Description

This album features a recording with Derek And The Dominos doing a club gig at the Electric Factory Theatre in Philadelphia, PA on October 16th, 1970. This is a fantastic show, designed to break in the band to America after Clapton’s break up with the rest of Cream and the short but successful career with Blind Faith. An amalgamation of musicians from the Delaney & Bonnie and Friends band plus the man they nicknamed, ‘God’, the band were already highly anticipated while Clapton wallowed in his late 60’s, early 70’s genius before the booze and drugs softened his brain. “Ramblin” features some of Eric Clapton’s best ever slide playing. Clapton can at times play slide a little too precisely – but in this performance, he exhibits loopy, “out of the box” playing that clearly shows Duane Allman’s influence as he dances around all the notes. I don’t recall Eric Clapton performing “Ramblin’” in this arrangement again, which alone makes it unique. This performance is also notable for an incredible, mind bending, tour-de-force performance of “Why Does Love…” And it’s not just Eric Clapton here. If you listen to some of the very early gigs, the band were a little loose, but here they play as a single organism, rising and falling, playing off each other for all they are worth. “Why Does…” has always had a demanding and unusual bass line, and Gordon holds it down, driving the song in the same way that Entwhistle would actually drive the rhythm of The Who as Moon, or in this case Jim Gordon, lays out some 15+ minutes of drum madness, and Bobby Whitlock holding it all together with a shimmering B3 and his incredible vocals. This performance of this song is indeed “epic”, and unforgettable.
This show also features the first-ever live performance of “Motherless Children”, albeit in raw form, which in a way adds to its charm. Limited 350 copies

Track list:
1. Ramblin On My Mind
2. Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad
3. Blues Power
4. Have You Ever Loved A Woman
5. Mean Old World
6. Motherless Children
7. Let it Rain