😄Hi Bobby and Coco✨💕Our local community radio station here in San Jose, CA KKUP, played 4 tracks from Derek and the Dominoes Live. It was good to hear this early this morning on my way to work close to Oakland, CA.✨✨Hope you all are well and love Ya’s🎵🎵✨🎵✨🎷🎵✨ 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹
Bobby is just a miracle of natural musical intelligence! His voice, his lyric ability, and his harmonies are of an historic caliber! It is obvious, that he was a true musical prodigy of the same kind as Mozart. He also has an incredible recollection and the ability (because of CoCo's gentle prodding) to tell his story in the most humble and relatable way. I have watched all of his sit down conversations with he and CoCo, and the love and respect you both have for each other and the music is palpable. I hope Bobby is doing well because I'm sure he has more to say both musically, and through his lucid recalls of days past!
Your stories are so cool. I met you and Coco with my wife Lucille in December, 2017 at the Saxon Pub. You were both so gracious. You signed my copy of "Layla" and you gave us each a hug after your show. Thank you.
I love hearing these stories… so cool… must have been a fun time…. Such a great laugh… like a little kid… a wonderful spirit… Hope you are both doing well… take good care… 🎶 🌜🌞🌛🎶
George was always my favorite Beatle. And I fell in love with that album from the first note. It's still one of my favorites. It always gives me a great feeling, which I'm sure has a lot to do with Bobby's playing and spirit. A true masterpiece.
EVERY one of these are just a treasure Bobby, you and Coco have a great relaxed style for this, and i feel like im sitting in the living room after dinner with all my Uncles and Dad, Southerners have a real gift for telling STOries- its terrific...thank you
Hello from Ontario Canada once you discover this channel....then...get "turned on" to it...ur pretty much hooked. such a great storyteller .... and such a great and loving couple .... pure pleasure to watch and... more importantly ...listen to.
Thanks Bobby and CoCo for the true stories of those days. So glad you are telling them. I'm still in Memphis. You are still recognized here in conversation and your paintings are awesome.
I am so jealous of that gift. I have known one other musician with that kind of ear and talent. It must be an incredible joy because listening alone to a musician like Bobby is such a joy
Bobby I read your biography and loved every word now I look forward to these interviews that your wife Coco conducts they're such great Snippets of the best musical era ever your contributions new rock music are fabulous Keep On Keepin On love you
Bobby you are a gracious and talented musician! Best of all you are a true man of the South! You are a hero and played with my two favorites: George and Eric!
I became a George Harrison because of that album love it still. It's great to hear that B3 and piano work . Your enthusiasm in these interviews shines through.Your were George's right hand man. Bye the way Bobby ...loved you both playing Layla with Co Co on saxophone ..you were really great on the vocals, and I suspect the B3. Brilliant performance.
Incredible. I would exchange the things I am naturally good at for being naturally good at music. It has been a long hard struggle to even get to a middling standard.
I love your videos ! It’s great to hear the story’s behind the Layla and All things must pass albums . Two of my favorites . I got the Eric Clapton Crossroads box set in my early teens . I loved the early version of Tell the truth . Plus Roll it over was a great track too. You have had an amazing life Bobby !
Dear Bobby It's 2:22 o'clock in the morning here in Mainz Germany.I sit here in my Kitchen and i'm listening to your memories and life expierence.God Bless You and Co Co and thank you for that.I came into the music of Eric Clapton when i was 14 years old,that was the time when i started to play the guitar and that was also the time when i came into the Music of Delanie and Bonnie,Derek and the Dominos,George Harrisons Album All things must pass,Dylan and the Rolling Stones. I turned 55 last December and i still love apart from the Layla Album the Live Album of the Dominos,still to this day,my heart jumps for joy when listen to the All things must pass album from George. When i was kid i always had the feeling that all of these music was done on a high creative and spirtual level,high on emotion done by true artists and great musicians. Thank you for the details.Meanwhile i listening to a lots of music,but still to this day i never found anything more powerful than the records you played on. To me also i was enjoyed to see that you did all the this great solo albums which are on my to do list.I think music is a journey that never ends.One of my long time favorites is the Dominos Live version of Prensence of the Lord or the long version of Gotta get better in a little while....To me personal the life album of the Dominos is one of the best live albums at all followed by Delanie and Bonnie and Friends. I also listen to a few gigs that you did in the past few years and i loved them all. Sometimes i live behind the moon😃been so carried away by all these great music.Apart from that i started an old hobby again last year by building scale ship modells which give me so much pleasure. However last week i came out of the hospital because of my health.Hopefully i will get into a better shape.I do writte you this,because by listening to your storys about your musical journey,it gave me some inspiration to think about myself and what i wanna do in the future.I have found a way to live,like i could never live before🎵🎸🎙⚓🚢🎨 Halleluja and praise the Lord🙏 Thank you for a lifelong inspiration and the joy that your music brought to me.Its been a long time...I remember sittin there with 14 years and listening to the records.Somehow the records turned into cds and dvds,but i'm still listening,with the same passion and dedication i used to,with fact that i turned 55 five and that learned to play the gidfiddle..Anyway,Best wishes and blessings and thanks a lot🔝🎸🎹🎙👌👌👌👌👌🙏 J.A.Hansen⚓ ✌☮🧙♂️☮✌
@@BW-CC Thank you so much for your reply🙏Have a blessed day and night,with the best of everything☕☕🎵🎼🎛🎹🎸🎙🎙🖼🎨🏡🍀🌞 (I got All things must pass on my cd player right now💿💿🎹🎙👌👌) Best wishes and blessings to You and Co Co🙏🕉☮🌍🌎🌏 So long
Bobby, CoCo; LOVE these little snippets of your lives in music. I bought All Things Must Pass when it came out in 1971. Always wondered what that sound was in "Run Of The Mill" and now I know. Great job just blending in and as you said "stay out of my own way". Thanks to you and George (and others) for dragging a teenage boy through to the other side and now into retirement age. I still listen to ATMP and have it out to play on the TT tomorrow. Thanks again for all your contributions. Would love to meet you both someday and listen to the stories in person.
Right on Bobby! Thanks for the beauty you have given me in my life. Please know you are so much appreciated. I LOVE your first solo album! Always on the t.t.. Love and happiness Bobby!
Thank you for these posts, my eyes have been opened on a few issues with the recording industry's corporate paranoia. Thank you for your sincerity Bobby.
That, like all your other stories you have shared, was fabulous! “All things must pass“ was my prize present Christmas 1973! My allowance wasn’t big enough for me to purchase it when it came out so I waited till my father relented… Thank you for finally sharing that Peter Frampton was indeed there at the sessions playing guitar! He was rather hoping that George would give him credit on the remake of the album in 2000 (?) - but he never received credit… Until now - to my knowledge.
Merci Beaucoup ! You're giving me a musical education. I sang and played harmonium for years. I got into meditation as a teen in the Waybak loved to take one song and sing it and experiment with it. What you say about the pump organ resonates with me. The pumping etc let me play with the breath and emotion. I loved that and would sing for hours at a time. Merci!
At the risk of repeating myself; I absolutely love these videos! Bobby Whitlock was born with a gift of music. Thankfully he lived close enough to Memphis, Tennessee and the rest is true worldwide musical history. Thank you both so much for taking of your time to do this for us.
Beautiful description of what I would say, " a natural musician " or any real young artist learns to find out the basic methods, keys, tools/guide(s) needed to create & hone their visions. I totally get what you are saying.
I recently discovered your channel and I just love hearing all these stories. Bobby is a great storyteller and so fortunate to have such God-given talent. I'm looking forward to the new All Things Must Pass box set and to hopefully hear some of the process of recording he's talking about here. Thanks again for the stories.
Bobby & Coco, I've subscribed in support of you in the light of George Harrison's estate taking action against your channel. Glad I stumbled across it and thoroughly enjoyed Bobby's recollections.
I used to live down the road from you in Alpharetta Georgia. I had a little music store in Roswell OK Music. One day a guy came in and said " Bobby Whitlock lives up there in Cumming ". I always hoped you'd pop in so I could meet you. It's a real small world especially amongst us musians . Thanks for sharing your tales Bobby. You're a good old boy 😉
shit this is great stuff Coco.subscribe to your channel I got a lot of watching to do in my spare time I like the fact that some are broken down into little snippets so it's easier to digest at one time three or four videos.. George Harrison Delaney & Bonnie as a domino and of course his paintings very cool didn't know this channel existed glad to know now. being the Memphis man do you ever hang out with cropper or back in the day with some of the MGs?
Love the sound of Hammond B3, god I'd love to jam with you Bobby, that'd be a real dream. A natural musical artist, Bobby, fantastic. Such great stories also.
Love this. Thanks so much. I am really enjoying hearing Bobby's remembrances. I remember reading that George had a big circular wooden 'tunnel' (probably only a few feet wide) inside which he (and others) tracked acoustic guitars during the 'All Things Must Pass' sessions. Does Bobby remember that?
Bobby, Just dying to know. When you mention playing the pump organ on "All Things Must Pass", are you referring to the harmonium ( bellows played by hand) or an old fashioned pump organ with a foot pedal ? My Dad brought home an old foot pedal version, when I was 9 or 10, and I loved to come home and play it after school ( Was easy to learn Christmas carols on too.) You mentioned your mom had an old pump organ so I wondered if it was similar with a foot pedal bellows. Totally enjoying these interviews ! "All Things Must Pass" is my all time favourite album... and Layla is very easily in my top 10. Thank you so much for sharing your musical experiences with us.
Thanks for mentioning Phil on congas. He says still to this day, it was the greatest session he ever played on even though none of his playing made the album. George really screwed with Phil about this lost conga track many years later!! haha
My brother had a B-3. He also played in church for years. But, my best memory came from when he played at home. The neighbors across the road had bird dogs(pointers), a bunch of them in a large pen. They hated everybody except their owner. From first view, they'd go nuts, climbing the fencing trying to get to you and wanting to eat your face. One day, my brother opened the front door, which was right by the organ, then with the right bars pulled and the volume WIDE OPEN, he layed down on the highest key while we laughed hard at the baying hounds that were the only ones to hear it. Oh, he shouldn't have shown me how to do it, 'cause I tortured those dogs at every opportunity. My brother has since moved away, passed away, and I don't remember the formula. 😁
man it would be so cool if you could show some pictures of all this. I know copyrights and all that but I'd to see the equipment and mics .Id like to see a band photo when you played harp.I remember red farfisa organs and kustom amps.
Talking about George, he would pop into the Highwayman pub in Woodcote just off the A4074. It’s about 5.3 miles west of Friar Park. Do u remember hanging out there with him Bobby? I ask since we would frequent that “watering hole” as schoolboys come our 18th birthday.
I remember walking down young ave toward the fairgrounds where I went to school every morning at Fairview playing the harp and how good it verbs off the little buildings ,but I played upside down and backwards because the correct way ( w the numbers on the top) just didn’t feel right , but it’s lent to my style , and no , everyone can’t play a harp , some end up taking it to the next step , maybe we ll get the op to jam some day , id bet money you might be pretty good Bobby..
Does Bobby have any stories about Badfinger, Particularly Pete Ham? Did he ever hang out with the members of Badfinger outside of recording with them during ATMP? Thanks!
What does Bobby think of Dhani Harrison’s recent remix of the All Things Must Pass track, and his thoughts of the pending remix of the entire album (sometime this year Dhani says).
We might end up hearing even more of you on the stripped back version of the album that's due for release later this year. Great to hear you, Bobby, and great questions you ask, Coco.
I've had "It's About Time" and "Where There's A Will" playing for the last 3 days on random song selection whenever I've been in. What a fantastic set of songs, with life, great riffs, beautiful soulful singing. What a blessing. Dear Bobby, both albums are so superior to the overblown, overproduced and over rated, directionless "All Things Must Pass". IMHO, the Harrison estate have done you a massive favour by downplaying your role in it. You need to get as far away from this terrible project as you can, and continue to preserve your legacy as a great musician with his own great albums. With Love, A.
Bob, I have got to ask this...you guys are recording 'My Sweet Lord' and I'm wondering...did anybody look at somebody else and ask, 'Man, does this sound just like 'He's So Fine' to you?' Because it obviously didn't to Phil!! Lol
