I could always pick out Bobbbys voice on the Layla album. Such a pure voice,and i loved it. Ty Mr. Whitlock for all you did and contributed,and still continue to.
Y'all make such a delightful couple! It's a blessing to all that life's journeys brought you together! These videos will serve as a historic documentation of time when music was real and the sequence of it's creation was a phenomenon! Thanks for sharing your memories and time. FF.
I can’t make out the absolute details of the painting but the shapes and colors are fascinating as are the interviews. So fun to hear the stories behind the soundtracks of my life!
"It's been fun"...AMEN to that! I am hooked like a junkie to these treasures Bobby+Coco are KIND enough to share with us. Was up til 4am listening, now waking up and get'n my 'fix'. So hooked and so Thrilled...BLESS YOU BOTH 💘 for SHARING.
Love these little chatty get togethers, feels like we're all just sittin around your table shootin the breeze...and keep those shirts and paintings comin!
Geez I remember the 1st record being a guitar player ,just lusting after that Stratocaster with worn neck...real worn out not today’s relic craze.Been missing a lot of stuff in hospital with yes a reaction to covid shot..belles palsy right side messed up and terrible viral reaction....though my wife is fine with the 2...shots..Coco you and Bobby help with my stay here in the hospital ....always rehash some interesting tid bits...👍😊
The standout for me on Eric’s first album is Let It Rain and for me, Carl Radle’s bass is up front and man he is just pushing that song. The energy is just is beautiful. One of my all time favorite songs. The song hits 200 mph when Eric’s solo starts, for me it’s one of his greatest solos. It works so beautifully within the structure of the song. One those songs that if it comes on in the car, I’m suddenly driving 90mph. Great album because of the great band. I miss those days.
When I was a kid I discovered circus magazine and read it cover to cover from maybe 69-75 loved it!!! Thanks for all the info on these sessions it is fascinating!!
So happy to hear the story of that first solo album w/ Brownie on the cover.. brings back great memories of learning those great songs.. wonderful to hear an accurate history of that era.. agree with Coco about how rumors and hearsay become fact until the truth comes out..
Thank you so much about talking about the 1st solo album again,. it really takes me back and is so special to me. I was 15 in 1971 is when I got the album i was too you g back then to know about cream and was just infatuated with the solo album he was so clean and fast. gosh songs like "Slunky' just blew me away and to this day I play "After Midnight" and "Bottle of Red Wine" and "Blues Power" and "let it rain" depending on the gig and just who was in the band & "Easy Now" was fun to play too, that whole album was great. I think the next album that i bought was dominos live then Layla was after that. Eric's tone is what got me my favorite tone was that dominos sound next was that solo album. I am guessing it was the Fender dual showman with JBL's and by the dominos he just had it sounding like his champs on 3 . that started my life of tones chasseing I guess now as I look back. I now have about 33 guitars, 7 or so Clapton signature strats and what like 16 amps from my1969 Dual Showman with JBL D-140's great with my 56 all original Strat ( My Brownie) bought that back in 1983 I think it was and my other flag ship amp I have is my 1961 Blonde Fender showman with the single JBL d130 I like it more than the Dual Showman=( Chuck Berry played thru it back in 1987 for 1 gig) I think the bass is just Smoother and tighter less boomy in the 1961 showman with the presence control. they sound great together. Amazing how Eric's guitar on the solo album has so much treble. I always shy away from that myself but love hearing him do it.......I get so fired up after hearing you and Bobby almost daily just gets me really ready and all fired up to jam and play again live already and more than just 1 gig.. I miss playing live with a band.. these little broadcasts came at such an important time I think and it is very well recvd and doing lots of us good. I love you guys for it and fell so pleased and with all these positive vibes like the old days that something really good and big at least to us and all that love listening to you guys will happen. I think Eric will be getting a ho0ld of you after this pandemic crap and before everyone is too old to do things justice . I just hope and PRAY I CAN BE THERE, I DO NOT WANT TO MISS THOSE SHOWS, concerts or gigs at all.... thanks guys. M.G. in Phx, Az. can't believe in 10 more days I will be 65 . Amazing feels like Yesterday Thanks Bobby for all the great musical memories and the mystical ones too!!!. Be safe guys.....
drugs. youth. hindsight is 20/20. to quote Joni... "you don't always know what you got til it's gone." Also, Clapton has always been a guy who needs reinvent himself once in a while. who knows.
Thanks for some insight on Eric’s first solo album. I still think it’s his best solo album. With all those great players on it how could it not be?! Hey Bobby we all know the story how Eric loved D&B & Friends when you guys were playing on the Blind Faith tour. How about Steve Winwood? Did you have any interaction with him during the tour? Did he ever sit in with you guys? I really like the painting!
Lord, love that voice Bobby. EC should have been singing backup to you my friend. You are definitely a more powerful, soulful and meaningful singer even tho he wanted to practice to get better as a singer cause he needed to be more. I say this after having Dominoes at Fillmore Live on repeat.
"My fascination with the gypsy lifestyle went back to something I'd been exposed to a little bit with Steve Winwood when he was forming Traffic and I was forming Cream, and we had discussed the philosophy of what we wanted to do. Steve had said that for him it was all about unskilled labor, where you just played with your friends and fit the music around that. It was the opposite of virtuosity and it rang a bell with me because I was trying so hard to escape the pseudo-virtuoso image I had helped create for myself." - Eric Clapton
Hopefully the Universe comes to work again and we may see Eric and Bobby do a special of some sort. Curiously, when Eric had done his 70th B-day event in MSG with so many friends and luminaries coming up on stage, but not Bobby Whitlock. All things considered, it's clear that Mr. Whitlock along with others has been a major force and wing man in the sails of Eric Clapton's career.
Great story guys! Those are records I still listen to to this day, Derek and the Dominos and still play the first Clapton album from time to time. It's cool to know the story behind them.
You never want to look back and do the "what if" thing, but I can only imagine how many great R&B songs EC and BW would have written if they continued the song writing partnership.
Growing up in New Jersey in the 50's & 60's, my friends & I were into 50's Rhythm 'n Blues vocal groups. One of our favorite groups were The Dominos. That Dominos vocal group spawned the careers of Clyde McPhatter and Jackie Wilson. I always wondered if that name was inspired by The Dominos of the 50's.
here kind of a interesting question sometimes can you ask Bobby if he stayed a fan of Eric through the years what like his favorite three solo albums are? 2 70's greats for me 461 Ocean boulevard and slow hand and I actually really like the 1989 journeyman album too..😎
really enjoying all these videos guys....one thing i'd be interested in is what Bobby thinks of all of Eric's subsequent solo LPs such as 461 and Backless....also which Wings, Lennon and Harrison records are his favourites....was very pleased to hear that he enjoyed Red Rose Speedway!
When 461 Ocean Blvd came out we thought it was going to be like a condensed intensified 'Layla'. Very excited until we listened. "Willie & the Hand Jive"? WTF!! Every band in the Mid West had been playing that for years. Hate to admit it but I still have the vinyl. LOL
I know...he really threw us a curve by opening with "Motherless Children"! I think all of us were holding out for something "Layla"-like from him for years. I personally gave up after "No Reason to Cry"...
@@kitano0 I loved no reason to cry, my first album from Eric. I got it in 1981, and for me it is an album from THE BAND. very nice, and Eric plays double trouble there. Hungry is great too
@@pabloperez4063 I liked the album, too...I just thought even at the time (I listened to it when it was new...) that this was the direction he was headed, for better or worse. Actually, it did get worse.
When visiting Monet' home in Giverny, was suprised to see so much of the Japanese artwork he collected. Your painting here reminds me of those pieces👍😎 Love your paintings Bobby! How much to commission work on my guitar? Or should your art website be the correct place to ask? Interested? 👍😎❤🖖 Love folks
Eric as “Eric Clapton” as in first album entitled “Eric Clapton “ as far as Many are concerned ( me) was his best album , with “Layla “ album ( with you two as partners ) being the best coming together of musicians and ironically being the last group he was in , just my opinion and I was 9 ( w a16 year old brother here in Memphis who had both ) when they came out.
Saw Eric with Carl Radle , Marcy Levy, Jamie Oldaker , Geroge Terry in toronto ont Canada back in the 70`s and that night the group Player was supposed to open but had a border hassle and instead Jon Martyn did a solo spot [wonderful] The concert was fun until the last song Bottle of Red Wine when i said to my wife , they aren`t playing...what the heck?? and the song was coming through the P.A. but the players slowly strolled around the stage away from their instruments passing a bottle of something around ...I really felt cheated by that and never went to see him again...
Bobby, 1970 must have been a busy year for you..i pulled out my copy of (from delaney to Bonnie ) lp. I see you got writing credit for , alone together, album states duane played on this l.p in miami and ny . was this before derek and dominos and all things must pass? Thank you for time, its much appreciated
Interesting in that the environment you're describing of the camaraderie back then seems to be quite the opposite today. The band I used to be in had that, and it was one of the greatest feelings ever. Anybody who picks up an instrument today thinks they're the new Clapton or Whitlock or name-your-star and somehow they think they have the right to a huge ego. Many times it seems the better the player, the cooler they are. Not always, but often.
Supposedly Stills did that first short solo on Let It Rain also. Its out there in a google search. I would think Bobby if anyone would know if that is rubbish or not.
Bobby covers this on another episode. Stills plays bass after Eric got upset with Delaney because the record ended up sounding like D&B. He grabbed the master tapes and headed to Florida with them and called in Stills. " And he played it with a pick!!!", Bobby
I read somewhere that “Bobby Womack” ! sang Thorn Tree in the Garden. Just goes to show ya how the interweb perpetuates bogus info. (I knew the real deal, cause I’ve been a fan forever).
I could always pick out Bobbbys voice on the Layla album. Such a pure voice,and i loved it. Ty Mr. Whitlock for all you did and contributed,and still continue to.
Y'all make such a delightful couple! It's a blessing to all that life's journeys brought you together! These videos will serve as a historic documentation of time when music was real and the sequence of it's creation was a phenomenon! Thanks for sharing your memories and time. FF.
Really love the painting behind Bobby. I liked Eric's first solo album, but the Dominos music is so much more up my alley.
No wonder Iggy Pop is always shirtless, Bobby has ALL the shirts.
I can’t make out the absolute details of the painting but the shapes and colors are fascinating as are the interviews. So fun to hear the stories behind the soundtracks of my life!
"It's been fun"...AMEN to that! I am hooked like a junkie to these treasures Bobby+Coco are KIND enough to share with us. Was up til 4am listening, now waking up and get'n my 'fix'. So hooked and so Thrilled...BLESS YOU BOTH 💘 for SHARING.
Thank you
@@BW-CC Sincerely...Thank "YOU!!!!"
great stories.....Bobby is a great abstract painter too.....wow
That was a good DR, JOHN Bobby!
"Easy Now" is one of my favorite songs on the album.
mine too
And me also!
Great painting there in the background !
And a busy little pupper too !!
She certainly is
Love these little chatty get togethers, feels like we're all just sittin around your table shootin the breeze...and keep those shirts and paintings comin!
Geez I remember the 1st record being a guitar player ,just lusting after that Stratocaster with worn neck...real worn out not today’s relic craze.Been missing a lot of stuff in hospital with yes a reaction to covid shot..belles palsy right side messed up and terrible viral reaction....though my wife is fine with the 2...shots..Coco you and Bobby help with my stay here in the hospital ....always rehash some interesting tid bits...👍😊
Stay strong Glenn, hope your stay there is short. You're in our thoughts. CoCo
The standout for me on Eric’s first album is Let It Rain and for me, Carl Radle’s bass is up front and man he is just pushing that song. The energy is just is beautiful. One of my all time favorite songs. The song hits 200 mph when Eric’s solo starts, for me it’s one of his greatest solos. It works so beautifully within the structure of the song. One those songs that if it comes on in the car, I’m suddenly driving 90mph. Great album because of the great band. I miss those days.
Keep'em coming please.
Nice painting. Like that one a lot.
Thank you CoCo and Bobby for these daily inspirations
Good ol' Circus magazine...used tor read it religiously...
@Golden Cymbals Flying The first in-depth article I read about Springsteen was in Crawdaddy...this was before Born to Run.
Great mag in its day!
When I was a kid I discovered circus magazine and read it cover to cover from maybe 69-75 loved it!!!
Thanks for all the info on these sessions it is fascinating!!
Another amazing painting! The interview’s a nice bonus haha! Thanks ya’ll xxx
So happy to hear the story of that first solo album w/ Brownie on the cover.. brings back great memories of learning those great songs.. wonderful to hear an accurate history of that era.. agree with Coco about how rumors and hearsay become fact until the truth comes out..
Thank you so much about talking about the 1st solo album again,. it really takes me back and is so special to me. I was 15 in 1971 is when I got the album i was too you g back then to know about cream and was just infatuated with the solo album he was so clean and fast. gosh songs like "Slunky' just blew me away and to this day I play "After Midnight" and "Bottle of Red Wine" and "Blues Power" and "let it rain" depending on the gig and just who was in the band & "Easy Now" was fun to play too, that whole album was great. I think the next album that i bought was dominos live then Layla was after that. Eric's tone is what got me my favorite tone was that dominos sound next was that solo album. I am guessing it was the Fender dual showman with JBL's and by the dominos he just had it sounding like his champs on 3 . that started my life of tones chasseing I guess now as I look back. I now have about 33 guitars, 7 or so Clapton signature strats and what like 16 amps from my1969 Dual Showman with JBL D-140's great with my 56 all original Strat ( My Brownie) bought that back in 1983 I think it was and my other flag ship amp I have is my 1961 Blonde Fender showman with the single JBL d130 I like it more than the Dual Showman=( Chuck Berry played thru it back in 1987 for 1 gig) I think the bass is just Smoother and tighter less boomy in the 1961 showman with the presence control. they sound great together. Amazing how Eric's guitar on the solo album has so much treble. I always shy away from that myself but love hearing him do it.......I get so fired up after hearing you and Bobby almost daily just gets me really ready and all fired up to jam and play again live already and more than just 1 gig.. I miss playing live with a band..
these little broadcasts came at such an important time I think and it is very well recvd and doing lots of us good. I love you guys for it and fell so pleased and with all these positive vibes like the old days that something really good and big at least to us and all that love listening to you guys will happen. I think Eric will be getting a ho0ld of you after this pandemic crap and before everyone is too old to do things justice . I just hope and PRAY I CAN BE THERE, I DO NOT WANT TO MISS THOSE SHOWS, concerts or gigs at all.... thanks guys. M.G. in Phx, Az. can't believe in 10 more days I will be 65 . Amazing feels like Yesterday Thanks Bobby for all the great musical memories and the mystical ones too!!!. Be safe guys.....
EC and Bobby made a great team. Hard to understand why it was so short lived.
drugs. youth. hindsight is 20/20. to quote Joni... "you don't always know what you got til it's gone." Also, Clapton has always been a guy who needs reinvent himself once in a while. who knows.
One of my favorite albums,still have it
Great interview, love you both.
Eric is on fire playing 🎸at the filmore... Did he always play like that? He also had one of the rhe best ever strato tones
Yes
So grateful for these videos!
lots of motion in the painting , , , doing crazy things with Bobby's shirt sleeve , , nice !
Thanks for some insight on Eric’s first solo album. I still think it’s his best solo album. With all those great players on it how could it not be?! Hey Bobby we all know the story how Eric loved D&B & Friends when you guys were playing on the Blind Faith tour. How about Steve Winwood? Did you have any interaction with him during the tour? Did he ever sit in with you guys?
I really like the painting!
I subscribe every word
Lord, love that voice Bobby. EC should have been singing backup to you my friend. You are definitely a more powerful, soulful and meaningful singer even tho he wanted to practice to get better as a singer cause he needed to be more. I say this after having Dominoes at Fillmore Live on repeat.
"My fascination with the gypsy lifestyle went back to something I'd been exposed to a little bit with Steve Winwood when he was forming Traffic and I was forming Cream, and we had discussed the philosophy of what we wanted to do. Steve had said that for him it was all about unskilled labor, where you just played with your friends and fit the music around that. It was the opposite of virtuosity and it rang a bell with me because I was trying so hard to escape the pseudo-virtuoso image I had helped create for myself." - Eric Clapton
hi, hey how ya doing? If this is really you I am glad to hear it....be safe. M.G.
Hopefully the Universe comes to work again and we may see Eric and Bobby do a special of some sort. Curiously, when Eric had done his 70th B-day event in MSG with so many friends and luminaries coming up on stage, but not Bobby Whitlock. All things considered, it's clear that Mr. Whitlock along with others has been a major force and wing man in the sails of Eric Clapton's career.
Great story guys! Those are records I still listen to to this day, Derek and the Dominos and still play the first Clapton album from time to time. It's cool to know the story behind them.
Beautiful painting, Bobby.
You never want to look back and do the "what if" thing, but I can only imagine how many great R&B songs EC and BW would have written if they continued the song writing partnership.
Every picture tells a story..and..The song remains the same.............
Love the art Bobby keep Trucking
Growing up in New Jersey in the 50's & 60's, my friends & I were into 50's Rhythm 'n Blues vocal groups. One of our favorite groups were The Dominos. That Dominos vocal group spawned the careers of Clyde McPhatter and Jackie Wilson. I always wondered if that name was inspired by The Dominos of the 50's.
No...
Like the painting!
here kind of a interesting question
sometimes can you ask Bobby if he stayed a fan of Eric through the years what like his favorite three solo albums are?
2 70's greats for me 461 Ocean boulevard and slow hand
and I actually really like the 1989 journeyman album too..😎
really enjoying all these videos guys....one thing i'd be interested in is what Bobby thinks of all of Eric's subsequent solo LPs such as 461 and Backless....also which Wings, Lennon and Harrison records are his favourites....was very pleased to hear that he enjoyed Red Rose Speedway!
When 461 Ocean Blvd came out we thought it was going to be like a condensed intensified 'Layla'. Very excited until we listened. "Willie & the Hand Jive"? WTF!! Every band in the Mid West had been playing that for years. Hate to admit it but I still have the vinyl. LOL
I know...he really threw us a curve by opening with "Motherless Children"! I think all of us were holding out for something "Layla"-like from him for years. I personally gave up after "No Reason to Cry"...
@@kitano0 I loved no reason to cry, my first album from Eric. I got it in 1981, and for me it is an album from THE BAND.
very nice, and Eric plays double trouble there. Hungry is great too
@@pabloperez4063 I liked the album, too...I just thought even at the time (I listened to it when it was new...) that this was the direction he was headed, for better or worse. Actually, it did get worse.
A strong first solo record. Funny how it comes together.
Hello Bobby! I am Eric (under a nick). As soon as the COVID ends, get the piano ready! We will conquer the stages again!! 🎸
This sounds GREAT To me, M.G.
'Lovin' You Lovin' Me'..has a Disco 'High-Hat' at the end of the song...ahead of it's time.
❤
Dont forget that Clapton was on Stills album right at that time playing on Go Back Home. And Jimi Hendrix was on that album.
Jimi and Eric used to jam in NY in clubs in 67
When visiting Monet' home in Giverny, was suprised to see so much of the Japanese artwork he collected.
Your painting here reminds me of those pieces👍😎
Love your paintings Bobby!
How much to commission work on my guitar?
Or should your art website be the correct place to ask?
Interested?
👍😎❤🖖
Love folks
Won't You Keep On Growing Yea Yea Yea
Eric as “Eric Clapton” as in first album entitled “Eric Clapton “ as far as Many are concerned ( me) was his best album , with “Layla “ album ( with you two as partners ) being the best coming together of musicians and ironically being the last group he was in , just my opinion and I was 9 ( w a16 year old brother here in Memphis who had both ) when they came out.
Saw Eric with Carl Radle , Marcy Levy, Jamie Oldaker , Geroge Terry in toronto ont Canada back in the 70`s and that night the group Player was supposed to open but had a border hassle and instead Jon Martyn did a solo spot [wonderful] The concert was fun until the last song Bottle of Red Wine when i said to my wife , they aren`t playing...what the heck?? and the song was coming through the P.A. but the players slowly strolled around the stage away from their instruments passing a bottle of something around ...I really felt cheated by that and never went to see him again...
Hey, I wanna meet the dog. lol, it's probably twice the size now
Bobby, 1970 must have been a busy year for you..i pulled out my copy of (from delaney to Bonnie ) lp. I see you got writing credit for , alone together, album states duane played on this l.p in miami and ny . was this before derek and dominos and all things must pass? Thank you for time, its much appreciated
Would like to hear something about Bonnie Bramlett. What was she like, musically and personally?.
Bobby, considering the stellar output by Derek and the Dominos, care to share your thoughts on what caused its dissolution?
Already have
Interesting in that the environment you're describing of the camaraderie back then seems to be quite the opposite today. The band I used to be in had that, and it was one of the greatest feelings ever. Anybody who picks up an instrument today thinks they're the new Clapton or Whitlock or name-your-star and somehow they think they have the right to a huge ego. Many times it seems the better the player, the cooler they are. Not always, but often.
Supposedly Stills did that first short solo on Let It Rain also. Its out there in a google search. I would think Bobby if anyone would know if that is rubbish or not.
Bobby covers this on another episode. Stills plays bass after Eric got upset with Delaney because the record ended up sounding like D&B. He grabbed the master tapes and headed to Florida with them and called in Stills. " And he played it with a pick!!!", Bobby
I read somewhere that “Bobby Womack” ! sang Thorn Tree in the Garden. Just goes to show ya how the interweb perpetuates bogus info. (I knew the real deal, cause I’ve been a fan forever).
Lord have mercy
Please reveal the source for these awesome shirts!!!
How did Bobby feel about the song Easy Now, from Eric's album?
Loved it
what sort of dingus puts a thumbs down on Bobby`s cool stories?
Haha.. no tellin
:)
Can you please talk about Robert Fitzpatrick? Thanks Bobby & CoCo.
Eric quit the Yardbirds because they were too Pop and he wanted to be true to the Blues-then look and listen to what he became since!
No. He has always had his mark
@@pabloperez4063 huh?