During late August to early October they recorded Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, with the Allman Brothers' guitarist Duane Allman sitting in, before returning to a tour of the U.K. Derek & The Dominos played their first concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom on Jas part of a U.K. The group comprised Eric Clapton on guitar and vocals alongside three other former members of Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: Bobby Whitlock on keyboards, Carl Radle on bass and Jim Gordon on drums. In 1970, following the break-up of Blind Faith and his departure from Delaney & Bonnie, Derek & The Dominos initially formed in the spring of that year. The LP set also includes a 12×12 book of sleeve notes taken from the 40th-Anniversary Edition. All the bonus material across all of LP3 and LP4 is mastered normally (so is not half-speed mastered). Alongside this are a further 2LPs of bonus material some of which has not previously been released on vinyl. and features the dual wailing guitars of Clapton and Duane Allman. The album is notably known for its title track, an evergreen rock classic, which had top ten single chart success in the U.K. It was an admirable reworking, but Derek & the Dominos' original recording remains one of the towering moments in rock & roll history.Layla is often regarded as Eric Clapton's greatest musical achievement. Nobody else could figure out a way around that juxtaposition until Clapton reinterpreted it for his Unplugged recording. In other words, he changed the very meaning of the song - the juxtaposition of the intense blues of the body of the song and the sweetness of the coda was at the heart of the song. As pleasant as that version is - and it is quite nice - it excised the pain that surges through the original recording, while eliminating the masterful coda that ends the song on a grace note. Easily one of the best-known guitar licks in rock history, the riff was ironically borrowed from a T-Bone Walker vocal riff, which may be the reason Clapton phased it out in his acoustic shuffle reworking in 1991. Even though that coda was used to terrific effect in Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece Goodfellas, most listeners remember "Layla" for the incendiary, fiery riff that fuels the first section of the song. "Layla" is pure catharsis, followed by a coda written by Jim Gordon that is nothing less than bliss, the sound of love fulfilled. Clapton had never sounded as pained as he did here, and he never sounded as tortured again - not even on "Tears in Heaven," written after the tragic death of his young son. Derek & the Dominos' album Layla was Eric Clapton's dark night of the soul, and the title song was its masterpiece - an anguished plea to a forbidden love that was Clapton's barely disguised letter to Patti Boyd, the wife of his best friend, George Harrison.
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