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That would make the early show merely 30 minutes long. 'Bad Boy' was the last song of the early show. It has some typical audience bootleg problems, including the fact that only part of the concert was recorded. But although this is recorded well, it clearly is an audience recording, not a soundboard. This very concert was apparently recorded as a soundboard, but somehow it got lost or erased, and all that's left is an empty box. I loved the fact that we were this little quartet, playing in obscure places, sometimes to audiences of no more than fifty or sixty people.' (Less than a year earlier, he had played huge arenas as part of Blind Faith, including headlining a concert in London that drew 100,000 people.) Clapton later commented, 'no one knew who we were, and I loved it. Nobody had heard of 'Derek and the Dominos' at that point, and Clapton specifically forbade the use of his name on all promotions of these shows. Starting in early August 1970, the band played three weeks of concerts in England. It's especially nice to have this with improved sound quality, because it's the only quality recording from early in the band's short career, before they recorded the classic 'Layla' album. But now I'd say not only is it worthy, but this is arguably the best sounding Derek and the Dominos live recording outside of the Fillmore shows. Previously, I hadn't considered this good enough to post at this blog, though I did use four songs from it for the 'Live and Rare' compilation album I made. But just last month as I write this (in November 2021), a new version emerged with improved sound quality. This recording from the Marquee Club has been a known bootleg for many years. So I'm beyond delighted to be posting this bootleg. Aside from that, it's all audience bootlegs, with the sound quality generally ranging from okay to terrible.

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The best of the best has to be the Fillmore shows, which have been released in part on official albums and have been posted in full on this blog. Unfortunately, the band wasn't in existence for long, and there aren't a lot of recordings with excellent sound quality.

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I think Eric Clapton was at his career peak, both as a performer and a songwriter, plus the band had special chemistry.

I'm a very big fan of live Derek and the Dominos music.