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To: MikeD
My question was more "Can you separate the two players by tone, or is there more to it than that?"

If you're pretty familiar with how a Stratocaster and a Les Paul sound, you can tell the two players apart by their tone. The tone of Clapton's strat is thinner and pluckier. Also, I'm pretty sure that Duane Allman played all the slide, so if you hear slide, it's Duane.

One more thing to consider: if there are multiple guitar players, it's kind of a recording convention to keep them panned to the same side of the stereo image throughout an album. So if, in one song, you've identified Clapton coming out of the right speaker and Duane coming out of the left speaker, then on the other songs it'll probably be the same players on the same sides (I'm not positive this is the way it is on the Layla album, though).

I agree with others that Duane probably played the tastiest licks on that album. I'm pretty sure goosebump-raising outro solo on Layla is all Duane. On the other hand, Clapton's solos on Bell Bottom Blues are really pretty, and he positively burns it up on Have You Ever Loved a Woman. I guess I'd call it a draw.

66 posted on 05/20/2003 3:50:58 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick
I'm fairly certain Duane played all the slide as well.

I didn't know about that recording convention -- most of the bands I listen to only have one guitar player multitracked (Floyd, Zeppelin, Queen). The main exception is the Beatles, but they had no recording rules aside from the ones they wrote...

As for the draw -- both guitarists played well, but it's worth noting that there wasn't a second Dominos album without Duane Allman.

MD
96 posted on 05/21/2003 6:27:57 AM PDT by MikeD (Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!)
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