Derek & The Dominos - Layla (REACTION!)
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"When they found Carbone in the meat truck it took them 3 days to thaw him out for the autopsy.."
"Still, I've never seen Jimmy so happy..."
My first thought haha.
@@ChrisOliver4307 Jimmy and I could never be made because we had Irish blood, didn't even matter that my Mother was Sicilian
Scorsese picked the best songs in his movies. Raging Bull has some masterpieces.
"One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way"
The piano solo always makes me think of the part in Goodfellas when DeNiro is whacking everybody.
Frankie Carbone hanging frozen on a meat hook.... I think of it every time I hear this song!
Kinda like that Family Guy scene where Meg and Chris were murdering the entire cafeteria to Free Bird
Knew I wasn’t the only one
@@TheBlackQueen yeah that was stolen from the movie the kingsman. Basically a battle royale to the death in a church till only one man walks out, w
might be one of the most badass scenes in movie history!
Same. It's an iconic film moment and for me adds more weight to the original song for some reason. I can't get out of my mind every single damn time I hear this song on the radio the epicness that Martin Scorsese showed us. I'm sitting in traffic, this song plays on my local classic rock station, and I think to myself "good lord... I can't unsee Frankie Carbone hanging in a freezer.". Every time I hear this damn song I want to watch Goodfellas. It's one of the few films I would call "perfect".
"Don't start Layla over again!" ~ No one in the history of ever
I was constantly skipping it when it popped on spotify, after one GOOD listening i can't stop playing it.
Hahhahaha FACTS
George is definitely thinking about "Goodfellas". I just LOVE when the piano starts to play in the movie and Ray Liotta´s voice talks over the song. One of Scorsese´s best films.
Scorsese always picks the best songs to put in his movies
One of the best guitar riffs of all time.
He is singing about Pattie Boyd, who was George Harrison`s wife at the time. She divorced George in 77` and married Eric in 79`
George Harrison was saying "you can have her when I'm done with her"
Man she was smokin too! Imagine having such a famous and iconic song written TO you, begging you to leave your husband!
I heard that George was still Eric's best man at the wedding
@@dreco3658 I don't know if he was the best man, but he definitely attended...I believe all the Beatles attended. Surprisingly, George and Eric Clapton remained good friends. This may be due to the fact that George was having numerous affairs with women all over the world (including one with Ringo Starr's wife), so I guess it didn't bother him.
Goodfellas
“Derek” is Eric. He just wanted to do something that didn’t have his name directly attached to it so that it would stand on its own.
It’s a combination of Duane and Eric’s name.
@@robertb1849 I’m not so sure about that. They were already performing under the name Derek and the Dominoes well before Duane Allman became involved with the project.
Contractual obligations force artists sometimes to perform under pseudonyms.
Never ,and by the way,how Clever is Derick to hide Eric!!
I'm so,so,so,sold on this Gentlemans wonderful style blues,swagger,Elec.,accuistic, playing.
Only one more I can think of that's par w/ him??? Mr.David Gilmore .Handsdown
I think at times God here's their music,all is right w/the world.
AMEN.
It was originally eric but a drunken announcer slured it into derek they thought it wqs funny do kept it
Transitioning from one of the most iconic guitar riffs to one of the most iconic piano riffs all in one song.....that's how you create a song that stands the test of time!
Oh man... this one hit home! Growing up my father always had Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, the Allman brothers band, Led Zeppelin, Eagles, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix and so many more... But this song was mostly on! Thank you for picking this one!
Some classic bands
I cant belive its been almost 4 years since I started watching this channel. damn time flies.
“Bell Bottom Blues” was the second song about Patty Boyd on this album. Another great song. (Jack Bruce sang “White Room.”)
I agree,flip the album over and play Bell Bottom Blues,so much soul and passion in his voice,and guitar work is awesome of course
The “Bell Bottom Blues” version off the 24 Nights album might be the only time a live version is better than the original.
Bell Bottm Blues from this album is one of my all time favorite songs
The entire album is about Patti Boyd.
As were Something on Abbey road.and Have you Ever Loved a Woman....she must have been some awesome chick!
R.I.P. to both Allman Brothers. Obviously losing Gregg was sad, but Duane truly was cut down well before his time. Imagine the legendary guitar material he could have kept making if not for one motorcycle ride in Macon,GA.
Duane was the best of all time
And given his massive work ethic, he would have outdone Eric for sure.
Duane Allman is the goat
Duane was extremely talented.
This is one song you can start over & over again for this 63 year old grandma! I do it myself when I’m in the car....😂
The version of Layla he did in his solo career was an acoustic version. Much slower and laid back. Right around the time his son died and he did Tears in Heaven.
it was in the same mtv unplugged show that they were debuted
George - If you've watched Goodfellas, that's where you've heard that melody. It's been used in countless movies but Goodefellas is the most iconic.
“Jimmy was cutting every link between himself and the robbery, but it had nothing to do with me.” Always think of this scene when I hear this song
Me too.
It always reminds me of the movie "Blow"
Amazing how Henry Hill is always looking shocked in the scenes where gangster shit is going down.
Between Cream and Derek and the Dominos, Eric was in a band called Blind Faith with Stevie Winwood and Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech. You should do "Can't Find My Way Home"
Great jam.
& Presence of the Lord
He also did some stuff with Delaney and Bonnie. There are some cool videos of Eric of them on CZcams.
Do what you like. best track from Blind Faith
That would be an excellent reaction.
Derek is Eric (D-Eric), maybe just a bit of an anonymity type of thing. The entire album (the only one from this band) is basically of declaration of Eric’s love to Patti Boyd, who was George Harrison’s wife at the time. Crazy story I won’t get into all the details. Clapton did eventually get married to her. Incredibly Eric Clapton and George Harrison remained close friends through the entire thing. George and Eric ( and maybe other men) wrote a number of songs about Patti. Arguably two of the greatest love songs of all time, this one, Layla and Something by the Beatles (written by George) were written about the same woman. Quite the muse.
There are several great tracks on this album. My two favourites (besides Layla) are Bell Bottom Blues and Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad. Great review!
Don't forget after they married the song also written by Eric about Patti in 1976 czcams.com/video/vUSzL2leaFM/video.html
Also, Eric's "Wonderful Tonight" is about her
Can you imagine being so hot, that two of the most famous/desirable men in the world, who can pretty much have anyone they want, are writing songs about you? Man, she must’ve been something else. She had these dudes wrapped around her finger.
Eric Clapton was billed as Derek Claptoe as a member of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Supergroup (1969) along with Jim Bordom, George Harrisong, Sticky Topkins, Robbie Knees, Kief Spoon, Billy Presstud, and Raus Doorman.
She is also said to have inspired George Harrison's "Something" recorded by the Beatles, though George told a variety of stories about the song's origin.
When I was a kid I thought the second part of the song was a completely different song..... it blew my mind when I found out it was the same song.🤯
That woman he is singing about is Patty Boyd. She was George Harrison's wife. Clapton then married her after she and Harrison divorced.
This was wonderful! My name is Layla (my Dad definitely was part of the ‘Clapton is God’ fandom!) and so many people have sung this to me over the years, then get worried they’ve offended me! I actually love it when people do that! Well done guys!
It is a lovely name none the less :D
I named my daughter Layla because of this song. I love the piano part, most beautiful song for the most beautiful girl!
This comment gives me hope. I named my daughter after this song and I’m afraid she’ll grow to hate it.
@@nicksanchez6667 she will love it! I’m 34 and it’s still wonderful to hear it and I get to tell others the story of both the song and the Persian story of Layla. Feels like an honour 😊
bro is the rizzler
The piano ensemble - that second part where they mix it up- is played on the movie Goodfellas, so if you're into gangster films, that may be where you've heard it.
I think of Goodfellas every time I hear this song now.
I play it every time I hide a body in a meat truck.
@@googlebotkiller7118 "He was frozen so stiff it took them three days to thaw him out."
The slide by Allman on this song is the best slide guitar in recorded music.
subjectively, but I'm with you!
It laid the base...but....Derek Trucks....who was literally named after this song ...has him beat IMHO. You can listen to any tedeschi trucks album.....it's all there.
@@jokeradam2278 the live solos to Midnight in Harlem are just out of this world, saw Derek live with Clapton on 2006 at the Royal Albert Hall, had never heard of Trucks before that night, huge fan ever since
I believe the slide is played by The late Great Duane Almond!
My sweet lord is better imo
When the song transitions into the piano part.... the movie "GoodFellas" uses it for the sequence when the cops start to find all of the dead bodies who were tied to the heist.
Clapton was tired of the "guitar god" adulation that made him feel stifled with expectations. He wanted to be a pure musician and "lose" himself in the larger group. Hence his immersion in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, The Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie... And Derek and the Dominos. Their only studio album, "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" is one of the truly great albums in history, especially with the contributions of Duane Allman (best slide guitarist of all time), and the best backing band probably ever. Jim Gordon was astonishingly good on drums, Carl Radle terrific on bass, and Bobby Whitlock was AWESOME keyboardist, singer, songwriter. And Layla was built around Clapton's love for Patty Harrison, the wife of Beatle George Harrison. Mix his tortured soul with heroin addiction and guitar virtuosity, pushed hard by Duane's genius and propelled by the Dominos - together they were an incredible band. My favorite album of all time, with gorgeous songs all over the place. Try "Bell Bottom Blues," "Key to the Highway," "Little Wing" (their tribute to Jimi Hendrix), "Keep on Growin'," "It's Too Late..." Man it is all just fantastic.
You probably recognise this song from "GoodFellas". It gets playing during a montage when many of the gangsters are killed off by their friends for a larger sum of the money.
And definitely not ‘80s sitcom.
Definitely not Charles In Charge lol
Well I'm sorry but I was born in 2002 and guess what has stood the test of time? It certainly wouldnt be the 80s sitcom 😂
The greatest guitar riff in history in my humble opinion. You guys could've restarted the song 100 times and I would never ever get tired of it.
I thought they were April Fooling us!
Yep and Duane actually wrote the riff, not Clapton
“Layla” was a song Clapton wrote, with Dominos drummer Jim Gordon, about his forbidden love for the wife of his close friend George Harrison she eventually became Clapton's wife.
and because he was honest, George stayed his friend too. Which I doubt could EVER happen today with as childish and immature as fully grown adults act now lol.
She became his wife and he treated her like shit, lol. Before they were married he told her that if she didn't leave George for him then he'd go get addicted to heroin. After she left George he only married her because the tabloid press leaked that they were married, and he didn't want to look bad. Eric was manipulative and only cared about the chase.
@@michaelwoods9005 sounds like you were a fly on the wall, I've never heard that. can you show me something where it says any of that? Seriously...
Pattie said it in her autobiography and I believe he mentioned it as well in his autobiography
@@FloridaManRacercrickets lol
Lads, Eric started out in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, then The Yardbirds, then Cream, then Blind Faith.... and then Derek & The Dominos
Wooooow. I haven't watched your guys' vids in a minute.
I last watched y'all on 60k subs and now you are on 1 million?!
Congrats!!
Duane Allman was an absolute beast- always loved Anyday from this album, this might be some of his best playing... that was a loss for sure
Eric Clapton just had a birthday so this post is extra special, great reaction fellas
Yes we share a birthday.
The second movement (piano & slide guitar) was prominent in the Goodfellas scene where Robert DeNiro had the entire crew of the airport heist whacked...also there was no "Derek" - the name was derived from the combination of Duane Allman and Eric Clapton's first names...
The song covers the TRUE story of him falling in love with George Harrison’s wife (of the Beatles). Sharing the confusion and problems of the affair. A Masterpiece!!
This track when the rhythm slows down is Marty Scorcese's favorite soundtrack to people getting clipped.
"When your old man let you down" yeah that's George Harrison 😂
George Harrison wife Patti
I feel like they won’t ever know what this means. It’s almost as good as the song itself, with all due respect to the Goodfellas scene, the only thing better than the song is the drama behind the song.
Thank you
The "Piano Exit" of this song is featured in the movie Goodfellas. Perhaps that is why you recognize it.
Speaking of Duane Allman, you guys should react to Whipping Post from Allman Brothers, Live at Fillmore East...
Agree...Love that. Greg is one of my top 5 vocalists and Duane is one of my top 5 guitarists.... They were great 🤘🏽
The group debuted at the Lyceum Theatre in London on June 14, 1970 where the announcer mispronounced their provisional name of Eric and the Dynamos to Derek and the Dominos, the band decided to take up the new name and undertook a summer tour of England.
i was delivering pizza in my car first time i heard this song on the radio. It changed me.
When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them three days to thaw him out for the autopsy
Hope everyone is having a beautiful night
You too!!! Ty
Possibly even " wonderful tonight". @ 😎
@@jessdunaway8423 👌
Duane Allman! Intro guitar riff....
❤
Love sick + Heroin + Clapton = Masterpiece
I started watching your videos a couple days ago, going back to the Metallica records. Today, I come across this reaction and song review and you've made a fan out of me. Definitely dropping a like and sub. Looking forward to future videos and continuing to see your past posts.
This song was about The Beatles lead guitarist George Harrisons wife patti boyd. She left George for Eric Clapton
Only time I won’t be mad at restarting a song 4 times. I absolutely love the start to this song
So to answer of a few of your questions in the video,
Cream’s lead vocalist was there Bass Player Jack Bruce, As Eric only has sang one or 2 songs for the band. One of them is on there live album, which is a cover of Robert Johnson’s (Grandfather of Modern Rock, Blues, and Metal) Crossroads.
Derek and the Dominoes was only active for 1 year, 1970 to 1971, releasing there Self-Titled album with this song being featured on it.
Fun fact, Duane Allmen of the Allmen Brothers played on this track, and on the majority of the album itself, recording 11 or 14 tracks.
The song is about George Harrison’s then Wife Patti Boyd, Eric made this song specifically for her. She divorced Harrison in the mid 70’a and married Eric in 1979
They divorced in 1989 😂
This song is widely known as Eric’s greatest musical achievement.
Don’t forget the stolen piano outro that was never credited to Rita Coolidge!
@@ColdCreekB according to her... Even if her claims are true, she only said she helped Jim Gordon write it, and the original melody was his. Personally from reading about her she doesn't seem to be of particularly high character. The phrase gold digger comes to mind...but, believe what you will.
Allman Brothers is how it's spelled
@@marymargaretmoore9034 No one cares, Mary.
I haven't watched your guys' videos in a while due to the hectic schedule of my life. But you guys are still the best! Hopefully I make it out to Vegas again soon. Still regret not bugging you guys at Planet Hollywood back in 2019...lol but keep killing it..... hope you and your families stay safe and healthy.
I grew up in a house with parents that listened to Eric Clapton. Layla always will make me think of my family home.
Clapton is NOT the lead guitarist on this song. The slide guitar solo around the 2:15 mark is played by Duane Allman. The slide guitar over the piano is also mostly played by Duane, and Duane came up with the main lick of the song.
The piano part was written and played by Jim Gordon the drummer, who likely ripped it off of some female artist... I forget her name.
So Clapton was definitely not the main force behind this song even though it's about Patti Boyd who he was in love with, and even though he was the leader of the band.
Hope Lost in Vegas can see this comment... please like/share to get Duane and the rest of the band's name out there.
I would highly recommend Time by Pink Floyd. One of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard, lyrically and musically.
Oh yes!
They've already heard it so they aren't covering it. They said it one of floyd vids
Yes and yes!
I totally agree
Knowing you’re not getting a lot of requests for him, Bell Bottom Blues is one to kick around.
The name 'Layla' is from an old Arabic love story about a poet, who was madly in love with a woman who was married to another man, and because he couldn't have her, he went crazy and ended up wandering the desert carving poetry into rocks.
Ironically Eric wrote this after he was in love with his friends wife and that friend was George Harrison
Yes, he fell I love with George Harrison’s wife. The same George Harrison of the Beatles. Clapton fell I love with her when she found comfort with him when her marriage wasn’t going too well. George finally did divorce his wife, but I’m not sure if Clapton every married her?
Clapton wrote this song about his love for George Harrison’s wife. This is why he speaks of a forbidden kind of love and how her husband didn’t treat her right. I think that Eric finally did marry her after she had divorced Harrison. Something like that.
Fun fact: Clapton hadn’t been singing lead very much at all. He was very shy about singing and still doesn’t like his voice very much.
Delaney Bramlett helped him get over his shyness about singing: "Delaney looked straight into my eyes and told me I had a gift to sing and that if I didn't sing, God would take it away. I said, 'No, man, I can't sing.' But he said, 'Yes, you can…' That night, we started talking about me making a solo album with his band."
If you never knew this song, it's ABOUT TIME! Masterpiece that does, indeed, stand the test of time. Duane's haunting slide parts, in addition to the main riff, are just amazing...
Never gonna be able to unhear “stand up” 😂
To put it simple, Derek & The Dominos is a band formed by Clapton... briefly after he got over the Blind Faith stuff
Blind Faith another Clapton band with the great Stevie Winwood
Old man meaning George Harrison's wife. He fell in love with his best friend's wife, Patty Boyd. Something by the Beatles - her. Wonderful tonight - her.
Bobby Whitlock was a big part of Derek & the Domino’s, he co wrote a lot of the songs on this album, Keyboards & vocals.
Home wrecker, exactly. This song was the beginning of Clapton moving in on his good friend George Harrison’s wife, and eventually landing her. Harrison had a bit of a music career himself 😉 Probably worth a listen
The very beautiful Patty Boyd. Clapton was crazy in love and she was married to his best friend. Bell Bottom Blues was written for her too. No art without pain, eh.
George was screwing around with Ringo's wife before this. She wasn't exactly a home wrecker.
Ah.. Rock & Roll in the 60s.
@@fishhookism Those were my thoughts exactly. George, who I loved, was not quite the victim people thought he was 😉
@@Jonni1027 Your right Jonni. A flawed genius.
Now, listen to Bell Bottom Blues from the same album. It's literally heart wrenching to hear Eric sing about his love for Pattie Boyd.
Glad someone else has heard the rest of the album....one of the other assorted love songs lol
Key to the Highway, Anyday, Keep on Growing, on and on. Best record Clapton ever did hands-down.
It's figuratively heart-wrenching.
I love how you (Ryan) get excited when you start liking what you are hearing and you throw a “hey” in there. I watched enough now I can tell when the “hey” is coming. So endearing
Pay attention ! Eric Clapton was in love with George Harrison's wife Linda . He called her Layla . The album is a collection of Love songs he wrote for her .
Ah, the song that broke up his best friends marriage when he stole that girl away. Amazing he and George remained the best of friends somehow.
These were 2 separate songs recorded a few weeks apart. The producer Tom Dowd combined them. The first part was written by Clapton with Duane Allman adding the intro. The piano coda was written by Dummer Jim Gordon and his then girlfriend Rita Coolidge. Rita never got credit and has missed out on a ton of royalty money. The piano coda is best known from the movie Goodfellas
You gotta do sunshine of your love by cream now
YES!!!!
Such a fun song to play on bass
Oooh! Nice!
I would have request this but how the hell was I supposed to know you’ve never heard this legend of a song
They pretend to not know super popular songs
Yo, the 81 dislikers don’t know music and don’t know what a good time is. Laughed hard on this with you guys! Great, as always
They probably like the song but dislike the reaction which is disrespectful
Layla was written for Pattie Boyd (a model) who was married to George Harrison at the time ( btw Paul McCartney was the Best Man) Eric and George were friends. . Lots more on Wiki . They eventually divorced.
Clapton and Pattie Boyd married a few years later
The song was inspired by a poem about an Indian ( I think) princess
Both Harrison and Clapton have written songs about Pattie Boyd .
PS jack Bruce was vocalist on the Cream track
Speaking Of Eric Clapton & The Different Legendary Bands/Groups He's Been In....BLIND FAITH "CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME"...An Absolute Classic...Truth!!
Great video guys. Really funny. Layla was written about a love triangle. Clapton was in love with his best friends wife. His best friend being George Harrison of the Beatles. The song is about Patti Harrison. Incidentally The Beatles’ “Something” and Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight” are also about her... The ending piano part of the song was featured prominently in the movie Goodfellas. That may be where you’ve heard it before
Duane Allman plays slide on this song and guitars on most of this album, passed at 24 at one of the most promising rock musicians in history! The Allman Brothers are one the defining American groups from the 70’s in any genre
Well I clearly didn’t watch too far in haha!! Great catch
You guys are great! No pressure, but you really are top of your game, and I would ADORE more content. Take care x
Eric is a great guitarist BUT Duane Allman is the star of this song it's also the reason Eric usually does this acoustically he never liked anyone being up there doing Duane's stuff when it wasn't necessary . 🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡💯
FIIIIIINNNNALLLLYYYY so happy you guys are hearing this. This song is the reason I play guitar today
As someone else mentioned the woman he was after in this song is actually about George Harrison’s wife. Gives the song a very interesting piece of backstory.
And it worked! Not immediately, but he did end up marrying her down the road. Her name is Patti Harrison, and he stole a Beatles girl
@@revjim123 Pattie Boyd.
@@revjim123 he didn't steal, Harrison and Eric were best friends and lived next door to each other, they all stayed friends after. Eric helped write here comes the sun when George wondered over after a cold winter in Eric's back yard. Eric played the lead guitar on the Beatles " as my guitar gently weeps" which was written by George about the Beatles falling to pieces after the death of their manager. This song was also written by Eric for Patti (after they married) in 1976 czcams.com/video/vUSzL2leaFM/video.html
It's not Clapton singing on White Room, it's the bass player Jack Bruce (RIP)
The name of the band was supposed to be “Eric and the Dynamo’s” but the crowds all thought they said “Derek and the Domino’s”. Thus the band name was born.
I saw clapton back in 2000, in Barcelona. He played Layla, but the unplugged version. Also real cool and groovy with the oustanding great nathan east bassin it up there.
Who hasn't heard this. It's a stone cold classic.
Not everybody heard all of the classic rock growing up. Nothing better than experiencing great older music later in life as well.
Most have at least snapped up this song
This seems like one of those songs that EVERYONE has heard at least in passing, on the radio or in a movie or playing as background music in a department store or something...
But then I’m 42 so I have no clue what younger peoples’ experiences are.
Clapton’s best album
I was thinking about this the other day. How can all of these reactors not have heard all of these songs? I would guess it is because no one listens to radio anymore. Everyone chooses what they listen to through playlists and auto-suggestions based on past listens.
Back in the day we turned the radio on and heard new and different stuff every day.
This work is a classic -and the 2nd part really is what makes it so awesome ...instruments thinking and crying for Layla. -but you guys are a hoot to watch ! Kudos.
After many years of this song becoming a highly recognizable classic, Eric said "hold my beer" and completely rearranged it for his MTV Unplugged performance. And for many, the "new" version became an instant classic. You guys should definitely follow this up with the Unplugged version. Great reaction, fellas!✌️
I actually prefer the Unplugged version. The riff on the original is iconic, but the bluesy feel of the Unplugged version is the one that I play over and over again.
Also, this song was written by Eric Clapton who was in love with Beatle George Harrison's wife Pattie Boyd. Boyd actually left Harrison and married Clapton for a while, but that marriage didn't last either. Fortunately Harrison's and Clapton's friendship survived it.
The piano interlude/outro is familiar to you because you've probably seen 'Good Fellas'. This piece was the background music during the scenes when Dinero's "Jimmy Conway" had a ton of people wacked after the big heist. The bodies are found in that Pink Cadillac, a garbage dumpster, the freezer car, etc.
Great reaction! One of your best in a while!
The last piano part you'll remember if you've seen Goodfellas... very famously used in the montage where the mob are killing off all their "loose ends"
There are those who consider this the greatest rock and roll song of all time... I might be one of them - thanks!
Another “Derek” great and must hear: Bell Bottom Blues!
My favorite
Clapton wrote 'Layla' about Pattie Boyd, George Harrisons ex. George Harrison wrote 'Something' about her.
i saw Eric live in Dublin back in the early 90's, he had Phil Collins on drums for the gig and Robert Cray came out to jam too... savage
Derek is ERIC! The only album they made, every track is gold.
That’s Eric Clapton
I think for Gen X guys like me, this song is very closely associated with “Goodfellas”
Or as a very young child at the local park while your parents and friends pass frisbee and enjoy sweet leaf while the car stereo in the 70 Camaro jams away. Been there experienced it from a playpen. Feel so blessed from that experience that helped me have great taste in music.
@@garrylechner2240 , your parents were hipper than mine, lol.
Get into the Allman Brothers. Duane allman
My first thought too. In fact, I forgot how awesome the opening riff is. I always think of this song from the piano interlude on precisely because of Goodfellas. Hadn’t heard this one in a while.
Yep
The drummer is Jim Gordon, one of the very greatest drummers of the late 60s and 70s. He also played the piano part, which he seems to have lifted from his then-girlfriend Rita Coolidge. Gordon later went to prison for killing his mother with an ax, and is still incarcerated today.
Bobby Whitlock wrote and played that piano part.
I stand corrected. Rita Coolidge did write that. I thought Whitlock wrote it for years now. Apologies.
Eric Clapton has a GREAT live show. The last time I saw him, he played the full set (2+ hrs), no opening act. If you get the chance, go see him...you won't be disappointed.
Layla is Patty Boyd - George Harrison‘s ex-wife and Eric Clapton‘s best friend at the time he wrote this song… About Patty‘s husband left her “needing consolation”. George Harrison and Patty Boyd later divorced, then she married Eric Clapton and they eventually divorced.
Derek and the dominos was a very short lived group, that Eric Clapton was part of, with Layla being on the only album they ever made
They also put out a live album.
This song, along with songs like Stairway to Heaven, Freebird and Hotel California, is one of those epic monoliths representing the peak of “classic rock” in the 70s. The kind of thing that was played on the radio repeatedly for years. If there was a Mount Rushmore for classic rock, this would be on it.
You probably heard the Layla outro in the film Goodfellas. That part was actually written by Rita Coolidge, but her boyfriend and Dominos drummer Jim Gordon stole it and took credit for it. Ironically, Rita's sister Priscilla and her husband Booker T. Jones (of Booker T. and the MG's) used the piano melody and added lyrics and recorded is as a song called "Time".
*Sunshine of Your Love
I didn't expect to hear the Charles in Charge theme song when clicking this. lol. Great reaction as always.
Still, I never saw Jimmy so happy. He was like a kid. We had money coming in through my Pittsburgh people and after a while even the Lufthansa thing began to calm down