I just saw the Doobie Brothers in August 2021 for their 50th Anniversary Tour. They were awesome! They played 23 songs and then 3 more for the encore! Great singing, energy and musicianship. The Doobie Brothers deserve their Hall of Fame induction. If you need proof, just "Listen To The Music".
When i think of great music the Doobie Brothers are right up there as one of the best ever. It boggles my mind that they had to wait so long to be inducted into the Hall of Fame...such classic hits enjoyed over 50 years by billions of people on this planet !
I have always been a huge fan of the Doobie Brothers and their music means a lot to me. They formed before I was even born. Wow that is hard to believe that the band is 50 years + and I am 44 so needless to say I grew up with them. Rock on Doobie Brothers. 🎸
Many a day and night I spent stoned out of my mind listening to them wildling the day away without a worry in the world. That's what the Doobie Brothers Are For Me
To celebrate my high school graduation, me and two friends jumped in my Road Runner and headed for the West coast. We had 2 ounces of pot and three 8 track tapes. "Already Gone", "Long Train Runnin", and "Cheech and Chong" go great with pot and Quaaludes.
I remember “Vividly” the Doobie Bros. & Lynyrd Skynyrd blasting on the turntable in our living room growing up! “Listen to the Music” and “That Smell” from both bands and also Steely Dan’s “FM” was three band’s my Dad couldn’t get enough of!#BestofTimes#GrooveRock#Jeff”Skunk”Baxter#🎸🔥🔥
I have played the captain and me since I heard it in the seventies. Tom Johnston was a great guitarist with a great sound and style of playing. I hope the next tour comes to England.
I am the guy who was the roommate who named the band. My nick name was Dyno. They did very good for a bunch of stoned musicians. the guy who i liked the most was John Hatman.... Little John. He could play the drums and draw dirty cartoons. tom was aloof and Pat was just cool. half a century ago, amazing,
@@stephenadamsmusicalinterpr4203 howdy from Keith IE dyno. My favorite band also, hands down. i was there when Skip Spence was in the area and meeting Tom. Believe it or not I went to grammar school with skip and he ran away from home from a party I threw when I was 16 and I never saw him again till he showed up at a 7/11 behind the doobie brothers house on 12th st, in in San Jose. Tom new him from his sister and that is the history of how the band formed. I still remember all the crazy wonderful rock and role that went on there. Very wild and a ton of memories, I remember Tom playing Eric Clapton tune Cross roads and lighting up the whole neighbor hood who would come an listen. They were destined for greatness as they smoked em top to top and side to side. Little john was a master at staying up all night and drawing fantastic cartoons on a huge black board we had in the kitchen, they were very funny an rude as hell. My claim to fame is naming the Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brother rocked and socked them 50 years. Just great.
hi great bands n janis jop floyd n zeps my fave big shame doobies n others could not cope without dope even so great great instramentles and voices cheers cas in dorset
@CAROL. N/A/ Nobody can cope without dope. Even straight edgers have their smugness and their pious ego in order to create the dopamines that soothe them to sleep at night. We're living in an inhumane time of competitiveness and the Dobbies tried to counter that with a simpler and more loving message and subsequently they paid what is often the price of what counts as "success" in this world. Which they did by perhaps trying to bevel off the rougher edges of an uncompromising capitalist system which seems determined to squeeze every last ounce of profit out of absolutely everything in spite of how that made the band members feel. No wonder they used whatever they could to make them feel a little better.
I had heard where Tom Johnston had pulled out because of an ulcer issue but I hadn't heard about his heart stopping! Yikes! Thank God he survived! My first Doobie concert was in Cincinnati in '75, which also featured The Outlaws and Peter Frampton. Best show ever. I hadn't heard of Peter Frampton before that and he blew everyone away. His live album Frampton Comes Alive came out the next year.
The switch from Tom Johnston to Michael MCDonald made the Doobie Brothers sound completely different. They were Jazzier instead of the classic rock sound that they had honed to perfection. Michael's vocals were great, but a lot of Doobie Brothers fans didn't like the change. I, myself, was torn too....Their 'new' sound was polished and great...but different....And I was glad when Tom Johnston became lead vocalist again....I was at a show at Shoreline in Mtn. View when the introduced Michael and the rude fans booed him that night.... Fans are cruel.... They will always be one of the greatest rock bands to come from the Bay Area. Thanks for the tunes!!!! They will never get old....
They have had some rough times, but were the real thing. I saw them in 72 with Jim Croce and Loggins & Messina in Knoxville. Place was thick with pot smoking we had a hellave time. Party on
Such a great band and time, will always be the best curling song going threw the country roads back in the Hecker Pass area going to Santa Cruz, love all their old good old days songs, wonderful
This is all rehashed information I don't know what's so tragic about it except for the drug abuse but true but this is nothing that we haven't heard about over the years
I saw them LONG AGO .... any one who could call themselves a rock fan NOT THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE H.O.F. THE DAY OF ELIGIBLE ! Great band for sure. GBjj
THE DOOBIE BROTHERS WERE A GREAT BAND AND THE SINGER SINGS A SONG CALLED LISAN TO THE MUSIC AND HE PLAYS A GUITAR IN THIS SONG Live ON UTUBE WHERE HE SINGS THIS SONG AND HE PLAYS THE ELECTRIC GUITAR IN THIS SONG 😁
If you want to learn anything about their music (or even hear snippets of it), look elsewhere. This is just someone reading Wikipedia over some piano arpeggios.
How come I see Tiran Porter in almost all of the pictures and videos but you NEVER mention him? Hell, you even talk about the percussionist ...THE PERCUSSIONIST !!! Damn...
I went to Salt Lake City to see Doobies in 1979 or 1980. It was good but you know at the same time it was a disappointment. To me Mike Mcdonald changed the Doobie sound. I was a big fan of Tom Johnston. Without Tom it was a different Doobies.
Sorry - you were too late. Some great Bar bands including cat mother and the Grape - Not transferrable to vinyl. Jesus didn't help with a byrds reference...Was the beginning of the end of rock that allowed disco - Doobies were like a band that you would see at a bar next to a liquor store!
Paid attention to Doobie Brothers after McDonald joined; loved his voice. But I lost interest because of how they conducted themselves. Fast forward to the 2000's and some of my middle school students died due to drug use because that's what their parents and grandparents did. Great music, but the rest was garbage.
They pick out at few dumb moments in the 50 year life of a great group of guys and great band. Yes, the odd setback but hardly tragic. Certainly no worse than most other bands who have come and gone. Their music and their drive to perform has stood the test of time. I mean, how many bands last 50 years and still can fill stadiums? The Doobies you rock..............................
@@TednGilbertAZ Agreed. The band, during their 50+ year career, have encountered problems, but what band hasn't? To call their story 'tragic' is total folly. They are one of the most loved and successful bands in history, and the only tragedy here is the lame title.
All you have to do is put on China Grove at high volume and listen to the reason why they totally rocked and deserved to be listened to. Long live The Doobies!
The Doobies and Eagles both had albums released all four years of my high schooling. What a treat for us. Today’s kids are sorely missing out in the great music 🎵 of our era.🎷🥁
I believe the Doobies rank up up there with being the best and most underrated band of all all time. Beyond anything else their musicianship and songwriting throughout all of their incarnations has been fantastic and I look forward to many more years of it. I remember Michael McDonald in a whacky moment saying being a Doobie Brother was kind of like being a ‘Mouseketeer’ ... ‘Once your in the club you can never leave’. I hope none of them ever do and that they’ll keep cranking it out.
Does the narrator really know what he's talking about? A few mistakes- he refers to drummer John Hartman as Josh, and 8:25- Tom Johnston and Michael McDonald's first gig since 1976? Not even. They reunited numerous times since then.
I need to correct an inaccuracy. Michael McDonald reunited with the Doobies in 2019 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville to announce their 40th Anniversary tour. He sang "Takin' it to the streets" with the band. I was there and I thought maybe it was a little cameo appearance since Michael lives in the area, but they announced he would be touring with the band. Sadly, COVID suspended the tour, but I'm sure when they finally do get on the road it will be magnificent. And a big shout out to John Cowan holding down the bass and BGV duties. You won't find a better singer anywhere. Dude is amazing!
Frivolous sensationalism. How could you leave out their signature comeback tune 'What A Fool Believes" that recharged them in 1979 written by Michael and Kenny Loggins. I was a good pal with Pat Simmons back then and he was a very mellow guy living in Santa Cruz. The crazy partying band was nothing I ever witnessed.
