good music. You know Duane got little strung out on drugs, and I talked to him and asked him before he got any worse if he’d go to the hospital. He said, “Do you think it would work?” He got to the hospital, and it would have been easy because he wasn’t that bad off, but he was like me and had a bad temper. He told the nurse, “I need a little
“Jerry (Wexler) called me and said every- Delaney in the movie Vanishing Point.
something to calm me down. I’m kind of hurting.” And the nurse yelled at him, “Oh all you druggie hippie musicians come here for help and just go back out and do it all again!” It made him mad, so he just got up, put his clothes on and got on his motorcycle and took off. And that’s when he hit that peach truck and died. “He was supposed to play with me the next
night. We had two shows scheduled. I did the first show, looking for Duane. Then I asked my brother who was my manager at the time if he’d heard from Duane and he said no. Well, just as I was getting ready to do my sec- ond show, my brother Johnny ran out on- stage and told me Duane had been killed. I was stunned. I had to do the second show with that on my mind. It liked to have killed me.
body wanted me to sing at the funeral. I said, my God Jerry, do you know how hard that’s gonna be? He said yeah, but he’s your best friend. Sure enough it was hard just like I said it was gonna be. And see, just five weeks be- fore that me and Duane had gone to Curtis’ funeral, because he was murdered, you know. Some Puerto Ricans were fighting outside his motel door and he asked them to quiet down because some- one was going to call the cops, and he didn’t want to see the cops out there. Well, he turned around and got stabbed in the back. When he said “You hurt me real bad,” the guy stabbed him in the heart. He died on the way to the hospital. Duane and I went to his funeral, and five weeks later I went to Duane’s. The trio was busted up.” Following Motel Shot,
D&B Together was recorded
and released in March, 1972, and would be Delaney and Bonnie's last album of new ma- terial, as the couple divorced in 1973. After the breakup of Delaney & Bonnie,
Leon Russell recruited many of its ex-mem- bers, except for Delaney, Bonnie and Bobby Whitlock, to join Joe Cocker's band, partici- pating on Cocker's Mad Dogs and English- men recording sessions. Meanwhile, Whitlock joined Clapton at his home in the UK, where they wrote songs and decided to form a band, which two former "Friends" band members, bassist Carl Radle and drummer Jim Gordon, would later join. As Derek And The Dominos, they recorded the landmark album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970) with assis- tance another former "Friend," Duane All- man. Derek and the Dominos also constituted the core backing band on George Harrison's
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