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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Dittos on that.
The Captain and Me is one of my favorite albums of all time. Amazing songs with a lot of different styles...and Ted Templeman producing. Magic.
SXM Classic Vinyl is playing a recent DB concert in Detroit right now. The band is OK but the vocals are so bad it’s unlistenable.
Like Grace said, there’s an expiration date for rockers.
post-kath era with the David Foster influence 😒
M McD, ditto!
Templeman also produced Van Halen.
Michael McDonald co-wrote “I’ll Wait”.
Templeman also produced Montrose’s studio debut, with Sammy Hagar singing lead.
...The Michael McDonald era was awful, they made a lot of money, but the music was awful.
Truer words have never been spoken on FR.
Also, Dennis DeYoung is one of the most annoying singers in history.
Jeffrey Allen “Skunk” Baxter in the rock band Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s and Spirit in the 1980s, worked as a defense consultant and advised U.S. members of Congress on missile defense.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-steely-dan-jeff-skunk-baxter-became-a-missile-defence-expert/
During that era I read a review of “Living on the Fault Line”. The comment being that MM turned a biker band into the mellow fellows.
Am I the only one who likes “Black Water?”
The Doobie’s were great in the early years.
Michael McDonald joining the band didn’t help.
Hick-up?
“””The Michael McDonald era was awful, they made a lot of money, but the music was awful.”””
He sucks. I can’t stand him.
Noticed that too, eh?
That sounds like getting reefers from a fast food place.
I dont disagree with you. And that, coming from a family friend of one of their members.
Post Kath
I loved Black Water and South City Midnight Lady. Not exactly Biker Rock but still very Doobie-esque. Pre-Michael McDonald, correct?
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