Delaney and Bonnie & Friends: I Don't Want To Discuss It

Featuring Eric Clapton, George Harrison and Dave Mason.

Recorded on December 1, 1969

Sorry the quality is so bad but i this is the only known video of this tune.

Lousy sound and camera work, done by people way too old at the time to do rock & roll and edited in the control room by even more clueless old farts.

Very little camera time for Clapton , Harrison and Mason, but we do get to see way too much of Bonnie wiggling (?!) LOL.

I do have a very good clean MP3 of this song, properly mixed, and whenever I get around to it I will post it as a picture slide show.

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[LesbianVampireLover]

Man, WHERE did this video come from??!!!! As you know, the "On Tour" album was just classic, just as f*cking good as it gets. I have never, ever, seen them perform this (as I remember), but I was at the 1969 Atlanta Pop Festival and they performed and maybe they did it then.

This is really, really quite a gem!

[Ragrog105]

Glad you liked it, but I wish the quality was better. I've got the "Delaney & Bonnie & Friends" cut of this on their album that I will get posted as soon as I can make a slide show to go with it. The sound is so much cleaner, and Clapton was over the top outrageously good.

[Entertainmentwriter]

Thanks so much for posting. Saw them with Clapton, Cocker, Russell, etc. at Carnegie Hall back in the day.

[newmillenniumbeatnik]

@RBREV It's nice to get first hand information when anyone can post anything where ever they care to.

[ensconse]

If this is Central Park in 1970...I was there! Great Little Richard song from 1966!

[dougalmac54]

@LesbianVampireLover Yeah! Jim Gordon, Carl Radle, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Bobby Keys. This is one smokin' band. The cream of the crop! From this tour George took Carl Radle, Bobby Whitlock and Jim Gordon into the studio to do the tracks from "All Things Must Pass." And then Clapton took the same group of players and formed "Derek and the Dominoes" and did "Layla." Epic music from the best musicians!

[PeterMayer]

@PositivelyBored If I had a hammer...sorry!

[PositivelyBored]

Jim Gordon!

[Misterhappynyc]

Al Jackson Jr, was "the Human Metronome" I believe -- regardless, Gordon is laying it down here. What a great drummer and played on a of great 60s stuff. And what a tragedy...

[tunefultony]

FANTASTIC. What a band!!!! Loved seeing the great Jim Gordon on drums. His nickname was "the human metronome". As for Bonnie's vocals.......unbelievable. One of the best white blues vocalists, I have heard. As for "the master".........this is Eric in dazzling form.

[claptongroupie]

God what a gem...thank you thank you

[MrPrimergray]

The trumpet player is Jim Price, who also played with the Rolling Stones, Joe Cocker (the Mad Dogs and Englishmen band, which featured many of the other players in D&B), and George Harrison on his classic "All Things Must Pass" LP.

[LesbianVampireLover]

@Ragrog105 Yeah, I'm wondering if this was from the same performance but they re-mixed it for the album. Like you say, Clapton's guitar work on the album version was just epic. That entire album would probably make my list of Top Ten Albums of All Time.