![]() ![]() The wah-wah guitar and Hammond organ-powered “Roll It Over” is another Layla sessions tune that failed to make the final album cut, and listening to Clapton and Whitlock belt out the lyrics in tandem will make you wonder why. The same goes for the sprawling “Got To Get Better in a Little While,” a funky number with swing that the Dominos recorded at the Layla sessions but inexplicably failed to include on the LP. ![]() The band stretches the great “Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?” to twice its length without adding an ounce of fat, and not once do you ask yourself, “When is this goddamn song going to end?” Another thing that seems to cloud the air is that only three of In Concert’s nine tracks come from Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs-such utterly brilliant cuts as “Layla,” “Anyday,” “Keep on Growing,” and “It’s Too Late” are as MIA as guitar slinger Allman himself.īut Clapton-and the trio of Jim Gordon (drums), Bobby Whitlock (piano, Hammond organ, and some really stellar backing vocals), and Carl Radle (bass)-was riding a wave, and In Concert would be an undisputed triumph if it weren’t marred by the drum solo madness that spread like the Ebola virus through the rock world at the dawn of the seventies.Ĭlapton and the lads get a chance to spread out playing live, and the results-with the exception once again of the drum solo that shoots “Let It Rain” in the leg-are lovably loose but never formless. Exhibit A, it hardly needs saying, is 1970’s Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, on which Clapton and a crack ensemble of musicians including the not long for this world Duane Allman would produce some of the fiercest and most deliriously lovely rock music ever committed to vinyl.Īnd at first that would seem to be the thing that damns In Concert-Duane Allman is nowhere to be found, although he would appear at several other Derek and the Dominos shows on the same tour. Eric Clapton – Derek & the Dominos In Concert (1973)įor folks like me, who would argue that his stint as leader of Derek and the Dominos constitutes the high point of Eric Clapton’s long and checkered career, 1973’s In Concert, which was recorded in October at the Fillmore East in New York, is a secondary but nonetheless important piece of evidence. ![]()
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