"Derek and the Dominos Derek and the Dominos were an English–American blues rock band formed in the spring of 1970 by guitarist and singer Eric Clapton, keyboardist and singer Bobby Whitlock, bassist Carl Radle and drummer Jim Gordon. All four members had previously played together in Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, during and after Clapton's brief tenure with Blind Faith. Dave Mason supplied additional lead guitar on early studio sessions and played at their first live gig. Another participant at their first session as a band was George Harrison, the recording for whose album ""All Things Must Pass"" marked the"
"at The Jass Blues Festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Solo albums Other notable recordings Bobby Whitlock Robert Stanley Whitlock (born March 18, 1948, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as a member of the blues-rock band Derek and the Dominos, with Eric Clapton, in 1970–71. Whitlock's musical career began with Memphis soul acts such as Sam & Dave and Booker T. & the M.G.'s before he joined Delaney & Bonnie and Friends in 1968. His association with Delaney & Bonnie bandmate Clapton led to Whitlock's participation in sessions for George Harrison's 1970 triple"
"do two or three recording sessions and then returned in time to play the evening show at Caesars Palace. In 1969 and 1970 Gordon toured as part of the backing band for Delaney & Bonnie, which at the time included Eric Clapton. Clapton subsequently took over the group's rhythm section — Gordon (drummer), Carl Radle (bassist), Bobby Whitlock (keyboardist, singer, songwriter) — and they formed a new band, later called Derek and the Dominos. The band's first studio work was as the house band for George Harrison's first solo album, the three-disc set ""All Things Must Pass"" (1970). Gordon then"
"In the spring of 1970, he was told that some members of Delaney and Bonnie's backup band, notably bassist Carl Radle, drummer Jim Gordon, and keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, were leaving the group. Seizing the opportunity, Clapton formed a new group, which became Derek and the Dominos. During the recording of the album, Duane Allman joined Clapton's fledgling band as a guest. Clapton and Allman, already mutual fans, were introduced at an Allman Brothers concert by Tom Dowd. The two hit it off well and soon became good friends. Dowd said of their guitar-playing chemistry: ""There had to be some sort"
"so tired of the virtuosity—or ""pseudo""-virtuosity—thing of long, boring guitar solos just because they were expected. The Band brought things back into perspective. The priority was the song."" The band was originally called ""Eric Clapton and Friends"". The name ""Derek and the Dominos"" was a fluke that occurred when the band's provisional name of ""Del and the Dynamos"" was misread as Derek and the Dominos. Clapton's biography states that Tony Ashton of Ashton, Gardner and Dyke told Clapton to call the band ""Del and the Dominos"", since ""Del"" was his nickname for Eric Clapton. Del and Eric were combined and"
"staples of the band's repertoire—and eventually of rock radio."" Shortly after completing recording, Dowd put Duane in contact with guitarist Eric Clapton, who invited him to contribute to his new project, Derek and the Dominos. Allman was a huge fan of Clapton's work with Cream, and Clapton had been blown away by Allman's session work on Wilson Pickett's ""Hey Jude"" some years prior. They met after a show one night in Miami and jammed together until the next afternoon, with the two guitarists regarding one another as ""instant soulmates"". Clapton invited Duane to join Derek and the Dominos, and by"
"important"" by the National Recording Registry. Shortly after completing recording of their second album, ""Idlewild South"" (1970), band leader Duane Allman was contacted by guitarist Eric Clapton to contribute to his new project, Derek and the Dominos. Allman was a huge fan of his work with the band Cream, and likewise Clapton enjoyed Allman's session work on Wilson Pickett's ""Hey Jude"" some years prior. They met after a show one night in Miami and had a jam session together until the next afternoon, with the two guitarists regarding one another as ""instant soulmates."" Clapton invited Duane to join Derek and"
"Bobby Whitlock Robert Stanley Whitlock (born March 18, 1948, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as a member of the blues-rock band Derek and the Dominos, with Eric Clapton, in 1970–71. Whitlock's musical career began with Memphis soul acts such as Sam & Dave and Booker T. & the M.G.'s before he joined Delaney & Bonnie and Friends in 1968. His association with Delaney & Bonnie bandmate Clapton led to Whitlock's participation in sessions for George Harrison's 1970 triple album ""All Things Must Pass"", in London, and the formation of Derek and"
"first time. Among the friendships formed before the group officially came into existence, Shapiro continues, ""the empathy ... outcropped most noticeably in Bobby Whitlock, in whom Eric found an accomplished and sympathetic songwriting partner and back-up vocalist."" Clapton and Whitlock considered adding the Delaney & Bonnie horn section to their new band, but this plan was abandoned. Whitlock later explained the ethos of Derek and the Dominos: ""we didn't want any horns, we didn't want no chicks, we wanted a rock 'n' roll band. But my vocal concept was that we approach singing like Sam and Dave did: [Clapton] sings"
"to ""Layla"" personally, which accelerated his spiral into drug addiction and depression. In 1985 when talking about the band, Clapton said: We were a make-believe band. We were all hiding inside it. Derek and the Dominos – the whole thing. So it couldn't last. I had to come out and admit that I was being me. I mean, being Derek was a cover for the fact that I was trying to steal someone else's wife. That was one of the reasons for doing it, so that I could write the song, and even use another name for Pattie. So Derek"
"album is often considered to be the defining achievement of Clapton's career. Derek and the Dominos came about through its four members' involvement in the American soul revue Delaney & Bonnie and Friends.<ref name=""Dominos/AM""></ref> The latter supported Blind Faith, Eric Clapton's short-lived supergroup with Stevie Winwood, on a US tour in the summer of 1969, during which Clapton became increasingly drawn towards Delaney & Bonnie's relative anonymity next to the fan worship afforded his own band. Together with his fellow future Dominos – Bobby Whitlock (vocals, keyboards), Carl Radle (bass) and Jim Gordon (drums) – Clapton toured Europe and the"
"Jim Gordon (musician) James Beck Gordon (born July 14, 1945) is an American musician and songwriter. Gordon was a popular session drummer in the late 1960s and 1970s and was the drummer in the blues rock supergroup Derek and the Dominos. In 1983, in a psychotic episode associated with undiagnosed schizophrenia, Gordon murdered his mother and was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison. Gordon was raised in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles and attended Grant High School. He passed up a music scholarship to UCLA in order to begin his professional career in 1963, at age"
"new group Derek & the Dominos on the recording of their debut album, ""Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs"". Clapton later formally invited Allman to join the group, but he reluctantly declined, expressing loyalty to the members of the Allman Brothers and musical concept that had birthed it. ""Revival"" initially took shape as an instrumental, with lyrics as an afterthought. ""An instrumental has to be real catchy and when you succeed it's very satisfying because you have transcended words and communicated with emotion,"" said Betts. The song takes on a decidedly gospel flair midway through, accentuated by ""old-fashioned church-like hand"
"he had considered a plague to both Cream and Blind Faith. After his sideman stint, he took several members from Delaney & Bonnie to form a new super-group, Derek and the Dominos. Clapton never dropped his Blind Faith repertoire completely, as ""Presence of the Lord"" and ""Can't Find My Way Home"" have been performed occasionally throughout his solo career. Unlike Clapton, Ginger Baker had enjoyed his Blind Faith experience and looked to carry on an offshoot of the band in the form of Ginger Baker's Air Force with both Grech and Winwood. After a few shows together, Winwood left with"
"real name was Derek Davis. In 1959, he began singing with a local rock and roll group, the Hy-Tones, who split up at the end of the year. A new band, the Seniors, was then formed by three members of the group - Howie Casey (saxophone), Billy Hughes (rhythm guitar), and Stan Foster (piano) - together with Brian Griffiths (lead guitar), Phil Whitehead (bass) and Jeff Wallington (drums). Wilkie joined as lead singer, and for the next year the band was usually billed as Derry and the Seniors. They performed in local venues around Merseyside, and in May 1960, after"
"7, 2018, Gordon was denied parole for the tenth time and is tentatively scheduled to become eligible again in March 2021. , he is serving his sentence at the California Medical Facility, a medical and psychiatric prison in Vacaville, California. During his career, Gordon played with a long list of musicians and record producers, including: Jim Gordon (musician) James Beck Gordon (born July 14, 1945) is an American musician and songwriter. Gordon was a popular session drummer in the late 1960s and 1970s and was the drummer in the blues rock supergroup Derek and the Dominos. In 1983, in a"
"""All Things Must Pass"". Having traditionally favored Hammond organ as his keyboard instrument, Whitlock played piano for the first time on a studio recording during the session for Harrison's ""Beware of Darkness"". In June 1970, early in the ""All Things Must Pass"" sessions, Clapton, Whitlock, Radle and Gordon formed the blues-rock band Derek and the Dominos. Their first release was a US-only single, ""Tell the Truth"", produced by Spector and written primarily by Whitlock. In August, once their work on Harrison's album was complete, Derek and the Dominos toured the UK, playing to small venues. That summer, Whitlock and his"
"and followed this by forming a new band, Derek & the Dominos, with ex-members of Delaney and Bonnie's backing group. They recorded an ambitious double-album with considerable input from Duane Allman, whom Clapton met and befriended. Although ""Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs"" (1970) is now acknowledged as his masterpiece, the album's relatively poor critical and commercial reception was overshadowed by the tragic deaths of Eric Clapton's close friends Jimi Hendrix (who died while the sessions were underway) and the subsequent death of Allman himself in October 1971. These tragedies, combined with the angst of his unrequited love for Patti"
"Derek and the Dominos with Clapton at this time. According to Leng and author Bruce Spizer, Whitlock provided the piano part on the recording, while the Wurlitzer electric piano and Hammond organ were played by Gary Wright and Billy Preston, respectively. In his autobiography, however, Whitlock states that, being a non-pianist at this stage of his career, he played organ on the track, while Preston supplied the piano part. Accompanying Harrison on electric guitars (at least two of which were played using a slide) were Clapton and Mason, while Ringo Starr contributed the drum fills that complement the main riff,"
"a chapter discussing ""All Things Must Pass"" in his 2010 autobiography, American musician Bobby Whitlock writes of recording the song: ""It was awesome when we were doing 'The Art of Dying,' Eric [Clapton] on that wah-wah and it was all cooking, Derek and the Dominos with George Harrison."" The sessions led to the formation of Derek and the Dominos, whose four members – Clapton, Whitlock, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon – all played on the track. In a 1990 interview, Clapton said, ""We made our bones, really, on that album with George"", since the four musicians had no formal plans"
"Stone"" ranked it number 117 on its list of ""The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"". In 2012, the Super Deluxe Edition of the record won a Grammy Award for Best Surround Sound Album. Derek and the Dominos grew out of Eric Clapton's frustration with the hype associated with his previous bands, the supergroups Cream and Blind Faith. Following the latter's dissolution, he joined Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, whom he had come to know while they were the opening act on Blind Faith's US tour in the summer of 1969. After that band also split up, a Friends alumnus,"
"the Dominos"", had ""something to do with the name [Derek] if not the spelling"". Trucks bought his first guitar at a yard sale for $5 at age nine and became a child prodigy, who played his first paid performance at age 11. Trucks began playing the guitar using a slide because it allowed him to play the guitar despite his small, young hands. By his 13th birthday, Trucks had played alongside Buddy Guy and toured with Thunderhawk. Trucks formed The Derek Trucks Band in 1994, and by his 20th birthday, he had played with such artists as Bob Dylan, Joe"
"Cocker's ""Mad Dogs and Englishmen"" recording sessions and North American tour (March–May 1970; Rita Coolidge's version of ""Groupie (Superstar)"" was recorded with this band while on tour). Whitlock meanwhile joined Clapton at his home in Surrey, UK, where they wrote songs and decided to form a band, which two former ""Friends""/Cocker band members, bassist Carl Radle and drummer Jim Gordon, would later join. As Derek And The Dominos, they recorded the landmark album ""Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs"" (1970) with assistance on many tracks from another former ""Friend,"" lead/slide guitarist Duane Allman. Derek and the Dominos also constituted the"
"for The Doors, but were becoming embroiled in Jim Morrison’s legal battles. When both Atlantic and Elektra offered recording deals to Bread, the group chose the Elektra deal because they had a local headquarters in L.A. and the group felt Elektra would more actively promote them, given Atlantic’s other recent signings. The first album made use of Jimmy Gordon’s drumming and Gordon also performed drums with the group during their initial gigs, but due to Gordon’s high demand among multiple recording artists and his participation with the artists that eventually became Derek and the Dominos, he was replaced with Mike"
"Del Marquis Del Marquis (born Derek Gruen on August 31, 1977) is an American musician and the lead guitarist for the US group Scissor Sisters. He is also the creator and producer of the US group Slow Knights. Born in New York City, he was introduced to the Scissor Sisters in 2001 at the insistence of a friend who, at the time, was dating Jake Shears. He originally dismissed the band when he first saw them perform at The Cock, a New York City gay bar. Del produced the DVD ""Kuvaputki"" released in 2008 by Embryoroom director Edward Quist about"
"formation of Derek and the Dominos. The band released only one studio album, ""Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs"", produced by Tom Dowd, which also featured contributions on slide guitar from Duane Allman. A double album, ""Layla"" did not immediately enjoy strong sales or receive widespread radio airplay, but went on to earn critical acclaim. Although released in 1970 it was not until March 1972 that the album's single ""Layla"" (a tale of unrequited love inspired by Clapton's infatuation with his friend Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd) made the top ten in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The"
"Rick Dees Rigdon Osmond Dees III (born March 14, 1950), best known as Rick Dees, is an American entertainer, radio personality, comedian, actor, and voice artist, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show ""The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown"" and for the 1976 novelty song ""Disco Duck"". Dees is a People's Choice Award recipient, a Grammy-nominated performing artist, and Broadcast Hall of Fame inductee. He wrote two songs that appear in the film ""Saturday Night Fever"", plus performed the title song for the film ""Meatballs"". He co-founded the E. W. Scripps television network Fine Living, now the Cooking"
"recordings by Derek and the Dominos. Produced by Phil Spector, this original, faster version of the song featured guitar contributions from Harrison and Dave Mason. It was issued as Derek and the Dominos' debut single, in September 1970, although the band had the release withdrawn. Just twenty-two at the time, Whitlock wrote ""Tell the Truth"" during the early summer of 1970, while living temporarily with Clapton in England. Whitlock worked out the melody on a guitar tuned in open E, having learned that alternative tuning when Duane Allman was playing with his former band, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends. Whitlock"
"included Harrison and Eric Clapton, on electric guitars; bassists Klaus Voormann and Carl Radle, one of whom plays six-string bass; and drummer Jim Gordon, who formed Derek and the Dominos with Clapton and Radle during the sessions. In addition, Bobby Whitlock, the fourth member of the Dominos – all of whom were formerly part of Delaney & Bonnie and Friends – recalls playing Hammond organ on the song. Authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter note the presence of a piano part on the recording as well. In his 2010 autobiography, Whitlock writes of Lennon and Ono visiting the studio during"
"as a group. Four days before the session, Derek and the Dominos, with Dave Mason as second guitarist, had played ""Tell the Truth"" at their debut concert, held at London's Lyceum Ballroom. The session for the song and for the Clapton–Whitlock collaboration ""Roll It Over"" took place at Apple Studio in central London, with the intention being to issue the tracks as the A- and B-sides of the group's first single. In addition to the four band members, the line-up on ""Tell the Truth"" again featured Mason as second guitarist, as well as Harrison on electric guitar. Harrison also played"
"Dälek dälek (pronounced 'Die-a-leck') is an American experimental hip hop group formed in Newark, New Jersey in 1998. The group is composed of MC dälek (vocals and producer), Mike Manteca (aka Mike Mare) (electronics and producer), and DJ rEk. The group originated in the New Jersey DIY scene of the mid-1990s, based around a studio lineup of Dälek (Will Brooks), Oktopus (Alap Momin) and Joshua Booth. The group recorded and played live with several DJs, including DJ rEk on from 1998 to 2002, from 2002 and 2005 with still (Hsi-Chang Lin), and from 2006 to 2009 with Motiv. With this"
"and re-released on 180g vinyl by Universal Music in 2008. Production The Layla Sessions Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is a double album by the English–American blues rock band Derek and the Dominos. Released in November 1970, it is best known for its title track, ""Layla"", and is often regarded as Eric Clapton's greatest musical achievement. The other band members were Bobby Whitlock on keyboards and vocals, Jim Gordon on drums, Carl Radle on bass, with special guest performer Duane Allman on lead and slide guitar on 11 of the 14 songs. ""Layla"
"Blake McIver Ewing Blake McIver Ewing (born March 27, 1985), also known as Blake McIver and Blake Ewing, is an American singer-songwriter, actor, model and pianist. He was known for playing Michelle's friend, Derek, on the sitcom ""Full House"". Ewing also portrayed the role of Waldo in the 1994 feature film version of ""The Little Rascals"", and voiced Eugene on ""Hey Arnold!"" during its 5th season (replacing Benjamin Diskin, Jarrett Lennon and Christopher Castile). He is currently one of the hosts of the Bravo series ""The People's Couch"". Ewing co-wrote and performed the song ""Along the River"", the end credit"