I saw this one originally way back in 1984 on an RCA CED videodisc player. It's a very good one but their WILDLIFE CONCERT is their best by far and is also on video. Also titled as their "Rockin' Down The Highway" concert. Give it a look if you have not yet. The WILDLIFE show lacks Michael McDonald but the SB show didn't have original member and singer Tommy Johnston who sang many of their biggest hits. The band is always incomplete to me without him. BOTH shows are worthy!
@@AirDOGGe Hi and thank you for that info! I will look for it and watch it I actually have front row seats to their concert next week in NC I didn’t get into Doobie brothers until 3/4 years ago and since have consumed all I can Really excited to see and hear them all especially Michael McDonald Trying to see all the greats before they retire and stop touring
@David Brown No. Just No. You must be unfamiliar with the band. I play bass and guitar professionally...I've watched this video several times over the years and focused primarily on Willie Weeks (bass) and Patrick Simmons (guitarist with mustache) and everything matches up; what you hear is what they're playing. It might be a frame or two out of sync with the audio (maybe), but they're playing and singing live...they brought a mobile studio to record it and then sent that feed to the PA. They later mixed it and that's why it sounds so great. Everyone on that stage is a top level musician and they might make playing it with barely any mistakes look easy...but rest assured they were playing.
Never knew that til just now and I heard that he also worked with Billy Joel and Ambrosia , too much talent to last , may he rest in peace , he owes us nothing !!
I sang with Michael back in the day when I was living in Seattle...Tom Johnson's sis was a friend of mine and she took me to see the Doobs at Key Arena...backstage ...and she had them all to her home in Bellevue, WA after...that is when I got to listen to their stories, laugh with them and sing with all of them....Patrick is a GEM and very humble and sweet...and incredibly GIFTED...and Michael...he stole my heart and I sang some songs with him (and the whole passel of the group)...that night...it was special and it is forever ingrained in my memory and heart... Michael...you are an angel...and thank you for coming off stage during a ZooTunes concert you gave up at that Seattle zoo when you recognized I was sitting on a blanket with my work friends by the stage... you pulled me up, gave me a hug and asked me to come on stage and sing with you... to which I said...HEY BUDDY...YOU ARE GETTING PAID TO DO THAT...not no but no....SMILING....I'm wayyyyyyy below YOUR PAY GRADE IN THE SINGING DEPARTMENT...but you are an angel for the hug and being so sweet.... the one song I want to sing with you sometime... and I HAVE TO HAVE FREE REIN while recording it... I'll do background and backup...smile... All In Love is Fair..... bless you honey...
Michael McDonald is from my hometown of Ferguson and graduated from my high school about 14 years before me. We grew up listening to them on the radio. So proud of him. He's definitely my fave American singer of all time!!! The Doobie Bros were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 and my fave band,...most of the band members sing lead on a great song.
2020 - Can you believe Michael's voice, this is an open air live show and his vocals sounds absolutely like a studio session, simply one of the great vocalists of modern music.
One of the greatest mysteries in life is Michael McDonald's voice. And the fact that in every concert, every record, his pitch was perfect and hardly ever missed a note. He sounded like the record every time. And yet, it is one of the hardest voices to imitate. I could never figure where that voice comes from. Is it something he worked on? Was this just the way it came out? Was it a machine? Incredible voice. His work with Steely Dan was just from another world.
Perfect pitch is inborn. He has perfect pitch and he is wonderful live! He needs no in ear monitors or other aids to sound like he does. He is amazing!
Its wonderful to see intelligent comments about a great band and not the usual crap comments comparing Justin B. with yesterday's music - its all about the time, the place and what caused the kind of music to be created. Thank God for the Doobie Brothers.
I have been a Michael McDonald fan since 1972 and was fortunate to move to Santa Barbara in 1981! Every chance I got I saw him! His voice made my heart ache! He wrote my love life with his songs!
There's no doubt, Michael is without a doubt one of the greatest vocalist I've ever heard. His unique voice is unmatchable, can never be duplicated and is one of the most recognized voices in music history. I can't stop listening to him. I can hear his singing over and over and over and never get tired of it.
This superb band comprised of 8 members, at that time (1982). Unfortunately half of them have passed away already (Cornelius Bumpus, Bobby Lakind, Keith Knudsen and Chet McCracken). R.I.P. The others are still active: Michael McDonald, Patrick Simmons, John McFee (these 3 touring with the Doobies) and Willie Weeks.
John Hartman, Michael Hossack, and Dave Shogren have died also. Of the 14 people who've been listed as a member of the band on at least one album, only seven are still living. McDonald, Simmons, McFee, and Weeks, as you mentioned, plus Tom Johnston, Tiran Porter, and Jeff Baxter.
Right here!!!!!! Cornelius Bumpus is such a Cool Cool dude. He is so soulful, he makes my insides bleed. So sad that this fine fine brother was taken from us! Breaks my heart. And Michael, well there just are no words. And my boy John Mcfee, well its just not possible to be any more cool and talented that this cat. And Keith, and, Pat and Willie, I could keep going. There will never be another Doobie Brothers I'm so glad I was 15 in 1981 and born in the 60's. There will never be a MAGICAL EXPLOSION in music like there was in the 70 and 1980's. Thank God I was alive to experience it live.!!!!!!!!!!!!! .
The professionalism of this group of men is outstanding. I'm going to see them on August 15th, 2024 at Pine Knob in Clarkston, Michigan. It's an outside venue. I saw them back in 1982 at the same venue. Can't wait to listen to them light up Pine Knob one more time. Bonus, is that Steve Winwood is performing with them.
@@alexisbabini i saw them last night in Denver and its a dont miss if you can.. winwood was someone i never thought id ever see.. soo good to see DB for the 4th and last time. 50+ years of musicanship flows like water... I think these artists play with the ease of breathing they have done it soo long...
Stumbled onto this recently and realized I was there. I was born and raised in SB and at this time I was in the USAF stationed at Vandenberg. My brother was there as well. Just amazing to see this. Great sound as well.
I was six years old in 1982 so at least I was alive when they did this. LOL! I was raised on real music and The Doobie Brothers always played on the radio! This band is so awesome! R.I.P. to Cornelius Bumpus (Sax, Keyboard, vocals) and most recently John Hartman (drums).
That’s the thing; this is unequivocally a brilliant performance. Those down voters will probably go their whole lives listening to crap music and thinking it’s good. It’s sad, tbh. They have no clue about life.
Michael McDonald was just gifted with the most unique and beautiful voice. Seriously, a thousand scientists couldn't recreate that voice in a laboratory.
My God, What happened to these days when music was really written from way deep down within. I hear nothing like this anymore coming from today's generation. Nothing. The Doobie Brothers were 1 of the best. I can remember this stuff coming out of the speakers when I was a kid with my dad and brother.
Perfect digital copies of songs, the invention of the MP3 player and online file sharing sites all coming in the late 1990s made the record business no longer profitable. How I miss record stores and stereo stores. IN other words technology and greed killed it all. :-(
Wow!! This performance- every song!- so tight!! The rhythm section is so in sync with each other! Pat Simmons just killing it - great versions of the Tom Johnstone songs, too! Truly one of America’s greatest bands!!
The sound quality of this recording is incredible. Everything from quality singing to great players on their instruments. Mix, live recordings is an example of how to record a concert. An experience for me. I'm almost fifty years old and I started discovering this music the most with the development of the internet, twenty years ago, and the opportunity to listen through the internet, various radio stations that play good old rock music. It was youtube that allowed me to see such musical gems. Thanks to the person who gave a concert here.
Remarkable production, excellent recording. . . LIVE !! Another great band and music from the incomparable 70's !! The greatest music & lyrics ever produced came from 70's., that was my time, I feel it, I see it, I hear it, impossible to replicate it, so I'll never forget it
I was in Santa Barbara… went to college there … woo Hoo lots of fun 😍 I came from abuse and this music took me away. Abused no more … still listening 💕
Always was amazed by how they traveled and performed with two drum kits and percussion. Great story of how Bobby LaKind was included. RIP Kieth Knudsen and Bobby. Truly missed. The production and arrangements are flawless. McFee, just an amazing musician. Never disappoint.
Young folks, their whole lives in front of them, listening to awesome music on a sunny day. Please let it happen again! I promise not to be distracted by petty crap any more!
It must have been a thrill to be a member of such a tight, talented band. Clearly very well-rehearsed -- the 'real deal,' as they say. Cornelius Bumpus gave a concert at my college back in '86...truly a remarkable personal story and gifted musician, like all of these guys!
Cornelius was my family's newspaper boy when i was a little gilrl in santa cruz, calif. he was the nicest guy, who put up with a little blonde girl of 5,6, or 7 who just wanted to follow him around the neighborhood!!!!! BLESS HIS HEART!!!!
Outdoor concert sounds this good??!!...This is out of this world. Now-a-day concerts are nothing compared to this. They're not even close. Viva classic rock.
That transition from what a fool believes to china Grove is just fun to watch. The boys playing at such a high level and having fun.. Amazing band. Amazing concert. Damn.
Only saw the Doobies once, about 4-5 years before this. One of those bands that is totally devoted to giving the audience their very best. A very good time.
Amazing that you can randomly click on a concert and it plays like a Greatest Hits record, bloody superb songwriting and musicianship, it sounds like every guy in the band is right in the pocket to an atom. What did the tickets cost....$10? Michael McDonald is other worldly, his voice is incredible live and his sense of melody is a music addicts dream, I can listen to him all day long and then start over from the beginning!
I ran into Tiran Porter at a gas station in Los Gatos. I told him the Doobies were awesome. He told me they worked their ass off. Rehearsing 5 days a week like a day job. Serious perfectionists. It shows.
Serious professionals, whether musicians or other, master their craft. Rehearsing is just getting everything down perfect. I'm an e.r. nurse, and I can save your life in so many ways. Years of making sure I do everything perfect. The players here are simply doing the same thing with their craft. Absolutely, perfect.
Like a lot of bands back then. Just read Maurice White Biography about his life with EWF. Same ther. Rehearsal, rehearsal, rehearsal. Nowadays people want to sound that perect but don't want to rehearse. TOTO was another one. And, oh, Steely Dan, Heatwave, The Commodores etc. Making music back then was a totally different game!
@@d.e.b.b5788 ER? Thank you so very much! When I'm in the hospital, I make sure I tell everyone how much I appreciate them. From their surprised reaction to me, they (you) don't hear that enough. Thank you!
Never seen so many musicians so into each other at a big concert as these guys 38 years ago at Santa Barbara blended along by Michael McDonald. If there had been a roof, it would have been blown to hell off
Yacht Rock at it's finest. We all know Yacht Rock as a joke series, and by god it's hilarious, but they did tap into a time and place. These bands and their songs are iconic. So grateful to have been in their timelines.
Wtf did America do wrong in the last 4 decades?? Here is a band with most ALL nationalities playing together and now it’s like a race war nowadays. It literally breaks my heart.
That’s why those of us who were in high school in the 70’s and 80’s are pissed at what woke has done, it was totally unnecessary and stoked by media and politicians.
@@stevencooper659 Oh please. It’s slogan shouting racist MAGA types like you that are ruining this country. Go wave your confederate flag and worship your reality tv star ex-president in some other country.
@stevencooper659 Woke woke woke woke woke. Please, it’s mindless slogan shouting idiots like you that are glued to this media and who are destroying this country. I watched conservative media craft this amorphous ‘woke’ boogeyman and I watched millions of mindless robots repeat it over and over and over again. Still haven’t got a definition on it. What exactly does ‘woke’ mean? Define it.
Most so called artists of today - listen to this and bow down to real music and talent. What you see is what you get, and I see something very wonderful.
Just stumbled across this video. As a musician/sound tech I can not believe the quality of this recording--simply incredible. If any of the Doobie's sound crew from this show ever monitor this video, you are are awesome. I don't know what it sounded like live, but given the quality of this recording, there must not have been a bad seat in the house. Not to sound like an old fart, but this was back in the day when sound engineers knew their craft. Not just plugging equipment in and turning everything to "11."
You had me till the end. Live sound reinforcement is still such an art form. When you say this you just come across as the miserable old sod who says "back in my day" whenever something new happens that you don't fully understand or like. Can't argue the quality of this recording but I do wonder if it was significantly mastered after.
This concert STRAIGHT ROCKS, THE LITTLE SEGUES BETWEEN SONGS AND VOCALS ARE AWESOME, AND OF COURSE THE ENERGY, MUSICIANSHIP.. AWESOMENESS.. IN A LIVE OUTDOOR SETTING, THIS IS A TREASURE FOR SURE!!
Wow, so perfect, so tight! Michael’s voice is so IN THE POCKET! Unbelievable!! New artists should set this as their standard for live performance! No autotune, yet every note is perfect! They all sing harmonies so f’*king amazingly! Quite a revelation!!
This has to be one of the greatest concerts ever. Perfect sound quality, great setlist, Cornelius Bumpus on lead vocals for Long Train Runnin', and both Tom Johnston and Michael McDonald! Couldn't be any better!
I prefer Keith Knudsen’s lead vocals on “Listen To The Music”, but I do love how Cornelius could sing and play the keyboard and saxophone during “Long Train Runnin”. We lost him way too early. RIP
If I could see one gig it would have been this .. Saw The DB 2 weeks ago after waiting since this was broadcast in around 1982 on the BBC .. This gig is pure joy and no mobile phones, people getting off on the music.. Simply the best.
It is a total disgrace that a band with a varied catalogue of work such as their's is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This concertwas a wonderful example of their talent.
+Bob Coleman They should've been in before steely dan and the EAGLES, MADONNA NWA , even Chicago. so many, many more. Goes to show what influential mgrs. and labels can do for you.
+Bob Coleman Not only did the Doobies have a great catalogue of work, they had two different sounds: One when Tom Johnson was the lead singer, which was more rock-and-roll; the second under Michael McDonald, which was more bluesy and jazzy. It's rare that a band changes its sound so greatly, and be good at both.
We lost one of the fonders of The great Doobie Brothers and great drummer of The Doobie Brothers John Hartman RIP I play them on my internet radio show Classic Soul me The Masterblaster.
I never realised how good these guys were until I saw this video. Wow. Apart from the obvious sound quality, the musicianship and vocals are superb. And then the overall vibe is also beautiful. I was just a fresh faced young English guy at the time, who had arrived in Dallas the week before. Great times.
Yeah it is I didn't know original guitarist stomach bleeding I thought he had a nervous breakdown great gutarist and vocals thanks 😊 God he made it back
Yep I am 64 yrs and I did go to one of their concerts maybe in Massachusetts at this same year!! I have a college photo of me with the retro Doobie Brothers concert t shirt!!!
Wow, McDonald came out swinging. One after another, man what a voice. Yes kids there were mythical creatures back in the time before autotune and computers who actually played their instruments and wrote and sang their own songs. Doobies Musicus Maximus.
I'd be honored if some Michael McDonald fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal cover of HEART TO HEART (his 1982 composition with Kenny Loggins) on my channel. Real live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and please excuse the promo.
