Crossroads (Live) - Derek and the Dominos

From Live at the Fillmore.

A Robert Johnson classic that Eric Clapton originally performed with Cream.

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• crossroads
• eric
• clapton
• live
• fillmore
• derek
• dominos
• bobby
• whitlock
• carl
• radle
• jim
• gordon
• cream
• robert
• johnson

[ITryNot2Crash]

He really lights some of this up, as with 5:50-6:20. Sneaks the smoothness in there. I don't remember this one from the vinyl I had 35 years ago, but I like it now.

[evanguy]

@ITryNot2Crash

The original "In Concert" LP did not have nearly as many tracks as the "Live at the Fillmore" CD set. That would explain why you don't remember this. :p

[WoweeZowee1995]

Geeze, so much bashing of the slower version of this song... I really feel the exact opposite. I think it takes a true musician to completely change the composition of a song that got him so much acclaim. I mean yeah, the obvious choice would be to perform Crossroads at a blazing tempo, but that's not Derek & The Dominos, that was Cream. Clapton modified the song so that it fit the feel of the band and I feel that this version is absolutely amazing. It's like hearing the song for the first time.

[rwm48]

EC guitar work is pretty raw on this older "live" version and very good. His vocals in my opinion have vastly improved with age compared to his vocal quality from back then. Eric was a total alcoholic/heroin user during this period and alcoholic many years after. My buddy witnessed his drunkenness during the Miami Criteria studio days when D&theD was starting out. It sure didn't seem to hamper his playing abilities. He is one of the best around and still is considering the life style etc..etc..

[spacedoginnebraska]

I agree with rwm48.......I had the good fortune of seeing Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood perform together back in 2010, and I have to say, they both rang it in with strength and agility. Just shows how tough they are, if you ask me.

[bangsmoke]

@yungsu100 Clapton said that Radle and Gordon were the most powerful rhythm section he ever worked with.

[wallawallomane]

this is BLUES

[gre1990]

@WoweeZowee1995 and to be fair, the first official recording clapton made for this song was with 'THE POWERHOUSE' in 1966 on 'What's Shakin' album, and actually is pretty slow too...

[spacepatrolman]

@WoweeZowee1995 Aint gonna ride that whiskey train throwing my bottle down the drain

[yungsu100]

BEST MOTHERFUCKEN VERSION OF THIS CLASSIC AND THE BEST RHYTHEM SECTION THAT FUCKEN COOK LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER

CARL RADLE IS THE BEST ROCK AND ROLL BASS PLAYER EVER LIVED

[TheSnake7Plissken]

Of course! Those were the days of hippies with flower-power-freedom-thing and drugexperience (The Cream era in late 60s). All eyes where on Mr Clapton when  Hendrix died and he was so f****d up with the heavy horse-stuff that went into heavy drinking he couldn't even performance as Eric Clapton. That's what drugs do to one, changes ones persona into someone U don't really are. Go and ask Robert Plant how much he remembers of Led Zeppelin when they were on a roll...

[lazyweb]

@discoveringiowa

He is growing up, you can't play strats like gibsons, at all. At all. Also: This version is _blues_. First version is a guy running to the crossroads, this version is the same guy walking back, no youthful bounce and enthusiasm left.

What he's playing, especially in the second solo, is strips torn off of the heart. Experience and craft swing wider and rock harder than the youthful stuff. This version..

[megajames3000]

how is this inferior? i could jam with eric all night to the same song if i could. i'd listen to this one too if i had the time to haha

[cooltooth112]

listen to "gotta get better in a little while" on this cd, Eric just burns it for about fifteen minutes and no it's one great lick followed by another. You have to consider Clapton was only 25 at the time and the other three were 22. Delany wasn't paying Bobby, Jim and Carl enough so Clapton took them and offered them all 4 equal shares. Hard for a 22 year old to turn down. I agree with someone here that said his voice got much stonger which it did. He turned out to be a great vocalist.