Derek and the Dominos

[kris]

Perhaps Eric Clapton and the whole era of rock 50+ years ago caused that I play jazz guitar.

[Doctor Jeff]

Eric turned 80 just the other day…hard to believe…

Seems like only yesterday Layla was the hot song on the Top Forty radio. Of course it is a great song, and the guitar work and production is outstanding, and it is unquestionably Eric’s best vocal performance.

But what made it a hit was the piano break. That change up and Duane’s slide on top of it vaulted that song into the stratosphere. Of course we kids like guitar songs, but we LOVED it when the song had cool different parts that fit together.

It was said that Rita Coolidge wrote the piano part. Was she dating Jim Gordon? Too lazy to look it up. She didn’t get credit for it though.

[tbeltrans]

A strange story regarding "Layla". When I first got to Vietnam in 1971, we were at Tan Son Nhut air base near Saigon in a barracks called "Dodge City" awaiting orders to go into the field. I remember a bunch of us going into Saigon and hearing bands in the local bars. The singers tended to sound very much like Clapton singing Layla, though I didn't hear that song until I got back to the states in 1972. When I got back and heard that song on the radio, I honestly thought that some Vietnamese band must have made it to the American scene. It was a bit embarrassing because, back then, you wouldn't dare admit to having been in country once you got back to the states. People hated us. So you couldn't say stuff like that to people and ask who was that on the radio. We had missed a lot of the culture during the year(s) we were gone and had a lot of catching up to do.

Weird...

Tony

[princeplanet]

Speaking of the London Sessions, the position 2 sound EC pulled from his Brownie Strat on 'I Ain't Superstitious' is hard to beat.

Guitar solo at 1'10":

Yeah, nice tone. Totally blown away, however by the tone of Howlin' Wolf's voice...