[Slowhand] Bobby Whitlock answers questions on an online music forum (September 2008)

[John Walasko]

Hi Everybody,

Over the past week, Bobby Whitlock and his wife CoCo have been taking  
the time to answer questions about Bobby's career and music. The  
discussion is in the thread "Who is the girl on the Layla Album" in  
the "music corner" forum at www.stevehoffman.tv. It is, in my opinion,  
definitely worth to checking out.

Bobby And CoCo's user name on the forum is "happytobealive." The  
thread starts off with just CoCo taking part, but Bobby soon joins in  
and his posts are signed "BW." Whitlock shares lots memories about his  
days with Stax Records (late '60s), Delaney and Bonnie, George  
Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" album, The Dominos, Duane Allman,  
The Rolling Stones, JJ Cale, and his solo career. Like other Whitlock  
interviews I've seen or read over the years, his personality comes  
through. He is very down-to-earth and without artifice.

The Hoffman forum is geared towards record collectors and record  
collecting obsessives. There are question like:

"Bobby, what is your favourite vinyl pressing of Layla - the Polydor  
1970 UK matrix #34597987347, or the Atlantic 1972 domestic 1A?"

If you can put up with a bit of that, then there are a lot of  
interesting thoughts and opinions about music offered by Whitlock. And  
no, he doesn't seem to care about comparisons between Atlantic or  
Polydor vinyl pressings.

I'm not sure how long the Whitlocks are going to participate - they  
are getting bombarded with questions. And I imagine he is tired of  
being asked only about the Layla album after 37 years. If you're  
interested, there is a link to the hoffman.tv thread on Whitlock's  
myspace page. Or go to:

www.stevehoffman.tv/forums

then click on "music corner" and look for the thread. You might have  
to search back three or four pages.


best wishes,
John
a Vancouver BC record collector (but only bordering on "obsessive")



PS: for those wondering (or wondering why the name sounds familiar),  
Steve Hoffman (of stevehoffman.tv) is a mastering engineer who did the  
technical work on the Cream audiophile Gold CDs (among many others)  
released by the DCC label in the 1990s.