Happy 77th birthday Tom Johnson.
The Michael McDonald era was awful, they made a lot of money, but the music was awful.
Have fun and flame away, its friday
Best thing about the Doobies was Tiran Porter, one of my favorite bass players.
This sort of thing is why I hate reading today's news prose.
“The Michael McDonald era was awful, they made a lot of money, but the music was awful.”
Yes...................
I loved both eras. So half a flame from me.
“The early Doobie Brothers were great, “China Grove” and such, the media never mentions “Jesus is just alright”.”
You got that right. Fantastic first album. Doobies and CCR.
Stampede is a great album, my favorite Doobies song is “Neal’s Fandango”.
They should’ve changed their name after Johnston left. McDonald’s Doobies or something. Songs were decent but not as rockin’.
Keith Knudsen used to play basketball in the church parking lot with me and the other kids in the neighborhood back in 79 - cool guy! Groveville, NJ
The “rock and rock lifestyle”? Is that worse than the roll and roll lifestyle?
And “hick-up” . . . a form of hiccups only hicks get?
Jesus Is Just Alright was written by Art Reynolds in 1965. The version sung by The Art Reynolds Singers is raw. The 1969 cover by the Byrds in 1969 is excellent, but my favorite is the Doobies’ cover from 1972.
Michael McDonald’s voice is horrid. Throat singing that would have been better suited for The Muppet Show.
I wouldn’t call it awful, but Tom was a straight up rocker.
Michael was more of a slow song crooner.
A lot of bands did the switch. Foreigner went from rock to ballads. Journey went to slower songs for a while. There were others.
Pat Simmons used to live a few miles west of me.
Ice in DC ought to be playing “takin it to the Streets” from thier load speaker.
“The Michael McDonald era was awful, they made a lot of money, but the music was awful.”
He didn’t do anything for me either, though I know excellent musicians who worship him.
Ulcers are nasty, Gene Vincent died from that, ruptured ulcer
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.
M McD, ditto!