FIRST TIME HEARING | Marcin | Layla (Derek and the Domino's Cover) Official Music Video #musicreaction

Hi I'm Brad. I'm John. Okay, we haven't done anything from Marston, the guitar player, for a while. So we're going to do something from Marston, the guitar player. That makes sense, otherwise it'd be a little awkward. Well, we haven't done anything from him, so we're going to do somebody else entirely. He actually did this about a year ago and I never got around to doing the channel. I kind of forgot about it until I remembered about it. The song, I'm not going to say cover, because it is a cover, but then again it's also a bit of a reimagining as well. It's Layla, written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon. It's not technically an Eric Clapton song because it's actually a Derek and the Dominoes song. Because back in 1970, a couple of years ago, Clapton and Gordon's band at the time, Derek and the Dominoes, released their one and only studio album, which is Layla and other assorted love songs. Great title. Anyway, they didn't did the one, weirdly enough. The whole Derek and the Dominoes thing came around simply because it was after Cream and stuff, and Clapton didn't want it to be known as, oh, it's just the next Eric Clapton music project. So they called it Derek and the Dominoes. Don't people laugh. To step away from the Eric Clapton name. So yeah, Merson did a funky, at times dark, arrangement of Layla because he'd done a bunch of short little renditions of this, and they were incredibly popular. So it's kind of one of those, might as well just do the whole thing. The video that he made for this is shot around Tokyo, Japan. They have the nice kind of like contrasts between the Japanese forests in autumn, and the townhouse interiors, etc. So that's what we do. And he doesn't do any singing, it's just guitar, opera. No. No. No, he's famous for saying, like concerts and stuff that he's done, it's kind of like, you don't need to sing. If you play guitar good, then you don't need to. Yeah, because I think he's actually been on, I think he actually said the same thing when he popped up on one of the shows, like America's Got Talent kind of thing. I think he popped up on one of those, and it's kind of like, so you're just going to play guitar? It's like, yes. You do not want me to sing. All right, well, let's check it out. Before we do, make sure you hit that like, subscribe, check out the description down below. You're going to find all our links, information and stuff that we have down there. Okay. Great playing, great scenery. So yeah, really cool arrangement. Yeah, it is possible to play quite complicated songs on one instrument, depending on how you use it. Because you definitely know the song. But it's definitely kind of like, oh yeah, it's not the Eric Clapton version. Right. It's, you know, has all those flourishes that I've said before, it's kind of like tinges of flamenco music and other inspirations in his style. It's one of those times when you actually wonder, has the original artist actually seen this cover? Right? Yeah. Because I would, I'd be really curious to know if this is, you know, ended up sliding across Clapton's desk, kind of like, here, watch this. Because, you know, a lot of covers is this kind of like, oh yeah, that's good. But this is, this is good, and different in a very interesting way, that it's kind of like, I think it would appeal to the original creators of the song. Because it's one of those kind of, it's a good technical guitar exercise. So, I mean, playing guitar is, you know, one thing, but I mean, I don't know, he seems to have moved those fingers off quickly, doing strange things with them. Yeah. Well, it's, yeah, it's a good part of his technique that he uses, makes him stand out so much from a lot of other guitar players. Yeah. I mean, you know, I said before that you've got Marcin, you've got Ishikawa Niko, and Tim Henson, those are probably the three really, really, really good technical, not in the way you'd expect, guitar players that are, you know, floating around on the internet. They're definitely three that I tend to watch anyway. And of course, they've been doing collaborations and stuff between each other, which has really helped. It's been really nice to have all three of them do a video, which I've said before. I said it's impressive enough just by playing an instrument, but to play like that. Yeah, and basically self-taught. You've got to throw that bit in there as well, because, which, in part, I think that's one of the reasons why he's as good as he is, because he, you know, it's... It's doing it the way he wants to do it. Yeah, he's taught himself to make the guitar sound the way that he wants it to sound. Not by someone saying, oh, you can't do that. You're not supposed to do it like that. Yeah, you're not sitting there being taught by someone who's going, okay, now you need to do this. It's a game of, no, here's an instrument, you've got to figure it out. I watch that because I watch a lot of the reality cook shows and stuff, and it annoys me when the chefs tell the contestants, like, oh, we don't do it like that. Yeah, it's like, why not? Yeah, just because you don't do it like that. Yeah, just because you don't mix tuners. Right now, you're famous, but that doesn't mean you know it all, because in 20 years, I could be just as famous as you. You know, it just annoys me when people say, yeah, but that's not how it's done. Yeah, you don't do that. You don't mix tuner and chocolate. Yeah, similar thing. And it is, and it's like some of these great guitarists have started popping up recently, because they're, I think, in part because they are more or less self-taught. They looked at the rulebook and looked at the instrument and thought, well, no, I'm going to figure out what I want to do with this. Beyond the obvious, when your fingers go here, your fingers go up here, and they sit on the frets, and this string is this note, and you put your finger here, it becomes this note, becomes this note, becomes this note. That sort of basic knowledge, well, you're kind of stuck with, because that's a constant, so to speak, depending on how you tune your guitar. That's a constant. But beyond that, how you play the instrument, yeah. Yeah, obviously, we're going to continue hitting them up. It's been a while, so we need to get back into doing more. Yeah, him and the other couple as well, yeah. So if you want to see any of those, make sure you hit that like and subscribe. Please comment suggestions down below, and if you hit the notification bell, YouTube will think about telling you when we do the suggestions that you commented down below. 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