parts on both ends also a duet with eric on the first half...but while eric has two guitar parts on the back end eric has 4 and half guitar parts in the front end.
no, eric is playing more guitarctracks total, duane is the lead through the verses, solo and coda/outro...eric and duane together are playing the lead in riff high parts, eric is playing rhythm guitar throughout, high harmoc guitar, low harmonic guitar, mid harmonic which is cut from some mixes, and then the second half playing acoustic guitar...maybe overall its half and half.
That Duane Allman solo always gives me the chills. Would have loved to see the magic they would have continued to make together if Duane stayed alive =(
Derek and the Dominoes was Clapton and a great group of musicians that became a legend when joined by Duane Allman for the studio recordings. Skydog added the slide and the group became a legend.
Jamel - that incredible slide guitar is none other than the late, great Duane Allman. All of about 22 yrs old then. Had his life not been so tragically cut short he would be in the pantheon of the greatest guitar players ever. Clapton was enamoured with DA and asked him to sit in on the Layla sessions. I do love Clapton and he is one of the greatest, but this song would not be what it is without that insane slide guitar part. long live the spirit of brother Duane Allman.
In the "good old days," the piano coda from Layla used to get heavy rotation in The Weather Channel's local insert background music, which was more or less my introduction to it. Twice, I had to do photo slide shows, once for a class project and once for a work project, and both times I used the piano coda as the background music and both times a couple of people were asking me where I got it from. It's just so haunting.
Ahhh to this day when the piano exit hits I just hear "Jimmy was cutting every link between himself and the robbery, but it had nothing to do with me. I gave Jimmy the tip and he gave me some Christmas money. From then on I kept my mouth shut. I knew Jimmy. He had the cash. It was his. I know he kicked some money upstairs to Paulie, but that was it. It made him sick to have to turn money over to the guys who stole it. He'd rather whack them. Anyway, what did I care? I wasn't. asking for anything and, besides. Jimmy was making nice money with me through my Pittsburgh connections. But still, for months after the robbery, they were finding bodies all over. When they found Sepe in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy."
I fell in love with this as a kid. Incredibly passionate 1st part and incredibly blissful 2nd part. For me, maybe the most beautiful traditional rock song there is.
The later acoustic version was made when MTV was running a series of artists doing "acoustic" versions of their songs, The series was called, "MTV Unplugged".
Santanas Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock is absolute must. Many of the band members were experiencing their first acid trip while performing. Brilliant performance
He wrote it for Pattie Boyd, who was originally with George Harrison. Him and Eric were friends, so things probably got a bit complicated, because Pattie ended up with Eric for a while 🧐 but been in a similar situation myself......🎶💙✊
Eric Clapton was a founding member of Derrick and the Dominos and co wrote Layla. The song is one of three songs written for Pattie Boyd who was married to George Harrison at the time. The other songs were Something by George Harrison and Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton.
When this song was in regular rotation on the radio I woke up in the middle of the night with the piano solo pounding in my head, so I turned on the radio and listened to it.
Clapton hurting over his intense love for Patti Harrison (his best friend's wife) I think Dwayne Allman is playing the slide guitar on this song. Great song....
The first part of this collaboration was a 7th century Arabic tale of a love that fate forbids. A 12th century Persian penned it as the poem "Majnun and Layla". The third part was George Harrison who contributed his wife Pattie Boyd, whom Clapton loved but fate forbade consummation. Clapton and Jim Gordon wrote the song. Duane Allman contributed a few of the signature licks, including the crying slide guitar. Two of the best guitarists ever, harmoniously wove melody into a story 1,300 years old. (After Harrison and Boyd divorced, she and Clapton later married.) Eric is Derek
Duane Allmann is also playing on this track...same song, original track, this IS Clapton. You can also check out Delaney, Bonnie and Friends, Leon Russell, JJ Cale....
The melody for the first part of the song stems from Duane Allman noodling around, during the downtime in the sessions, with the Albert King song "As The Years Go Passing By". The tempo was picked up and became the opening of "Layla".
Yes, this is the original classic, and speaking of which brother: Clapton's 1992 MTV Unplugged concert is an essential. Would love to see you react to it one day!
While Clapton was in USA making the Derek & Domino's album his producer also Allman brothers producer took him to see Allman's in concert. Eric was blown away. They went back to studio that night hung out & jammed together. Duane ended up recording with Derek & the Dominos most of the album, but didn't tour with them. Although Duane is listed on the album as a band member.
I enjoy watching you groovin to Eric and the boys. First heard this hitch hiking to Calgary. Guy picked me up in a Vista Cruiser wagon. Offered me a beer. This was on the tape deck. Saw D & D on the case. Said sounds like Eric Clapton. My education began. Been one of my favorites for over 40years. All one original song
I can see the video in Mozambique. This is Eric Clapton with a bunch of amazing musicians. This whole album was a love declaration to the wife of his best friend George Harrison (of the Beatles). Patty was probably the woman who got the best songs written about her. Just Layla (EC) and Something (GH) are way up there in Rock history.
The high slide you hear over Clapton's licks are Duane Allman's licks (Allman Brothers Band), this album was mixed at Muscle Shoals. Duane died in Oct. 1971 from a motorcycle crash in Macon Ga.
I kinda wish they were seperate tracks sometimes. I love both parts and I get the concept, but quite often I’m only vibing one movement or the other because they take you to such different places
Long after the album was out, and the full 7-plus-minute version was already a single, Atco re-released another 45 that faded out before the long Jim Gordon ending begins. That's why it became such an AM radio hit. I agree btw, that short version is so annoying, I'm a crate-digger and I don't even want a copy in my collection!
At the end of every year the radio stations in my area play down the top 100 songs. It usually rotates between: Layla Stairway to Heaven A Day In a Life
@@navneetsinghr4290 That is the way I remember the lineup too. I will always feel a chill whenever I hear any of this two album set. Rest in peace my brother Duane.
Eric loved Pattie. Reading what he wrote about her in his bio was absolutely incredible. He fell in love with her in 1968 and was with her until 1988. I wish thier relationship lasted. She helped him stay alive until he reached sobriety. He really owes Pattie his life.
Derek and the Dominoes was Eric Claptons band before he was Solo. He wrote "Layla" about Patty Harrison ( nee Boyd), who was George Harrison's( his best friend) wife, who he was madly in love with. The last part of the song, that was piano only, was originally written with lyrics, but at the time of recording, he couldn't put the words in because of his own heartbreak/personal reasons. He did eventually marry "Layla"(Patty). Phew!
Just coming across this reaction of yours. You did it justice. Duane Allman is buried in Macon, GA, next to Berry Oakley and, now, his brother Gregg. Sacred ground in music.
_ Geex : Yes, Totally. I saw them 5 times from 76-83. Great live band. Great songs. The Rocker, Emerald, The Sun Goes Down. To name a few. May the Force be with you.🌀 (-: :-)
'Bell Bottom Blues" on this same album. A must hear. It's a Heartbreaker. His vocals and guitar....His heart and soul are bleeding as he plays and sings.
