Eric Clapton - Layla

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[MtnClimber]

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

[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

[Kaiser8408a]

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.

[stanne]

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.

[BipolarBob]

Layla had me on my knees. And begging please.

not a good position to be in

[Psalm 73]

"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).

[Responsibility2nd]

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)

[Responsibility2nd]

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

[ought-six]

“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.

[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

[skeeter]

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

[waterhill]

Duane is original as my blond Catahoula

[waterhill]

Mmm hmm Patty boyd.

[waterhill]

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

[dfwgator]

Rush Limbaugh forever ruined that song for me:

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

[waterhill]

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

[MtnClimber]

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!

[yetidog]

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

[Mark]

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

[Responsibility2nd]

London New York City