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Derek and The Dominos
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Derek and the Dominos was a music group formed in the spring of 1970 by guitarist and singer Eric Clapton along with Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon, who had all played with him in Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. Duane Allman from the Allman Brothers Band joined the group early in the recording of their first album. They were a blues-rock band that demonstrated virtuosity at its finest, showing some of Eric “Slowhand” Clapton’s finest work.
The group debuted at the Lyceum Theatre in London on June 14, 1970 where the announcer mispronounced their provisional name of Eric and the Dynamos to Derek and the Dominos, the band decided to take up the new name and undertook a summer tour of England. From late August to early October, working at Criteria Studios in Miami with legendary Atlantic Records producer Tom Dowd, the band recorded Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, a brilliant double album now widely regarded as Clapton’s masterpiece. Most of the material, including Layla (which soon became an FM radio staple) was inspired by Clapton’s unrequited love for Pattie Boyd who was married to his best friend George Harrison. Clapton was seeing Pattie secretly at the time and Whitlock was dating her sister. It was not until much later that the affair was open; Boyd moved in with Clapton in 1974 and married him in 1979.
Derek and the Dominos was a music group formed in the spring of 1970 by guitarist and singer Eric Clapton along with Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon, who had all played with him in Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. Duane Allman from the Allman Brothers Band joined the group early in the recording of their first album. They were a blues-rock band that demonstrated virtuosity at its finest, showing some of Eric “Slowhand” Clapton’s finest work.
The group debuted at the Lyceum Theatre in London on June 14, 1970 where the announcer mispronounced their provisional name of Eric and the Dynamos to Derek and the Dominos, the band decided to take up the new name and undertook a summer tour of England. From late August to early October, working at Criteria Studios in Miami with legendary Atlantic Records producer Tom Dowd, the band recorded Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, a brilliant double album now widely regarded as Clapton’s masterpiece. Most of the material, including Layla (which soon became an FM radio staple) was inspired by Clapton’s unrequited love for Pattie Boyd who was married to his best friend George Harrison. Clapton was seeing Pattie secretly at the time and Whitlock was dating her sister. It was not until much later that the affair was open; Boyd moved in with Clapton in 1974 and married him in 1979.
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Derek and the Dominos- I looked away
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I Am Yours - Derek and the Dominos
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Derek and the Dominos cover, "I Looked Away"
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derek and the dominoes live- too late
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Layla
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Bell Bottom Blues
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Have You Ever Loved a Woman
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I Looked Away
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Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
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Little Wing
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Key to the Highway
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Keep on Growing
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Tell the Truth
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I Am Yours
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Anyday
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Thorn Tree in the Garden
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It's Too Late
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Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad
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Shoutbox
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wHoamax wrote:
Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad live is possibly his best performance i've heard.
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thegangsta123 wrote:
then join this group !! http://www.lastfm.it/group/Sex%2C+Drugs+and+Rock+n%27+Roll
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rodu wrote:
awesome
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RubberSoulBro wrote:
Duane Allman and Eric Clapton together is a recipe for extreme ejaculation, you honestly dont get better than this.
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mauruiz wrote:
FANTASTIC.... the best phase for Clapton...
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Redstater wrote:
@Robdir: I couldn't agree more with your comment, I could easilly buy a dozen albums if both Clapton and Allman played on it. There both amazing guitarists and there different styles complement each other perfectly.
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mickey04430 wrote:
I first listened to this on a 8-track cassette bookshelf stereo... i may be a geezer but I like what I like!
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RubberSoulBro wrote:
Live at the Fillmore is incredible
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EdgeLike wrote:
Duane Allman was god. But Clapton has been given that title now. They both really are some of the greatest guitarists in history so it shouldn't really matter.
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pottedplant73 wrote:
*is his
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pottedplant73 wrote:
Correction: Duane Allman is God. Clapton his is disciple.
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AceOfSpades24 wrote:
If Clapton is god, then what is he when you add Duane Allman?
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strato73 wrote:
la mejor etapa de eric clapton,despues blind faith,y los cream ¡¡ solos brutales
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robirr wrote:
Clapton + Allman = heaven
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brentondig wrote:
Awesome album!
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ssegovia1 wrote:
Guys, you sound great, I enjoy listening to you
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Robdir wrote:
Why oh why only one album?? Seriously, i have an unhealthy obessesion with Layla and Those Assorted Love Songs! (Clapton and Allman on one record sounded better than you could imagine!)
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Lo-fiBoy wrote:
Happy to know them, Dereck and the Dominos, It's pleasure at blues' rhythm and neurotic acid... Don't stop the mu
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GilmoursAngst wrote:
@bryantee, to you maybe. I just think Bell Bottom Blues is amazing. It's one of my top songs, sorry you don't agree.
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JusticeShades wrote:
The assorted love songs are great, but nothing tops Layla.
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