Delaney & Bonnie & Friends - Fillmore West, 22 Feb 1970

[@vickiquayle6276]

At 71, I’m still blown away by all the music & talent we enjoyed in the non-stop 60’s.70’s plus years!’ What memories each song brings. So grateful 😄♥️

[@allanbriggs9007]

Great band.

[@kenhabeeb]

Same age, and thankful that a friend told me about underground radio when it was still new. Also extremely thankful that I was born with a good ear so that I could really enjoy all the great bands playing at the same time during those decades. One regret: In the most amazing year, 1967, we would have beeen able to drive to the clubs and concert halls where they were playing if we were just two years older! Being only 15 in 1967 was painful!

[@JHelak]

Nothing like it today.

[@jimnagel5611]

ME TOO -- IT WAS TRULY A UNIQUE TIME IMHO

[@johnpandolfino8663]

I saw them in NYC at Carnegie Hall and Duane Allman was on guitar....that same year I was expecting Clapton but low and behold there was this guy with long blond hair wailing his ass off...what a force ... he's the reason I play guitar today....saw him play two more times before he passed ..... thanks for posting...great quality recording

[@FernandoJohnny]

Thank you John

[@keithmccaslyn2527]

John you have got to be one of Thee Luckiest Dudes to walk the Earth Plane, now if you saw Jimi or Janis or Both!! well damn, shows over, you get the LIFETIME AWARD of being Groovy as it gets !! At 65 Im still diggin the tunes from the 60's & 70's.

[@jeffl1879]

You are so fortunate, to have seen Duane Allman , D & B, Duane w/D & B.

[@golds04]

Amazing there is no recording of that night that im aware of.

[@BarbWalker777]

I saw them when I was 12 years old at The Music Circus in Lambertville NJ.. Ike and Tina Turner opened for them.. Best live music I ever heard❤

[@celticgodsoriginal]

Now, that is a show!!!

[@TravisWilton-pp3rp]

Wow!!! That must have been amazing!!! Lambertville is beautiful!

[@5849Ken]

Saw Country Joe and the Fish there. Rotating stage.

[@dougj7295]

WTH. What is the Music Circus now, any idea?

[@MrCherryJuice]

Bonnie was previously - and for what I understand to be just a few dates - an Ikette in Ike & Tina Turner's band. She got all done up to play the part. Tina gets a credit on D&B's final album, 'Together'.

[@kofthebaskervilles]

Great band. Jim was really good on the drums

[@kenhabeeb]

Yea, a guy who could get all the work he wanted, and then he went nuts in a bad way. Keltner was just as good, though.

[@kimnabi3988]

Delaney&Bonnie with Derek & Doms-great photo!

[@kevinjoseph517]

jim gordon died recently. like days ago. delaney is long dead. i heard bonnie at a tiny club about 30 years ago in santa monica.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

She sang back up with Stephen Stills when he had Manassas and there is a KZbin video like at The Capitol Theater

[@jeffl1879]

So sad, what a tragic life. I saw him drumming with Derek and the Dominoes, great drummer.

[@allanbriggs9007]

Great drummer - tragic life.

[@TheRightONe-et3gh]

Mad Dog and Englishmen, JJ Cale, Derek and the Dominos, Georges Harrison, Leon Russel, same people.

[@larrynolletti4594]

Looking at this photo....knowing what was to become of Jim Gordon......and Carl Radle.....bummer.....that being said...the music is fantastic...thank you

[@keithmccaslyn2527]

Clapton is pictured here, a year earlier Jimi was on stage with D & B ! Amazing. Jimi really wanted to grow, expand and stretch out as he kept going,like any true musician, Love and Light to ALL the groovy People of the 60's ! AsJimi said "Stay Groovy,Stay Free !"

[@kimnabi3988]

Tell me how to get a copy of Jimi with D&B

[@micharro]

All of Derek and the Dominos are on that picture!

[@MMTNBoy]

No way can I remember which of the 4 nights I attended but I was there and blown away. The following weekend I saw Jack Bruce & Friends. 2 out of 3 ain't bad. This sounds great. Thank you for posting it. Memories.

[@retiredguy7273]

Saw them at Trinity college fieldhouse Hartford Connecticut. Unbelievable band. This is a great upload really good quality thanks so much!

[@kimnabi3988]

UNbelievable!

[@normanbuffett4642]

I saw them August '69 St. Louis Kiel Auditorium on the Blind Faith tour. Taste opened the show.

[@LPSB3267]

I cannot tell you how grateful I am to you for uploading this!

[@FernandoJohnny]

Thank you Nick

[@alanFconrad]

that great drum beat HAS to be Jim Gordon

[@MrCherryJuice]

That's what the caption says and who appears in the photo.

[@tuckmiester77]

Jim Gordon was such a great drummer.

[@ruiplas]

Bobby whitlock, Carl Radle, Jim Gordon & Eric himself, half Derek & Dominos here, baby

[@mempheel]

This is phenomenal; might be the best D&B live recording I’ve ever heard

[@MrCherryJuice]

If you're not aware, the 'D&B On Tour with Eric Clapton' album is also available as a 4-disc deluxe CD set. It contains four shows (and a great little booklet of memories) from their UK tour including the Royal Albert Hall, which was attended by some, maybe all of the Beatles (it was George Harrison who originally turned Clapton on to the band).

[@tuckmiester77]

@@MrCherryJuice I would love to read it but the booklet print is so tiny. Is there a place online that has it printed.

[@kimnabi3988]

Fantastic live music!Reminds me of Rolling Stones live!OUTstanding!

[@MrCherryJuice]

Delaney & Bonnie were a huge inspiration for so many bands of the era including the Stones, who employed Jim Price and Bobby Keys, D&B's two horn players (think 'Bitch', 'Brown Sugar' etc.). In case you're not aware, the bulk of the band here including the horns, backing singer Rita Coolidge and Leon Russell became the band for Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen. Then the drummer in this post, the great Jim Gordon (look him up), keyboardist/vocalist Bobby Whitlock and bassist Carl Radle teamed up with Eric Clapton form Derek & the Dominos. Other D&B band members (some joining in whenever scheduling permitted) included George Harrison, Dave Mason, Duane Allman, Sam Clayton and Kenny Gradney (went to Little Feat) and many others. Even Hendrix insisted on joining the in a jam. It was Harrison who introduced Clapton to D&B. And when he was recording his 'All Things Must Pass' album he had what became Derek & the Dominos as the core band for the sessions. Sadly, D&B never received the credit they deserved, though bands including Tedeschi - Trucks Band are keeping the legacy alive by doing 'Coming Home' and tunes from Mad Dogs & Englishmen including 'The Letter' and 'Space Captain'.

[@allanbriggs9007]

@@MrCherryJuice Black Crowes were great lovers of DB&F. They play some of their songs (eg Poor Elijah)

[@carrollcaldwell4570]

Bobby Whitlock has that B3 cranking like he is in his Daddy's church!

[@josiesiudut-bf2rj]

Have their records also their solo ones i enjoy all

[@thomasskladany7760]

Thanks for sharing this performance. Really takes this old space cowboy back to the days of talented musicians playing real instruments... Consider myself fortunate to have come up in in this unique era...

[@jeffl1879]

It took me a while but i was able to hunt down the four CD of D & B on Tour with Eric in England. One of my favorite bands, I never had the chance to see them, or get to the either Fillmore. Nice to see the comments from those of you who saw the concerts!

[@markwilliams5606]

Special Time in Music! Don't forget to Boogie children 🌄🐴🪴

[@maazvdo]

Great band, for ever 🔊! Thanks for share.

[@timcharles5476]

I prefer this set to the four recorded in England and released on the Delaney and Bonnie Box.

[@mikegoldberg553]

I was 15 @ the time of this. is this why I started playing guitar um not sure the seed had already been planted some 6 or 7 years prior, thanks to my other hero's known as the beatles.. I have Got to say this sounds like my Hero on guitar Eric Slow Hand Clapton He, sounds fantastic and then some. !!!#1 = when I ws 15 and first starting out on guitar every day after school i would hurry home and jam or play a borrowed guitar with Claptons first solo album doing this song and a lot of these songs... . . = "I Don't know why" = was one, = just one of my favorites to play gutar with. to this day i still think I should do this on my next gig. Seriously. it would be as effective now as it was 54 some odd years ago,., thank you............ M.G. in Phx. Az. Stay & be Safe and heathy.........

[@tedpowers2045]

This is the bridge between blues gospel and Rock. Southern Style. Leon Russell and the others made a ton of money Delaney and Bonny need to be recognized as one of the people who started this sound which George and Eric copied

[@FernandoJohnny]

Yeah You are right Thank you

[@tomcarl8021]

Delaney and Bonnie do not deserve credit as originators of this sound. They modeled themselves entirely on STAX Records, FAME Records, and Soul music in general. They were magnificent at what they did, but what they did was alive and well when they were teenagers long before they even met each other.

[@missyounorm33]

I agree with the lost recognition of D&B. But the sound being copied, I don’t think D&B had copyright on that sound.

[@kgobrien1]

The Memphis/ Tulsa connection was a major influence on music in those years...

[@unclrogPitcher]

@@kgobrien1: expand ?

[@celticgodsoriginal]

Is this a board mix, horns and backing singers and piano almost completely missing.

[@spudwas]

Quite a good soundboard. I wonder if Warren Van Orden of KPFA was the recording engineer. He did the April 26th 1970 recording of Van Morrison at the Fillmore West.

[@berniehughes4422]

Leon’s piano playing! Great to hear 😊

[@sevenmileridgeband]

Coo. l sounds great. thanks for posting.

[@FernandoJohnny]

Thank you for appreciating

[@johnapplegate1289]

I saw them on this tour in Philadelphia. They opened for B.B. King.

[@allanbriggs9007]

And what a good arrangement of "Crossroads" - quite different.

[@russ98226]

Great recording.....went one night.

[@billr2375]

By November of that same year, it was Derek and the Dominoes touring--Radle, Whitlock, Gordon ,Eric from this Fillmore line up. Saw them Painters Mill, Md, Thetare in the Round. Right around Thanksgiving that year. They opened with Layla.

[@bobcabo4509]

No Dave Mason.

[@Ted_Selke]

and no George Harrison.

[@bobcabo4509]

@@Ted_Selke Right, not on the US Tour.

[@MrCherryJuice]

UK and Europe only.

[@allanbriggs9007]

I rate this band in the top few. Superior to Derek & the Dominoes - mainly because of the voices of Delaney & Bonnie - far superior voices to Eric (and yes Delaney encouraged Eric with his singing). Love both bands though.

[@kentbeery4941]

😂😂😂😂 clean your ear's

[@allanbriggs9007]

@@kentbeery4941 I am a great Clapton fan however his voice is above average but not great (he always needs backing singers) Delaney & Bonnie's voices are far superior.

[@user-ts1fp4nm9y]

Delaney Bramlett should have been the other guitarist in Derek and the Dominos,hell it looks to be his band that Clapton stole or maybe borrowed.Who knows??.Doing some killer jammin' on this one!!! Thanks for posting!! I almost forgot Bonnie Bramlett,woops!!!!!!!

[@FernandoJohnny]

Thank you

[@chupava90]

I think he actually was a guest on one night with D&D, and Clapton was not so happy about it. It was a real mess with Delaney xD

[@chupava90]

I think he actually was a guest on one night with D&D, and Clapton was not so happy about it. It was a real mess with Delaney xD

[@Cpayne30]

It was the opposite. They all got fed up with Delaney's attitude and left. He could not function in a band situation like the Dominos.

[@user-ts1fp4nm9y]

@@Cpayne30 Maybe that's why Bonnie Bramlett did Clapton too????

[@artneville5994]

Lordy, had there EVER been a better lineup???

[@phantompanther648]

MI 6 - CIA Agents .,………

[@bluzblowr]

It was sort of a live rehearsal; songs that developed really beautifully, eventually. This was a strain to listen to at times…