Defend the Indefensible: Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald

Michael>>>>>Kenny

x-post w/Will

ANd yeah, I like a bunch of McDonald fronted tracks, both with the Doobies and solo. They are welcome to end that phone ad campaign anytime though.

re mr. loggins: supposedly, vox humana is at least kinda interesting. and it's also interesting how he went from being a seventies-sensitive-songwriter to an eighties-mullet-hitmeister. but he's basically harmless, so why fuss over him?

The recent Michael McDonald ads have been drilling themselves into my brain.

pro: major influence on daft punk

con: my dad likes him

kenny loggins i got no problem with.

(NB Kenny Loggins has become an author of Christian prayer books on the covers of which he appears in super-soft focus with anime eyes)

the following album cover was surely a prelude to the foregoing:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d809/d80949txys4.jpg

Oh fuck -- of course, Robin! That's what I was thinking of. It was on the tip of my tongue. Damn, my memory is terrible these days..

any idea where I could find this?

I love the the he and Fagan sing the chorus on both "Bad Sneakers" and "Time Out of Mind":it's like they're two satellites orbiting each other.

(Or so I understand. I was not one of the guests.)

Footloose is one of the few films that I can honestly say had a profound transformative effect on my life, but its otherwise glorious theme now evokes hideous mental images of naked/ bearded wedding vows.

??? Tell me more! My copy of "Regulate" (on the Warren G album Regulate... G Funk Era) doesn't have McD's vox! I've always thought a remix of "Regulate" with "I Keep Forgettin'"'s chorus inserted somewhere would be fantastic.

McD: Total adult contemporary classic. Awesome voice.
Loggins: Total adult contemporary non-classic.

http://sethputnam.com/seth&michael.jpg

from putnam's website

michael mcdonald - august 9th, uncasville, CT

i got there a lot later than i wanted to. the show was at the mohegan sun indian casino, and it was free. "first come, first served" as they say. when i got there, i was like 400th in line, and wondered if i'd even get inside or not. they sit 6 people at every table. since i was by myself, there was a table in the front row that had only 5 people in it, so, they sat me there. it was awesome, i was about 5 feet from michael mcdonald! i sat next to 2 groups of people. one guy (with some broad), claiming he was danny devito (but he wasn't short enough or funny enough to be him), and a group of 3 nice "housewife" types. they asked me before the show what my 3 "desert island" cd's would be, and being an asshole, i said, "how would you be able to play cd's on a desert island with no electricity?". they later, between themselves, asked each other who the 3 guys they could be stranded on a desert island would be (with no surprise, no husbands of theirs were mentioned), one of them said "mel gibson (generically understandable), billy joel (!!!!!), and michael mcdonald(!!!!!!!!!!). it made no sense to me at all. so, back to michael mcdonald, he was on tour promoting his new cd of motown covers. i didn't care what he was going to sing. his voice is so awesome, he could even sing hatebreed or limp bizkit songs, and i'd think he was awesome. he sounded unbelievable! he did some doobie brothers songs, some of his solo songs, and some motown ones (stuff from marvin GAYe, stevie wonder, etc). he sounded better than i expected. he has easily one of the most unique gay voices ever. his band was really good as well, they were all from other bands that i never heard of, but, supposedly, they're well known musicains. by the end of the set, he did "taking it to the streets", and a whole bunch of civilized middle aged people rushed the stage. he totally fucking kicked ass all night. i highly recommend seeing him.

That is a picture of Kenny Loggins' backyard. No joke. An acquaintance's girlfriend is Kenny Loggins' live-in nanny and she took the pic.

At one point in the song's evolution, its melody was underway, but the lyrics were incomplete. Loggins moved it forward after a visit to his ailing father, who had undergone a series of surgeries for vascular problems stemming from small strokes and was discouraged at the prospect of another. His perspective on the lyrics then changed: "'I've got it,' I announced to Michael, it's not a love song. It's a life song."[1]

Damn right, Ken.

as a child I almost drowned in kenny loggins' swimming pool. had to go to the hospital and everything. I don't think it was the backyard in that photo though, I think he moved.

his music sucks and he is indefensible.

michael mcdonald is great and needs no defense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHpCZoK54t4

oh man. this is on some total el debarge shit.

my boy who is KL's second cousin just put me up on that

dope

George Michael's voice sounds a lot like Loggin's on 'This Is It'

i won't defend his lame-o songs and his awful main band, but michael mcdonald was awesome fronting grizzly bear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPI7oU-fuGw

he should be made the permanent lead-singer for this band.

therer've been times in my life, i've been wondering why

michael mcdonald is golden you indie feebs

The track MM did with Holy Ghost was a str8 up banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_zTamb69bU

^^^ class!

also he manages to make grizzly bear listenable. no mean feat.

michael mcdonald is golden you indie feebs

truth bomb for the ages

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Folks were really bashing the dude who wrote “Whenever I Call You Friend”!? Easily one of the best pop songs of all time...

Thundercat must have been reading this thread with great interest whilst recording the Drunk album.

i think the chorus on 'friend' is a little uncomfortable - it's hurried - they're just trying to pack in a couple too many syllables on those lines. Also the Stevie really belting it on 'REASON TO CARRRY OOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNN" is not my favorite Stevie

The crazy atmospheric intro and bassline sent it over the top for me.