Derek and the Dominos - Layla (Isolated)

[@NurseKate1976]

Eric’s voice in this song will always be the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard with the second being Duane Allman’s sobbing guitar.

[@ectomy1235]

Duane allman was the greatest!

[@rileymcintosh4852]

Broken heart brought brilliance

[@djdannyd2060]

The pain in Eric’s voice and the crying of skydogs guitar is unmatched

[@sstflm]

hell yeah man..

[@NickNicometi]

The PAIN, man!! The PAIN! 😭😭😭

[@RodCornholio]

D. Allman had a rare combination of taste and skill regarding pitch. His work is exquisite. Too young to go.

[@Gibsonstandard67]

You think he has skill in pitch with slide?

[@rileymcintosh4852]

You are oh so right

[@XxSkydog71xX]

Duane Allman is so damn good my god

[@johnkluge3421]

He is my pick for greatest rock guitarist of all time. I don't care how many people say it is Hendrix, Allman was just as skillful and played better music. He was just a god.

[@chriscampbell9191]

@@Gibsonstandard67 I think Duane had skill in pitch with the slide. Although there is a comment by another member of the Dominos that Duane went high in pitch in places, if you listen to enough of his playing, you can hear the skill in his slow slurs between notes. You can hear it in the high slide parts here on this vid. Some notes may have been technically a bit off, but they still fit. Sometimes going a hair high adds tension.

[@Obiwannabe]

God damn Duane...

[@TerpsichoreanSelenophile]

Nothing left to be said.

[@144wychwood]

Listening to this isolated version brings even greater appreciation for song, Clapton and especially Duane Allman.

[@peterburke3035]

Duane Allman and Eric Clapton were a match made in heaven when it came to this track and the whole album. Duane added something great to every session he played on. So sad he died so young. But he left us with so many great tracks to remind us of his genius.

[@BeatlesCentricUniverse]

No disrespect to you or Duane, but he added absolutely NOTHING to a Laura Nyro track but cliched, inappropriate blues licks. That being said, he is a GOD of guitar.

[@monkeypowered8455]

Incredible! Remember Duane Allman.

[@beno2rasho]

Some of those octaves are off the charts....

[@ricosavage13]

This is awesome. I'd love to hear Bobby's isolated vocals as well. His voice compliments what Eric was doing immensely.

[@melissacurtis7216]

Duane Allman on that guitar is haunting. RIP

[@ssnobrakesable]

Such feeling and pain in the vocals and guitar when isolated.......

[@turtleman5111]

One of my favorite songs ever, but the moral of the WHOLE THING is- You always want what you can’t have, and then if you should get it, it probably doesn’t work out in the long run anyway. Just human nature, I suppose.

[@harrisontownsend910]

Oh yes. Human nature is a sad and hurtful thing. We always seem to want what's the worst for us, and when we get it we often abuse it until it's gone.

[@jnholland006]

Duane’s melodic fills are so amazing!!

[@ectomy1235]

Duane allman the GOAT

[@exdemocrat9038]

it's an amazing story of how Duane came off touring with the ABB to record this song! All the stars were aligned in the making of this incredible song!

[@chriscampbell9191]

Always loved the slide guitar on this song, but when I heard it a few years ago, and realised that Duane Allman was playing above the neck at the end of it, and also in between the pickups, it got me back into slide playing, because I had never tried that before. I think that Duane's playing up there is just one of those things that really adds to this song -- along with the tone of Eric's voice, and everything else. Thanks for posting this isolated track vid. You can really hear the guitars and vocals more clearly.

[@anatorres-62]

Duane taught me howto make bird sounds with the slide...mute the strings and let the glass sliding on the frets and turn ur amp up up

[@Biscuit-Triscuit]

That's ballsy, putting up a pic of George and Pattie

[@DavidThompson-rx3jz]

It’s only rock and roll but ... ! Love that is lost, it is at such a high cost! Lorel, we know that there is not a second chance at life! If there was, I still would fall down on my knees and continue to beg you for your forgiveness!

[@normanleroy1874]

Great to hear this. And the pictures: Pattie Boyd really was exquisite.

[@smkh2890]

The title, "Layla", comes from the story "Layla and Majnun", written by a 12th-century Persian poet named Nizami Ganjavi. The story is about a mans unrequited love for a women. [ and the Majnun is the crazy guy, Clapton! ]

[@beaufitz8993]

Amazing what Duane could do with the Coricidin bottle!

[@rossday9333]

Apparently Duane used two different les Paul's for this recording and its a funny story but not mine to tell so go look it up if you are curious 😁

[@EclecticHillbilly]

In the Tom Dowd documentary, "Tom Down and the Language of Music", Tom said there were 14 guitar tracks on this, 7 for Eric and 7 for Duane. He said they kept coming in with stuff to add.

[@mcgurkryans]

Those are notes not even on the guitar

[@JCostlowMedia]

16 total, for both ends, front and back...so 32 but not at once! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpXJdYuBjZ2Nq6csi=yaTpkoiwoD2xB2F_

[@Isahiyella]

Beautiful but sadly missing the sweet little bird chirp at the end

[@turtleman5111]

Isahiyella The piano part after the climax is also beautiful.

[@XxSkydog71xX]

That’s Duane

[@harrywinslow3946]

If someone leaves out the bird chirp, they know NOTHING about music.

[@vibrolax]

It's easy to make your own bird chirps with a guitar, slide (e.g. a Coricidin bottle), and a pick.

[@TerpsichoreanSelenophile]

The Skydog trademark.

[@markfilippi9161]

This is the bomb Go Duane and the dominoes love it lol

[@misternikon]

I've followed Eric for 50 years and seen him in concert almost hundred time. But THANK YOU SO MUCH for putting together the isolated tracks, the photos and the back story. I saw Bobby Whitlock up at Daryl’s House in upstate New York. Tiny tiny venue maybe fits 150 people. Great guy. So funny. After concert he stayed quite a while sitting around with a bunch of us and telling stories about the Layla sessions and his travels through the music world. Check Wiki for details. Oh yeah. The song he wrote completely by himself, “Thorn Tree in the Garden” and is right after Layla, was written for a dog he once owned and someone gave the dog away when Bobby was away. He simply said to us, “Hey love is love”. Thanks again. I'm going to watch your vid a few more times.

[@jimcamp2423]

"Criteria Studios in North Miami Beach", I lived 2.1 miles from that studio from March 17, 1997-March 16, 2014 (17 years to the day). You'd be surprised who recorded there and all the hits. Also, Clapton's home in Golden Beach at 461 Ocean Blvd. Used to go by that place all the time. Clapton named an album after the street address there too. It was the album with the Marley classic on it, "I Shot The Sheriff". "Hotel California" that was recorded at Criteria Studios as well.

[@TrollsAreGonnaTroll]

beautiful hearing that acoustic at the end

[@JCostlowMedia]

alot more than 2 tracks, at 35 seconds in you have already heard atleast 4 separate tracks and it grows from there, a couple duane guitar tracks, a couple eric guitar tracks, eric's lead vocal track, i'm counting 7 separate tracks! you can usually google the track info sheet for Layla and find xerox copies or even pics of the original they place in the vault box with the master tape, it charts out all 32 tracks, 16 front end, 16 back end, it tells you what is what in terms of the track listings. here you have the Rhythm Guitar, the Lead Melody, the Melody through the verse 1,2, and 3, the solo section, the solo section, two separate slide tracks actually, it toggles back and forth of what duane was doing first and then goes into eric's slide track before going into the acoustic track, dont forget the vocals, which is atleast a couple tracks, you get a little of eric's backups as well as hearing a little of bobby's, so actually more than 7 if you really count it up, more like 9-10 tracks featured here!

[@bloeddorstigbeest]

Technically speaking back then recordings werent't made on 32 tracks. 8-track having been introduced around 1968/1969, it is probable that rather than use separate tracks for each guitar part, Dowd made reduction mixes that combined several guitar parts on a single track. The original tracks behind those reduction mixes may still be around but the 1970 LP version must have been mixed from 8 tracks. Great to hear Eric and Duane, though.

[@JCostlowMedia]

@@bloeddorstigbeest layla was 16 tracks each end..the first half and the 2nd half which was recorded 3 weeks later. so yes every thing is truly isolated except for the lead in guitar during the chorus, aka the riff, its duane and eric together on one track

[@JCostlowMedia]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpXJdYuBjZ2Nq6csi=yaTpkoiwoD2xB2F_

[@alejandropomposomendoza397]

Es la 1:48 am del 21 de septiembre 2021... Justo hoy acabo de decir el último te amo a quien imagine seria la madre de mis hijos, la mujer que me acompañaría en mis días... A quien con amor y desenfreno le hubiese cantado esta canción, a quien le dedique este sentimiento durante 4 años. Seguramente la seguiré amando, no sé hasta cuando... Y a donde quiera que vaya, Paulina será por quien yo llore junto con la guitarra más poderosa que jamás había escuchado. Dios te bendiga, amor mío.

[@SilverStingray1974]

Any chance you have an isolated Layla drum track?

[@macnificobis]

And the piano...

[@jeannalacubana10]

The riff is Duane Allman.

[@安藤ギョウ]

懐かしい…レイラ…✴👍🎸💓🎰‼️…

[@kaushik61]

Fire

[@ryanparmater4899]

is duane playing the slide starting around 330? The outro slow part?

[@calebscomedy11201]

Ryan Parmater yes

[@mattm1982]

Freaking awesome. There's a huge chunk missing after 4:50 though that I'd love to hear.

[@VirtualWoodshed]

How did you get these iso tracks?

[@scottbrown6305]

Damn. Just Damn.

[@benmeltzer]

Who's playing the acoustic guitar toward the end - Eric or Duane?

[@robnamowicz8073]

How romantic,,,,does Patti get a point on the publishing or anything?

[@flstffatboy3910]

Man is she beautiful or what?

[@noahmichael2213]

Imagine going on a long coke binge and writing an entire album because you're obsessed with George Harrison's wife, and then you actually end up marrying her only do be a drunk who beats her

[@noahmichael2213]

I should add it's one of my favorite albums of all time

[@thefinns609]

The description that includes the incorrect writers was created by a youtube bot. It got the song and the band correct but it thinks it was written by the Eagles?. I’ve emailed youtube to tell them, they have never replied.

[@alexlazo1343]

It was written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon from Derek and the Dominos at that time

[@chuckpotockimusic2288]

Everything except the piano coda was written by Clapton. Jim Gordon ripped off the piano coda practically note for note from Rita Coolidge's 1969 song "Time" and took credit for it. Gordon and Coolidge lived together for a time until he turned physically abusive toward her. The song "Time" was recorded in 1973 by Booker T Jones and his wife, Priscilla, who was Coolidge's sister. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3qtgX-ZrK2Cm9U

[@mattm1982]

I've read that Duane came up for the main riff of the song, not Clapton.

[@froter1]

Where's the organ part ?

[@Munkylaw]

Isnt this song about George Harrison’s wife?

[@bobbynieswender3869]

Yes it is

[@flybeep1661]

Only the slide guitar parts are Duane Allman playing, the rest if of course Clapton.

[@jordansmith8136]

Fly Beep on Wikipedia it says Duane is soloing during the verses

[@jordansmith8136]

Fly Beep that could be wrong though

[@aspvizn]

That slide guitar is out of tune!

[@LynneReinault]

@@aspvizn How is it out of tune?

[@aspvizn]

Just listen to the slide guitar solo and then you will hear how out of tune it is

[@theloniouscoltrane3778]

May 2019 When you are a guitarist and you listen to isolated guitar tracks, you realize that you are not even close to being a guitar god. Just listen. Sell your guitar. LOL!

[@germantrigueros8429]

😢👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💖

[@sstflm]

tbh I dont see anybody ever reach D. Allman's or ''God''s level.. its just impossible

[@ericm4815]

Search up the isolated tracks for Duane and Dickey's parts in Blue Sky. I've never been a guitar player but if I ever thought about trying it I abandoned that dream after I heard those two. Almost unfair to us mere mortals

[@joshiewilnott2368]

Wow I never knew that this was about George's woman that's messed up but what worse you type in 60's and 70's she pop's as one of the Hottest and Number ones of of that era like Bobby Brown of the 80's now I'm really confused I know she was a top model back then! 😩😉👍🍻🇺🇲🇬🇧

[@kitano0]

I am one of the rare souls that thinks that there are too many overdubs on this album, with the exception of "Keep on Growin". Some of the slide on this tune in particular sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me. But I know I'm in the vast minority. Still a landmark album with passionate musicianship, though.

[@clutchcargo5259]

Studio trickery made on a mixer-board 😒

[@SuperBroncosguy]

I think Duane created new notes there. Beautifully sad.

[@michaelsuder486]

Who would dump George Harrison for Eric Clapton

[@bls8959]

She didn't...they were broke up for years before her and Clapton got together..I mean sure they screwed ahold still with George

[@skinnybitch3456]

Me

[@Joeh1154]

George and Eric will be long remembered for their amazing music. Patti? Not so much.

[@tehsallys4577]

She is a muse not a musician

[@jukedar]

and were George and Eric able to replace her in records time,,,,, yuppers

[@skinnybitch3456]

Pattie will be remembered for being a supermodel fashion icon It girl The muse friend of Mary quant for having been one of the models who popularized the use of Miniskirts Minidresses and Mary Jane for being one of the first supermodels along with Jean Shrimpton etc.

[@skinnybitch3456]

@@jukedar They could never replace her.

[@antonioruizgm3091]

ohh!

[@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504]

The slide guitar is too screechy and out of pitch a lot of the time, surprised they didn't do another more 'worked out' take?

[@AD-bm8mq]

No no and no

[@ClassicalTTunesNow]

Please tell me you’re joking

[@chriscampbell9191]

It's difficult to play a slide accurately above the neck (including in between the two pickups on a Gibson). :-) Up there you maybe have 4-5 mm between notes -- if that. Duane went a bit higher than scale on one note, but it still sounded cool. And for all we know, it may have been intended to go high, as it's like an overbend.

[@kitano0]

None other than Bobby Whilock states that Duane was out of tune, so yes.

[@jeffreycolvin9124]

Duane was out of tune. Plain and simple. But still a legendary collaboration.

[@clutchcargo5259]

Tell me studio songs are fake without telling me studio songs are fake