Derek and the Dominos
| Derek and the Dominos | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Rock , blues rock |
| founding | 1970 |
| resolution | 1971 |
| Last occupation | |
| Eric Clapton | |
Guitar, keyboard
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Bobby Whitlock |
| Carl Radle | |
| Jim Gordon | |
Derek and the Dominos was a British rock band formed by Eric Clapton in 1970 . Band members were besides Clapton Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon.
Band history
Beginnings
The group Derek and the Dominos grew out of Clapton's frustration with the hype surrounding the supergroups Cream and Blind Faith . After they broke up, he joined Delaney & Bonnie and Friends , whom he met when they opened for Blind Faith on a tour of England. After that band broke up, Bobby Whitlock, a former member of Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, teamed up with Clapton; the two spent several months writing songs "just to have something to play with," as Whitlock put it. These tracks later made up the bulk of the material on Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs .
After touring with Joe Cocker , more former Delaney and Bonnie members joined Clapton's group; trying to avoid the limelight in a group called Derek and the Dominos, he set out to tour smaller English clubs. The group was reportedly named after a slip of the tongue by the announcer on their first performance who mistakenly pronounced the band's makeshift name - "Eric & The Dynamos" - "Derek & The Dominos". In fact, Clapton chose the name "Derek and the Dominos" because he could not reconcile his name and his fame with maintaining the band background.
After the tour she went to Criteria Studios in Miami to record an album.
Collaboration with Duane Allman
Clapton had long admired the work of Duane Allman , whom he knew through recordings of Aretha Franklin and others, and had long wanted to meet him. Allman, like many other musicians at the time, worshiped Clapton. Tom Dowd, who was the producer of both, finally made the meeting possible.
When Clapton heard from Dowd that the Allman Brothers Band were planning to play in Miami, he insisted on seeing them perform. After the performance, Clapton and Allman went to the studio together, where a strong bond formed between them overnight; Dowd reported that the two “ exchanged licks , swapped their guitars, and talked shop - unreservedly, just admiration for each other's technique and ease”. Allman asked if he could come over to the studio to see some of the recording sessions, but Clapton declined: "Bring your guitar; you have to play! "
Although the original concept was that he should "only play on one or two," as Allman said, he ended up contributing to almost all of the songs on Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs , even those that had already been worked on. "He brought out the best of us all," said Whitlock.
resolution
In 1971 slide guitarist Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident. A few weeks later, Clapton broke up Derek and the Dominos, who had just started work on their second album, and fell into a severe heroin addiction that held him prisoner for three years and often devoured $ 1,000 a week. Apart from two breaks for the Bangladesh concert and the Rainbow concert , Clapton only became musically active again in 1974. Some of the material for the second studio album was used in the compilation album Crossroads .
Discography
A total of two studio albums and two live albums by this group were released. The most successful album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs , was released on November 9, 1970 under Polydor Records and re-released in 1990 on compact disc and 180-gram record. In the same year an anniversary edition, The Layla Sessions: 20th Anniversary Edition , appeared for the twentieth birthday, after some of this material had already been released as a bootleg a few years earlier . On March 1, 1973, the band's first live album, In Concert, was released . Another concert album was released on February 22, 1994 as Live at the Fillmore .
Studio albums
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| 1970 |
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs Polydor |
DE69 (1 week) DE |
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UK68  (1 week)UK |
US16 (77 weeks)US |
First published: November 9, 1970
Sales: + 1,215,000 |
| 1990 | The Layla Sessions: 20th Anniversary Edition Polydor |
- | - | - |
UK100 (1 week) UK |
US157 (5 weeks) US |
First published: August 31, 1990
Sales: + 560,000 |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
Web links
- Derek and the Dominos at Discogs (English)
- Biography of Derek and the Dominos on VH1
- Slowhand Tourography - Annual File 1970 on ectours.de
- MusicChain - Derek & The Dominos
- Concert at Filmore East on October 23, 1970
- Review Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs on clapton.de
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- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.clapton.de/diskografie/1970_layla.htm
- ↑ Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek & the Dominos. AllMusic Network, accessed October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ The Layla Sessions: 20th Anniversary Edition. Where's Eric! Magazine, accessed October 10, 2017 .
- ^ Derek & the Dominos - In Concert. Where's Eric! Magazine, accessed October 10, 2017 .
- ^ Live at the Fillmore. Where's Eric! Magazine, accessed October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek & the Dominos. AllMusic Network, accessed October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ The Layla Sessions: 20th Anniversary Edition. Where's Eric! Magazine, accessed October 10, 2017 .
