Jimmy Grieves Most definitely! Whenever I hear that riff anywhere/anytime I always try to stop and listen to the entire song. Needless to say one of my favorites from back in the day.
Ricketik65 Absolutely! Duane Allman on the slide steel is unparalleled. If you like that particular instrument have a listen to Jerry Garcia playing in a song called Laughing with David Crosby singing the lyrics.
@@jaycorby , Definitely agree. The accustic version is nice, but this is the version that truly moves me the most. And I especially love the solo piano at the end, as it both complements the guitar part of the song and completes the song so perfectly. And you just have to love the bird chirping that ends the song.
@@everettewell6167 That it is! A dreamy kind of song, but very powerful in its execution. The trailing off slide steel at the end of that piece is so damned nice. Garcia was a talented man - it's a shame drugs cut his life short.
@Jay CORBY. ABSOLUTELY! By the way it's from a solo album by David Crosby whose title escapes me now even though I have the album. I'll have to look it up.
Two absolute guitar legends together - Eric Clapton and Duanne Allman. When he was asked who played which part Duanne said "If it sounds like a Stratocaster then it's Eric and if it sounds like a Les Paul then it's me." True guitar nerd comment.
lol Clapton wrote this song, its about his infatuation with Geroge Harrisons wife ( who he later married ), he played the guitar and sang in this version too.
Songfacts: This song is about George Harrison's wife, Pattie. She and Clapton began living together in 1974 and married in 1979. Clapton and Harrison remained good friends, with George playing at their wedding along with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Clapton left her for actress Lory Del Santo (with whom he had his son, Conor) in 1985. In an article published in The Guardian December 13, 2008, Pattie said: "I wasn't so happy when Eric wrote 'Layla,' while I was still married to George. I felt I was being exposed. I was amazed and thrilled at the song - it was so passionate and devastatingly dramatic - but I wanted to hang on to my marriage. Eric made this public declaration of love. I resisted his attentions for a long time - I didn't want to leave my husband. But obviously when things got so excruciatingly bad for George and me it was the end of our relationship. We both had to move on. Layla was based on a book by a 12th-century Persian poet called Nizami about a man who is in love with an unobtainable woman. The song was fantastically painful and beautiful. After I married Eric we were invited out for an evening and he was sitting round playing his guitar while I was trying on dresses upstairs. I was taking so long and I was panicking about my hair, my clothes, everything, and I came downstairs expecting him to really berate me but he said, 'Listen to this!' In the time I had taken to get ready he had written "Wonderful Tonight."
I knew that fact about Pattie but not that amount of detail , so thanks for that .i was trying to remember the third song that was written for her and I found this list! Songs written for Pattie Boyd For You Blue - The Beatles. I Need You - The Beatles. It's All Too Much - The Beatles. Layla - Derek & the Dominos. She's Waiting - Eric Clapton. Something - The Beatles. Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad - Derek & the Dominos. Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton. She must be a hella a woman!
I remember seeing this interview with George Harrison and he was asked how he knows Eric Clapton. To which he replied, "We shared the same wife." But, he also said that he always loved Eric.
@@flattoplarry39 Whoaaa . He really didn’t. He in fact said he wasn’t a good husband to her because he had changed and wanted a different life . Drugs , alcohol, fame , spirituality ..people change
At a dinner party with the Harrisons and a lot of others Eric announced to everyone that he was in love with Patti Boyd. Even she didn't know it was coming. They weren't fooling around either. How about that?
I agree 100%! It is on my list of top three depending on the day. The others are sultans of swing and comfortable numb. Honorable mention Baba ‘O Riley
"...the same song?" Yeah I've always loved that transition. One of my favourite in any song. It smooth and eases you down at just the right time for sure. Almost like an instrumental cover of itself.
when i first heard this song in full and the transition happened, i was upset but now it’s what i listen to this song for. both parts are of course great.
The name Derek is because it's Eric + Duane. Duane Allman played the slide guitar on the outro, best slide guitarist of all time, died at 24 from a motorcycle accident. He was part of the group The Allman Brothers
Eric was Derek, as graffiti in London said at the time. Clapton was pulling back from his public image and so worked under an assumed band name. It's a - if not the - classic song of unrequited love. Clapton had fallen in love with his friend George Harrison's wife Patti Boyd and the pain and guilt he was feeling spilled out on this track. That's Duane Allman on slide guitar and the piano coda, recorded some time later, was played by the drummer on the session, Jim Gordon. This is the full album version and not the single edit without the piano part. Still a wonderful, emotional track after all this time.
And it is all one song, with the writing credit going to Clapton and Jim Gordon (although Duane Allman's family still say he should have a credit too).
@@paulqueripel3493 Certainly Clapton is God was a graffito but around the time he was with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.. Clapton himself now says it may have been a hoax. I have to admit that I saw 'Eric is Derek' in a British TV drama set around that time, so maybe it was dramatic licence and not based on fact.
This is the version I love because of the way Clapton absolutely puts it ALL out there, with every raw edge of emotion still fresh. It's clear he's exorcising his inner demons through this song and holding nothing back. By comparison the later versions were almost phoning it in.
Derek and the Dominos - Eric Clapton Guitar and Lead Vocals, Bobby Whitlock - Hammond Organ, Piano and Vocals, Carl Radle - Bass, Jim Gordon Drums, Percussion and Piano. Duane Allman - Guitar and Slide Guitar. This song was written by Eric Clapton (first half) and Jim Gordon (piano section - although it has been credited to Rita Coolidge, who was dating Jim Gordon at the time.) The 2 parts were recorded seperately then mixed together. The whole Derek and the Dominos/Layla story is fascinating and I highly recommend you read about it yourself!
The slide guitar is Duane Allmann, which is the part that most people remember from the 1st part.. I'm still waiting patiently for the day you finally listen to Telegraph Road - Dire Straits
Too right! Lady writer, latest trick, tunnel of love too please. Then I want this guy to at least listen to Rosetta Thrape, Barbra Lynn. He’s getting boring.
This is the original, Clapton version! He formed a group called Derek and the Dominoes just for this album (including Duane Allman, who plays the awesome singing slide guitar alongside Eric). It's all one song, but there are clearly two parts! Eric Clapton released an acoustic version in 1992 that was very popular at the time, you may have heard that already. Great reaction! Two awesome bands (so far) in one day!!
This is Eric Clapton and Duane Allman. Eric fell in love with Duane’s guitar playing after hearing him on Wilson Pickett’s version of Hey Jude which has one of the most powerful guitar solos ever. Duane was a session player on a lot of soul records including Aretha!
Derek and The Dominos is sadly very underrated, yet it's an awesome and very influential superband, my favorites are Anyday, Tell the Truth and Bell Bottom Blues.
Brother Eric is Derek and the Dominoes... and this was the first song in my entire life that I remember falling in love with so completely, I would drop everything to hear it. It still does it for me. It never never gets old. and now... for more of Brother Clapton's repertoire... the band is... Cream. White Room. Sunshine of Your Love. Strange Brew. That's a rabbit hole you won't regret.
If you're looking into early Clapton, you might want to check out Cream (e.g. Sunshine of Your Love, Crossroads), Blind Faith (e.g. Can't Find My Way Home), John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (All Your Love, Steppin' Out) or the Yardbirds (For Your Love, Got to Hurry). Derek & the Dominoes was his first kind-of-solo project.
All great suggestions cliptych. Eric was and is the most iconic songwriter, player, and singer of my generation. Layla was a huge hit especially with Eric's opening riff and gritty, voice. This is still on my playlist 50 years later.
This was technically his 2nd 'solo project' as he had already recorded and released his debut solo album - which ironically had over 20 musicians and singers on it, most of them American (including Rita Coolidge) - earlier that year in 1970. That was the album that gave us the classics "After Midnight" and "Let It Rain." 😊
Blind Faith I Man can't find my way home Jah Jerry Jah rastafari praises blessings respectfully Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜️ Jah sisters Jah Trey Jah Duane Africa Ethiopia Addis Ababa Selassie I Jah Creation herbalist spiritual awakening chant down Babylon Jah
That Duane Allman solo always gives me the chills. Would have loved to see the magic they would have continued to make together if Duane stayed alive =(
Layla was a Persian love story about falling in love with your best friend’s wife. Clapton was in love with George Harrison’s wife at the time and wrote this “coded” love song to her!
Eric Clapton and Duane Allman put together a masterpiece! I love this collaboration! One of the best rock songs of all time! They loved jamming together at this time! Virtuoso playing with virtuoso. Magic happened on this!
Derek and the Dominoes was Clapton and a great group of musicians that became a legend when joined by Duane Allman for the studio recordings. Skydog added the slide and the group became a legend.
I know people are saying that Duane Allman is playing slide guitar on this song, but he is also playing most of the guitar parts, including the main riff. He contributed heavily to the entire album.
He contributed heavily to the tracks in which he was part of. He “joined” after they wrote Bell Bottom Blues. But his work on Little Wing and other lesser known tracks on this album are fantastic.
not true, duane has two guitar parts on both ends also a duet with eric on the first half...but while eric has two guitar parts on the back end eric has 4 and half guitar parts in the front end.
no, eric is playing more guitarctracks total, duane is the lead through the verses, solo and coda/outro...eric and duane together are playing the lead in riff high parts, eric is playing rhythm guitar throughout, high harmoc guitar, low harmonic guitar, mid harmonic which is cut from some mixes, and then the second half playing acoustic guitar...maybe overall its half and half.
Ahhh to this day when the piano exit hits I just hear "Jimmy was cutting every link between himself and the robbery, but it had nothing to do with me. I gave Jimmy the tip and he gave me some Christmas money. From then on I kept my mouth shut. I knew Jimmy. He had the cash. It was his. I know he kicked some money upstairs to Paulie, but that was it. It made him sick to have to turn money over to the guys who stole it. He'd rather whack them. Anyway, what did I care? I wasn't. asking for anything and, besides. Jimmy was making nice money with me through my Pittsburgh connections. But still, for months after the robbery, they were finding bodies all over. When they found Sepe in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy."
I fell in love with this as a kid. Incredibly passionate 1st part and incredibly blissful 2nd part. For me, maybe the most beautiful traditional rock song there is.
Santanas Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock is absolute must. Many of the band members were experiencing their first acid trip while performing. Brilliant performance
In the "good old days," the piano coda from Layla used to get heavy rotation in The Weather Channel's local insert background music, which was more or less my introduction to it. Twice, I had to do photo slide shows, once for a class project and once for a work project, and both times I used the piano coda as the background music and both times a couple of people were asking me where I got it from. It's just so haunting.
Duane Allmann is also playing on this track...same song, original track, this IS Clapton. You can also check out Delaney, Bonnie and Friends, Leon Russell, JJ Cale....
Clapton hurting over his intense love for Patti Harrison (his best friend's wife) I think Dwayne Allman is playing the slide guitar on this song. Great song....
Jamel - that incredible slide guitar is none other than the late, great Duane Allman. All of about 22 yrs old then. Had his life not been so tragically cut short he would be in the pantheon of the greatest guitar players ever. Clapton was enamoured with DA and asked him to sit in on the Layla sessions. I do love Clapton and he is one of the greatest, but this song would not be what it is without that insane slide guitar part. long live the spirit of brother Duane Allman.
Yes, this is the original classic, and speaking of which brother: Clapton's 1992 MTV Unplugged concert is an essential. Would love to see you react to it one day!
The melody for the first part of the song stems from Duane Allman noodling around, during the downtime in the sessions, with the Albert King song "As The Years Go Passing By". The tempo was picked up and became the opening of "Layla".
The later acoustic version was made when MTV was running a series of artists doing "acoustic" versions of their songs, The series was called, "MTV Unplugged".
When this song was in regular rotation on the radio I woke up in the middle of the night with the piano solo pounding in my head, so I turned on the radio and listened to it.
Eric loved Pattie. Reading what he wrote about her in his bio was absolutely incredible. He fell in love with her in 1968 and was with her until 1988. I wish thier relationship lasted. She helped him stay alive until he reached sobriety. He really owes Pattie his life.
@@navneetsinghr4290 That is the way I remember the lineup too. I will always feel a chill whenever I hear any of this two album set. Rest in peace my brother Duane.
'Bell Bottom Blues" on this same album. A must hear. It's a Heartbreaker. His vocals and guitar....His heart and soul are bleeding as he plays and sings.
Long after the album was out, and the full 7-plus-minute version was already a single, Atco re-released another 45 that faded out before the long Jim Gordon ending begins. That's why it became such an AM radio hit. I agree btw, that short version is so annoying, I'm a crate-digger and I don't even want a copy in my collection!
I can see the video in Mozambique. This is Eric Clapton with a bunch of amazing musicians. This whole album was a love declaration to the wife of his best friend George Harrison (of the Beatles). Patty was probably the woman who got the best songs written about her. Just Layla (EC) and Something (GH) are way up there in Rock history.
Love your Channel... reminds me of cruising the main drag in my home town blasting the tunes... Here's another Clapton Rabbit Hole for you. Cream was epic!.. Strange Brew... Sunshine of your Love... White Room... I miss the 60's & 70's!
Eric Clapton was a founding member of Derrick and the Dominos and co wrote Layla. The song is one of three songs written for Pattie Boyd who was married to George Harrison at the time. The other songs were Something by George Harrison and Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton.
Robert Longwill Most of the best guitar on this album was Duane - his solo on why does love got to be so sad is one of my favourites ever. It’s so, so sad and disappointing he died at 24. SO YOUNG. Think what he could’ve done.
@@nick260682 I know Nick why are the best taken so early. Like Hendrix Janis Joplin Jim Croce Harry Chapin I can go on and on. Can you imagine what all those people I just mentioned would have done if they had lived. My two favourites were Jim Croce and Harry Chapin. Unbelievable Duane Allman was one of the best players
I kinda wish they were seperate tracks sometimes. I love both parts and I get the concept, but quite often I’m only vibing one movement or the other because they take you to such different places
He wrote it for Pattie Boyd, who was originally with George Harrison. Him and Eric were friends, so things probably got a bit complicated, because Pattie ended up with Eric for a while 🧐 but been in a similar situation myself......🎶💙✊
Way back in the day, if you were learning to play guitar, there were songs that you wanted to learn more than anything else... and this was one of them.... same with the piano... just an all around perfect song.. it had you soaring, cresting on a wave and then brought you gently back to earth.
That beautiful outro was Duane Allman killing it. This was the collaboration of dreams. Clapton and Allman. Allman could make those bird sounds at the very end.
_ Geex : Yes, Totally. I saw them 5 times from 76-83. Great live band. Great songs. The Rocker, Emerald, The Sun Goes Down. To name a few. May the Force be with you.🌀 (-: :-)
When I first heard this song 40+yrs.ago I can't help but remember my elementary school crush,those were the days.I read somewhere that the piano part was added later by Jim Gordon the great drummer of Derek and Dominos.I also read that there was an unreleased Derek and Dominos which they recorded before they went separate ways,I wonder what happened to it?
It is essentially two compositions welded into one. Clapton composed the 'song', Jim Gordon, who played drums and piano composed the instrumental ending separately. They were deemed to fit well enough together to be married. Duane Allman's slide guitar is the unifying factor.
This has got to be one of the most instantly recognisable guitar riffs in the history of rock.
Jimmy Grieves Most definitely! Whenever I hear that riff anywhere/anytime I always try to stop and listen to the entire song. Needless to say one of my favorites from back in the day.
THE MOST
This is Eric Claptons version, this is his and Duane Allmans song. Anything else is an edit. And should not be considered the original.
Thank god for Duane Allman jamming with Clapton.
im 14 and i just learned this fucking riff after 4 fucking months😂 but worth it my freinds look at me jesus when i play it
This is THE version. However nice the acoustic one from MTV unplugged may be, there is only one Original. And may I say, one of my all-time favorites.
Ricketik65 Absolutely! Duane Allman on the slide steel is unparalleled. If you like that particular instrument have a listen to Jerry Garcia playing in a song called Laughing with David Crosby singing the lyrics.
@@jaycorby ,
Definitely agree. The accustic version is nice, but this is the version that truly moves me the most. And I especially love the solo piano at the end, as it both complements the guitar part of the song and completes the song so perfectly. And you just have to love the bird chirping that ends the song.
@JAY CORBY
I have heard it and it's fantastic!!!
@@everettewell6167 That it is! A dreamy kind of song, but very powerful in its execution. The trailing off slide steel at the end of that piece is so damned nice. Garcia was a talented man - it's a shame drugs cut his life short.
@Jay CORBY. ABSOLUTELY! By the way it's from a solo album by David Crosby whose title escapes me now even though I have the album. I'll have to look it up.
Two absolute guitar legends together - Eric Clapton and Duanne Allman. When he was asked who played which part Duanne said "If it sounds like a Stratocaster then it's Eric and if it sounds like a Les Paul then it's me." True guitar nerd comment.
Clapton and Allman. What a combination! The way they weave in and out of each other is amazing.
Duane’s “bird chirp” at the end is such a perfect end
Did he do that on the guitar? Nice touch🎶
@@sagegoodwin1yeah i had no idea that was him i thought it was done in post. that’s cool!
YES. 👍👍
No, this is THE version. Clapton did a live version for MTV or something, but this is the one that matters most.
I love them both, but for different moods
Yeah ........ Clapton Unplugged
This one has that crazy intoxicating feverish cocaine energy
@@Thisisahandle701 That is why it "made" the whole soundtrack of Goodfella's...
lol Clapton wrote this song, its about his infatuation with Geroge Harrisons wife ( who he later married ), he played the guitar and sang in this version too.
Songfacts: This song is about George Harrison's wife, Pattie. She and Clapton began living together in 1974 and married in 1979. Clapton and Harrison remained good friends, with George playing at their wedding along with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Clapton left her for actress Lory Del Santo (with whom he had his son, Conor) in 1985. In an article published in The Guardian December 13, 2008, Pattie said: "I wasn't so happy when Eric wrote 'Layla,' while I was still married to George. I felt I was being exposed. I was amazed and thrilled at the song - it was so passionate and devastatingly dramatic - but I wanted to hang on to my marriage. Eric made this public declaration of love. I resisted his attentions for a long time - I didn't want to leave my husband. But obviously when things got so excruciatingly bad for George and me it was the end of our relationship. We both had to move on. Layla was based on a book by a 12th-century Persian poet called Nizami about a man who is in love with an unobtainable woman. The song was fantastically painful and beautiful. After I married Eric we were invited out for an evening and he was sitting round playing his guitar while I was trying on dresses upstairs. I was taking so long and I was panicking about my hair, my clothes, everything, and I came downstairs expecting him to really berate me but he said, 'Listen to this!' In the time I had taken to get ready he had written "Wonderful Tonight."
I knew that fact about Pattie but not that amount of detail , so thanks for that .i was trying to remember the third song that was written for her and I found this list!
Songs written for Pattie Boyd
For You Blue - The Beatles.
I Need You - The Beatles.
It's All Too Much - The Beatles.
Layla - Derek & the Dominos.
She's Waiting - Eric Clapton.
Something - The Beatles.
Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad - Derek & the Dominos.
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton.
She must be a hella a woman!
"Wonderful Tonight" - another amazing classic
George said take this pig off my hands!!!!!
I remember seeing this interview with George Harrison and he was asked how he knows Eric Clapton. To which he replied, "We shared the same wife." But, he also said that he always loved Eric.
@@flattoplarry39 Whoaaa . He really didn’t. He in fact said he wasn’t a good husband to her because he had changed and wanted a different life . Drugs , alcohol, fame , spirituality ..people change
Still can't believe this is 50 years old.
This song is about George Harrison's wife,Pattie.Eric was in love with her.After George and Pattie divorced,Eric married her.
And also drawn from the Arabic Fable of Layla and majnun
The most famous love triangle in Rock history
At a dinner party with the Harrisons and a lot of others Eric announced to everyone that he was in love with Patti Boyd. Even she didn't know it was coming. They weren't fooling around either. How about that?
One of the greatest songs of all time
I agree 100%! It is on my list of top three depending on the day. The others are sultans of swing and comfortable numb. Honorable mention Baba ‘O Riley
AMEN
AGREE
"...the same song?" Yeah I've always loved that transition. One of my favourite in any song. It smooth and eases you down at just the right time for sure. Almost like an instrumental cover of itself.
when i first heard this song in full and the transition happened, i was upset but now it’s what i listen to this song for. both parts are of course great.
Derek and the Dominoes is Eric Clapton's band. It's his song. Eric was a member of both Derek & the Dominoes and Cream (Sunshine of your love)
And Blind Faith
@@olleksheppert1554 ...and the Yardbirds (1963 - 1965)
And the bluesbreakers
@@tombruner9634 Ah The Yardbirds. The band that gave us Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page.
Also the Yardbirds, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers and Blind Faith with Steve Winwood, so, successful six times including his solo work.
The name Derek is because it's Eric + Duane. Duane Allman played the slide guitar on the outro, best slide guitarist of all time, died at 24 from a motorcycle accident. He was part of the group The Allman Brothers
Eric Clapton is Derek and the Dominoes
Hell yeah he is
Eric is your man. Then and now. Keep it going. Loving it. I thank you
Yeah I still win bets that it is a Derek and the Dominos track though. Wonderful to tonight is a great Clapton track😉😂
It is Duane Allman
Eric Clapton and Duane Allman in the same band was something special.
Eric was Derek, as graffiti in London said at the time. Clapton was pulling back from his public image and so worked under an assumed band name. It's a - if not the - classic song of unrequited love. Clapton had fallen in love with his friend George Harrison's wife Patti Boyd and the pain and guilt he was feeling spilled out on this track. That's Duane Allman on slide guitar and the piano coda, recorded some time later, was played by the drummer on the session, Jim Gordon. This is the full album version and not the single edit without the piano part. Still a wonderful, emotional track after all this time.
And it is all one song, with the writing credit going to Clapton and Jim Gordon (although Duane Allman's family still say he should have a credit too).
I thought the graffiti said Clapton is god, not Eric is Derek .
@@paulqueripel3493 It's ok either way! This is my all-time fave.
@@paulqueripel3493 Certainly Clapton is God was a graffito but around the time he was with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.. Clapton himself now says it may have been a hoax. I have to admit that I saw 'Eric is Derek' in a British TV drama set around that time, so maybe it was dramatic licence and not based on fact.
@@paulqueripel3493 Brilliant, I only wish I had thought of that.
This is the version I love because of the way Clapton absolutely puts it ALL out there, with every raw edge of emotion still fresh. It's clear he's exorcising his inner demons through this song and holding nothing back. By comparison the later versions were almost phoning it in.
Derek and the Dominos - Eric Clapton Guitar and Lead Vocals, Bobby Whitlock - Hammond Organ, Piano and Vocals, Carl Radle - Bass, Jim Gordon Drums, Percussion and Piano. Duane Allman - Guitar and Slide Guitar. This song was written by Eric Clapton (first half) and Jim Gordon (piano section - although it has been credited to Rita Coolidge, who was dating Jim Gordon at the time.) The 2 parts were recorded seperately then mixed together. The whole Derek and the Dominos/Layla story is fascinating and I highly recommend you read about it yourself!
Duane Allman died before I was born but I cannot help but to miss him. He was incredible on this song.
I was in Highschool when Duane passed ,it was a SAD day for us who LOVED his music !! 💜😥
Way cool. I'm 65, & I love that.
CLAPTON THOUGHT DUANE WAS THE BEST HE EVER HEARD IT WAS HEY JUDE.
The slide guitar is Duane Allmann, which is the part that most people remember from the 1st part.. I'm still waiting patiently for the day you finally listen to Telegraph Road - Dire Straits
Whoa, their best song, IMO. Such a slow burn, such a huge pay off. Just an exquisite piece.
Personally my favourite of theirs is Private Investigations
The life version.
Too right! Lady writer, latest trick, tunnel of love too please. Then I want this guy to at least listen to Rosetta Thrape, Barbra Lynn. He’s getting boring.
@@Be-Es---___ Yes the live version is better.
WOW! I've been waiting for this one! The best slide solo ever! R.I.P Duane Allman!!!
This is the original, Clapton version! He formed a group called Derek and the Dominoes just for this album (including Duane Allman, who plays the awesome singing slide guitar alongside Eric). It's all one song, but there are clearly two parts! Eric Clapton released an acoustic version in 1992 that was very popular at the time, you may have heard that already. Great reaction! Two awesome bands (so far) in one day!!
Was Booby Whitlock on this? I think he was.
I meant Bobby
@@LuAnnHestonyes he was
This song came out before Goodfellas show.That wailing slide guitar in the background by the late Duane Allman was hypnotizing in my opinion.
This is Eric Clapton and Duane Allman. Eric fell in love with Duane’s guitar playing after hearing him on Wilson Pickett’s version of Hey Jude which has one of the most powerful guitar solos ever. Duane was a session player on a lot of soul records including Aretha!
Plus, he played slide guitar in The Allman Brothers Band.
@@bobthebear1246 That's right, Slide and lead along with Dickey Betts on lead and rhythm.
Possibly the greatest opening guitar chords in rock history.
possibly the greatest song ever.
Derek and The Dominos is sadly very underrated, yet it's an awesome and very influential superband, my favorites are Anyday, Tell the Truth and Bell Bottom Blues.
👏👏👍👍
Bell bottom blues is a classic
Bellbottom blues is one of the best tracks ever written.
There's the underrated comment. By someone who apparently doesn't know what "underrated" means. Every. Time.
That IS Layla!! The outro is pretty amazing stuff!
The intro too! One of the most famous guitar riffs ever.
The whole song is fucking amazing.
Brother Eric is Derek and the Dominoes... and this was the first song in my entire life that I remember falling in love with so completely, I would drop everything to hear it. It still does it for me. It never never gets old. and now... for more of Brother Clapton's repertoire... the band is... Cream. White Room. Sunshine of Your Love. Strange Brew. That's a rabbit hole you won't regret.
Hazel May Lebrun me too, Hazel. I ran out of the house to go and buy this record as soon as I heard it!
Eric Clapton is...Derek and the Dominos....Duane Allman plays the wailing guitar.
This is one of the best songs every written, The Piano/Guitar Solo at the end is absolutely beautiful.
Saw Derrick and the Dominoes at the Marquee club in London in 1970, small club, small crowd (about 600), giant band.
I love the joy on this dudes face when he is loving great music.
Min 5:00 "Jimmy was cuttin' every link between himself and the robbery...but it had nuthin' to do with me" 😆😆😆
A dual effort by the legendary Eric Clapton and the great Duane Allman (RIP) on the original studio version, which you just heard. Great reaction!
That was one song. What you heard was one of the most righteous breakdowns in all of Rock music
If you're looking into early Clapton, you might want to check out Cream (e.g. Sunshine of Your Love, Crossroads), Blind Faith (e.g. Can't Find My Way Home), John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (All Your Love, Steppin' Out) or the Yardbirds (For Your Love, Got to Hurry). Derek & the Dominoes was his first kind-of-solo project.
All great suggestions cliptych. Eric was and is the most iconic songwriter, player, and singer of my generation. Layla was a huge hit especially with Eric's opening riff and gritty, voice. This is still on my playlist 50 years later.
Amen on the John Mayall's Blues Breakers... woefully under-appreciated, but so important to the sound of music then and now.
This was technically his 2nd 'solo project' as he had already recorded and released his debut solo album - which ironically had over 20 musicians and singers on it, most of them American (including Rita Coolidge) - earlier that year in 1970. That was the album that gave us the classics "After Midnight" and "Let It Rain." 😊
Crossroads and White room are really good
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That Duane Allman solo always gives me the chills. Would have loved to see the magic they would have continued to make together if Duane stayed alive =(
I saw this live
Layla was a Persian love story about falling in love with your best friend’s wife. Clapton was in love with George Harrison’s wife at the time and wrote this “coded” love song to her!
The ending is one of the greatest piano solos ever.
Eric Clapton and Duane Allman put together a masterpiece! I love this collaboration! One of the best rock songs of all time! They loved jamming together at this time! Virtuoso playing with virtuoso. Magic happened on this!
This is one of those song you have to listen on the full blast.
Eric Clapton is Derrick and Dominos.
Derek and the Dominoes was Clapton and a great group of musicians that became a legend when joined by Duane Allman for the studio recordings. Skydog added the slide and the group became a legend.
Yes, play it at 11!
The outro still gives me chills, even after hearing it a hundred times or more
I know people are saying that Duane Allman is playing slide guitar on this song, but he is also playing most of the guitar parts, including the main riff. He contributed heavily to the entire album.
He contributed heavily to the tracks in which he was part of. He “joined” after they wrote Bell Bottom Blues. But his work on Little Wing and other lesser known tracks on this album are fantastic.
not true, duane has two guitar parts on both ends also a duet with eric on the first half...but while eric has two guitar parts on the back end eric has 4 and half guitar parts in the front end.
He doesn’t play the main riff.
no, eric is playing more guitarctracks total, duane is the lead through the verses, solo and coda/outro...eric and duane together are playing the lead in riff high parts, eric is playing rhythm guitar throughout, high harmoc guitar, low harmonic guitar, mid harmonic which is cut from some mixes, and then the second half playing acoustic guitar...maybe overall its half and half.
I had this album my freshman year of college, 1970-71, and listened to it nonstop. Thanks for the memories.
„Bell Bottom Blues“ by them must be next :)
Duane Allman and Eric Clapton at the guitars weren't a solo, but THE guitar orgy of the whole rock history.
It's like the piano & guitar are making love. One of my top 10.❤
"Brother Clapton". Amen.
When they found Carbone in a meet truck he was frozen so stiff it took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy.
This guitar lick is one of the most legendary licks in rock music. The MTV unplugged version is epic as well.
Ahhh to this day when the piano exit hits I just hear
"Jimmy was cutting every link between himself and the robbery, but it had nothing to do with me. I gave Jimmy the tip and he gave me some Christmas money. From then on I kept my mouth shut. I knew Jimmy. He had the cash. It was his. I know he kicked some money upstairs to Paulie, but that was it. It made him sick to have to turn money over to the guys who stole it. He'd rather whack them. Anyway, what did I care? I wasn't. asking for anything and, besides. Jimmy was making nice money with me through my Pittsburgh connections. But still, for months after the robbery, they were finding bodies all over.
When they found Sepe in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy."
LOL. Classic scene from a legendary classic film!!!! 👍🏻
Sepe was the real-life mafioso. "Frankie Carbone" in the movie.
Folk first time reacting to Layla, Bohemian Rapsody and other classics. You guys are making me feel old and I'm 31.
I fell in love with this as a kid. Incredibly passionate 1st part and incredibly blissful 2nd part. For me, maybe the most beautiful traditional rock song there is.
This part of the song just reminds me of Robert De Niro wacking everyone in Goodfellas
That movie wrecked the song for me forever
@@markdrinkard4150 not a fan of the movie?
De Niro is a dick. Won’t watch anything that fool is in! 🤬
@@butterbeansc And a TrumpTard announces his entrance into the room. 😂
@@bobthebear1246
You’re a genius.....not. Triggered much? I’ve never liked DeNiro. Not everything has to do with politics. Get a life libtard
Clapton is the one singing. Derek and the dominos is Clapton himself hiding behind a different name!
The song he wrote for Patti Boyd . George Harrisons wife that although being George s friend he aimed to steal her away from him. .
Sad story about drummer Jim Gordon who in a psychotic episode killed his mother. To this day he is still incarcerate / institutionalised.
Jim Gordon also is credited for coming up with that long instrumental ending. Such beauty from such a troubled mind.
Man, that sucks. :((
too much acid.
Ok that’s a story I not heard! Sad to say the least.
ChrisEchoes It’s about Patti Boyd I believed..
Perfect song for cruising down the highway! When the piano kicks in, I feel all my stress go right out the window. ❤❤❤
the incredible jim gordon on drums.....he also wrote and played on the piano break.
Santanas Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock is absolute must. Many of the band members were experiencing their first acid trip while performing. Brilliant performance
The radio version faded out before the piano ending. I love the piano ending.
They performed this song once on television. It was on Johnny Cash’s show back in the day. Eric Clapton and Duane Allman on guitars. Can’t beat that.
In the "good old days," the piano coda from Layla used to get heavy rotation in The Weather Channel's local insert background music, which was more or less my introduction to it. Twice, I had to do photo slide shows, once for a class project and once for a work project, and both times I used the piano coda as the background music and both times a couple of people were asking me where I got it from. It's just so haunting.
Duane Allmann is also playing on this track...same song, original track, this IS Clapton. You can also check out Delaney, Bonnie and Friends, Leon Russell, JJ Cale....
Eric Clapton basically conscripted Delaney & Bonnie’s band to form Derek & the Dominos.
and Blind Faith and Cream and John Mayall's Blues Breakers and The Yardbirds. (his brief stint with the Plastic Ono Band I would give a miss)
JJ Cale was Eric’s hereto.the album they did together is excellent .i actually got into Jj Cale long before Eric was on the scene
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is a great album, by the way.
That last section goes on for so long, it makes you stay in that vibe and just deal with it. I love it.
You're getting to really know rock when you can recognize an artist by the sound of their guitar. Great job!
We need more Derek and the Dominos, amazing band. Check out, Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad, Live at the fillmore
Clapton hurting over his intense love for Patti Harrison (his best friend's wife) I think Dwayne Allman is playing the slide guitar on this song. Great song....
Duane Allman
Jamel - that incredible slide guitar is none other than the late, great Duane Allman. All of about 22 yrs old then. Had his life not been so tragically cut short he would be in the pantheon of the greatest guitar players ever. Clapton was enamoured with DA and asked him to sit in on the Layla sessions. I do love Clapton and he is one of the greatest, but this song would not be what it is without that insane slide guitar part. long live the spirit of brother Duane Allman.
The piano outro elevates this song from a mere classic to Rock & Roll perfection.
Yes, this is the original classic, and speaking of which brother: Clapton's 1992 MTV Unplugged concert is an essential. Would love to see you react to it one day!
I'm looking forward to the look on his face before he starts digging right into its groove.
This was about as epic and popular as any rock song in my youthful daze.
The melody for the first part of the song stems from Duane Allman noodling around, during the downtime in the sessions, with the Albert King song "As The Years Go Passing By". The tempo was picked up and became the opening of "Layla".
The later acoustic version was made when MTV was running a series of artists doing "acoustic" versions of their songs, The series was called, "MTV Unplugged".
Every time I hear Duane's slide on this record all I can visualize is palm trees swaying in the breeze.
Please react to "Bell bottom blues" by Derek and the Dominos. One of my favorites and a master guitar performance and song
When this song was in regular rotation on the radio I woke up in the middle of the night with the piano solo pounding in my head, so I turned on the radio and listened to it.
One of my favorite songs of all time on one of my favorite channels of all time. Can't get better than this.
Eric loved Pattie. Reading what he wrote about her in his bio was absolutely incredible. He fell in love with her in 1968 and was with her until 1988. I wish thier relationship lasted. She helped him stay alive until he reached sobriety. He really owes Pattie his life.
I guess I shouldn't mention the countless times he's beat women then
Greg Allman played piano and his brother Duane Allman played the slide guitar. This song will never be equaled by any other song in rock history.
Greg wasnt involved, Jim gordan and bobby whitlock played piano
@@navneetsinghr4290 That is the way I remember the lineup too. I will always feel a chill whenever I hear any of this two album set. Rest in peace my brother Duane.
I love this version. For what he was going thru at the time and for Duane Allman's slide guitar. It rocks and still can break my heart.
'Bell Bottom Blues" on this same album. A must hear. It's a Heartbreaker. His vocals and guitar....His heart and soul are bleeding as he plays and sings.
After hearing the album cut 7:08 long . Always felt ripped off if they played the 2:43 version on the radio ...
Long after the album was out, and the full 7-plus-minute version was already a single, Atco re-released another 45 that faded out before the long Jim Gordon ending begins. That's why it became such an AM radio hit.
I agree btw, that short version is so annoying, I'm a crate-digger and I don't even want a copy in my collection!
I can see the video in Mozambique.
This is Eric Clapton with a bunch of amazing musicians. This whole album was a love declaration to the wife of his best friend George Harrison (of the Beatles). Patty was probably the woman who got the best songs written about her. Just Layla (EC) and Something (GH) are way up there in Rock history.
In Germany in the 90s the riff of this very song was the tv-commercial jingle for GM-owned German Car designer, developer and builder Opel.
Jackson Browne whole "Running on empty" album
Eric Clapton - nothing else to be said? Pure genious.
Love your Channel... reminds me of cruising the main drag in my home town blasting the tunes... Here's another Clapton Rabbit Hole for you. Cream was epic!.. Strange Brew... Sunshine of your Love... White Room... I miss the 60's & 70's!
Eric Clapton was a founding member of Derrick and the Dominos and co wrote Layla. The song is one of three songs written for Pattie Boyd who was married to George Harrison at the time. The other songs were Something by George Harrison and Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton.
This is Clapton doing original Layla, with Duane Allman
Duane Allman was a hell of a guitarist and taken way too early
Robert Longwill
Most of the best guitar on this album was Duane - his solo on why does love got to be so sad is one of my favourites ever. It’s so, so sad and disappointing he died at 24. SO YOUNG. Think what he could’ve done.
@@nick260682 I know Nick why are the best taken so early. Like Hendrix Janis Joplin Jim Croce Harry Chapin I can go on and on. Can you imagine what all those people I just mentioned would have done if they had lived. My two favourites were Jim Croce and Harry Chapin. Unbelievable Duane Allman was one of the best players
Jamal has reacted to some allman brothers stuff
Sometimes I think the second half is better than the first. Am I strange? BTW the video was fine the whole way through.
I kinda wish they were seperate tracks sometimes. I love both parts and I get the concept, but quite often I’m only vibing one movement or the other because they take you to such different places
Could be mistaken but the second part is what’s used in Goodfellas and I think that’s why I’d agree with you lol
Depends if you wanna get wacked
Goodfellas agreed with you
He wrote it for Pattie Boyd, who was originally with George Harrison. Him and Eric were friends, so things probably got a bit complicated, because Pattie ended up with Eric for a while 🧐 but been in a similar situation myself......🎶💙✊
Way back in the day, if you were learning to play guitar, there were songs that you wanted to learn more than anything else... and this was one of them.... same with the piano... just an all around perfect song.. it had you soaring, cresting on a wave and then brought you gently back to earth.
This song was written for George Harrison of the Beatles wife, whom Eric was madly in love with
More with George wife you mean, hahahaa...
Sorry reacted too soon, you said the same
Robert Craane lol no worries dude!
@@robertcraane7910 lol.
Not George's wife for long though lol
“Jimmy and I could never be made because we had Irish blood, didn’t even matter that my Mother was Sicilian”
😂💪🏻
WTF do you mean???
I knew someone would have a GoodFellas quote somewhere. Favorite movie of mine and in my opinion the greatest movie of all time
GREAT MOVIE
Underrated comment🤣
That beautiful outro was Duane Allman killing it. This was the collaboration of dreams. Clapton and Allman. Allman could make those bird sounds at the very end.
This melodic song doesn't even needs words ‼️💯❣️❣️❣️
Please react to some thin lizzy, a really underappreciated and underrated band!
_ Geex :
Yes, Totally.
I saw them 5 times from 76-83.
Great live band.
Great songs.
The Rocker, Emerald, The Sun Goes Down.
To name a few.
May the Force
be with you.🌀
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Greg Troyan has a new reaction channel. Thin Lizzy every Thursday. I wish Jamel would give him a shout out 🏴😊🐙
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Jamel has already reacted to a few thin lizzy songs. Check the play list on the channel
Love them
Outside of Cream, this is my favorite piece by Eric Clapton.
When I first heard this song 40+yrs.ago I can't help but remember my elementary school crush,those were the days.I read somewhere that the piano part was added later by Jim Gordon the great drummer of Derek and Dominos.I also read that there was an unreleased Derek and Dominos which they recorded before they went separate ways,I wonder what happened to it?
It is essentially two compositions welded into one. Clapton composed the 'song', Jim Gordon, who played drums and piano composed the instrumental ending separately. They were deemed to fit well enough together to be married. Duane Allman's slide guitar is the unifying factor.
Fun Fact for you Jamal. The 2nd part of this song was on the end send of the movie Goodfellow's.
*GoodFellas