I prefer the Johnston music but listen to it all. I guess having NO musical ability gets me off the hook here.
What I liked about the Doobies was it WAS straight up, in your face rock and roll. I once described being a Doobie fan as being a masochist who had found their ultimate sadist. :)
Then came McDonald.
Took some getting used to but Johnston was gone. :(
Sorry to hear about your COPD.
I am jealous of your musical ability. I couldn’t carry a tune with a front end loader.
At church the pastor specifically requests that I NOT sing. :0)
That’s what I liked about the Doobies too, in your face rock and roll, with no apologies. Virtuallly everything on the Captain and Me album is good, Idon’t know of a weak track on it. Similar to some Jethro Tull albums, like Songs from the Wood, Crest of A Knave and Roots to Branches. Not a bad song to be found. And Tull is another in your face rock band, phenomenal onstage. (3 times, best 3 shows I ever saw)
Don’t know how to respond to people who are envious of my musical abilities. I find many of them can do things Ican’t even comprehend. While I did learn to be a machinist, carpenter, computer technician, mechanic and repaired optical instruments, other things like financial or engineering are greek to me. I can barely spell engineer...
Just about everyone has their own set of abilities, some more artistic than others. I can rebuild a Chevy 350 or Ford straight 6, don’t know a thing about how a deisel runs at all. I can do a professional level soldering job, I was taught by a guy who did it for a living, but if you showed me a schematic of a flashlight, I couldn’t tell you that’s a flashlight. Literally...and I’ve seen people who can glance at a tube amp schematic for 10 seconds and tell you just where to look to find a problem...one guy who just told me right off the top of his head what to look for with nothing but a description and what amp it was.
So I’d say there’s a good chance you can do something I can barely spell...then again I’m good at spelling...