Bill Connors "Variations on Layla"

Bill Connors adaption of Clapton's Layla from 1985. Let this run.... there's some incredible guitar.

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[Modes9]

Obviously, this is great. Is it an outtake from Step It, Double Up, or Assembler?

[jjmc60]

It was specially commissioned by GP mag not long after the release of Step It. Thanks for stopping by!

[vampiroangelico]

Is it Dave Weckl on drums and Tom Kennedy on bass as on his CD "step it"?

[jjmc60]

The bass player is Tom Kennedy; the drummer is Richie Moralaes according to Guitar Player Mag. lol

[highintel]

hehe...well, It made me smile even if you are ill willed. Kinda funny :)

[whistlindick]

Your ears are already infected- they belong to a dope.

[ThePmfan]

I much prefer this to the three albums on which he essentially copied Holdsworth. This cut is an example what he should have been doing. I remember the Soundpage in GP when it came out.

[BGoldtone]

Sad that Bill Conners didn't make a greater foray into being seen and appreciated for his talents.. I have always loved Conners playing from the last 20+ years. Never had a chance to see him play because of his choice of being obscure from the public's eye. Huuumm... Sounds like me. A guitar player who has hid his talents under a "bushel basket"..Only myself to blame. Sorry for venting...

[Eoraptor1]

Thank you so much for posting this. I had the original Guitar Player 'Soundpage' back in 1985, but lost it somewhere. This is a real find.

JAMES

[tiluriso]

Great..He's always claimed one of his goals was to fuse Clapton and Coltrane together and then some,also as seen in some of his RTF videos, he's one of the precursors of sweep picking.

[britbluesfan]

wow, this is great! never heard this before, thank you

[streb9]

Unbelievably excellent.. How do you play so fast and melodicly. Wow!

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[lazur1]

Great stuff..I just wish that, at least the first time around, he'd played the original theme note for note,(5-b7-1-b3-1-b7-1....rath­er than 5-b7-1-b3-4-b3-1....). Variations are cool, but theme and variations are where it's at. I know I'm nit-picking, but I really mean it. Was it a way out of paying royalites?

[kevinm4435]

the multitrack approach is pretty interesting.