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Tom Johnston Says He Nearly Died When He Left Doobie Brothers in 1977
Noise 11 ^ | 7/4/25 | Paul Cashmere

Posted on 08/15/2025 1:02:55 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Tom tells Noise11.com, “I had an ulcer. I had had it since high school and let’s just say the rock and rock lifestyle, especially the formative years in the early 70s when we started taking off, let’s just say we didn’t take care of ourselves very well. The ulcer didn’t like that. I ended up paying the price for that. I ended up having to go to a hospital. I came close to dying. It was quite an experience. I never had the problem again. I got it fixed. It healed and I have never had another hick-up with that at all.”

Tom Johnston and Michael McDonald have never made a Doobie Brothers album together until the new album ‘Walk This Road’. “I had a song on the ‘Taking It To The Streets’ album,” Tom says. “I was there long enough to get it done in Warner Brothers Studio in North Hollywood where we did a lot of our recording. That’s the other thing I gave to that album. I had been getting better. That was my thing for ‘Taking It To The Streets’. It wasn’t a band accomplishment for me. This is. Mike’s on the album, I’m on the album, Pat’s on the album. This is the first album we’ve done together”.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; History; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: doobiebrothers; hickups; johnston; music; rockandrock; tomjohnston
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To: dfwgator

He’d never write “A Song for Jimmah And His Friends”.


81 posted on 08/16/2025 7:34:31 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: dfwgator

Wow...I knew TT produced Van Halen...had no idea about McDonald co-writing “I’ll Wait”...which is another great song.


82 posted on 08/16/2025 12:18:35 PM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: Fish Speaker
Am I the only one who likes “Black Water?”

Black Water was a staple at our keggers during my sophomore year in college (1973-1974). Always brings back fond memories.

83 posted on 08/16/2025 12:22:37 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

He did a song in the closing credits of The South Park movie, it sounds like the typical ballad, and then in the middle he slips in this line from out of nowhere, “”If you want, I can even get my friend Steve to detail your car for like 20 bucks”


84 posted on 08/16/2025 12:25:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: woweeitsme
Templeman produced all of the DLR-era VH albums from the debut through 1984.
85 posted on 08/16/2025 2:07:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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