Clapton is brilliant here. Thank you sir for your years of dedication sharing your talent and love of music, hope Clapton stays healthy for years to come.
Bobby Whitlock's voice carried the vocals for sure ... Jim Gordon was a masterful drummer - maybe one of the top two or three in the business at the time ... Eric was at top form ... Not too many people mention Carl Radle - laying down that heavy and steady bass beat to carry everyone along. What a marvelous group of musicians.
19 and a half minutes of pure heaven !!!!!!! If this doesn't get you fired up you must be dead ...... PUT IT IN THE CD CHANGE R IN THE CAR TIME FOR A ROAD TRIP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLAY IT LOUD
I bet you give Jim a drum set in that hospital and some good music you’d see a transformation back and maybe some meds these guys fuckinn rocked I had this album legends for sure
So glad I grew up in this era when musicians were master craftsmen of their instruments and it was all about the music. Doesn’t get any better than this.
Got this record when it first came out back when Live lps were almost better than the studio due to the energy created onstage. EC's lead work is at his finest. The drum solo set the bar for me at age 12 as to how to do a drum solo. It's like Jim had the band still playing in his head, that's how in time he was thru out it. While the band as a whole may sound a bit loose (as some have critiqued ) This version overall, is most excellent and its 19 min long ! I pine for those old days still....
Bobby Whitlocks back up vocals and shouts and answers to Erics vocals in this song and all of them ,is a key piece of what made their overall sound work, and unique--all their own---often imitated never duplicated. They were my first concert---Thanksgiving weekend 1970 Painters MIll, Maryland, Theatre in the Round...they opened with Layla. I was 16.
What a memorable experience. I missed those opportunities although I was there to take advantage. Great band. They come out of Delaney and Bonnie and then Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Carl Radle not to go unmentioned.
When I recently listened to this album two songs blew me away. ie., Let It Rain & Got to Get Better in a Little While. Clapton played on a level never elsewhere achieved or exceeded in my opinion. Everything worked like the finest painting ever created, a true work of art in a league of its own. I can't stop listening to both these amazing works of art. Whitlock, Radle, and Gordon all came together with Clapton to create pure genius. The versions of these two amazing songs have never been surpassed and I bet Eric would say it's his and his teams greatest accomplishment ever! To think this music was created live on February 23rd, & 24th 1970 and finally released on February 22, 1994 ie., 24 years later is shocking. This unparalleled work should have hit the market as soon as possible after it was recorded. Imagine genius work of this magnitude collecting dust on a shelve. What a find and a true pleasure to be shared with humanity forever timeless.
I never write comments, but what the FUCK is going on with these advertisements interrupting music videos at approximately 7:00 minutes? Hey You Tube, advertisements at the beginning of the videos are bad enough, but to interrupt a classic like this is an absolute sacrilege. Disgusting..... Your greed knows no boundaries. If you must, then save them for the Gangsta' Rap shit,
Scott Whitaker My son put on something calle "Ad Block (ABP) ,,and away went all that disrupting bullshit!! Mine was getting so bad ,,I couldnt listen to a full album,,or a list of faves w/o getting up to SKIP AD!! I know you are talking about writing on the screen,,right?..well it also took care of that ,,In my upper right hand corner there is a picture of a red Stop sign with "ABP" in the middle ..or google the letters,,I hope this helps you ,,I love music soooo Much that I need this nonsense gone and so do you!
There is an "Ad Blocker " in the shape of a stop sign,,,it shouldbe up in your right hand corner of the the screen,,with the initials ABP in the red stop sign..click on it or look up "Ad Blocker" ,,,,,my son did it for me ,,I knew nothing about it before and I was having ads on top of ads!! Good Luck!
ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST JOYOUS DISPLAYS OF GUITAR VIRTUOSITY EVER RECORDED {AND HE IS ALL OF 25 YEARS OLD} AND THE REST OF THE BAND IS BRILLIANT AS WELL.. WOW...
it just drives me nuts when peeps have to demote an artist, when all they have to do is promote the one that moved them & why they were moved ; ) I love any artist that can take me on a lil trip to somewheres else ~ with the beauty of their instrument.
john Doss Jim Gordon was a great drummer and his style of playing was much like Mitch Michelle and Santana's original drummer Michael shrieve but maybe better. Many of my favorite rock drummers came from a Jazz influence. I believe he is still locked up because he killed his mother. He is a diagnosed schizonphrenic, really tragic and almost as much as the Peter Green story.
+Diego Loco I think Jim Gordon was an amazing drummer! Not only could he do this, but listen to "Sundown" or "Diamonds and Rust" or "Wichita Lineman" or "Midnight at the Oasis" or "You're So Vain." Eric said he was the best rock drummer he ever played with by far.
Nobody ever mentions Bobby Whitlock the keyboards great voice that sung a lot of songs you probably thought is was all ec.he played the hell out of that Hammond
I think playing with Duane Allman on studio album must have inspired EC because this is some of his most inventive, energetic playing since Cream imho.....The Fillmore version of "Why does love have to be so sad" is even more amazing....
it was beautiful watching EC doing this--eyes closed, maybe a cigarette in the neck of the guitar--just feelin it, no wild grimacing, the occasional pursing of the lips---just seemingly effortless expressionism --elegant
This Album is among my most prized possessions. This one, Allman Brothers (also) at Fillmore East and J Geils Band Full House are my list of top 3 Live recordings!
Yes, all 3 of them are LEGENDARY classics! The Derek & Dominos and ABB are usual mentions, but I also totally wore out J Geil's Full House album-good call! First I Look at the Purse and it was on! What a set! Those are all desert island discs for sure.
Carl Radle's picking fingers must have been on fire that night. Full tilt, and never missed a note. To my ear, and as a musician,he was the best Fender Bass player ever.
In my opinion, he was at his very best when playing with these guys ! Surely epic !! And Jim Gordon aways my favorite drummer, followed his career and his downfall and to this day am heartbroken over what happened to this awesome musician, but here they are all, as someone on here said, operating on all cylinders !! Over 40 years and I still listen to this album (CD) ....
If you read his autobiography “Clapton” he mentions that he just had immediate chemistry with these guys and often had long jams with them at his home in Hurtwoods Edge back in the day
@@StealthyAssassin007 Achan121 4 months ago That chemistry is crystal clear and in ur face, with these players and with Duane I totally agree with you...Eric and Duane at this point in time, were on fire and with each other, I never heard two guitar players so perfect with each other since maybe ( Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner's Sweet Jane intro for Lou Reed) but this I've worn off the vinyl then the CD's and to this day.....LOL
My God! This is not the version on the official live album! But it's definitely Jim Gordon. I became a drummer partly because of Jim Gordon and the solo he played on that version. But this one is just as beautiful, and in fact, has a crisper sound than the original. Maybe another night, this one. Whatever. I am so grateful to you, Sir Takayuki Kitao; I never in my life expected to hear another version of this epic, epic number. THANK YOU! I loved it!!!
A great track from a wonderful album. This is truly the zenith of Eric Clapton as a guitarist, better than Cream, way better than his later solo stuff, where he became staid and formulaic. This is from that all too brief period when Eric really was God and willing and able to hypnotise that old Strat into a blues trance and dance with the devil! Epic!
Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Buddy Rich, Keith Moon, and John Bonham would have been shouting "Wow!" watching this! Such a pity that Jim had psychological problems!!
Having followed EC closely since the mid-70s, I rate his playing in '70 and '71, which also includes the Layla sessions (with Duane on more than half the finished album and jams), as his greatest, followed by the Bluesbreakers '66 album, then Cream. It is now fashionable to denigrate his play after heroin and alcoholism ('72-79 or so) and say he's just a shell of himself. While I don't think he ever regained the same power in the studio, his playing in the late '80s was excellent and he had very good moments in the 90s and 00s, Where I feel the critics are most uninformed is in his live performances: I saw him in '04 and it rivaled a '78 show, and his 3-night reunion with Steve Winwood at Madison Sq. Garden in '08 was a testament to his stunning talent and passion 45 years into his career.
William Bullard I agree completely with you, critics are jaded and must taken with a grain of salt. I saw the second night of the 3-night reunion with SteveWinwood at Madison Sq. Garden in 08. It is was maybe the 5th time I had seen EC and he is always professional but sometimes he is inspired and that night he was inspired. Critics like to dump on him because he did not die like Jimi.
This is amazing stuff, but it is not the best D and the D's live album. I simply cannot find it but it is even better than this. Derek and the Dominoes live. Same songs but better album. Again - this is as good as it gets. Jim Gordon . . .
The Dominoes were fantastic. Eric was in some fine bands that only made him excel at what he does best. What a time to be young and music like this was being made.
The musicianship of this song is unparalleled. A friend got me on to this version and it’s incredible. All pieces form magic. EC seems to have the Midas Touch
Bobby Whitlock is the most unsung vocalist of this era. It was a real shame that this group didn't last, but the blend of Bobby's and EC's voices is simply brilliant. I grew up on this music, and it always stands the test of time.
Holy shit the more I listen to this the more respect and hope I have for Jim Gordon. He is the best drummer !....GO JIM ...get well it's never too late to pick up those sticks again!
Carl Radle was one of the best bass players to work with Eric. A beautiful sound, easy to hear and melodic, and gives support to Eric rather than competing.
Eric has always had great bass players ,, right through from Jack Bruce, Rick Grech, Carl Radle, Donald Duck Dunn, Nathan East, Dave Bronze,, even Jaco made a pitch to Eric to play with him ,,,, and you can say this about all his band members ,,,
Let us not forget the contributions of the great Bobby Whitlock who together with Eric wrote several songs for the Layla. I do think that Eric should have enlisted a rhythm / slide / background vocalist to fill out the sound making it more similar to the records.
Yep.. he just sat in with them.... and influenced a little song know as Layla!! Allman never toured with Derek and the Dominos, but he did make three appearances with them on December 1, 1970 at the Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa (Soulmates LP) and the following day at Onondaga County War Memorial, and one appearance (or possibly just Delaney Bramlett or both Duane and Delaney) November 20, 1970[11] at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, California.
I wonder if Delaney Bramlett wrote the riffs? I heard the studio Layla album dubbed Steven Stills on Bass at the ending of Let it Rain. Stills sold them on it.
@@JesseFSegovia Yeah, the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium gig was-I used to have a bootleg of it. It had a cartoon caricature of Clapton in a Superman's costume with a cape on the cover! Not sure what the actual title of the of the boot was, the sound quality wasn't great.. Delaney did sit in at this show but I just found the show here on YT! : ruclips.net/video/G5AeteqmZ4c/видео.html I thought Duane was on it too but it doesn't look like he is...
Fantastic live performance & recording quality. Praise for D&tD but Fender here is stellar (even for him). Marks: guitar 2:54 pedal 5:06 drums 9:03 guitar2 13:19 revocal 15:16 guitar3 15:59 end, thanks 18:13 complement on MY beauty, of course.
There is no doubt that Eric was at his improvisational best here, and that as time went on he became more formulaic in his playing. But as a guitar player, I am still amazed at even his formulaic playing.
I seen Eric Clapton when he dedicated when Bob Marley died that concert is I shot the sheriff it was in Chicago in the early seventies back then he was great and he's still good and if you did see him like I did you could see nothing's changed he's a great performer I am very honored that I got to see him very good very good performer
The best song on this double album, I believe, although many songs have his last good music before descending into heroin. I think the late Carl Radle, playing here, was his best bass backup (Jack Bruce is too "lead-ish" to be part of a good rhythm section in this way). Jim Gordon is the superb drummer who also played on several Traffic and I think, some Steely dan records. Unfortunately, in 1983, an undiagnosed schizophrenic, he killed his mother.
As many here have already opined, I also think Eric was at his best when he was with Derek and the Dominos. I love the live recordings this group made. I can listen to them over and over and over. The only dissenting comment I would make about this particular song is in regards to the drum solo. This is something I see (or hear) again and again with rock and roll drummers: not much imagination. I don’t think there are too many that can even come close to the likes of Joe Morello, Buddy Rich, Chick Webb, Louis Bellson, Gene Ktupa, Alan Dawson, Jo Jones, Bobby Durham and many, many more. Maybe it’s the genre. But R&R drummers seem to lack imagination.
Jim Gordon did what those great drummers you mentioned WOULD do, he kept the beat going! ANd solod in the context of "let it rain" without losing that vibe. That in itself is pretty cool.
Thanks, it's not easy but with lots of concentrated practice I do see progress. Whether I become as good as Carl Radle or not is not as important as the satisfaction that I get in seeing my own bass tone develop.
I totally agree... Without getting too technical, the chords, time-changes and middle 8 are VERY similar. And most obviously the harmony. 1st seen E.C. live Summer of '85 with my prom date.
But not in the intensity. George says it in the Get Back Peter Jackson documentary. Speaking of himself he says he can’t play a long jam like Clapton. He could have said just as well said he couldn’t play with the same extended intensity. And, I do not speak I’ll of George; I love George Harrison.
oh man...when they come back in after the drum solo. so tight and strong. i love cream, but i think this is the band people should be screaming for him to get back together. obviously a little late now, but still.
Tom Milley Music Im an absolute Eric nut since 1967 when Cream started and I agree, I think ebven though they only did 1 album, well 2 ,1 studio 1 Live and it was the best band Eric was ever in! I mean the Layla album I think is the best of all time! The Live in Concert was fab too!
the reason Derek & the Dominos never even had a chance of getting back together is because Jim Gordon, their awesome drummer is serving a life sentence for murder, as of 78 or 79 maybe? Its a very sad story - he ended up with a severe psychosis because of so many 8 balls (heroin & cocaine) and other drugs and ended up killing his mom.
@@jakejohansen1889 He was also an undiagnosed Paranoid schizophrenic who's doctors insisted on treating him for alcoholism ..instead of his mental illness, Mrs Gordon would not have met that fate if his doctors didn't miss the red flags of "Im hearing voices' ! Jeeeze !
Katrina Hamilton Four monsters...even though the sound mis perhaps is not as good as it could be, Eric,s job is amazing, and as he himself told once, they sounded as if they were 40 players on stage
Not quite...the Allmans were touring pretty heavily when these guys were out on the road, and so their paths hardly crossed. Duane did manage to sit in for four or five scattered shows, and I think one of them may be on here.
They used to say "Clapton is God." That is hardly an overstatement. He certainly was godlike when I saw him play a duet with Carlos Santana in 1975. Eric's band was so tight, it was better than Santana!
+Johnny Guit I saw Clapton and Santana in Minneapolis in July of 1975! They were great. Carlos came on at the end and they traded off solos. 2 weeks later I saw the Rolling Stones with Ron Woods very first performance with the group. Fabulous. Clapton and the Dominoes has the best guitar playing I have ever heard before or since. Well....it's as good as it gets.BTW, Jim Gordon, Bobby Whitlock and Carl Radle are tops too. What a group!
Yes he is God, but even Gods have a GOD..Eric found that out when someone got up to jam with Cream and plugged into Jack Bruce's base amp...if you know what I mean.
Discovering this album quite a few years ago is one of best things i have ever been through (musically). This album can get me crying with joy and heartfelt gratefulness for what this kind of music has helped me cope with (i've had some serious problems).
When going to a concert was a event. So glad i grew up in this era.
Clapton is brilliant here. Thank you sir for your years of dedication sharing your talent and love of music, hope Clapton stays healthy for years to come.
Bobby Whitlock's voice carried the vocals for sure ... Jim Gordon was a masterful drummer - maybe one of the top two or three in the business at the time ... Eric was at top form ... Not too many people mention Carl Radle - laying down that heavy and steady bass beat to carry everyone along. What a marvelous group of musicians.
Couldn't agree more.
Too bad Jim’s locked up.
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@@ctims4185Jim Gordan passed away several months ago...RIP🌹
Clapton said Gordon was the best rock ‘n’ roll drummer 🥁
19 and a half minutes of pure heaven !!!!!!! If this doesn't get you fired up you must be dead ...... PUT IT IN THE CD CHANGE R IN THE CAR TIME FOR A ROAD TRIP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLAY IT LOUD
I bet you give Jim a drum set in that hospital and some good music you’d see a transformation back and maybe some meds these guys fuckinn rocked I had this album legends for sure
Mauw! Eric before meltdown and rehab. Gordon kicking but, Bobby the genius , and Carl the Bassman.
one off the best bands off all times super groupe
Duane worshiped Eric. Funny thing is, the feeling was mutual...
this is awesome played.chapeau.
Yeah Jim Gordon was amazing. Bobby Whitlock’s voice is awesome.
Jim Gordon at his finest and Eric and the group Derek and the Dominos. Classics forever a legend. Man this is treasure.
So glad I grew up in this era when musicians were master craftsmen of their instruments and it was all about the music. Doesn’t get any better than this.
Agree 100%. So many damaged people fell but what was recorded remains as an inspiration to those of today.
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One of Clapton's best guitar solos. Just incredible.
Got this record when it first came out back when Live lps were almost better than the studio due to the energy created onstage. EC's lead work is at his finest. The drum solo set the bar for me at age 12 as to how to do a drum solo. It's like Jim had the band still playing in his head, that's how in time he was thru out it. While the band as a whole may sound a bit loose (as some have critiqued ) This version overall, is most excellent and its 19 min long !
I pine for those old days still....
Bobby Whitlocks back up vocals and shouts and answers to Erics vocals in this song and all of them ,is a key piece of what made their overall sound work, and unique--all their own---often imitated never duplicated. They were my first concert---Thanksgiving weekend 1970 Painters MIll, Maryland, Theatre in the Round...they opened with Layla. I was 16.
Surely you have a nice memory!
Everyone thinks of Eric Clapton when you think of Derek and the Dominos but Bobby whitlock's contribution is what made them great! Cheers
What a memorable experience. I missed those opportunities although I was there to take advantage. Great band. They come out of Delaney and Bonnie and then Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Carl Radle not to go unmentioned.
"...they opened with Layla. I was 16." A rite of passage if there ever was one.
agree 100%
No One has mentioned Jim Gordon playing solid for nearly 20 mins flat out including a 6.5 minute drum solo absolutely brilliant
Thank you for mentioning that ! JIM GORDON !!!
Aileen Davies
11 months ago PLEASE SEE THE ABOVE PETITION,
Let it rain, faith in god and the twenty minute instrumental proving the strenghy he gives us if we let him in! Listen to in the light
Led zep
Severely underrated drummer.
@@dean5789 5 minutes actually, timed IT, drum solo, great!
When I recently listened to this album two songs blew me away. ie., Let It Rain & Got to Get Better in a Little While. Clapton played on a level never elsewhere achieved or exceeded in my opinion. Everything worked like the finest painting ever created, a true work of art in a league of its own. I can't stop listening to both these amazing works of art. Whitlock, Radle, and Gordon all came together with Clapton to create pure genius. The versions of these two amazing songs have never been surpassed and I bet Eric would say it's his and his teams greatest accomplishment ever! To think this music was created live on February 23rd, & 24th 1970 and finally released on February 22, 1994 ie., 24 years later is shocking. This unparalleled work should have hit the market as soon as possible after it was recorded. Imagine genius work of this magnitude collecting dust on a shelve. What a find and a true pleasure to be shared with humanity forever timeless.
Howard…a double album of these 1970 shows at the Fillmore East was released in 1972.
The 1994 record/CD was remastered from the 1972 release.
I never write comments, but what the FUCK is going on with these advertisements interrupting music videos at approximately 7:00 minutes? Hey You Tube, advertisements at the beginning of the videos are bad enough, but to interrupt a classic like this is an absolute sacrilege. Disgusting.....
Your greed knows no boundaries. If you must, then save them for the Gangsta' Rap shit,
Agreed sir
Agreed
Scott Whitaker My son put on something calle "Ad Block (ABP) ,,and away went all that disrupting bullshit!! Mine was getting so bad ,,I couldnt listen to a full album,,or a list of faves w/o getting up to SKIP AD!! I know you are talking about writing on the screen,,right?..well it also took care of that ,,In my upper right hand corner there is a picture of a red Stop sign with "ABP" in the middle ..or google the letters,,I hope this helps you ,,I love music soooo Much that I need this nonsense gone and so do you!
+nancy darkes-stiles Downloaded it within 30 seconds. Came the dreaded 7-min mak, and I only heard a 1/10 th of a second skip. Thank you sir!
There is an "Ad Blocker " in the shape of a stop sign,,,it shouldbe up in your right hand corner of the the screen,,with the initials ABP in the red stop sign..click on it or look up "Ad Blocker" ,,,,,my son did it for me ,,I knew nothing about it before and I was having ads on top of ads!! Good Luck!
note to self: must listen to George Harrison / All Things Must Pass
Bobby You caught the best of Eric. Jim Gordon was so on his game.
Great cut, great band and your the man !!
Bobby Whitlock giving his mind body and soul outstanding legendary music man
He's a master of playing rythm and lead undercurrents almost simultaneously here. By himself....
Beautiful
Is this the wonderful Bobby Whitlock on backing vocals?
I believe it is. Can someone confirm this that is familiar with this recording? I’d like to know for sure too.
Yep, it’s Bobby
Jim Gordon IS the star of this record!
ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST JOYOUS DISPLAYS OF GUITAR VIRTUOSITY EVER RECORDED {AND HE IS ALL OF 25 YEARS OLD} AND THE REST OF THE BAND IS BRILLIANT AS WELL..
WOW...
Framton was 25 too when he came out with framton comes alive with do you feel like we do,its right up on par with this
@@iancarnaby3898with all due respect you’re way off here,Clapton on another level,so is this band
Eric Clapton is a living evolution of a man and his music.
He's definitely the worlds leading study on the language of the blues, while remaining respectful to his idols.
Eric Clapton is the living evolution of music from the 60s to today
and through his troubled times got by with a little help from his friends, as heard here....
it just drives me nuts when peeps have to demote an artist, when all they have to do is promote the one that moved them & why they were moved ; ) I love any artist that can take me on a lil trip to somewheres else ~ with the beauty of their instrument.
Carl radle and Jim Gordon lay it down for Eric great rhythm section one of the best Tulsa time
Maybe the most underrated drummer of all rock, possibly the best ever, Jimmy Gordon check out the solo he kills it. Eric in his prime masterful.
john Doss Jim Gordon was a great drummer and his style of playing was much like Mitch Michelle and Santana's original drummer Michael shrieve but maybe better. Many of my favorite rock drummers came from a Jazz influence. I believe he is still locked up because he killed his mother. He is a diagnosed schizonphrenic, really tragic and almost as much as the Peter Green story.
+Diego Loco I think Jim Gordon was an amazing drummer! Not only could he do this, but listen to "Sundown" or "Diamonds and Rust" or "Wichita Lineman" or "Midnight at the Oasis" or "You're So Vain." Eric said he was the best rock drummer he ever played with by far.
+john Doss the best all-time drummer... Jim Gordon
+glawnow1959 Jim Gordon is God.
He's very good but Ian Paice is the greatest
Nobody ever mentions Bobby Whitlock the keyboards great voice that sung a lot of songs you probably thought is was all ec.he played the hell out of that Hammond
oh God, he sure did and still does! love his vocals
Yes he's really under appreciated
I think playing with Duane Allman on studio album must have inspired EC because this is some of his most inventive, energetic
playing since Cream imho.....The Fillmore version of "Why does love have to be so sad" is even more amazing....
it was beautiful watching EC doing this--eyes closed, maybe a cigarette in the neck of the guitar--just feelin it, no wild grimacing, the occasional pursing of the lips---just seemingly effortless expressionism --elegant
This album and “In Concert “ are without a doubt two of the best live albums ever made!!
mark horton defently they are masterpieces,live at flimore is my favourite live album along with bbking's live at the regal.
And Allman Bros live at the Fillmore.
dielauwen Oh yeah!! Without a doubt my friend
Just One Night my favourite
@@sonnyboy5566 Absolutely!! Another awesome live album!!
This could be one of the greatest live rock songs ever recorded. Hard to top that one. The Dominos didn’t get the critical acclaim they deserved.
You are damn right!
Gordon's drums...unreal!
This Album is among my most prized possessions. This one, Allman Brothers (also) at Fillmore East and J Geils Band Full House are my list of top 3 Live recordings!
Yes, all 3 of them are LEGENDARY classics! The Derek & Dominos and ABB are usual mentions, but I also totally wore out J Geil's Full House album-good call! First I Look at the Purse and it was on! What a set! Those are all desert island discs for sure.
Same except I've got Band of Gypsies over Full House although that album is a great listen!
Mind blowing skills. Late to this party but they just got a new fan.
+Olifactory welcome
Your welcome, please sit down..
Now you know why EVH was a fan
Come on people this, not Cream, was Clapton's prime
Very good but not as good as the recording on the Derek & The Dominos In Concert album. Jim Gordon’s drum solo on that is astonishing!
Carl Radle's picking fingers must have been on fire that night. Full tilt, and never missed a note. To my ear, and as a musician,he was the best Fender Bass player ever.
He was special.
He sure was special even when compared to other legends like Larry Taylor. Carl's vibes with Jim is mind blowing.
I'm not really a fan of Eric Clapton's solo career but he knew how to rock. His Derek And The Dominoes Era was great
In my opinion, he was at his very best when playing with these guys ! Surely epic !! And Jim Gordon aways my favorite drummer, followed his career and his downfall and to this day am heartbroken over what happened to this awesome musician, but here they are all, as someone on here said, operating on all cylinders !! Over 40 years and I still listen to this album (CD) ....
If you read his autobiography “Clapton” he mentions that he just had immediate chemistry with these guys and often had long jams with them at his home in Hurtwoods Edge back in the day
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Achan121
4 months ago That chemistry is crystal clear and in ur face, with these players and with Duane I totally agree with you...Eric and Duane at this point in time, were on fire and with each other, I never heard two guitar players so perfect with each other since maybe ( Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner's Sweet Jane intro for Lou Reed) but this I've worn off the vinyl then the CD's and to this day.....LOL
Don't forget Cream please !
This sparser version really lets you hear how much the bass line contributes to the movement of the song, great playing by Radle.
Epic album...maybe Top 10 all-time.
My God! This is not the version on the official live album! But it's definitely Jim Gordon. I became a drummer partly because of Jim Gordon and the solo he played on that version. But this one is just as beautiful, and in fact, has a crisper sound than the original. Maybe another night, this one. Whatever. I am so grateful to you, Sir Takayuki Kitao; I never in my life expected to hear another version of this epic, epic number. THANK YOU! I loved it!!!
JIM GORDON best drummer ever !
Jim was the best drummer
JIm Gordon is the best Rock drummer ever ! I wish people would examine the awesome work he's done independent of his crime. He is flawless...!
And, Jim Gordon was one of the best drummers of all time, no doubt. Some competition is the era but top of the pile.
A great track from a wonderful album. This is truly the zenith of Eric Clapton as a guitarist, better than Cream, way better than his later solo stuff, where he became staid and formulaic. This is from that all too brief period when Eric really was God and willing and able to hypnotise that old Strat into a blues trance and dance with the devil! Epic!
I HATE when someone I like becomes a "mature artiste"!
I call it "over the hill" or "cancer"!
yup!!! a super NOVA of talent!!!!
After this he went to rehab. Thats why his style and playing changed. Being sober changes a man.
Play it Loud. Band takes care of everything else.
absolutely!!!!
I don't always listen to Derek & the Dominoes, but when I do, so do my neighbors.
I've got both the double vinyl and the 1992 cd set. I prefer the vinyl versions.
Jim Gordon and Carl Radle...what an amazingly tight rhythm section. Eric has never sounded as good since the Dominos dissolved.
agreed !~
Agree. Like he hit the apex and then retreated.
You can feel the energy of thr band kick it up a notch after Gordon crushes the drum solo.
Great stuff. The original double album from an earlier show was even better.
Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Buddy Rich, Keith Moon, and John Bonham would have been shouting "Wow!" watching this! Such a pity that Jim had psychological problems!!
Ginger Baker would agree!
Almost hard to believe that they originally wanted Jim Keltner for drums
Having followed EC closely since the mid-70s, I rate his playing in '70 and '71, which also includes the Layla sessions (with Duane on more than half the finished album and jams), as his greatest, followed by the Bluesbreakers '66 album, then Cream. It is now fashionable to denigrate his play after heroin and alcoholism ('72-79 or so) and say he's just a shell of himself. While I don't think he ever regained the same power in the studio, his playing in the late '80s was excellent and he had very good moments in the 90s and 00s, Where I feel the critics are most uninformed is in his live performances: I saw him in '04 and it rivaled a '78 show, and his 3-night reunion with Steve Winwood at Madison Sq. Garden in '08 was a testament to his stunning talent and passion 45 years into his career.
wow, im like awed to have read your SHTUFF on E.C. Thanks man, I realy feel blessed. douche
67goldtops sticks n stones....... grow up
William Bullard this is as good as a stratocaster can get . What riffs and solos...they leave you speechless
William Bullard I agree completely with you, critics are jaded and must taken with a grain of salt. I saw the second night of the 3-night reunion with SteveWinwood at Madison Sq. Garden in 08. It is was maybe the 5th time I had seen EC and he is always professional but sometimes he is inspired and that night he was inspired. Critics like to dump on him because he did not die like Jimi.
William Bullard I agree! I've long felt Clapton was at his best during his D & the Dominoes days. Keep some in the car all the time for a 'rainy day'.
I was at this concert, but fell asleep due to there being too much smoke in the air! I woke up during a standing ovation! LOL!
Wow ! That had to suck ! I would have killed to have been at this concert !!!
That’s funny but so like that era.
This is amazing stuff, but it is not the best D and the D's live album. I simply cannot find it but it is even better than this. Derek and the Dominoes live. Same songs but better album. Again - this is as good as it gets. Jim Gordon . . .
Wicked fast! And a 6 1/2 minute drum solo? Possible chemical enhancement. Great guitar playing by EC, though.
He was at his best in this era, ‘65-‘71.
The Dominoes were fantastic. Eric was in some fine bands that only made him excel at what he does best. What a time to be young and music like this was being made.
The musicianship of this song is unparalleled. A friend got me on to this version and it’s incredible. All pieces form magic. EC seems to have the Midas Touch
RIP Jim Gordon.
I hope you find peace.
Bobby Whitlock is the most unsung vocalist of this era. It was a real shame that this group didn't last, but the blend of Bobby's and EC's voices is simply brilliant. I grew up on this music, and it always stands the test of time.
Clapton doing what he does best!
Holy shit the more I listen to this the more respect and hope I have for Jim Gordon. He is the best drummer !....GO JIM ...get well it's never too late to pick up those sticks again!
He is in jail for killing his mother... come on now.
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He died March 13th 2023.
Slowhand at his best ! Eric at's his best !
Carl Radle was one of the best bass players to work with Eric. A beautiful sound, easy to hear and melodic, and gives support to Eric rather than competing.
Jack Bruce dont count ?
"one of the best bass players to work with Eric"
Eric has always had great bass players ,, right through from Jack Bruce, Rick Grech, Carl Radle, Donald Duck Dunn, Nathan East, Dave Bronze,, even Jaco made a pitch to Eric to play with him ,,,, and you can say this about all his band members ,,,
Motherless Blues
3 months ago AGREED SIR !
Carl is awesome on this.
Let us not forget the contributions of the great Bobby Whitlock who together with Eric wrote several songs for the Layla. I do think that Eric should have enlisted a rhythm / slide / background vocalist to fill out the sound making it more similar to the records.
This is absolutely the best jam I've ever heard! Clapton is God!
He resides in a triumpharent of gods.
Yep.. he just sat in with them.... and influenced a little song know as Layla!! Allman never toured with Derek and the Dominos, but he did make three appearances with them on December 1, 1970 at the Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa (Soulmates LP) and the following day at Onondaga County War Memorial, and one appearance (or possibly just Delaney Bramlett or both Duane and Delaney) November 20, 1970[11] at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, California.
Vernon Allen were any of these appearances recorded?
I wonder if Delaney Bramlett wrote the riffs? I heard the studio Layla album dubbed Steven Stills on Bass at the ending of Let it Rain. Stills sold them on it.
@@JesseFSegovia Yeah, the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium gig was-I used to have a bootleg of it. It had a cartoon caricature of Clapton in a Superman's costume with a cape on the cover! Not sure what the actual title of the of the boot was, the sound quality wasn't great.. Delaney did sit in at this show but I just found the show here on YT! :
ruclips.net/video/G5AeteqmZ4c/видео.html
I thought Duane was on it too but it doesn't look like he is...
Thank you for downloading this masterpiece. Typical brilliant Eric throughout his entire career.
Fantastic live performance & recording quality. Praise for D&tD but Fender here is stellar (even for him).
Marks: guitar 2:54 pedal 5:06 drums 9:03 guitar2 13:19 revocal 15:16 guitar3 15:59 end, thanks 18:13 complement on MY beauty, of course.
There is no doubt that Eric was at his improvisational best here, and that as time went on he became more formulaic in his playing. But as a guitar player, I am still amazed at even his formulaic playing.
in a few words....quit your bitch'en gents. If you don't get this, you simply don't get it.
This band had good B3!!!
I seen Eric Clapton when he dedicated when Bob Marley died that concert is I shot the sheriff it was in Chicago in the early seventies back then he was great and he's still good and if you did see him like I did you could see nothing's changed he's a great performer I am very honored that I got to see him very good very good performer
They really were the best rock band in the world then.
This Is F.....g Amazing,What A Band Wth Clapton At His Peak,Brilliant Stuff!
Thank You For Sharing Quality Music
Eric Clapton is God!!
The best song on this double album, I believe, although many songs have his last good music before descending into heroin. I think the late Carl Radle, playing here, was his best bass backup (Jack Bruce is too "lead-ish" to be part of a good rhythm section in this way). Jim Gordon is the superb drummer who also played on several Traffic and I think, some Steely dan records. Unfortunately, in 1983, an undiagnosed schizophrenic, he killed his mother.
As many here have already opined, I also think Eric was at his best when he was with Derek and the Dominos. I love the live recordings this group made. I can listen to them over and over and over. The only dissenting comment I would make about this particular song is in regards to the drum solo. This is something I see (or hear) again and again with rock and roll drummers: not much imagination. I don’t think there are too many that can even come close to the likes of Joe Morello, Buddy Rich, Chick Webb, Louis Bellson, Gene Ktupa, Alan Dawson, Jo Jones, Bobby Durham and many, many more. Maybe it’s the genre. But R&R drummers seem to lack imagination.
Jim Gordon did what those great drummers you mentioned WOULD do, he kept the beat going! ANd solod in the context of "let it rain" without losing that vibe. That in itself is pretty cool.
Bill Bruford?
Anyone who would click Dislike... Must have been born in the 90's !!! Sorry man you missed it.......
Vernon Allen They didn’t miss it . they’re just afraid they might find it
How lucky we are
Naw fuck em!!!
My FAV Clapton album Easy~
I hope someday that I might be able to play a bass line like Carl Radle is doing here.
Good luck
Thanks, it's not easy but with lots of concentrated practice I do see progress. Whether I become as good as Carl Radle or not is not as important as the satisfaction that I get in seeing my own bass tone develop.
Always thought this was very 'Harrison-esque' song.
Same here !
I totally agree... Without getting too technical, the chords, time-changes and middle 8 are VERY similar. And most obviously the harmony. 1st seen E.C. live Summer of '85 with my prom date.
That's because before they formed the Dominos were playing with George
But not in the intensity. George says it in the Get Back Peter Jackson documentary. Speaking of himself he says he can’t play a long jam like Clapton. He could have said just as well said he couldn’t play with the same extended intensity. And, I do not speak I’ll of George; I love George Harrison.
oh man...when they come back in after the drum solo. so tight and strong. i love cream, but i think this is the band people should be screaming for him to get back together. obviously a little late now, but still.
Tom Milley Music Im an absolute Eric nut since 1967 when Cream started and I agree, I think ebven though they only did 1 album, well 2 ,1 studio 1 Live and it was the best band Eric was ever in! I mean the Layla album I think is the best of all time! The Live in Concert was fab too!
the reason Derek & the Dominos never even had a chance of getting back together is because Jim Gordon, their awesome drummer is serving a life sentence for murder, as of 78 or 79 maybe? Its a very sad story - he ended up with a severe psychosis because of so many 8 balls (heroin & cocaine) and other drugs and ended up killing his mom.
it was 1983 for the murder & 1984 for the sentencing of 16 years to life - he's still there at age 71.
@@jakejohansen1889 He was also an undiagnosed Paranoid schizophrenic who's doctors insisted on treating him for alcoholism ..instead of his mental illness, Mrs Gordon would not have met that fate if his doctors didn't miss the red flags of "Im hearing voices' ! Jeeeze !
They could reform with a different drummer but do any of them have that fire anymore. Are they all still alive?
First time hearing this, thought i heard all Clapton.
Thx for tunes.
Please just Enjoy this Beautiful Song !!
What a band, we will never see the likes of them again. So glad I grew up when I did.
WOWZA!! This was a band that knew how to jam! RIP Duane..
Katrina Hamilton Four monsters...even though the sound mis perhaps is not as good as it could be, Eric,s job is amazing, and as he himself told once, they sounded as if they were 40 players on stage
+Kat Hamilton (Zepluv) no duane on this track if that's what you meant / thought
+Pablo Pérez 😆
+dasling You sure?
+dasling Sounds like Duane to me hon.
Not quite...the Allmans were touring pretty heavily when these guys were out on the road, and so their paths hardly crossed. Duane did manage to sit in for four or five scattered shows, and I think one of them may be on here.
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Eric was and still the best and king guitar player of all time jimy got not on him .
Both great. Jimmy achieve LONG lasting fame later with zep. Mr Jeff Beck great too...and Johnny Winterter , well that dude was in a class of his own
The version from Derek & the Dominos in concert much better.The drum solo is killer.
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They used to say "Clapton is God." That is hardly an overstatement. He certainly was godlike when I saw him play a duet with Carlos Santana in 1975. Eric's band was so tight, it was better than Santana!
Scott Lane I saw them w/ Carlos on the encore song at Stanford Univ Aug 9, 1975 What a frikan band huh!
+Johnny Guit Just Amazing!
+Johnny Guit I saw Clapton and Santana in Minneapolis in July of 1975! They were great. Carlos came on at the end and they traded off solos. 2 weeks later I saw the Rolling Stones with Ron Woods very first performance with the group. Fabulous. Clapton and the Dominoes has the best guitar playing I have ever heard before or since. Well....it's as good as it gets.BTW, Jim Gordon, Bobby Whitlock and Carl Radle are tops too. What a group!
Yes he is God, but even Gods have a GOD..Eric found that out when someone got up to jam with Cream and plugged into Jack Bruce's base amp...if you know what I mean.
Love this A+ version ... more than the studio track. I'll add the Allmanesque touch with the guitar.
Thank God I were born n '54.
Eric's best after Cream; did EC write this? Pushing himself and not relying on B and B to do it. Helps to have great drummer
Discovering this album quite a few years ago is one of best things i have ever been through (musically). This album can get me crying with joy and heartfelt gratefulness for what this kind of music has helped me cope with (i've had some serious problems).
19minutes 46secondes de bonheur intégral !
This is great!!!
Jim's solo is out of this world. I wonder where was his mind that night...
40年前に通学の電車の中、ウオークマンで聞いていたの思い出しました。今も色褪せない名曲ですね。