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Doobie Brothers: Listening To The Music Gets Even Better With Time
Grand Rants ^ | 09/26/2010 | Gerry Ashley

Posted on 09/26/2010 10:21:08 AM PDT by BigChiefLtd

On Tuesday (9/28), The Doobie Brothers will release “World Gone Crazy” which is their first studio album in 10 years.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: concerts; doobiebrothers; music; rock
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To: skeeter
Nice to see the Tom Johnson version of the Doobies rather than Michael McDonald version.

Funny how old rock bands were so defined by their lead singers - there's the Bon Scott version of AC/DC versus the Brian Johnson AC/DC, there's the Doobies, and of course there's the David Lee Roth version of Van Halen versus the much-reviled Sammy Hagar version.

If I were picking favorite Doobie Brothers songs by lead singer, I guess they'd be "Black Water" and "Taking It To The Streets".
21 posted on 09/26/2010 10:48:19 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: wideawake
Wouldn’t he already be a Hall Of Fame inductee via Steely Dan?

Fagen and Becker hired a lot of first-rate studio musicians for their albums, but they were never considered part of Steely Dan. I don't follow the Rock and Roll HOF - are Fagen and Becker even in there?
22 posted on 09/26/2010 10:51:08 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: BigChiefLtd

They didn’t show Michael McDonald and Jeff “Skunk” Baxter in the old clips...I hope there’s no bad blood...


23 posted on 09/26/2010 10:54:19 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (If the right has TEABAGGERS, then the left has SCUMBAGGERS and DOUCHEBAGGERS!!!)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
I guess it could be summed up by the word 'authentic'. Johnston was with the band during their early years in the Santa Cruz area, Hells Angels & all, which sorta remained their image.

Michael McDonald, a pretty good songwriter in his own right, was too slick. IMO.

24 posted on 09/26/2010 10:56:22 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: BigChiefLtd
The HOF has become such a joke, it is almost better that they are NOT in there yet. I bet you some of the judges say, when asked about the Doobies: "Didn't they write that annoying Jeeeeeeeeeeesussssss song?". To them that sufficient reason to keep them out.
25 posted on 09/26/2010 10:56:55 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (If the right has TEABAGGERS, then the left has SCUMBAGGERS and DOUCHEBAGGERS!!!)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Funny how old rock bands were so defined by their lead singers - there's the Bon Scott version of AC/DC versus the Brian Johnson AC/DC, there's the Doobies, and of course there's the David Lee Roth version of Van Halen versus the much-reviled Sammy Hagar version.

And of course there is Genesis, with the Peter Gabriel version vs the Phil Collins version.

26 posted on 09/26/2010 10:58:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Texas Rangers - AL West Champions)
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To: brewcrew

Shame Tiran Porter wasn’t part of the band then, IMHO has bass sound was a major staple of the early Doobies albums.


27 posted on 09/26/2010 10:59:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Texas Rangers - AL West Champions)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

They are in the HOF, but only Fagen and Becker were included.


28 posted on 09/26/2010 11:12:28 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: skeeter
I liked the McDonald addition. It gave the Doobies a new lease on band life.
I know I'm in the minority on this...
29 posted on 09/26/2010 11:19:39 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
Doobie is a strange family name.

Mr. and Mrs. Righteous agree with you...

30 posted on 09/26/2010 11:21:03 AM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: skeeter
Michael McDonald

He makes me puke.....

31 posted on 09/26/2010 11:29:23 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (There's only one cure for Obamarrhea......)
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To: brewcrew

Reminds me of when Depeche Mode rode into the venue I work at with 8 53’ trailers of gear, 2 of which were speakers, only to find out the whole show was “on tape”.


32 posted on 09/26/2010 11:29:42 AM PDT by kickonly88 (I love fossil fuel!)
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To: brewcrew

Reminds me of when Depeche Mode rode into the venue I work at with 8 53’ trailers of gear, 2 of which were speakers, only to find out the whole show was “on tape”.


33 posted on 09/26/2010 11:29:56 AM PDT by kickonly88 (I love fossil fuel!)
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To: skeeter

I read somewhere that Michael McDonald’s claim to fame was to turn the biker band into the mellow fellows.


34 posted on 09/26/2010 11:31:37 AM PDT by printhead
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To: BigChiefLtd
I used to go to a place, The Chateau, in the Santa Cruz mountains in the early 70's and listen to these guys play before they were all together and called themselves the Doobie Brothers.

(ahem) I was a young guy then.

35 posted on 09/26/2010 11:56:16 AM PDT by blam
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To: dfwgator
Big Doobies fan from back in the day, before the Michael McDonald version, Stampede is still one of my all-time favorite albums.I agree 100%, Stampede is also my favorite, "Neal's Fandango".

In the summer of '75, I would be driving down the Garden Sate Parkway, to the Jersey shore, and that song would cycle up on the 8 track, I'd be driving 90 MPH to keep up with the singing. LOL

BTW, that was 35 yrs ago, 'cause my 35 yr reunion is this Nov 13th. God, I'm getting old.

36 posted on 09/26/2010 12:03:51 PM PDT by fedupjohn ("Socialism works great until you run out of other people's money!"...Margaret Thatcher.. Palin 2012)
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To: BigChiefLtd

I have the Best of the Doobies 2 album, still unopened in the original plastic.


37 posted on 09/26/2010 12:16:22 PM PDT by Suz in AZ
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To: BigChiefLtd

Never understood this glaring omission.


38 posted on 09/26/2010 12:26:51 PM PDT by appeal2 (Don't steal, the government hates competition.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

“Doobie is a strange family name. The brothers must have been stoked up about it.”

“They ain’t related...but they do be brothers.”

The way one of our local radio guys used to always introduce a Doobies song.


39 posted on 09/26/2010 12:32:45 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: BigChiefLtd
Not many people know that one of the Doobies, Jeff (Skunk) Baxter is responsible for the Aegis Cruiser being part of our missile defense architecture and he's a consultant to the Pentagon on Missile Defense.

Jeff Baxter, MDA consultant!

40 posted on 09/26/2010 12:36:48 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (RINOs be gone!)
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