Eric Clapton - Layla 

Nathan East on bass

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@@onlyNtimE 0:43

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I thought Eric had turned the volume up, and made Nathan jump

Love u

Not allowed to curse anymore BUT I totally f*****g agree with you!!!!!!

Varun Rao Santana never was to close to this guy?

@@nancydemoss608 How old are you? 12?

and it comes as a surprise to the bassist

This version is not on Spotify and it’s a very sad fact

imho ... Behind The Sun tour ... May 1st, 1985 ... the Hartford CT Civic Center ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gOzyWfRlEvA.html

I discovered and actively listened to this version before even listening to the studio one, so for me this one's the original version. LOL

Loop layla

@@milocharlton2698 i wonder why? sucks cause i love this version best.

Life can be so beautiful.. I hope one day i can be in the same situation. Im young and i have so many problems and so much to work on, not only right now. i hope you will be able to do this the next 80 years and more !

❤

❤

​@@GermanSchnitzelundso you will stay at it

@@johnnymayes212 Not many more options left, thanks brother

The bassist is Nathan East! He has done well for himself! God bless him!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2aETKPuzGYQ.html The top session musicians make a great living. Nathan is one of the most recorded bassists of all time.

He's brilliant xxx

That’s no “session musician” he’s played with damn everyone in the business. One of the best in the business.

@@TheAmbageHouse Irrelevant. Session musician means someone who's only a part of a select few shows with a band.

Jeez i see you everywhere

Haha its weird you would say that on this video. But yep I'm everywhere

+Andres Castillo Nathan East, he's been playing with eric since ever, i love his expression too, it's like he's been expecting this reaction, so when eric is playing just before the song, feels like an internal joke

l'ultimo rifacimento di layla e cosmopolita

+Andres Castillo More like "Oh shit i wasn't expecting that" hahahaha

He got me through so many nights back in the day

@@debbieduplessis2337 why what happened

his name is Nathan East

Nate on bass. Done and dusted.

Gotta love Nathan East! Awesome player!

😅😮😢 2:40

I do!❤

Hell yeah ! 🤘🏻

Amén brother

yes

Demais!!!

He suffered a lot I know what it's like to lose your child you guys stay together ✌️🙏 BLESS YOU FRIEND STAY WELL AND HEALTHY ENJOY LIFE RESPECT 💐💖

Yeah, clapton is like when your science teacher is the greatest guitarist still breathing 😉

I do Eric and I still sound underehersed tks for everything you have played it still Gets me going++

The way I play anymore, maybe it should be. Arthritis is a thief. I was the only one who liked my guitar playing so it matters only to me, lol.

yepo

who wouldn't love to play bass behind arguably one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time?

he is Nathan East very famous player.

Josiemax J all I saw was Steve harvey

Yeah. Clapton "adjusted" his volume on his guitar and woke the poor guy up...

I had pretty much the same reaction when I learned how to play this on guitar (this song was my inspiration for picking-it up in the first place).

+Ed Mundo Very true. The best ting is, he has the same look of enjoyment in every Clapton video I've seen him in, spanning 20+ years.

***** Yep. Good music never gets old.

+Ed Mundo Those notes still feel good!

+Ed Mundo his name is Nathan East if you did not know, and it is pretty cool watching musicians who seem to just love performing songs, no matter how often they perform them

from of poland

Wtf is a guitar rift

@@jamiew7306 I think he meant riff

@Henry-Bart actually by bb king, one of his licks

@Henry-Bart ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8lG5lOCS2Uw.html at about 3:20, it was actually Albert King not BB I always mix them up

Nathan East, EC's regular bassist. And yes, definitely on point.

@@RhiannonFan thank you for the name.

Yep i agree, he's awesome n that was a cool reaction. They're a great team!

I think about his reaction most days of my life

Nathan East is the bass god

stairway

highway to hell

76 juno sweet Child o Mine

smoke on the water dude

Amazing, I just love it; lifts my spirits for sure.

"Bell Bottom Blues" another great love song written for Patty Boyd. "If I could choose a place to die it would be in your arms." You can't say it any better than that.

My all time favourite song 🎵

There's no mistaking those first chords of Layla. Few songs are instantly recognizable within the first 10-20 seconds. Some include 'Another One Bites The Dust', 'Eye of the Tiger', 'I Will Survive', 'Do Ya Think I'm Sexy', 'Hot Stuff', 'Stayin' Alive', 'Billie Jean', 'Rocky' theme, Beethoven's 5th. Like them or not, you sure know them....!

@@layladurrant6876 This is the 1975 original; I much prefer it over Clapton's 'geriatric' (slow) version which is what you hear on the radio these days.....

Music like this does exist now. Just not on the radio. There's infinitely better guitarists and songwriters now than ever - just have to know how to find them.

@@jbrashguitarist Why should I have to know "how to find them"? Artists of Clapton's caliber should not be so damn hard to discover.

@@writerforlifeify The issue is the music industry controls what's on the radio etc. Real artists can't break through like they used to, because labels are making money with all the Lil So and Sos and blonde pop princesses like Taylor Swift. The power in the industry has changed from the artist to the labels, and they only promote what sells to 13 year olds.

@@TonyEnglandUK Left, right, or middle leg?

Then him jumping around... Love it 😆

Then he starts jumping at 0:49

@@yerboi1284 :D :D :D

X

Priceless ❤️😍

The last half of the song.. fantastic

It was written by Duane Allman

I can play it :)

that riff is why i fell in love with this song as a kid. it was my introduction to loving rock music.

Im sorry for your loss..

And heartbreaker led zeppelin

gru_master17 and iron maiden’s fear of the dark

@@dumagano9483 I'll check that one out

The clean part of black sabbath symptoms of the universe. Ozzy sounds a bit like Robert Plant there too.

It's there along with Money for Nothing

IKR

Steve Harvey on bass, everyone! ;)

That's Nathan East. Awesome bass player!

+Alasdair McLachlan I don't doubt it, they all sound great! His smile and jump just reminded me of TV host Steve Harvey, is all I meant.

Really fun

That's not how sound works

The Mysterious Stranger r/woooosh

Hahahhaha funny whoosh meme, I laughed so hard XD!

@@themysteriousstranger240 no fucking shit...

26K 18D

He is cool

Did you see Steve Harvey behind him perk up?

Originally, Duane Alman played lead on Layla. But when Eric asked Duane to join his band, Duane turned him down. Then the motorcycle accident happened....

Lemme pan it out for you: Clapton: **creates riff** Also Clapton: *:0*

Can you imagine how surprised Nathan East was? I'm sure Clapton knew what he was doing. Cheers

@Bob Hamm It's a meme, bro

@@gustavomelles1 exactly, thanks for explaining it to him bro

@burteriksson again, it's a meme

@burteriksson wtf is wrong with you .d

burteriksson get a life man

Me too

2:12 gives me chills !

nice

My daughter 'Rhiannon' was almost named 'Layla' !!!

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I'm 71 and the wife is out shopping........volume UUUPPPP!!!!!

70 years young !

Lol 3o odd yrs ago my son who was in his 2os got run over by a drunken .moterbike rider as he lay in a coma a car went over him no hope took to hosp looked like a bit of raw meat took to the morgue with a tag on his big toe i could hear them pounding on his chest spleen ripped out teeth smashed lung collasped 3hr op on brain metal plate put in his face ete etc taken in to a room told no hope he hung on for 6wks in a coma why this song has memories as i sat by his bed the nurses were playing it as they were having a tea break he pulled through many probs but to see him you wouldnt know

Eric Clapton..the biggest British white nationalist d - head in the lot...the man who made his entire living and Fame off of Black Blues is a massive racist...😑

hope they don't come after you & you don't make it to 71

He's the Best, beatifull song.

Politeness is the BEST ! Great Comment 👍 Have a great Day !🦋

I think he is just thanking the crowd.

Clapton is a legend, but he looks like a mild mannered math teacher. I adore him

He is so in tune with his emotions. He’s very passionate about his art and I think it genuinely shows in his music. My favorite story about Eric Clapton is his involvement with George Harrison’s wife, Patti. Instead of them both getting crazy and creating a huge petty feud like any other popular artists would’ve, they both talk it out and come to terms with it. George even being close enough to bring them flowers for their garden and even playing at their wedding. Eric Clapton is just raw and real, and isn’t scared to admit to things most people shrivel up to, and the people he surrounded himself with like George Harrison, Billy Preston, etc are all just like that. Down to earth and are happy to even have the chance to express themselves in an extremely creative and raw way.

Is that David Sanborn?

@@clydecavalieri8490 The one and only!!

Sanborn, East, Gadd... that's a band.

FUCK YEAH IT IS!

@@brandonrook9062 Nobody wails like Sanborn

Yep👌

Such a shame that he’s now tainted his reputation being an anti-vaccer.

@@daviddowney3815 live and let live man, no excuse for hate

Eric Grew up very poor.. Dirt poor. And. And his parents were poor but his father bought him his 1st guitar. The rest is history!

@@houserhouse Being a satanic antivaxxer conspiracy theorist is a very valid excuse to hate.

Спасибо! :-*

@softrockc422 Best wishes to you too dude !

yup... along with.. anyone 2021?

@@kristiantenerife Doesn't it drive you nuts reading those on every video, and all the airheads STILL thumb them up.

@@TonyEnglandUK yup, and it is very annoying. And for sure they will say it is a form of bullying or something but cmon!!! They think they are the only 1 listening to that song and then start off a trend.

@@kristiantenerife lol sorry Kristian

@@TonyEnglandUK hahaha :)

Math professor

Don't forget the last one: -Skeletor from masters of the universe.

@@aydankhaliq2967 i feel like there’s a joke i’m not getting here

@@badbazinga7650 from cream to today he's gone though many things.

Eric was never average…just saying

See other guitar players jump backwards?

You betcha!! POPS

Man, then came STEVEY RAY VAUGHAN, to complete the DEAL SRV was Murdered by Our PURIM juju BUDDIES, by the WAY!!!!!

That’s amazing.

Times like that let you know you raised them right! Like when my older daughters sing Beatles songs (practically any one) perfectly with all the lyrics.

Well done!

That's me and Jimi Hendrix riffs😂 like purple haze and all along the watchtower

You taught him well!

lol

lol

Thank you for that brilliant username :)

Sarp Kaya awww we're so thankful! xD LOL thank you so much :3

you got me on my knees

Me to

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same.

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ben de

I was planning to do this if God gives me a daughter one day. 😂

So you were actually named after Pattie Boyd :) x

That’s awesome!!! ❤

We still have his music tho, you wont get new music like this tho

Merhaba !

Deniz K deniz o kadar haklısın ki biraderim:dd

Music may never be the same but we will still always have this music

Legends never die.

Nathan East absolutely kills it here.

Crazy how empty a song sounds without the bass. I have mad respect for them.

*SLAP* like now!!

The bass is the sexiest instrument hands down

Anindya Ghosal unsung heroes

You've encapsulated the whole song perfectly! To me, the most beautiful song ever written!

@Aa Bb it was still unrequited for quite some time.

From Cream to now. Always realized what a genius he was. For a lack of a better word, the Soliloquy at end is a one of a kind instrumental. Absolutely beautiful. And Eric did this arrangement. The very, very best.

I remember the first time I heard this song on the radio 50 years ago. I guess it's held up pretty well.

Old Love wins, but I think it was about Layla, perhaps.

Hell yea lol

Nathan East on Bass

Cilla Komedy I know it's funny as

Cilla Komedy Yep Nathan East! A gifted bassist

Cilla Komedy 😂😂👍 I was searching for this comment :)

Cilla Komedy Nathan East simply showing how much he likes to play this great song..

Nathan East is a great bassist and a funny guys on top of that

Screaming racist comments on stage while drunk off his ass doesn't count as compromising himself? Don't get me wrong, I love his music. But he has compromised himself more than a time or two.

@@therealxunil2 So... one (never repeated) drug and alcohol fuelled racist rant nearly 50 years ago - for which he has apologised several times - condemns him forever in your view, eh?

Is being racist wrong when everyone does it. And why is it wrong g for one certain person?

​@@RhiannonFancomparing covid measures to slavery and repeatedly saying good stuff about a really right wing politician doesnt count?

@@RhiannonFan No, Clapton hasn't apologized for his racist rant. Not sincerely, anyway. Read anything he's ever said about the incident. He has always downplayed it and acted as if it wasn't that big of a deal. Also, little known fact: Clapton was racist toward Jimi Hendrix. He called Hendrix a "spade" in an interview with the Rolling Stone, a slur used in England at the time to describe black people. Finally, Clapton has admitted to forcibly sleeping with his wife. He's evil in the truest sense of the word.

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Video Game Library really dude? I’m hoping that’s sarcastic bs.

Non...mi...interessano....gettoni. ...ma....la....musica....bella...di...qualsiasi...genere....la.....musica.....e.....vita......ciao...come....faremmo...senza....ciao...

and starts jumping too haha!

I named my first guitar layla too.

He is a man of culture i see

You can stop raising him now. Mission accomplished.

Give a name to a Guitar? Isn't it odd lol

@@david_post_punk Not at all! - written on my keyboard, "Bigglesworth"

Perfect as he is !

Neil Young?

Dice More just looked it up, I think he’s only been inducted 2 times

Could be 3. Without looking it up, it could be with Cream, Derek and the Dominos, and as a solo act.

Dave Stianson i think yardbirds is somewhere in that

The piano interlude always gets to me.

Thank you for your service Sir👈🏻majority of Americans deeply appreciate all that you n others have sacrificed for the USA ppls❤

Liberian flag?

Could be....but my eyes aren't what they used to be after 72 years.

Cool that you're able to view this performance from 25 years ago and have been a fan from that period too.

Frank, I was 3 years old in 1970, when Layla came out. I remember kneeling by my bed every night & asking God to protect the policemen & soldiers in my own country (Ireland) & the American soldiers fighting the war in Vietnam. The following year, aged four, I was blown sky-high, on a sunny, Saturday afternoon by a bomb, "proudly" owned by the I.R.A. I'm told blood poured from every orifice &, when my mother told an EMT to take another, more severely-injured innocent bystander, in the ambulance (there were always too many casualties & those, lesser-wounded, were thrown into the back of cars...). The EMT said, as he grabbed me out of her arms, "Madam, your daughter goes in the ambulance or she will die". Shortly after our wedding, my husband was asked to work in the U.S.A. We had an, "open door" policy, most who became "family" were service men & women. It was nothing for us to have 18, for dinner, on a week-night (we improvised 🙂). Those men & women were homesick, at very least, heartsick at worst. We gave them what we had: home-cooked meals, LONG calls home to their families (without a line waiting behind them), barbeques & volley-ball on the beach & as many laughs as they could handle. Others were happier lying on the grass, under our trees just trying to forget....we often cried together as we remembered those we'd loved & lost. We lost many more in the conflicts which followed. Letters & continued contact with their families are precious. Some expectant service women stayed with us as their "due date" approached &, also afterwards, until they were well enough to travel home. We chose to leave & I have family who still can't answer their doors without their service weapons to hand. Our "war" may seem to be over but the threat is still great (even if you're retired). I was saddened to find out that a LOT of money for weapons & Semtex came from U.S. idealists who thought they were supporting freedom-fighters, instead of cowards who called it "war" but never donned a uniform (you'd know how terrifying it is when you can't seperate the enemy from the innocent). "Thankyou for your service", doesn't seem enough. We must never forget that we all have to live on this planet & that peace & innocence are too precious to ever give up - without good reason.

I feel so stupid for laughing as hard as I did at this

Blasphemian 😂😂😂

LMAOOO I THOUGHT OMG SHES CALLED LAYLA SKEJYCUEUFU

Wait is that just your first name? Is your full name you've got me on my knees, I'm begging darling please, darling won't you ease my worried mind?

Underwrite Ste 🤣🤣

Who wrote that part?

@@loganplays6455 Jim Gordon I’m pretty sure

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@Robin Hammill I love how Eric looks over to him, nods his head as if to say _"ok, do your stuff."_

Anna Blyth he got so excited

Same here

Anna Blyth that's Nathan East. He's always smiling :)

he's great isn't he? :)

Anna Blyth too cool!! Love it!

This applies to rock genre. For Metal it's Randy Rhoads, Tony Iommi and Dimebag.

Pure legend : Jimi Hendrix

I think Hendrix was pure god

I'm sorry but you forgot Mark Knopfler

For me: George Harrison

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تفهم والله

Absolutely

Mark Knopler them to light up a stage 👌

James Pauloski, I agree with you. Here's a jazzy version of "Layla". Enjoy. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-suq2HW4wdUA.html

J.J. Cale maybe?

Jeff Beck is TOP of the class!

@@nigelwillmott6177 I agree. And Joe Bonamassa's cover of Blues Deluxe was INSANE!!!

Another badass move from the great Eric Clapton! 😎👏🤘

You said *one* of your best concert memories. You must have been to some great concerts then :) I wonder which tops Eric..

+Elle Damev : Clapton was one of the best but I put Jimmy Page and Robert Plant's "No Quarter" at the top of the list closely followed by the "Wish You Were Here" show by Pink Floyd.

+Ken Cain you lucky sob.

+Ken Cain would love to find this on video!

ikr

Almost all Clapton's solos.

Lovro Novinc yep

Great song~😍😍

Can't stop listening

Layla is the name of his ex-wife

I’m guessing it meant a lot to your grandpa too. 😍

You must proud yourself

Layla, you will always entice an old rock n roller to think of this beautiful song! Embrace this!

@@robert5414 that is not true. Her name was Patty Boyd. She was G. Harrison wife, Clapton's secret love and later his wife.

I watch on a PC with Adblock purely to avoid such distractions. I haven't seen an ad on RU-vid for ten years.

I don’t like to use an adblocker as if everyone does that the creators that make this platform what it is today can’t make a living out of it

@@TonyEnglandUK I think they mean the video creators, not the creators of RU-vid itself

Get RU-vid Premium. It's worth the money and keeps u away from the stupid commercials

Personally I disagree as I don’t use RU-vid as often anymore

Przerzyj to Samsung

So as the bassist

I know I did, BOOM🎸🎶🎵

wait, who's is the bassist?

Nathan East

He acts like he didn't know Layla was coming

You're kidding, right? If you don't know Nathan East, well, that is truly a pity. He's one of the premier bassists of all time. A true master of his craft.

He's acting and putting on a show,He's a talented musician!

Great taste in music! Hope she's still rockin' man, no matter which life she's in.

You guys are awesome! thanks for the nice words! It's good people like yourselves that keep me pushing on! ☮

***** Well hell, the internet is so full of negativity but there's still nice folks on here!

Your mom is no doubt rockin' out on the other side!!! Great music like Clapton's has a way of shining light on even the darkest of days.

Don't be frightened cuz your not alone

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Don't be frightened. Embrace it in all its glory

Totally agree, the best version...two great guitar solos!!

Sorry you are alone 😔. I feel like I have been alone forever and it's been a year

I was about to say how does this comment not have any likes or comments and realized it was posted 6 hours ago. Very rarely does a comment make me laugh👍

I was literally just about to post this haha

I heard he wasn't expecting it to play because it was not on the list so he was like WTF ;)

It is not him.

Nathan East

I preferred it before hearing this version. Not anymore!

I prefer acoustic anything. I'm the kinda guy that just wants to chill in my room with an acoustic guitar

I enjoy the hell out of both versions.

Hands down ♥ Just never gets old.

No new guitar riff will ever come close to this master piece.

The best riff ever written.

He is THE best playing the guitar fyi for a damn good reason showed in this.

@@cahrlloow9843 He's always rocked my world ♥

😮😂😂😂❤ Clapton is the best

absolute legend that guy

He is one of three that are the best in the world. Eric Clapton, Jeff beck, and one other that I can’t remember at the very moment. There was one time all three of these men were at a Jimmy Hendrix concert and Jimmy never knew how to tune his guitar. He was on stage playing and his guitar didn’t feel right so he stopped and said I to the mic “Eric…. Where’s Eric” Eric went and tuned his guitar for him.

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me too 2000

Me too. I'm from 2005

@@corradomusic no

Me too, it annoys me so much that so many of the artist I love I will never be able to see perform. But then again there are so many great musicians still performing today.

Same I love Eric Claptons music

Me too

That´s what she said. ;-)

this guy is a poes

just picked up the 69th like

Yes he does

haha obvs south african

Upload yourself then sink the playlist

open.spotify.com/track/6aznXKHZOc2RbmmKy3AI6a?si=VAiT55YbTfWdIQicFkTgaw there you go, I have this on vinyl top class enjoy.

the live in san diego is close to it

Megan Marriott pretty sure it is on spotify under Derek and the Dominos who Clapton recorded this version with.

I fond you on Instagram I ll text you

Impressive list of legends! I think James Brown was the most jaw dropping for me. I know he just sings but man, were his band good.

This is the best in the bis a goddamn generation despite this ugly stupid generation of mine

Steven Tyler

Not Dylan

Oh wow, what a lucky guy you are!!!!

Doug Ulmer, than we are two who are not tired of this masterpiece. Please, do excuse my ignorance but what is, or are, "cudos", is a kind of abbreviation for something? I'm Norwegian and I only speak a little of English. Here's a jazzy version that is few hours old. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-suq2HW4wdUA.html

@@plathplath "KUDOs" means the ultimate praise!

I was a young teen in the seventies when I heard this song on the radio & I also like the 'unplugged version played on accustical guitar & since I am a guitarist, I like playing the unplugged version!!

​@@plathplathit means they are great musicians.

kudos

No doubt...

​@@frankturner2966That's a different band. 😂 ✌❤

Lol, also a racist MAGA, not ashamed for a guy who owes his entire career to blues and R'n'B, whose musical heroes are named Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters or B.B. King. Caucasity 😒

True. I always love this version of this song. The sounds, the music, the flaws, the energy, it's true magic! This is truly the best live version of this song we've never forget.

It was pretty good then

Henrique Kim don't shout please

Probably lasts longer too !!! Chuckle Chuckle!!!

Hahahhah

Same with me buddy

Of course

We here

My maaaaaaan

Yup

Here in korea

For what this is worth coming from an anonymous stranger, I'm sure you've aged well. ;-D

@@Kenngo1969 for what its worth, i second this. :)

I bet you got some incredible stories

And you are turning 70 now. God bless

So that would be 1971.