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Eric Clapton - Layla
Youtube ^ | Eric Clapton

Posted on 03/12/2023 3:33:19 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Madison Square Garden concert in 1999. 150 million views to date.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: layla; pattieboyd; slowhand
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1 posted on 03/12/2023 3:33:19 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I saw him in a small venue in Lakeland, FL in the late 1970’s. One of the best concerts I ever saw. Hope you enjoy


2 posted on 03/12/2023 3:33:37 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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The original band that recorded Layla are either dead (Allman, Radle) or in prison for life (Gordon, the drummer who also did the piano bit). Only Clapton and WHitlock (organ) are all that remains of Derek and the Dominos.


3 posted on 03/12/2023 3:39:58 PM PDT by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: MtnClimber

Good old “Layla”.

Duane suggested using an Albert King lick from ‘There is Nothing I Can Do”
he liked for the beginning and he’s all over that coda. He adored Clapton.


4 posted on 03/12/2023 3:45:12 PM PDT by stanne
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Layla had me on my knees. And begging please.

not a good position to be in

5 posted on 03/12/2023 3:46:24 PM PDT by BipolarBob (The rumor has not been confirmed until the FBI officially denies it.)
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To: Kaiser8408a
"Gordon, the drummer who also did the piano bit"

A little something Gordon stole from his ex-girlfriend Rita Coolidge.

We know Gordon was (is) mentally ill, but apparently he's a jerk too. (Beat his girlfriend up and stole her material).

6 posted on 03/12/2023 3:50:11 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: MtnClimber

Interesting backstory about Layla. She was in real life the wife of George Harrison.

Eric Clapton loved her. So did George.

Eric won out and married her. (Pattie Boyd)


7 posted on 03/12/2023 3:55:07 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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To: Kaiser8408a

Layla remains my all time number one favorite song. Based on the piano ending.


8 posted on 03/12/2023 3:57:11 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs” is, to me, the best rock album ever. Five great musicians got together to record this classic. A song that didn’t get the airtime that “Layla” did is “Anyday,” a classic in its own right. Bobby Whitlock nailed the vocals.


9 posted on 03/12/2023 3:58:47 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Responsibility2nd

Another interesting backstory about Layla AKA Pattie Boyd.

She was the one to whom Clapton wrote this hot love mess....

https://www.google.com/search?q=clapton+wonderful+tonight&rlz=1CAPOUW_enUS991US991&oq=clapton+wonderful+tonight&aqs=chrome.0.0i355i512j46i512j0i512l4j0i22i30l4.15001j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:84fa03cd,vid:fxAiUq8yn34


10 posted on 03/12/2023 4:02:42 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Patty Boyd had to have had more friggen’ songs written about her than any woman in the history of humankind.


11 posted on 03/12/2023 5:00:35 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Kaiser8408a

Duane is original as my blond Catahoula


12 posted on 03/12/2023 5:12:09 PM PDT by waterhill (All you need is a Catahoula and an 870)
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To: skeeter

Mmm hmm Patty boyd.


13 posted on 03/12/2023 5:20:14 PM PDT by waterhill (All you need is a Catahoula and an 870)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Boss has an old piano on his back porch I started playing that some people freaked. All they could say was Goodfellas


14 posted on 03/12/2023 5:28:24 PM PDT by waterhill (All you need is a Catahoula and an 870)
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To: MtnClimber

Rush Limbaugh forever ruined that song for me:

Shelayla, as left as she can be
Shelayla, spends her time hugging trees


15 posted on 03/12/2023 5:31:11 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: waterhill

Jim Gordon was crazy. Glad I’m not related to him


16 posted on 03/12/2023 5:42:55 PM PDT by waterhill (All you need is a Catahoula and an 870)
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To: Responsibility2nd; Lazamataz
Clapton was the next concert I saw at Lakeland Civic Center after the Lynyrd Skynyrd concert the day before the plane crash. I was only 18 and I had seen Skynyrd 5 times so the crash shook me up and I stopped going to concerts for a while.

Pattie Boyd. Umm, umm, I bet Laz would hit that!


17 posted on 03/12/2023 7:00:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Kaiser8408a

Bobby Whitlock is doing abstracts paintings in Texas. See him monthly at lunch. Good guy.


18 posted on 03/12/2023 7:29:13 PM PDT by yetidog
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To: MtnClimber

Tears in Heaven- his young child died, falling off high patio in London.


19 posted on 03/12/2023 7:32:22 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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20 posted on 03/12/2023 7:40:29 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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