By the way, this is Duane playing lead guitar, not slide. People tend to overlook his lead work because of his unparalleled prowess as a slide player, but some of his most emotional lines were delivered without the slide. In any case, he is by far my favorite guitarist/musician and my biggest inspiration. I love this entire band though.
Those Duane lines are simply astonishing. Heart wrenching and painfully beautiful. I've always somewhat neglected it, but it might just turn out to be the most powerful and moving of all songs on the album, exactly because of its timid nature. It contrasts all the other searing peaks reached on the rest of the pieces from Layla. Quiescent power, it takes time to get to the bottom of your soul, but when it does, there is nothing more poignant and intense. :')
jimi seems SO 60's now ..but thats not an insult -its just such an identifiable sound ..even though i was just a little boy when he recorded that stuff - it still seems so timeless - and yet so 60's - all at the same time . I wonder what jimi would be doing now had he lived ..at the time i was learning guitar jimi had only been gone for 7 years ...yet it seemed like 50 years to my short life...now it actually is nearly 50 years later ...and i still love it . Oh , this too !
It took me years to love this version but I eventually did. It's achingly sad in the way the entire D/Dominoes album is. In fact, the raw heartache you hear in the vocal is kind of representative of the whole album and what Clapton was said to be going through over Patty Harrison at the time. Comparison with, and rating against, Jimi's original is pointless in the extreme, as well as disresptful toward both.
I do not recommend listening to this while driving. It's intoxicating. It's hypnotic. From 2:00 your car soars leaves the pavement, and soars, and soars, until you're walking through the clouds, riding on the notes, looking for Jimi, looking for Little Wing, never ever to come back to earth.....
@DONDIVA1969 Well,there is one problem with your reasoning: Duane wasn't even reccommended by Tom Dowd for the sessions! Duane and Eric met after an Allman Brothers show,jammed,and was asked by ALL [this includes Eric,as well as the other guys in the band] to jam in the studio. Google this and you can read more.
always cracks me up when I hear people attribute the guitar on Layla and the entire album to clapton. Obviously he's awesome, but what would Layla or the album be without Duane?
I'm not diss'in on EC, Jimi, Duane, or SRV but I am 56 yrs old and have seen them all in concert and I will tell you this JOE BONAMASSA does not have to take a back seat to any one of them! If'in you do not believe me the next time he is within 2-500 miles from you go and see him live. You can watch and listen to him all you want but it aint like seeing him LIVE!
Simply majestic and resplendent. There's nothing out there today that can come near to this one -- not even remotely. This song left me a long time ago, but, since the death of my beloved and cherished wife, Barbra, in Nov. 2010, I began to play it over and over in my mind. This one goes out to you, My Darling of Heaven and Earth (Barbra). Fly throughout the Celestial Kingdom on butterfly wings, My True and Eternal Love, Barbra. I love you Ad Finitum!
I actually heard this version BEFORE I heard the original by Hendrix when I was just a kid. Either way, if it WAS an original song by Derek and The Dominoes, then it would stand on it's own merit. Who's doing the soloing after the verses, I always thought it was Eric, right? It LITERALLY sounds like the guitar is crying.
Reminds me of P&G's bar New Paltz, NY back in 1971....a jumping place on a cold Friday night. Geezuz bring those days back.....Chez Joey's too, best Subs in the world !
Best song of music history in my opinion, feels like you would be in heaven for 5.37 minutes. No other song has made me feel the same way as this one!
I am an absolute Hendrix fan but have to say that this is one of the very, very few covers of a Hendrix song that I like better than the original. Like Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower" was made for Jimi, I think this song was made for Eric & Skydog. Like somebody else already posted this will be on what I call my "Death CD", of songs that I want played for my family & friends to celebrate not mourn over my passing, I just hope they don't have to hear it for many more years...LOL!!
@brishi69 VERY well said...its actually one of the few, and when I say few I mean 10-20 at most, truly perfect covers in history, one that was destined for them to lift to its full potential.
@brishi69 You cannot call yourself a Hendrix fan if you honestly believe this is better than the original. I respect Clapton and Allman but comparing the greatness of this to the Hendrix version is like comparing a grain of sand to the universe. The intro and solo in Hendrix's Little Wing are absolutely legendary. In this version the intro is just obnoxious noise and sounds absolutely horrible. The solo isn't as bad as the intro but it's still nothing compared to Jimi's solo.
@KingOfBBQ guys....This was one of two songs [the other being "Key To The Highway"] that was not intended to originally be on the Layla album! And,frankly,I LOVE THE HELL OUT OF THE INTRO!
I'm not a big Clapton fan, but this song ranks among the very best five and half minutes in the history of recorded music. The power, the passion, the pain -- all raw, achingly real, and captured exquisitely. All for Patti ... the face that launched a thousand songs...
My friend Leonard Kwit gave me a 30 version compilation of this song. Funny, I always supposed D&D and Clapton wrote it. Go figure. Then you hear Jimi play it. Done - might very well have his guardian angel as he wrote. Concrete Blonde does to this what Hendrix did to All Along the Watchtower. Thks for the post.
If I had to pick my ten favorite rock songs, this interpretation by Clapton, Allman, Whitlock and company, makes the cut, hands down. I've always liked Jimi's original and SRV's version, as well, but Derek & The Dominos took it too another level...there's tons of passion and fire in it. With the right guitar players behind them, I often wondered how Bill Medley and the late Bobby Hatfield (The Righteous Brothers) would have sounded, covering it. We'll never know.
This has none of the grace, beauty and lightness of touch of Jimi's original on {for example} "Hendrix in the West". Sometimes if you play a song too heavily you loose the integrity and original concept of the song and I think that's the case with this version. The playing is superb but it's the wrong treatment for Littte Wing . Apparently this was recorded only a week or 2 before jimi's death, he heard it and he loved it, so what do I know? it's just an opinion and that's all it is.
they were all probably not all doing too many drugs carrying on the Cream tradition. The beginning of this song is so majestic..What I thought is the remix sucked. I had a pretty stereo at the time and the album just didn't sound as good.
@mrmushroomsoup / u know a pretty cool comment i read was that bobby whitlock was trying to sing over duane . i thought it before i read it. haven,t checked it out , but sounds right...tks !
Sky Dog is the star of this song just think if he would of been around for another 40 years we would be called Sky God i hope i dont get struck down for that
The greatest rock and roll cover of all time. Could you imagine how good this would have sounded ten years later when recording technology was much, much better? The playing here is great, not overworked, very natural and genuine...
@moosekarloff This is a brilliant cover. I love the riff that Clapton and Duane Allman added, among other great things about this version. I can't argue with you about the recording technology- I don't really know much about it. But I'll say this- this song was recorded as it was in no small part because of when it was recorded. The particular vibe, the musical influences etc. were all aligned back in 1970 for Clapton and Allman and co. to make this record.
@written12 The playing is stupendous. Really elegiac stuff. Perhaps there's remastered versions out there now that sound sharper and clearer than the original.
"I can honestly say that he was the best session drummer in the world and he made one hell of a mark as a live one as well. He raised the bar so high that no one will reach it" Bobby Whitlock A Rock~n~Roll Autobiography
@Asskicker32294 It kinda made it sound sick as fuck, as long as Claptons voice is a little louder then Bobbys voice it kinda sounds like how I want to sing it in my head.
first time i took acid, it was a 4-way hit, and I had no friggin idea. While my mind was being blown, my good buds put on this side of the double album Layla, and I can not tell you what it was like to be Flying thru that blue dream my friends.
Just incredibly awesome! So magnificent and majestic in its soaring sonic lyricism.
@igessthsisgrwnup i dont know maybe they would be humble enough to play together and not over each other im sure Duane Jimi and SRV have been playin it together for the last 20 year
@bigcountrypicker It will be terrible, please no!. If little Wing was never recorded in Derek And The Dominos, most of us will never be able to see the beauty of the song at different perception. Jimi & SRV = ROCK. Eric & Duane = Blues. Smoke On The Water = Rock. Have you ever love a woman= Blues.
@maddabdul yeah but they all have rock and all have blues in them. id say stevie was more blues than rock tho. deffinetly of most of his songs. and it would be good if they all played together as if anything they did could sound bad.
@maddabdul youre stupid. watch crossroads. Clapton goes up there and plays with vets, newbes, young stars in their twenties and thirties and upstages them all. Clapton, Jimi, Duane, SRV are the best all time
@jumpmanJB23 I’ve seen EC bending note when most guitarists were still on heavy gage strings. I followed EC’s since Yardbird, Cream, Bluesbreakers etc. till today. He is my mentor. Have you see Jeef Back on the crossroad...forget it. EC guitar solo on Stormy Monday on John Mayall album was real stunning but to see him been bullied by the harmonic voicing, hammering and arpeggio gadget guitarist on stage is terrified me. Am I stupid to notify this things to all who love Clapton?
@maddabdul Jeff Becks tone is usually weak and sounds horrible. sounds like he purrpossly tunes his guitar slightly off before playing. not all the time sometimes he sounds good but still not half the guitarist EC is. and gadget guitarists dont impress me.
@jumpmanJB23 I agree, they all have rock and blues in them. Let look at what era one guitarist was born. I can see most guitarists especially the new stars after Derek and The Dominos days, like to call upon the veteran blues icon on their special appearance and kill them with tons of effects, speed and scale. So disgrace.
An outstandingly memorable, eternally unique, devotedly personal interpretation of the classic song, for a million reasons though mainly for the ones that are indescribable except through the passion and precision of this recording. Thank you for posting it for us all.
To me, THIS is the definitive version of "Little Wing". I was like 7 or 8 yrs. old when this came out and loved it ever since. Especially when I got the lyrics to it! My sister n brother were older than me, so I was lucky to get 'in on' all the music that shoulda been too 'mature for me.
A top song of the century. Uniquely structured, lyrical, original, genius. Jimi seemingly only sketched it. Fittingly played as a dirge, Beat wasn't his thing. Stevie Ray did the definitive exploration. Here we have a blues concerto for electric guitar. Eric's high weeping notes defining a musical sound for the ages. Made defining, made great by this wonderful composition. Cosmic blues.
@rapier5 An excellent collection of thoughts of this song. As good as Stevie Ray reproduced the Hendrix version, The Dominoes were excellent in their rendition. Don't forget Duane Allman played on it also. He played most songs on the Layla album. It was his high weeping notes that helped define this song. Good call sir! It is a top song of the century!
I saw Duane Allman and the Allman Brothers Band on 5/31/71 at the Detroit Rock and Roll Revival held at the Michigan State Fairgrounds. I got a vinyl copy of Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs as a birthday present four months earlier (January 21, 1971).
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By the way, this is Duane playing lead guitar, not slide. People tend to overlook his lead work because of his unparalleled prowess as a slide player, but some of his most emotional lines were delivered without the slide. In any case, he is by far my favorite guitarist/musician and my biggest inspiration. I love this entire band though.
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SkymanBrother 6 days ago
Those Duane lines are simply astonishing. Heart wrenching and painfully beautiful. I've always somewhat neglected it, but it might just turn out to be the most powerful and moving of all songs on the album, exactly because of its timid nature. It contrasts all the other searing peaks reached on the rest of the pieces from Layla. Quiescent power, it takes time to get to the bottom of your soul, but when it does, there is nothing more poignant and intense. :')
Peace and love brothers!
SkymanBrother 6 days ago
@SkymanBrother I agree. Skydog sure gets it here. If you can play, ya gotta get right and put it on and play and sing with it to really feel it.
CannTankerous 4 days ago
Littlewing and Anyday are my favorite songs on this truly classic album. This is one of the top 5 albums of all.
sjhk60 1 week ago
Duane Allman plays all the solos on this. His guitar work pushes this cover a notch above Jimi's original for me.
FaithIsAnnoyed 1 week ago 2
@FaithIsAnnoyed ....I totally agree....no disrespect to Jimi...
CoastGuardIDC 1 week ago
fly on little wing!
greatcomedian18 2 weeks ago
Jimi sounds outdated, this doesn't.
SlowhandSolos 2 weeks ago
@SlowhandSolos Jimi will never be outdated.
kalep00 1 week ago
@kalep00 He will be overrated. If Clapton had of killed himself after recording this album, he'd be god 18786 more times.
SlowhandSolos 1 week ago
brilliant, jimi hendrix's version is better in my opinion
ElectricMusicMix 2 weeks ago
Well I am a big Clapton fan, From back in the 60s When he play with Blind Faith..And this side gets a solid 10..*
Concepcion8able 2 weeks ago
jimi seems SO 60's now ..but thats not an insult -its just such an identifiable sound ..even though i was just a little boy when he recorded that stuff - it still seems so timeless - and yet so 60's - all at the same time . I wonder what jimi would be doing now had he lived ..at the time i was learning guitar jimi had only been gone for 7 years ...yet it seemed like 50 years to my short life...now it actually is nearly 50 years later ...and i still love it . Oh , this too !
TheMichaelseymour 3 weeks ago
flawless perfection.
SkymanBrother 3 weeks ago
so efin good!!
babebleu57 1 month ago
It took me years to love this version but I eventually did. It's achingly sad in the way the entire D/Dominoes album is. In fact, the raw heartache you hear in the vocal is kind of representative of the whole album and what Clapton was said to be going through over Patty Harrison at the time. Comparison with, and rating against, Jimi's original is pointless in the extreme, as well as disresptful toward both.
dantean 1 month ago 2
This is one of my favorite songs, I totally love Hendrix ♥ but this cover is amazing!
It reminds me a little to Pink Floyd *-*
omg! That's all that I want!
MisSunnyC94 1 month ago
Duane is the greatest guitarrist of all time.
jokkergar 1 month ago
Yes Indeed!
MrBluesrules 1 month ago in playlist Eric Clapton-Full Albums*****
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I have listened andlistened, Duane was the best ever, there is no doubt about it...R.I.P Bro
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jokkergar 1 month ago
I do not recommend listening to this while driving. It's intoxicating. It's hypnotic. From 2:00 your car soars leaves the pavement, and soars, and soars, until you're walking through the clouds, riding on the notes, looking for Jimi, looking for Little Wing, never ever to come back to earth.....
MJLatora 1 month ago
Neal Schon was Eric's first choice to record the Layla album with.
DONDIVA1969 1 month ago
@DONDIVA1969 GOT PROOF? Eric didn't know about Neal back then!
texs2007 1 month ago
@texs2007 - Google it. You will be educated.
DONDIVA1969 1 month ago
@DONDIVA1969 Well,there is one problem with your reasoning: Duane wasn't even reccommended by Tom Dowd for the sessions! Duane and Eric met after an Allman Brothers show,jammed,and was asked by ALL [this includes Eric,as well as the other guys in the band] to jam in the studio. Google this and you can read more.
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DONDIVA1969 1 month ago
@DONDIVA1969 Agreed. Moving on.....
texs2007 1 month ago
so who did what here? i mean the intro and the solos after the choruses? this and ten years gone by led zeppelin are my favorite songs by the way :)
stikerhapi 2 months ago
best hendrix cover,though nothing beats the original.
dreadedwheat26 2 months ago
Search Little Wing and allman for the best live cut of this song...Derek filling in for Duane...who left us too early
djones057 2 months ago
what happened to my comment that had over 60 likes its not on top comments anymore
bigcountrypicker 2 months ago
always cracks me up when I hear people attribute the guitar on Layla and the entire album to clapton. Obviously he's awesome, but what would Layla or the album be without Duane?
uw10isplaya 2 months ago 10
@uw10isplaya That's right! In fact, it was Duane's mastery of the slide that helped push Clapton on this album.
Read in an interview with Clapton that he said he tried to keep Duane around by asking for his opinion and help.
Of course, Duane had to get back to the ABB. From everything I've read, those two were really kindred spirits.
"Layla and Other Love Songs" is all the proof needed.
galaxyuno1 2 months ago 2
@uw10isplaya Man, what a pairing. It was Duanne's idea to make it sound "Like a chariot race". Gotta watch Ben-Hur to get it I s'pose.
CannTankerous 4 days ago
@CannTankerous Where did you read that?
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I'm surprises by the comments.
I personally largely prefer the original version.
romain1993 3 months ago
Even though I like SRV's version better this one still gives me chills down the spine. Amazing what EC and Duane did on this album.
flyinhawian2009 3 months ago
"Take anything you want from me, baby!" I love it, so!
hempeve 3 months ago
I'm not diss'in on EC, Jimi, Duane, or SRV but I am 56 yrs old and have seen them all in concert and I will tell you this JOE BONAMASSA does not have to take a back seat to any one of them! If'in you do not believe me the next time he is within 2-500 miles from you go and see him live. You can watch and listen to him all you want but it aint like seeing him LIVE!
waburgathe 3 months ago
I heard that Jimi originally wanted to make this song an entire vinyl album side long but the record company wouldn't let him do it.
electrickithara 3 months ago
This is the best version.
ChevKen 3 months ago
One of his best songs.
electrickithara 3 months ago
Although written by Hendrix, Clapton did a much better recording
yak7b1 3 months ago
This kind of music change my life.
riadlax 4 months ago
Possibly the greatest tribute to Hendrix ever.
grevejp44 4 months ago
eric you have magic fingers layla / little wing - love ya songs gurkirpal singh
longbeard1407 4 months ago
Simply majestic and resplendent. There's nothing out there today that can come near to this one -- not even remotely. This song left me a long time ago, but, since the death of my beloved and cherished wife, Barbra, in Nov. 2010, I began to play it over and over in my mind. This one goes out to you, My Darling of Heaven and Earth (Barbra). Fly throughout the Celestial Kingdom on butterfly wings, My True and Eternal Love, Barbra. I love you Ad Finitum!
mickeymousebiker1 4 months ago 5
I actually heard this version BEFORE I heard the original by Hendrix when I was just a kid. Either way, if it WAS an original song by Derek and The Dominoes, then it would stand on it's own merit. Who's doing the soloing after the verses, I always thought it was Eric, right? It LITERALLY sounds like the guitar is crying.
MattHatter 4 months ago
@MattHatter I am prety sure its duane on all the leads in this one
CptCool44 3 months ago
@CptCool44 It most certainly is....you hear Duane all over this..can't miss it :)
davisonh1 2 months ago
Reminds me of P&G's bar New Paltz, NY back in 1971....a jumping place on a cold Friday night. Geezuz bring those days back.....Chez Joey's too, best Subs in the world !
LMHS63 4 months ago
how about Clapton, Allman, SRV, along with Stevie Vai, Satriani and Jimi doing this together? ARE YOU EXPERIENCED???
caravancollectors 4 months ago
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Luxmaxnike 5 months ago
Best song of music history in my opinion, feels like you would be in heaven for 5.37 minutes. No other song has made me feel the same way as this one!
MegaMullebulle 5 months ago 2
The atmosphere created by this song is breathtaking
snappy452 5 months ago
Majestic
AXISOFHENDRIX 6 months ago
I am an absolute Hendrix fan but have to say that this is one of the very, very few covers of a Hendrix song that I like better than the original. Like Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower" was made for Jimi, I think this song was made for Eric & Skydog. Like somebody else already posted this will be on what I call my "Death CD", of songs that I want played for my family & friends to celebrate not mourn over my passing, I just hope they don't have to hear it for many more years...LOL!!
brishi69 6 months ago 12
@brishi69
I've just argued with my mate over the Jimi version versus this one.
Nice to know I'm not the only one who likes this one better!
shepanrontyron 2 months ago
@brishi69 VERY well said...its actually one of the few, and when I say few I mean 10-20 at most, truly perfect covers in history, one that was destined for them to lift to its full potential.
theatlantisrise 2 months ago
@brishi69 You cannot call yourself a Hendrix fan if you honestly believe this is better than the original. I respect Clapton and Allman but comparing the greatness of this to the Hendrix version is like comparing a grain of sand to the universe. The intro and solo in Hendrix's Little Wing are absolutely legendary. In this version the intro is just obnoxious noise and sounds absolutely horrible. The solo isn't as bad as the intro but it's still nothing compared to Jimi's solo.
KingOfBBQ 1 month ago
@KingOfBBQ The one that rivals Hendrix is Stevie Ray Vaughan. His rendition of Little Wing is absolutely astonishing.
ndirish1294 1 month ago
@ndirish1294 Agreed. That is the only one that comes close.
KingOfBBQ 1 month ago
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@KingOfBBQ What r u talking about dude?Duane embarrassed Jimi on guitar totally
jokkergar 1 month ago
@KingOfBBQ guys....This was one of two songs [the other being "Key To The Highway"] that was not intended to originally be on the Layla album! And,frankly,I LOVE THE HELL OUT OF THE INTRO!
texs2007 1 month ago
Lil' Wing,,,,, My All-Time Favorite,, no-matter who's rendition. HEMI
HEMIChopper69 6 months ago
Just a damn great song. Best version ever, I love hearing it.
dixwell863 6 months ago
I love Duane just fucking wailing in the foreground. Claptons rhythm compliments it it perfectly. One of my favs for sure.
Cream234 7 months ago
peacful yet hella depressing haha
moreno98ify 7 months ago
I'm not a big Clapton fan, but this song ranks among the very best five and half minutes in the history of recorded music. The power, the passion, the pain -- all raw, achingly real, and captured exquisitely. All for Patti ... the face that launched a thousand songs...
froggo66 7 months ago 35
brilliant stuffffffff,,,,,,sounds way better than any other version,,including the original by jimi hendrix,,,,,,
movaliz 7 months ago
My friend Leonard Kwit gave me a 30 version compilation of this song. Funny, I always supposed D&D and Clapton wrote it. Go figure. Then you hear Jimi play it. Done - might very well have his guardian angel as he wrote. Concrete Blonde does to this what Hendrix did to All Along the Watchtower. Thks for the post.
steray812 8 months ago
... but if I decieve her will they tell? Come on now; somebody always tells.
tomdebash 8 months ago
@Asskicker32294 Whatever, Clapton was never really known for his vocals anyway
unionrat101 8 months ago
i love the jimi hendrix version, but this one's even better.
Bobertawesomeful 8 months ago
@Bobertawesomeful I have to agree with you on this one. Bit every now and then I have ti hear Jimmi do it.
ladyfuschia 8 months ago
If I had to pick my ten favorite rock songs, this interpretation by Clapton, Allman, Whitlock and company, makes the cut, hands down. I've always liked Jimi's original and SRV's version, as well, but Derek & The Dominos took it too another level...there's tons of passion and fire in it. With the right guitar players behind them, I often wondered how Bill Medley and the late Bobby Hatfield (The Righteous Brothers) would have sounded, covering it. We'll never know.
sawmillslim 9 months ago 2
beautiful song
ViniciusFiocco 9 months ago
This has none of the grace, beauty and lightness of touch of Jimi's original on {for example} "Hendrix in the West". Sometimes if you play a song too heavily you loose the integrity and original concept of the song and I think that's the case with this version. The playing is superb but it's the wrong treatment for Littte Wing . Apparently this was recorded only a week or 2 before jimi's death, he heard it and he loved it, so what do I know? it's just an opinion and that's all it is.
treaclebuns 9 months ago
This version and Jimi's are my favorites
beatlemaniac1966 9 months ago
they were all probably not all doing too many drugs carrying on the Cream tradition. The beginning of this song is so majestic..What I thought is the remix sucked. I had a pretty stereo at the time and the album just didn't sound as good.
spoildn8410 9 months ago
Does anyone know if Duane Allman is playing slide? Or is he just playing normally?...
mrmushroomsoup 9 months ago
@mrmushroomsoup Whenever I've seen this album reviewed Duane Allman is decribed as playing slide guitar, so I believe this to be the case.
BIGGEE151 9 months ago
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@BIGGEE151 Cool, thanks for clearing it up...I always thought it was slide, but then I saw this guy do it regular style, so wasn't too sure
mrmushroomsoup 8 months ago
@mrmushroomsoup / slide my friend...............
Fletch7453 9 months ago
@Fletch7453 Cool, thanks for clearing it up...I always thought it was slide, but then I saw this guy do it regular style, so wasn't too sure
mrmushroomsoup 8 months ago
@mrmushroomsoup / u know a pretty cool comment i read was that bobby whitlock was trying to sing over duane . i thought it before i read it. haven,t checked it out , but sounds right...tks !
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M00Dswing9 9 months ago
@mrmushroomsoup - oh yeah. that's duane allman playing slide guitar for sure. that was his signature style.
M00Dswing9 9 months ago
@M00Dswing9 Cool, thanks for clearing it up...I always thought it was slide, but then I saw this guy do it regular style, so wasn't too sure
mrmushroomsoup 8 months ago
@Asskicker32294 Not hard to upstage Clapton vocally.
blindpinkthunders 9 months ago
Blown away.
wild4inxs 9 months ago
Sky Dog is the star of this song just think if he would of been around for another 40 years we would be called Sky God i hope i dont get struck down for that
bigcountrypicker 9 months ago
AMAZEING TO THIS DAY
GARYROBERTALLEN1 9 months ago
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W! O! W!!!!!
MoaPeraccini 10 months ago
The greatest rock and roll cover of all time. Could you imagine how good this would have sounded ten years later when recording technology was much, much better? The playing here is great, not overworked, very natural and genuine...
moosekarloff 10 months ago
@moosekarloff This is a brilliant cover. I love the riff that Clapton and Duane Allman added, among other great things about this version. I can't argue with you about the recording technology- I don't really know much about it. But I'll say this- this song was recorded as it was in no small part because of when it was recorded. The particular vibe, the musical influences etc. were all aligned back in 1970 for Clapton and Allman and co. to make this record.
written12 9 months ago
@written12 The playing is stupendous. Really elegiac stuff. Perhaps there's remastered versions out there now that sound sharper and clearer than the original.
moosekarloff 9 months ago
@Asskicker32294 Whitelock has a far better voice than Clapton.
numbersman911 10 months ago
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amitbarfs 10 months ago
@Asskicker32294 Whitlock was a star man...badass on those keys and vocals. Everyone in this group was great.
danno698299 10 months ago
I think this just may be my favorite version of this song
FunkyHonkyCDXX 10 months ago 2
@FunkyHonkyCDXX Absolutely. This tune was made for Clapton's guitar
sparkyization 10 months ago
@FunkyHonkyCDXX GMIME JIMI !
rjjstephan 9 months ago
Derek is Eric ;)
ozdobby 10 months ago
"I can honestly say that he was the best session drummer in the world and he made one hell of a mark as a live one as well. He raised the bar so high that no one will reach it" Bobby Whitlock A Rock~n~Roll Autobiography
26bobbyandcoco 10 months ago 3
@Asskicker32294 It kinda made it sound sick as fuck, as long as Claptons voice is a little louder then Bobbys voice it kinda sounds like how I want to sing it in my head.
jimmyjames9090 10 months ago
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MrMotthead69 10 months ago
@Asskicker32294 / i wondered who was doing that.............i love the song.....classic !
Fletch7453 10 months ago
How can 12 people dislike this song!?
MegaMullebulle 10 months ago
One of the best covers from one of the best bands ever for our beloved Jimi Hendrix who wrote it.
Starz723 10 months ago 2
best guitar riff i've ever heard!
MegaMullebulle 10 months ago
Magnificent,,Anything,,
pendegraph5 11 months ago
Come on guys Nick is probably 12 and begging for attention~~~this song is soo beautiful ,..just listen and appreciate....
JennaP46 11 months ago
music at its finest if you ask me
Brunkvic 11 months ago
i think the jonas brothers should do a version of this song
nickthecomedian 11 months ago
@nickthecomedian hahahaha..you're a real comedian!!! :P
porock21gr 11 months ago
@nickthecomedian Die in a hole. If anything, it should be J-Beibs!
nww009 11 months ago
@nww009 haha i only posted this to see if i would get nasty messages. fuck J-Beib. Eric and Skydog wil live on forever
nickthecomedian 11 months ago
@nickthecomedian You're a funny guy, Nick. Fuck all them pop stars that don't grow out of it.
nww009 11 months ago
first time i took acid, it was a 4-way hit, and I had no friggin idea. While my mind was being blown, my good buds put on this side of the double album Layla, and I can not tell you what it was like to be Flying thru that blue dream my friends.
Just incredibly awesome! So magnificent and majestic in its soaring sonic lyricism.
videotater 11 months ago
just imagine if Duane, Jimi, SRV, and Eric played this song together
bigcountrypicker 11 months ago 67
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then it would sound leik 4 lead guitarists playing over each other..
eric and hendrix that would be sweet
igessthsisgrwnup 10 months ago
@igessthsisgrwnup i dont know maybe they would be humble enough to play together and not over each other im sure Duane Jimi and SRV have been playin it together for the last 20 year
bigcountrypicker 10 months ago
@bigcountrypicker If they all didn't die while planning or playing on a tour with Clapton then that probably would have happened
wick2107 9 months ago
@bigcountrypicker the sound would be an endless jam session with ALL their great voices!!!!
Mshanize 8 months ago
@bigcountrypicker what about santana ? e did a awesome cover of the song!
intheend253 5 months ago
@bigcountrypicker It will be terrible, please no!. If little Wing was never recorded in Derek And The Dominos, most of us will never be able to see the beauty of the song at different perception. Jimi & SRV = ROCK. Eric & Duane = Blues. Smoke On The Water = Rock. Have you ever love a woman= Blues.
maddabdul 4 months ago
@maddabdul yeah but they all have rock and all have blues in them. id say stevie was more blues than rock tho. deffinetly of most of his songs. and it would be good if they all played together as if anything they did could sound bad.
jumpmanJB23 4 months ago
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maddabdul 3 months ago
@maddabdul youre stupid. watch crossroads. Clapton goes up there and plays with vets, newbes, young stars in their twenties and thirties and upstages them all. Clapton, Jimi, Duane, SRV are the best all time
jumpmanJB23 3 months ago
@jumpmanJB23 I’ve seen EC bending note when most guitarists were still on heavy gage strings. I followed EC’s since Yardbird, Cream, Bluesbreakers etc. till today. He is my mentor. Have you see Jeef Back on the crossroad...forget it. EC guitar solo on Stormy Monday on John Mayall album was real stunning but to see him been bullied by the harmonic voicing, hammering and arpeggio gadget guitarist on stage is terrified me. Am I stupid to notify this things to all who love Clapton?
maddabdul 3 months ago
@maddabdul Jeff Becks tone is usually weak and sounds horrible. sounds like he purrpossly tunes his guitar slightly off before playing. not all the time sometimes he sounds good but still not half the guitarist EC is. and gadget guitarists dont impress me.
jumpmanJB23 3 months ago
@jumpmanJB23 Tell me about it and I can’t agree more. I like.
maddabdul 3 months ago
@jumpmanJB23 all Clapton needs is a guitar, a wah- wah, and his soul.
MrPeguin666 3 months ago
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@jumpmanJB23 I agree, they all have rock and blues in them. Let look at what era one guitarist was born. I can see most guitarists especially the new stars after Derek and The Dominos days, like to call upon the veteran blues icon on their special appearance and kill them with tons of effects, speed and scale. So disgrace.
maddabdul 3 months ago
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jumpmanJB23 3 months ago
@bigcountrypicker The world would explode.
Joltzz1985 3 months ago in playlist Liked
@bigcountrypicker Well then.. God would kill us all, because he'd be jealous.
koji8123 3 months ago
ever heard Paul Roger's version?
1986yanok 11 months ago
just so damn good. it makes my ears sigh in pleasure.
TravellerFellow 11 months ago
An outstandingly memorable, eternally unique, devotedly personal interpretation of the classic song, for a million reasons though mainly for the ones that are indescribable except through the passion and precision of this recording. Thank you for posting it for us all.
prufrock27 11 months ago 2
Is this remastered?
kerrgal 11 months ago
I saw Eric perform this at Rich Stadium in Buffalo when he was on the Heineken maintenance program. Still pulled it off. A great showman.
salamanca1954 1 year ago
I saw Eric perform this at Rich Stadium in Buffalo when he was on the Heineken maintenance program. Still pulled it off.
salamanca1954 1 year ago
So many wonderful versions of this song: Steve Vai, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, and Derek And The Dominos, and they're all wonderful!
TheHellbred 1 year ago 2
Clapton and Allman are simply amazing. Rock on Skydog!
warr0950 1 year ago
11 people who watched this video are antichrists..
Bdude118 1 year ago
Why don't they ever play this version of Little Wing on the so called classic rock stations?
8woldy8 1 year ago
To me, THIS is the definitive version of "Little Wing". I was like 7 or 8 yrs. old when this came out and loved it ever since. Especially when I got the lyrics to it! My sister n brother were older than me, so I was lucky to get 'in on' all the music that shoulda been too 'mature for me.
rudenudedude9 1 year ago
A top song of the century. Uniquely structured, lyrical, original, genius. Jimi seemingly only sketched it. Fittingly played as a dirge, Beat wasn't his thing. Stevie Ray did the definitive exploration. Here we have a blues concerto for electric guitar. Eric's high weeping notes defining a musical sound for the ages. Made defining, made great by this wonderful composition. Cosmic blues.
rapier5 1 year ago 3
@rapier5 An excellent collection of thoughts of this song. As good as Stevie Ray reproduced the Hendrix version, The Dominoes were excellent in their rendition. Don't forget Duane Allman played on it also. He played most songs on the Layla album. It was his high weeping notes that helped define this song. Good call sir! It is a top song of the century!
warr0950 1 year ago 2
what in the blue hell are you talking about?
MrFatzo24 1 year ago
such a beautiful song. this is what i want played at my funeral.
vevicx01 1 year ago
i want them to play this at my funeral, when they wheel my coffin in.
elijahthornton09 1 year ago 37
@elijahthornton09 you stold my idea ;)
MegaMullebulle 10 months ago
@elijahthornton09 / the last words i want spoken over me are " he moved " !
Fletch7453 9 months ago
@elijahthornton09 "fly on little wing"
danielibertine 8 months ago
Clapton and Duane... it's just unfair! Duane takes over in this one..
hightider87 1 year ago
@hightider87 Not unfair. Duane and Clapton are equals. They blew this away. Wow!
warr0950 1 year ago
amen on the football game comment its like the Elvis version of your so square
when you here Joni Mitchell do it its just as joyous
unkleabe55 1 year ago
I saw Duane Allman and the Allman Brothers Band on 5/31/71 at the Detroit Rock and Roll Revival held at the Michigan State Fairgrounds. I got a vinyl copy of Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs as a birthday present four months earlier (January 21, 1971).
Longlakedreaming 1 year ago
god i love this song
cavyxe 1 year ago
No one can beat Hendrix on his songs, even the mighty Clapton. But it's a great cover, better than SRV - his version never really got to me.
0live0wire0 1 year ago
i feel very VERY because of 10 people
heavymethal 1 year ago
This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard in my entire life.
TwinMillMC 1 year ago 4
such a shame that Duane died so young, and Hendrix too, only the greatest die young, well except for Eric Clapton, he's alive and great
TheTeehee97 1 year ago
this and Jimi's version are the best IMO.
beatlemaniac1966 1 year ago
The 1st song God uploaded onto His iPod. 'nuff said, ok?
SilentHiss1 1 year ago 2
that album cover is awesome
jimmyp73 1 year ago 2
@jimmyp73 One day, I'm gonna get a huge portrait of it
Critica1Acclaim 1 year ago
Best version of little wing! Clapton's finest solo work
ballerstatus1987 1 year ago
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Beautiful but almost haunting tone out of that lead gutiar
TCVraver 1 year ago
Did Hendrix ever hear this version?
NoCredZedMusic 1 year ago
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I doubt it. The album was released in November 1970, Jimi died in September 70.
capetown99 1 year ago
@capetown99 That's a shame, i bet he would've loved it!
NoCredZedMusic 1 year ago