Bobby Whitlock: Self
Quotes
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Bobby Whitlock : George Harrison rang one afternoon and he asked Eric if he and I would like to play on his first album that he's gonna do. He had all these songs, you know. Erica and I had talked about who we wanted in the band. Of course, we knew we wanted Carl. And Jim Gordon just storm trooped over. And we were ready to go. We couldn't wait. You know, because it was to go into the studio and record "All Things Must Pass." And, so, really, we put the band together during the "All Things Must Pass" sessions.
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Bobby Whitlock : Eric says, "You want to try some of this, you know, the heroin?" And I said, "No, man. Let me just watch you." He did it. Just snorted it, you know. And I said, "What does it feel like?" He said, "I feels like pink cotton wool surrounding me."
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Bobby Whitlock : [referring to Jimi Hendrix death] It shattered Eric, you know. We had just recorded "Little Wing" just a couple of weeks before that. That was Eric's tribute to Jimi. So, that had a huge impact on Eric.
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Bobby Whitlock : It was all about love songs. Ballads with a different tempo. It was that what we can't see or touch or smell or taste or feel. And, of course, it was all about Pattie. That's why Eric was singing all that pain and agony and stuff.
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Bobby Whitlock : [after having Pattie rejects him, Jimi Hendrix ODs, and his step-Dad dies within a period of five weeks] Eric went into seclusion. He turned and walked away with Alice and he got off into the heroin. And I was gonna stay there and wait it out; but, it didn't seem like it was going to ever happen. I thought it was the beginning, you know. I didn't know it was the end.
