Does the Estate understand Bobby Whitlock's significance?

 Bobby has always been a jerk. Many years ago he took great joy in discrediting Jim Gordon’s contribution to the brilliant Layla coda, for which Rita Coolidge legitimately should have gotten a co-writing credit since she composed it with Jim when they were a couple. I agree she was cheated out of massive royalties. What I take issue with is Bobby’s trashing mentally ill Gordon, who was arguably one of the greatest rock drummers of all time. Whether Whitlock or Gordon played the piano on the coda is mostly irrelevant. It’s a brilliant ending that wouldn’t exist had Gordon not brought it to the sessions.



Back in the day Blind Faith was derided as “3 rock gods and 1 rock clod”. I’d argue the same could be said of the Dominos. I doubt we’ll ever get the complete Dominos Fillmore concerts, because Bobby’s playing was just plain amateur. His plodding repetitive eighth note piano chords are boring beyond belief, and his whole note organ chords are likewise lame. The guy had no concept of playing the blues, unlike Gordon and Radle who were ace session musicians. The same is true of his playing on ATMP. One can only dream how much better both ATMP and the Layla album would have been with real keyboard players like Leon Russell or Billy Preston in place of rank amateur Bobby. He’s a classic example of the Peter Principle.



Where has Bobby been for 50 years? The fact that he all but disappeared from the music scene says it all. Playing small clubs in Austin is exactly where Whitlock belongs.

This post speaks volumes more about you then it does about people and situations you seem to think you are an expert on.