Rest In Peace, Jim Gordon, a victim of mental illness.

Didn't know that. Very sad what became of him. Certainly fighting a lot of demons. As we all know he did a lot of work with Eric Clapton and I would imagine none of his former friends went to visit him.

Eric put him there this is a business

@@Leo-uc8zv Congratulations, dumbest remark I've ever seen on youtube.

​@@Leo-uc8zv How in the hell did Eric put him there? I supposed Eric also killed Jim's mother.

+Bongogod "4 show BG!! Whitlock wasn't just a great keys man but good guitarist and 1 of the Greatest Vocalist of the time! Built in SOUL man!!

Have you read his book ?

Dude, you hit the nail on the head. The trouble for Whitlock, et.al., is Clapton is so awesome you can't help but zero in on him.

@@tom.hoffmann6585 I am reading it at this moment! It brought me to this video. I grew up with these D&D songs in my head all the time. I met Bobby W. at Saxon Pub here in Austin 6m ago. He plays with wife Coco regularly. Great guy, vocalist, performer. He shared stories about recording Layla album; it was awesome. The book is excellent reading! Recommended 👍.

Bobby Whitlock is genius and a great storyteller. Love to hear him play or talk about music, especially his time with this band. Missing Duane Allman's beautiful slide guitar on this one

killer harmonies!

The backing vocals in this song always crushed me, even as an 8 yr old in 1970, so much emotion. These guys were so good.

This just goes to show you Clapton is god. He was my inspiration when I started playing and then found out we shared the same birthday different years of course .

thorn tree in the garden has always been a favourite of mine....

Listen to Bell Bottom Blues and hear Bobby Whitlock sing.

i'd have had a hard time leaving the house after jimi's death if i were eric but this of course is a great tribute. i always thought the studio version sounded so painful because jimi had died but it was before 9/18/70. whitlock's vocals do add plenty.

Yes

Absolutely

The Edge?

Derek is the force that blows the roof of the Filmore lol...

Love to watch him telling stories to his wife coco on his channel.

Greatest harmony I’ve ever heard on a track. Maybe only Don Rich and Buck were close.

@@timhoovermusicman I’ll have to check that channel out. I use to see him and his wife Coco Carmel every Sunday at the Saxon pub. One night I brought my Layla and All Things Must Pass vinyl covers for him to autograph. He was very laid back. There were so many people there asking me why I’d brought those album covers to be autographed. I told them they might want to Google the guy they came to hear/see.

@@roxanneb6208 he's got great stories🙂

@@timhoovermusicman yes he does and he is such a down to earth man too.

+BarT Gila yes !!!

+BarT Gila RIP Carl and Jim Gordon.............god will forgive.

Carl keeps up with Eric and then some.

I was watching an Ed Sullivan show rerun from the mid 60s and Gary Lewis and the Playboys played. Gary introduced the band and Carl Radle was on bass!

It was the greatest decade for all kinds of Pop music! - The '70s were the golden age!

Rita Coolidge did.

Very sad indeed...God rest him

Always ~

Little Wing is the most beautiful composition I've ever heard. Fell in love with it when I first heard Jimi sing those words way back when. Fell again when Stevie Ray made it even more emotional and amazing, as he did with everything. This is a great compilation of all those classic voices and Eric's playing. Never heard this before. Thankx Wilson. RIP Jimi and Stevie. Never forgotten. 💙💙 to all

🎸The Master🎸

Agreed.

yup, totally agree. This was his very best.

It's not even debatable. The Dominos were his peak and crowning achievement. He wasn't a good enough songwriter to sustain this greatness, and of course his addiction didn't exactly help matters. But somehow, he still managed to have an extremely successful solo career. There's a lot of people who are undoubtedly completely unaware of the existence of Derek & The Dominos, Blind Faith, or Cream and think he's the "I shot the sheriff" or "Forever Man" singer.

I agree!

Even though it is a cover - his take on Crossroads is Epic.

Please, let's not forget "Little Wing" is also a cover.

Good list, but I'd have to add Badge.

Added.

john L yeah Badge is epic. It's my favorite

Great drummer. Tragic story about Jim. Just a shame

Powderfinger yes. Absolutely. Underrated

yes he does he is amazing

What a voice Bobby has. Wonder why we never heard very much from him after the Dominos ?

His organ playing is sublime.

@@Hapax007 I believe he was addicted to heroin for awhile.

Rick Porupsky Sky dog

If I'm not mistaken, Duane played on all but three songs from that album.

@@scottym3 Correct, Duane isn't on "I Looked Away" ', "Bell Bottom Blues", and "Keep On Growing", the first three songs on the Layla album.

How could we

@@scottym3 you're off by one! I don't think he played on 'Thorn Tree in the Garden' I would be OK with being proven wrong. I loathe that song! I love Bobby Whitlock's voice, though.

Yes! Jim Gordon and Eric at a certain point in this song just melt together. It's one of those very rare moments everyone should experience and remember. I know they don't do or want to. But this was them at their very best. This is the pinnacle of rock bands.

Pity was pity Clapton love Jimi

I love you

Jimi's original is from another world/his mind

Better than Jimi's original version? Check out the album "Axis Bold as Love" again.

@@briankorbelik2873 Yes. I saw Jimi, and was never really impressed. The thing I was impressed about Jimi was his master of playing a Rt Hand guitar. He is more legend than musician. I know lots of guys who can play like Hendrix. It is noise mostly, and not fluid like Clapton and Gilmor. This is hitting the notes right here.Ck out the Southern Rock riffs at the beginning by a Britkzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZrOUn5RexNbQaZs.html

@@briankorbelik2873 This is actually one of the best cuts of this tune out there.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pppdprmJqNDep4U.html

Exactly!!!!! So many people praise SRV, Hendrix, Page, Beck, and EVH who are all legendary guitarists on the same level as Clapton, but Eric gets nothing but hate. I hate to turn music into a competition, but Jimis time here was so short. It was truly impactful but it simply does not have enough evidence that gives him the right to be called infinitely better than everyone else because his body of work is so small (tragically). When you look at Claptons huge body of work, his talent is absolutely undeniable! I'm not saying anyone's better than anyone else, I just wish that music wasn't turned into this sport about who's THE BEST, rather than who do I prefer.

sorry man Clapton is one of the greatest ever but Jimi was in a class all by himself. i play and the things he did w guitar and the electronic available at the time are simply UNMATCHED since... innovation at its best for wat was available. I play but can only dream of playing like Jimi did

+Connor Burkhardt , I tend to agree with you . Every player is unique , has a touch or style all their own albeit it may be copied from others to some degree . I once said to a friend who is a really good player " I wish I could play as well as You" . He replied that he wasn't better just different . He played in a jazz vein and I grew up playing folk and blues and so my influences were different . That is how it is with these guys . I won't take anything away from Jimi or Stevie Ray either . Their lives were tragically cut short but their genius lives on . And yes , Clapton gets little respect perhaps because he is a survivor . He beat his addictions and carried on at times reinventing himself and his music along the way . Now if someone wishes to compare their hero's to , try Django Reinhardt , the best three fingered guitar player around . He played licks and runs that scare me as well as jazz chords I can't play with all my fingers lol .

Rory was a great guitar plyr one of the best

As much as i like clapton ...there are many that rise above him ..my opinion...hendrx was just so special who since have been his equal? Jeff Beck was close and Jimmy Page

Nope. That would be Cream. They broke musical ground in the 60's. D & the D's rode on the highway Cream & Hendrix built.

I was there. Delaney and Bonnie and Friends were not. Neither were Sly and the Family Stone.

I worked in concessions for the concert , hot as hell . It was seriously a cluster f#*k. At least I got to say I worked a rock festival

Cool story Rickie thanks for sharing Brother.

I was at the Celebration of the Mosquito, other than it being something every Natchez boy should see at least once, it pretty much sucked. I ran into more music superstars at the Christifa Coffee House on highway 61 north Natchez (Morgantown) Mississippi in an average month than all of the acts that performed at the Celebration of Life. Frank Zappa really liked the Cheese burgers at the Coffee House, I guess word got out.

@@rayhutchison1272 he might have been thinking about the Festival in Lewisville TX where Hendrix had to cancel and Eric sat in with the Chambers Brothers and saved the show.

BW,Great minds tend to think alike

Bobby Whitlock rules!

Like having Joe Cocker as a backup singer. Whitlock was a smokin' singer.

no derek and the dominos without bobby

Great tune man

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Lance Fraijo you are funny , genius 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Do you also recommend breathing? Kidding, and well said.

@@peterwright5249 you can smell the envy in every one of your comments :-)

@@peterwright5249 How unfortunate a man could be. I guess not more than you are.

DITTO... I agree with every word!

this soundboard recording and subsequent mix really adds to that experience.. brilliant!

The great bobby Carle and the man jim Gordon.

Derek

+David Ward ..and to "All Of You "Slowhand" fans" out there that really LOVE Great Guitarist's of the World!"! See what you've done to me "W McPhert & Greg Koch!!" I'm baaaack! Ditto times 1,000 for what you said David! I just don't get it when it comes to "Me or anybody not being able to find anything live by Derek and the Doms??" I always heard they weren't very good "live??" But HOW can those 4 Top level players not sound great even w/out Duane?? Eric's guitar work on "Have You Ever Lvd. a Woman" and others on their 1 and only "Layla" studio alb is some of his finest blues guitar work he's ever done in the studio...period! Eric's version of that song has EC's blues style stamp all over it! From beg. to end! That's the song I always play for people (Usually young) that haven't heard Eric play electric blues because "he was simply on fire that day + he really shows why all the music critics then and esp. now say that EC is 1 of the, if not the greatest "blues and R & B guitarist EVER", although you'll never hear me sayin that only because theirs so so many! Eric C. is my fav and always has been since 1967 ("Beano" album!!) but what about "Guitar Blues Gods" like Gary Moore, SRVaughn, Joe Bonamassa, Eric Johnson (plays some wicked blues!) and maybe 15 more in this Top catagory (But "Only in my opinion.") The day I first heard Gary Moore was in 1984 ("Victims of the Future" Live album!) when nobody ever even heard about him in the US and then 3 yrs later when he released the "Still Go the Blues" LP, it literally scared the pants off me it was so unbelievable! Only the great die young I guess! I've been a Prof. guit's for 45 + yrs so, everytime, which is rare, that I hear someone that is that unbelievably talented and very rare, it's a real treat believe you me!" "Someone new to learn from and listen to!" Also, "look up (Or anyone that see's this!!) a big "6 ft.-9-11 inch" guy from Milwaukee and Fender Guitars main rep that just tours the world and explains all Fenders new stuff w/ his band of course; his name: GREG KOCH!! He's like a combo of Robin Williams on stage mixed w/ a tad bit of Einstein's intelligence for guitar/guitars and has Mastered every style of guitar I can think of! Blues/Hendrix/Clapton are 2 of his fav blues guys, chickenpicken monster ala Brent Mason n Brad Paisley, can play literally ANY Classic rock song note for chord esp. Zeppelin and much better than Jimmy Page EVER was..but lots a bands too and in my opinion he's right up there w/ "The most versatile guitarist I or probably anyone that really knows guitar/guitarist's has ever witnessed and he has 1,000's of vid's online w/ Millions of CHOPS TOO!! (Please "SIR Greg Koch, I'f you read this, please let it go straight to yur fingers, not yur head, (Not that your ego'd out at all, it's just your "musical genius mixed w/ yur unique comedic brain" can cause people to go "MAD!!!" Haha, and strange things can happen so careful out there on the road k!" "I say this cause, well, I know if I or most guitarist's out there could play anything at all like you, or for that matter, if anyone could play all the many styles on your Unreal Level of "Mastery" or "Wizardry", we'd all definitely think very very high of ourselves only because we could go to 99.9% of anywhere on Earth and walk away w/ the that little guitar trophy to fill our 2nd garage full of em!!" But in all seriousness, "Mr Koch is the best thing that's EVER happened to guitarists worldwide that actually still like to learn and laugh simultaniously no matter what level!" And since I've been watching you for the 3rd to 4th yr now, thanks Greg for helping me grow as a plyr. and grow w/ my "My Henny Youngman w/ a touch of Rodney comedy impersonations as well as a "Comedic Physics Professor at MIT!!" "You are w/out a doubt a "One of a Kind Unique Unit", especially a 1 of a kind versatile as hell guitarist without question and I'm sure, a hellova lotta fun to hang with too!" Easily, in my eyes, the Most "Under-Recognized World Guitarist I've ever heard, seen play a couple hundred times minimum that has about 8 albums out and should be making equel pay w/ the Legendary guit's as well as should have with at least 12 Grammy's by now! "And besides being a guitar virtuoso, a funny SOB and extremely knowledgeable Music and Musical Instruments guy Greg's also got a great original voice for doin the talkin thang and the singin thang as well so, "Check him out and you won't be 1 bit dissapointed you did at all!" Even just on his website where all his FREE Music stuff is! Spotify has all his albums as well!! Now for that $10 bucks you promised me Greg?? Later to all! POLETE or johnnyguit PS: Really SORRY this is so long but inspired tonight so!

As I have gotten older the Dominoes have become my favorite Clapton stuff for sure. So i say you are right for sure. No disrespect to Cream or Blind Faith or the Bluesbreakers.

@Mike The Bike did you read that on wikipedia? You forgot the John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers and the Roosters. The Dominoes is Clapton's best work for sure

@Mike The Bike Yes heard them all! There is just something about this album and songs that can relate to!

@@greatwhite3676 The Layla album is the best collection of love songs! Bellbottom blues, Layla, keep on growing, have you ever loved a woman! Great stuff!

@Mike The Bike I totally agree! D & D was not the same band without Duane! Duane and Clapton really brought out the best in each other!

Indeed, Jim Gordon, one of the best ever. A sad story though. Currently still in jail after succumbing to mental illness and killing his mother. Many, many, great and famous recordings can be enjoyed though. Top drawer reputation and music catalog. Check it out.

Gordon was a great drummer

Jim Gordon --- Awesome

Who is singing with him? thanks

Kashaslove Bobby Whitlock, keyboardist.

Bobby Whitlock went back to America after 2 years of trying to get Eric Clapton to come out and play after their success with Derek and the Domino first and only studio album. Bobby stayed low with the music business for many, many years until the late 90's to raise his family on a farm in Mississippi. A+++ on his vocal capabilities, especially on the live recordings. The staggering vocals between Bobby and Eric's vocals, priceless!

***** "thanks girl for being one." What does that exactly mean?

Yes, I heard that particular version. Very fine vocal work on this also. They sure had one great album with great chemistry.

That's what I'm missing here, that soaring, searing slide of Duane's, peaking right before the finish. Tears, man.

Duane is what makes this song and the whole album great

This Hunter agrees with you.

@@toddbentler141 Duane would be the first to disagree. In Duane's own words, “Eric is a real fine cat. I considered it a privilege and honor to play on his Derek and the Dominos album. He’s a true professional in the studio. It’s his style and his technique - is what really amazes me. He has a lot to say too, but the way he says it just knocks me out. He does so well. I was glad to have the opportunity to work with people of that magnitude - with that much brilliance and talent. Anybody that’s ever met him - he’s just a quiet dude - a real fine cat. It’s hard for me to talk about him because I admire him so much."

Amen ‼

The second line is actually "With a circus mind that's runnin' round." (I actually sing "runnin' wild," but I often change the lyrics of songs I sing to make them more personal to me. I don't think Jimi would have minded, though ...)

There is also a great version on Eric's ''Live at the Rainbow ' "comeback" concert.

So many great ones.... Jimi, SRV, Clapton, The Allman Bros...

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Agreed. Absolutely stunning 😭

I think Stevie did it even better

+Richard Maier CREAM right? My 2 fav inspirational LP's all time were; "Live Cream Vol I and Vol II!" Both superior to anything ever rec. Live!

+Johnny Guit .."Oh and never forget "Crossroads" Live off Wheels of Fire album! I read where Fresh Cream and Disreali Gears by Cream enabled Clapton to pay cash for his "Hurtwood Edge Mansion w/ lake and lots of land which he loves so much he still owns it today in the very RITZY Surrey area S of London! Worth approx $25 Million today because it's been EC's home (2nd home now cuz he had that H. Edge estate since 1968 so going on the Big 50 yrs now!! Bought it @ 23 yrs old!

I had 16th row=center that nite.

Richard Maier... Yer a lucky dog, ya know that :-)

10th row center late show

my favorite version. listen listen to the studio version with Duane Allman on guitar

About this time Bobby Whitlock was making music with George Harrison and company creating All Things Must Pass album as well.

Clapton was unfortunately distracted by his addictions and Bobby gave up after waiting around for him. For me, this was the last time that Clapton was cutting edge.

@@Zharkov1969A I thought that there was some great stuff on 461 Ocean Boulevard, but he kind of slowly became the lazy rock star after that. He had some good stuff later on, but it was really just good songs that could have been performed by [enter artist's name here].

I saw him play with Cream at The Albert Hall a few years back and he played out of his skin there. When you’re in a band with a keyboard player and another guitarist it’s maybe less obvious you’re taking it easy. I play in a trio (nowhere near as talented) and it’s hard work. I would rather he stretched himself more because he was golden in the period 1965-‘70.

They went from working in Delaney & Bonnie, to George Harrison, to Eric’s solo album and then to Derek & The Dominos. It was an amazingly busy 18 months.

That is what makes Hendrix genius! He kept it like short story which made everyone ponder over what could've been after the song ended👌

Good call, Rick...Most people don't know Gordon played the drums on most of the KATY LIED lp by Steely Dan....amazing drummer

I was in attendance too!