I'm surprised you pefer the original over the unplugged.. It's so raw, he showcases his skills... He played Money For Nothing with Dire Straits at Knebworth It's such a sick duo with Clapton and Mark. They rocked together... That would be a lit review 🤙 I'm glad I keep comin back
Please, please, please do Eric’s Old Love as well. His original with Robert Cray live version and then he does the acoustic from this same set in 1992. Trust me Jamel, you will not be disappointed with Robert Cray’s guitar work on the regular/live version.
The one with Great White is my favorite - "House of Broken Love", but especially their cover of Led Zeppelin's "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You". Jamel - please react to one of those performances. czcams.com/video/kjZ1jWI_xgI/video.html czcams.com/video/uAerqUwADe8/video.html
I remember when this episode came on, that was when Mtv was rebellious and didn't care, love the unplugged program just awesome shows, not this pc bullshit like today, organic diversity at it's best, nevertheless "Tears in Heaven" is a heartbreaking songs, rest in paradise Connor.
This song is the reason I play acoustic guitar. MTV Unplugged was a major influence on me as a kid, and showed me that you could play lead on acoustic guitar.
While I enjoy playing the original version, it is in fact a fairly simple riff to play. I love playing the acoustic version because: One, over my 50 something years as a guitar player I have for the most part played the acoustic guitar and two, the acoustic version is a slight bit more complex than the original electric version and for me is more fun to play. The last band that I was in we wanted to have an acoustic element in our set list and we played the unplugged version of "Layla" as well as the unplugged versions of "Beth" and "Rock and Roll All Night" by Kiss.
@@dinodasbunce6224 I find, I just gel with the groove of the acoustic version better. I love both versions, but the acoustic version is so much more fun to play.
He's phenomenal and just a great and humble human. If you search for Scott's Bass Lessons Nathan East you'll be very pleased to be invited into Nathan's home.
Ive seen Clapton 3 times- Once with Nathan East and Phil Collins on the drums- another time was the fateful Alpine Valley show where SRV lost his life.
@@TheRagratus I was at that Alpine Valley show as well. My buddy and I wanted to get tickets to the Saturday show because we wanted to see Jeff Healey. Those were the days where you had to line up outside of a Ticketmaster. It sold out so fast I ended up getting tickets to the Sunday show. And it was Stevie's last.....
Absolutely incredible version of this song. Eric wrote this song about Patti Harrison, who was married to George Harrison of the Beatles. He was secretly in love with her for years. Love the smooth blues flavor!
This is probably the greatest reinvention of a song by the original artist in music history. If you know the original, you just couldn't have seen this coming.
The whole unplugged performance is incredible. Do yourself a favor and watch the whole thing some time. One of the best performances of Unplugged, if not the best. This is my favorite version of Layla. I have the CD and listened to it all the time in the 90s.
@@jamelakajamal Yup. She dated George at the time so "Something" was his love song to her. Clapton was smitten with her her so "Layla" is about a man driven mad by a woman he can't have based on the Persian myth.
@@colinvandenberg3446 She was married to George at the time. Their relationship/friendship lasted longer than both their marriages to Patti. George, Paul and Ringo attended Eric & Patti's wedding and jammed together. John was having visa problems.
This is where “unplugged” came from. MTV saw how great this was and said we should do more of that. Ray Cooper on percussion, played a lot with Elton, he takes playing a tambourine to another level.
So good to see Andy Fairweather-Low playing with Eric. He is a great though often unrecognised talent that first came to notice with Amen Corner back in the day....
Jamel, I guess you've already discovered that the woman Eric is singing about in his song is the girl with George Harrison in that Beatles' "Something" video you reacted to earlier. Pattie Boyd.
wonderful tonight is also about her supposedly. I also heard a story about a guitar duel between clapton and harrison. I'm sure someone knows that story better than me though.
@@eviekelpie1 Yep, and she also had an affair with Ronnie Wood (Faces, Jeff Beck, Birds (Not the Byrds) & the Rolling Stones) before she divorced George Harrison and went to Eric Clapton. Nevertheless, none of those guys ended up with her in the end. She married a Property developer named Rod Weston.
On the record version, the great Duane Allman (Allman Bros. Band) played the slide guitar, at Eric Clapton's request. The two of them became friends in the late 60s when Clapton flew to Duane's house in Georgia I think, and spent a week jamming with The Allman Bros. Band. Can you imagine Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, and Dickie Betts all playing guitar together? Everyone checked their ego at the door, and just had a good ole time with each other. How would you have liked to be there hanging out, and listening to them jam together?
The way Duane met Eric was that Eric had heard Duane's guitar lead on Wilson Pickett's version of Hey Jude and wanted to know who that was. Someone said that is Duane Allman. So Derek & the Dominos were recording and heard that the Allman Brothers were playing that night. So Eric and his band ended up in the front row and when Duane looked down and saw Eric he literally froze. So after the show he invited the Allman Brothers back to the studio and they jammed until the wee hours of the morning. Eric at that point asked Duane if he would play on the Album and the rest is history. The First three songs on the Layla album were recorded without Duane. All the other songs Duane played on. If you have not listened that album, You are missing some of the greatest guitar work ever.
@@davidhattman7649 The only part you missed was Clapton was living in Florida at the time, recording as an escape from his heroin addiction, and saw Allmans show there.
@@TheRagratus he was not escaping his heroin addiction, he was an addict. They were doing H at night during and after the Layla sessions. Also, he didn’t technically live there during this time. They rented the thunderbird hotel for a couple weeks while the band cut the record. The band all stayed there and then the Dominos went off on a tour of the states without brother Duane. Although, Duane did join them as a guest for 2 shows. Duane got offered to go on the tour, but was committed to the Allman bros.
Around 2000 a cousin and me played this song on guitar and U2's Staring At The Sun at a University music party in Bemidji, MN. When we hit those first notes the place just exploded. Great song and great memories.
The song was about Pattie Boyd. Married to George Harrison. Eric. Was having heavy affairs with her... They lived together for many years.. Eric wrote this song about her.
Music is in it's purest form when it is played acoustically and unplugged. I miss MTV's Unplugged, it was a great show that highlighted the bare bones of songs, 99% of which are written and arranged acoustically before adding amplification and effects. 👏🙌🤘✌️
The Hard Rock Café was Opened in 1971 by 2 Americans in London. Eric Clapton was a Regular patron. He Gave them a Guitar which they hung on the wall. Not long after another Guitar came from Pete Townshend with a note saying "Mine's as good as his."
The unplugged version is by far my favorite but I love them both. I've heard that he and George Harrison called each other Husbands-in-law. THATS a strong friendship!😍
The piano player is Steve Ferrone, who played with a lot of people and was a member of Tom Petty and Heartbreakers for a number of years. He appears in the recordings of a lot of artists, including the Bee Gees!
I think "saucy" is the word you were looking for. This lounge version was a nice surprise to everyone when this first aired. For Unplugged, I loved how he rearranged this great song.
This whole show was phenomenal. He's so much better than he's ever been. You don't see alot of guitarist that will sit down and play their songs acoustically. It shows you who can really play.
I’m old. Had the VHS of this concert & the sheet music for Layla. I read music. Took me weeks but I learned to play this. Whew. If u can find the DVD of this concert snatch it up! Eric is a Blues Man & it shows. His acoustic playing has always inspired me.
I was a senior in HS and this song was old already. I had loved this song waaaay before this version! I named my last daughter after this song in 2008!!
The black dude in the plaid is the great Nathan East. He is an amazing bassist who still plays with Clapton. On piano, the great Chuck Levelle who played with the Allman Brothers, and currently is the keyboardist and musical director for a little band called The Rolling Stones. On percussion (Tambourine here) the great Ray Cooper. The whole band is amazing.
i love every single version of this song - he does jazz, blues, rock - he is the MASTER OF GUITAR!! in the sixties people called him God because of his "slow hand" guitar playing.
I had the VHS. I'm a guitarist so I've learned every riffs in that unplugged so much I was obssessed with the entire show. 🙂 he made layla muddy blues.
This song is so deeply ingrained in my heart. Had a company called "Derek Enterprises," in college. In tribute of this incredible band, after the break-up of Phenom group CREAM with masterful Bass, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker at "African Drums" (Later "Ginger Baker's Allstars/2 double albums)
This version of Layla and the rest of the songs from this unplugged album is what motivated me to buy my guitar and learn how to play. I'm no Eric Clapton but I do love to sit in my room and play my music. I love this album
The pianist is Chuck Leveall, who joined Allman Bros after the death of Duane, as no guitarist could replace him. As you know, Duane played on the original Layla. Leveall has joined every Rolling Stones tour for decades.
That's funny. My grandmother used to tell us we were snazzy when we were dressed up for church. That was cute!!!! Thanks for the memory. Eric Clapton -- WOW!
Thats the thing with Eric Clapton,he changes the songs completely around when doing them Unplugged. Tears In Heaven he has in later years turned into a "Reggae" type of song,in other words: He made the song about grief and suffering,into a honorable memory of his son.
@@matthintz9468 I thought "Something" was written about Pattie Boyd Harrison well before Clapton wrote Layla to confess his love to her. After she eventually went with Clapton, he also wrote the song "Wonderful Tonight" about her. I thought "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was more about materialism and spiritual blindness in general. I also always thought that the line in W.M.G.G.Weeps about the floor needing sweeping was a reference to a specific incident from one of his favorite books at the time Autobiography Of A Yogi by Yogananda. Ravi Shankar gave him the book, and Harrison would give copies to people like Gary Wright, who later based songs like "Dream Weaver" on other writings by the same person. Anyway, at one point in the book, directly after a cosmic experience, Yogananda's guru hands him a broom to sweep the porch, indicating that he also had to simultaneously keep his feet on the ground. It's my hunch that that's what inspired that line, plus he was saying that there was a lot of cleaning up to do.
I was 11 when MTV dropped this Unplugged concert. It was my into to Eric Clapton and is this still my favorite version of this song. Clapton’ s acoustic and blues albums are my favorites to this day. Your first exposure to an artist sticks in your heart. Love your reactions. They’re always so honest and and positive ❤️
I didn´t even know there was "original" version of this song until a few years ago. lol. So this is THE version of Layla for me. MTV Unplugged was the bomb!
I love your reaction to this video. This version of Layla has become my favorite. As I am closer to his age I guess I can appreciate the slow easy tempo to match his older mature voice. Yes, snazzy fits this bluesy version. I think we could hang, as you love all of my generation's music.
The amazing thing about this...is it's literally like a whole other song which is why I appreciate it so much. I actually prefer this version over the studio.
This song calls for an album listen!! It's a corner to corner classic. Running on Faith and Lonely Stranger are two of my favorites from this album. The 1st CD I ever bought. When we actually paid for music.
I wish that this video showed from the start of this song. He asked the audience to guess the song, played some notes, I don't think they really knew what song was starting. They clapped, then figured out it was layla and really started cheering. Watch the session of Clapton unplugged.....really good
Rocker or Chill version? Like lobster or cracked crab for lunch. “Can’t we have both?” Yes we can! Your pianist is Chuck Leavell. A former member of The Allman Brothers, he comes out of life as a South Georgia pine tree farmer to play keyboards on all Rolling Stones albums and tours. (He’s pretty good 😮)
"Your old man had let you down"=it refers to the book in how Layla's father refused to allow someone of lesser status to marry his daughter. The bsckstory for this tale/Song is partly due to Clapton's interest in George Harrison's wife and the journey of two peiple who could never be together (but loved eaxhother unconditionally).
Yep, Eric Clapton is a great combination of blues and rock as you pointed out. Clapton did some great pure blues stuff. I definitely recommend listening to 3 O'Clock Blues that he did with BB King on the album Riding With The King.
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check out the Eagles Unplugged , stunning masterpiece
I'm surprised you pefer the original over the unplugged.. It's so raw, he showcases his skills... He played Money For Nothing with Dire Straits at Knebworth It's such a sick duo with Clapton and Mark. They rocked together... That would be a lit review 🤙 I'm glad I keep comin back
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@@tomjones2121 Seven Bridges Road!!!
Please, please, please do Eric’s Old Love as well. His original with Robert Cray live version and then he does the acoustic from this same set in 1992. Trust me Jamel, you will not be disappointed with Robert Cray’s guitar work on the regular/live version.
MTV Unplugged was the best thing that channel ever did! Every episode was incredible.
The one with Great White is my favorite - "House of Broken Love", but especially their cover of Led Zeppelin's "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You". Jamel - please react to one of those performances.
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@@williamosborne6866 house of broken love
@@drjoshuamc oops...guess I was half asleep. Thanx.
Too bad "Music Television" no longer has music.
With the possible exception of Pop Up Videos. I am a trivia nerd and I learned so many silly factoids from that show,
... and then, there’s “Tears in Heaven”, beautifully heartbreaking.
He’s already reacted
And cocaine lol
@@rafigamma07 And a good reaction it was.
He’s done it.
I remember when this episode came on, that was when Mtv was rebellious and didn't care, love the unplugged program just awesome shows, not this pc bullshit like today, organic diversity at it's best, nevertheless "Tears in Heaven" is a heartbreaking songs, rest in paradise Connor.
Dude got multiple Grammy's for the unplugged album this was part of. Layla won best rock song. Legendary.
Appalling.
He deserved them much more for the original version.
This song is the reason I play acoustic guitar. MTV Unplugged was a major influence on me as a kid, and showed me that you could play lead on acoustic guitar.
This is why you are a pussy
@@Pugiron so you really had nothing better to do with your time did ya?
@@Pugiron Congratulations on being a colossal bitch.
While I enjoy playing the original version, it is in fact a fairly simple riff to play. I love playing the acoustic version because: One, over my 50 something years as a guitar player I have for the most part played the acoustic guitar and two, the acoustic version is a slight bit more complex than the original electric version and for me is more fun to play. The last band that I was in we wanted to have an acoustic element in our set list and we played the unplugged version of "Layla" as well as the unplugged versions of "Beth" and "Rock and Roll All Night" by Kiss.
@@dinodasbunce6224 I find, I just gel with the groove of the acoustic version better. I love both versions, but the acoustic version is so much more fun to play.
The bass player in the sharp plaid is the GREAT Nathan East.
He's phenomenal and just a great and humble human. If you search for Scott's Bass Lessons Nathan East you'll be very pleased to be invited into Nathan's home.
Got to see Eric, Nathan, and if I remember correctly, Mark Knopfler in New Orleans around the late 80"s ?
Saw him playing out with Steely Dan in CA where he's from a few years back. Man, that was a treat, he is just a monster player, talk about rock-solid.
Ive seen Clapton 3 times- Once with Nathan East and Phil Collins on the drums- another time was the fateful Alpine Valley show where SRV lost his life.
@@TheRagratus I was at that Alpine Valley show as well. My buddy and I wanted to get tickets to the Saturday show because we wanted to see Jeff Healey. Those were the days where you had to line up outside of a Ticketmaster. It sold out so fast I ended up getting tickets to the Sunday show. And it was Stevie's last.....
Absolutely incredible version of this song. Eric wrote this song about Patti Harrison, who was married to George Harrison of the Beatles. He was secretly in love with her for years. Love the smooth blues flavor!
Eventually Pattie & him did get together but also divorced after a few years.. guess Eric was too hooked on having the blues 😉 *pun intended*
Not so secretly by the time this was released. Is the earlier version the Power Trio style? It was all the vogue at the time.
Was it Patti's little boy that died?
@@christinerobinson9372 no
@@christinerobinson9372 it was his son he had with his Italian ex-wife...such a sad story...you can really feel his heartache in Tears of heaven!!
“this is snazzy!” Lol perfect description
This is probably the greatest reinvention of a song by the original artist in music history. If you know the original, you just couldn't have seen this coming.
Without shadow of a doubt!!!!
I don’t think anybody saw this coming. Brilliant. Just as brilliant as the original. Also responsible for my undying love of a Martin 000, too.
Eric "Slow Hand" Clapton...Legend in his own right!!!🤙🏾
The whole unplugged performance is incredible. Do yourself a favor and watch the whole thing some time. One of the best performances of Unplugged, if not the best. This is my favorite version of Layla. I have the CD and listened to it all the time in the 90s.
Anyone other than me prefer this Unplugged version over the original?
I almost always prefer acoustic.
Oh hell yes!
YES, way better.
They are both awesome.. but Eric always said a true guitarist jus goes anywhere and plays his acoustic to the out most and have a crowd invested
No , hell no
Acoustic sucks....
The two songs you reacted to back to back, Something and Layla were both written about the same woman, Pattie Boyd.
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@@jamelakajamal Yup. She dated George at the time so "Something" was his love song to her. Clapton was smitten with her her so "Layla" is about a man driven mad by a woman he can't have based on the Persian myth.
Clapton's song Wonderful Tonight was written about her also
@@stevebengel1346 George and Eric wrote several songs about her. And Ronnie Wood's Mystifies Me is about Patty Boyd too. She was definitely a muse.
@@colinvandenberg3446 She was married to George at the time. Their relationship/friendship lasted longer than both their marriages to Patti. George, Paul and Ringo attended Eric & Patti's wedding and jammed together. John was having visa problems.
The beauty is that the tone of the original recording is so different from this one that they bot end up having unique qualities. I love them both.
This is where “unplugged” came from. MTV saw how great this was and said we should do more of that. Ray Cooper on percussion, played a lot with Elton, he takes playing a tambourine to another level.
Ray Cooper is a genius
My great Uncle Buford Jones was the sound engineer for Clapton during this performance.
It just shows how deep his Blues roots are. That he can take a song like the OG Layla and turn it into this silky-smooth Blues version.
The Black Dude in the flannel is Nathan East, bass player. He's played with some of the biggest names in music.
He’s one of the biggest names in music* :)
Don’t forget Ray Cooper playing percussions and Steve Ferrone on drums too.
So good to see Andy Fairweather-Low playing with Eric. He is a great though often unrecognised talent that first came to notice with Amen Corner back in the day....
He played with Clapton for many years
This is the man that Jimmy Hendrix used to ask to tune his guitar. Ole Slowhand is a legend still going .
This is my favorite Clapton song, this version. 🥰🥰🥰 I remember watching this performance when it aired. Damn damn I miss those MTV days.
Jamel, I guess you've already discovered that the woman Eric is singing about in his song is the girl with George Harrison in that Beatles' "Something" video you reacted to earlier. Pattie Boyd.
wonderful tonight is also about her supposedly. I also heard a story about a guitar duel between clapton and harrison. I'm sure someone knows that story better than me though.
Yeah that girl was his wife whom started an affair with Eric. Mmm nice girl
Yea..Eric fell in love with someone else girl.👤💃
@@eviekelpie1 Yep, and she also had an affair with Ronnie Wood (Faces, Jeff Beck, Birds (Not the Byrds) & the Rolling Stones) before she divorced George Harrison and went to Eric Clapton.
Nevertheless, none of those guys ended up with her in the end. She married a Property developer named Rod Weston.
@@39thala Wow well she was quite the charmer! That cute innocent face didn't fool me
So early I feel a Rooster should crow
I love the entire Unplugged of this. I loved most of the unplugged series.
It's a testament to how great this song is that they could turn it into a laid-back, almost jazzy tune.
On the record version, the great Duane Allman (Allman Bros. Band) played the slide guitar, at Eric Clapton's request. The two of them became friends in the late 60s when Clapton flew to Duane's house in Georgia I think, and spent a week jamming with The Allman Bros. Band. Can you imagine Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, and Dickie Betts all playing guitar together? Everyone checked their ego at the door, and just had a good ole time with each other. How would you have liked to be there hanging out, and listening to them jam together?
The way Duane met Eric was that Eric had heard Duane's guitar lead on Wilson Pickett's version of Hey Jude and wanted to know who that was. Someone said that is Duane Allman. So Derek & the Dominos were recording and heard that the Allman Brothers were playing that night. So Eric and his band ended up in the front row and when Duane looked down and saw Eric he literally froze. So after the show he invited the Allman Brothers back to the studio and they jammed until the wee hours of the morning. Eric at that point asked Duane if he would play on the Album and the rest is history. The First three songs on the Layla album were recorded without Duane. All the other songs Duane played on. If you have not listened that album, You are missing some of the greatest guitar work ever.
@@davidhattman7649 Dave has the correct interpretation of the story
They didn’t need to check egos. I’m sure Betts brought a couple bottles of whiskey and that checked their egos.🥃🥃🥃
@@davidhattman7649 The only part you missed was Clapton was living in Florida at the time, recording as an escape from his heroin addiction, and saw Allmans show there.
@@TheRagratus he was not escaping his heroin addiction, he was an addict. They were doing H at night during and after the Layla sessions. Also, he didn’t technically live there during this time. They rented the thunderbird hotel for a couple weeks while the band cut the record. The band all stayed there and then the Dominos went off on a tour of the states without brother Duane. Although, Duane did join them as a guest for 2 shows. Duane got offered to go on the tour, but was committed to the Allman bros.
Neil Sedaka sang "Breakin Up is Hard to Do" and 30 years later, he put out the same song as a ballad and it had a completely different feel.
I love the slow version the best Neal sadaka
I hated the song when I first heard it... but that newer version is gold!
Around 2000 a cousin and me played this song on guitar and U2's Staring At The Sun at a University music party in Bemidji, MN. When we hit those first notes the place just exploded. Great song and great memories.
Went to high school and college in Bemidji, MN! Was long gone by 2000.
I love this bluesy, jazzy version as much as the original rock version.
Yes! LOVE both versions! This live version became a HIT all in itself- I remember it hit a ton of radio play in the 90’s- like a whole new song- ❤️✌️
The whole acoustic album he released then is a classic!!
We had a dog named Layla, she was specifically named after this song - 'won't you ease my worried mind' is the perfect mantra for a dog.
The song was about Pattie Boyd. Married to George Harrison. Eric. Was having heavy affairs with her... They lived together for many years.. Eric wrote this song about her.
My grandparents dog is named Layla, also after the song
My dog’s name is Layla for the same reason; she an English terrier.
Clapton has a great voice too, which often gets overlooked.
Music is in it's purest form when it is played acoustically and unplugged. I miss MTV's Unplugged, it was a great show that highlighted the bare bones of songs, 99% of which are written and arranged acoustically before adding amplification and effects. 👏🙌🤘✌️
One of my favourite shows! Can’t go wrong with Clapton!!!
Acoustic guitar sales skyrocketed that year!!!! What a great song.
Could you imagine working for mtv on unplugged back in the early 90’s? So many amazing performances.
Little Queen of Spades...Eric Clapton with Doyle Bramhall II and Derek Trucks....Best performance you will ever hear!!
If you watch "Tears in Heaven" have complimentary Kleenex at the door. This is my favorite version.
Me too
Tears in Heaven is one of the top 10 crying songs for me!
The Hard Rock Café was Opened in 1971 by 2 Americans in London. Eric Clapton was a Regular patron. He Gave them a Guitar which they hung on the wall. Not long after another Guitar came from Pete Townshend with a note saying "Mine's as good as his."
The unplugged version is by far my favorite but I love them both. I've heard that he and George Harrison called each other Husbands-in-law. THATS a strong friendship!😍
The piano player is Steve Ferrone, who played with a lot of people and was a member of Tom Petty and Heartbreakers for a number of years. He appears in the recordings of a lot of artists, including the Bee Gees!
I think "saucy" is the word you were looking for. This lounge version was a nice surprise to everyone when this first aired. For Unplugged, I loved how he rearranged this great song.
The Unplugged album is a masterpiece, just raw talent all round.
This whole show was phenomenal. He's so much better than he's ever been. You don't see alot of guitarist that will sit down and play their songs acoustically. It shows you who can really play.
Clapton is the OG of unplugged albums. He won 6 Grammy awards for this album.
I love when great artists cover their own songs!
I’m old. Had the VHS of this concert & the sheet music for Layla. I read music. Took me weeks but I learned to play this. Whew. If u can find the DVD of this concert snatch it up! Eric is a Blues Man & it shows. His acoustic playing has always inspired me.
I was a senior in HS and this song was old already. I had loved this song waaaay before this version! I named my last daughter after this song in 2008!!
The black dude in the plaid is the great Nathan East. He is an amazing bassist who still plays with Clapton. On piano, the great Chuck Levelle who played with the Allman Brothers, and currently is the keyboardist and musical director for a little band called The Rolling Stones. On percussion (Tambourine here) the great Ray Cooper. The whole band is amazing.
this was the birth of the whole unplugged movement, love this vers.
THIS IS THEE BEST VERSION, HANDS DOWN!!!! Jamel, Portland, Oregon loves you!!!!
The true power of this song is that years later he performs an acoustic blues version and it's still awesome.
i love every single version of this song - he does jazz, blues, rock - he is the MASTER OF GUITAR!! in the sixties people called him God because of his "slow hand" guitar playing.
The first thirty seconds of the studio version of this song has been the ringtone on my phone for over 20 years.
I had the VHS. I'm a guitarist so I've learned every riffs in that unplugged so much I was obssessed with the entire show. 🙂 he made layla muddy blues.
This song is so deeply ingrained in my heart.
Had a company called "Derek Enterprises," in college. In tribute of this incredible band, after the break-up of Phenom group CREAM with masterful Bass, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker at "African Drums" (Later "Ginger Baker's Allstars/2 double albums)
This was voted by MANY lists as the #1 unplugged performance song.
This version of Layla and the rest of the songs from this unplugged album is what motivated me to buy my guitar and learn how to play. I'm no Eric Clapton but I do love to sit in my room and play my music. I love this album
They don't call him "slowhand" for a reason...so smooth
His name slowhand became because the audience was clapping slow during the yardbirds days.
The pianist is Chuck Leveall, who joined Allman Bros after the death of Duane, as no guitarist could replace him. As you know, Duane played on the original Layla. Leveall has joined every Rolling Stones tour for decades.
The first time I ever heard this song was this version. I didn't even know there was a fast rockin' version until YEARS later.
This version is definitely chill. I love it even more than the original. Not every song can be done this way. This one is perfect.
this is "wise learn-ed man" type of smooth, sophisticated music.
This whole Unplugged concert with Clapton is amazing i recomend you give it a watch sometime, very laid back and great to chill to.
his cover of "down and out" is great too, Clapton unplugged is just something else.
That's funny. My grandmother used to tell us we were snazzy when we were dressed up for church. That was cute!!!! Thanks for the memory. Eric Clapton -- WOW!
Love this unplugged version of Layla. Very smooth.
Thats the thing with Eric Clapton,he changes the songs completely around when doing them Unplugged. Tears In Heaven he has in later years turned into a "Reggae" type of song,in other words: He made the song about grief and suffering,into a honorable memory of his son.
"Old Love" from this Unplugged album is my favorite . Chuck Leavell's piano solo in that song is 1 of my all time favorites .
Written about the same woman as George Harrison's "Something".
I thought Harrison wrote While My Guitar Gently Weeps about her.
@@matthintz9468 I thought "Something" was written about Pattie Boyd Harrison well before Clapton wrote Layla to confess his love to her. After she eventually went with Clapton, he also wrote the song "Wonderful Tonight" about her. I thought "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was more about materialism and spiritual blindness in general. I also always thought that the line in W.M.G.G.Weeps about the floor needing sweeping was a reference to a specific incident from one of his favorite books at the time Autobiography Of A Yogi by Yogananda. Ravi Shankar gave him the book, and Harrison would give copies to people like Gary Wright, who later based songs like "Dream Weaver" on other writings by the same person. Anyway, at one point in the book, directly after a cosmic experience, Yogananda's guru hands him a broom to sweep the porch, indicating that he also had to simultaneously keep his feet on the ground. It's my hunch that that's what inspired that line, plus he was saying that there was a lot of cleaning up to do.
@@-R.Gray- You are correct. Pattie Boyd was quite the muse. Can anyone else claim to be the inspiration for three rock classics by two rock legends?
Brilliant version of a great song by one of the world's best guitar players.
Always love "Plugged In"...laid back fun and something unexpected!!!💜🤟🎵🎶🎼
I was 11 when MTV dropped this Unplugged concert. It was my into to Eric Clapton and is this still my favorite version of this song. Clapton’ s acoustic and blues albums are my favorites to this day. Your first exposure to an artist sticks in your heart. Love your reactions. They’re always so honest and and positive ❤️
I didn´t even know there was "original" version of this song until a few years ago. lol. So this is THE version of Layla for me. MTV Unplugged was the bomb!
I love your reaction to this video. This version of Layla has become my favorite. As I am closer to his age I guess I can appreciate the slow easy tempo to match his older mature voice. Yes, snazzy fits this bluesy version. I think we could hang, as you love all of my generation's music.
Love love love. And I love watching you hear the greats for the first time. Good work!
i just love both versions !! Eric Clapton is a guitar legend !!
Clapton! One of the best to ever do it!
Eric Clapton is always so unassuming on stage, yet so incredible. He doesn't have to stand out, but he does anyway because he is the GOAT. Still.
The amazing thing about this...is it's literally like a whole other song which is why I appreciate it so much. I actually prefer this version over the studio.
Jamel.....I'm telling you..."BELL BOTTOM BLUES" WAY more desperate and longing than "LAYLA". You can hear it in his voice! TRUST ME.
100% the pain in his voice
I wore this album out when I was a kid learning about classic rock in the '90s. This whole album is great.
If you haven’t check out the original with Derek and the dominoes, still Clapton on guitar
Actually a Duane Allman on lead I think
Have heard Eric Claptons song “Cocaine”. I think that was the first song that I remember hearing of his.
Eric Clapton, a legend among legends.
This song calls for an album listen!! It's a corner to corner classic. Running on Faith and Lonely Stranger are two of my favorites from this album. The 1st CD I ever bought. When we actually paid for music.
The best session piano guy EVER on this recording. Chuck Leavell!
Yes ma’am!!! 🙌
I wish that this video showed from the start of this song. He asked the audience to guess the song, played some notes, I don't think they really knew what song was starting. They clapped, then figured out it was layla and really started cheering. Watch the session of Clapton unplugged.....really good
Rocker or Chill version?
Like lobster or cracked crab for lunch.
“Can’t we have both?”
Yes we can!
Your pianist is Chuck Leavell.
A former member of The Allman Brothers, he comes out of life as a South Georgia pine tree farmer to play keyboards on all Rolling Stones albums and tours. (He’s pretty good 😮)
Clapton, legend guitar player and performer.
Unplugged with Eric Clapton is great. Well worth getting it
Great song. Eric Clapton one of the greatest guitarist ever on this planet. I love this version of Layla. 👍🎶. It is very snazzy 👍
Love to see reactions to anything by Clapton. Would like to see hello old friend and motherless children live in San Diego.
Oh man, I remember this concert on VH1. I was 18. The whole thing was great.
"Your old man had let you down"=it refers to the book in how Layla's father refused to allow someone of lesser status to marry his daughter. The bsckstory for this tale/Song is partly due to Clapton's interest in George Harrison's wife and the journey of two peiple who could never be together (but loved eaxhother unconditionally).
Dude in the flannel shirt is mr. Nathan East, one of the greatest bass players to ever walk this earth.
Yep, Eric Clapton is a great combination of blues and rock as you pointed out. Clapton did some great pure blues stuff. I definitely recommend listening to 3 O'Clock Blues that he did with BB King on the album Riding With The King.
Eric is amazing. Always. ♥️🎼🎶🎵🇨🇦
We played this version of "Layla" in a band I was in in the late 1990s.
I love this...smooth and soulful. Never heard before.