The Doobie Brothers: C or D?

i just "black water" and that song is...awful.

is "w.a.f.b." really a doobies song or a m. mcd. solo tune?

Did I imagine this? I'm sure it was a big hit in the clubs. Does anyone else remember this?

A month or two ago after a night out I was watching the telly with one eye and then fell asleep on the sofa. I woke up freezing in the morning thinking "weird, the Flirtations' Nothing but a Heartache is on a KFC advert" and then put it down to just a stupid dream but then a few weeks later saw it.

I think I'm having difficulty separating reality with fantasy these days.

what is the bacharach song that mcdonald recorded again?

Have we done a TS: "Take Me in Your Arms" (Doobies) vs. "How Sweet It Is" (James Taylor)?

The China Grove riff is awesome.

What an amazing fucking band.

"Minute by Minute" makes me cry.

"Takin' It To The Street" -- come on! Great stuff.

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC both versions of the band

i think i like the pre-mcdonald stuff better

oh, totally.

after owning their GH for, like, my entire life .. I decided to buckle down and just buy all the vinyl LPs whenever I can find them in great condition for a dollar. So far i have 'The Captain and Me' and 'Stampede'. Nice copies, total cost: about $3 ... and yeah, I do love Mike's vocals but the early group has some nice non-GH cuts like "South City Midnight Lady"

it's worth the ... 7 bucks .. or whatever it is to spend to get nice vinyl copies of all of the Doobie Brothers albums up through 'Takin It' .. I mean, that's like the cost of a draft beer plus tip

so much prefer the McDonald stuff myself.

Good examples?

The title track on Toulouse Street and "Spirit" from What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits are the ones that really stood out to me the most, but it was just something I kept noticing continuously through my listening binge.

I think it's just that there's real "in the room" sound that was captured with the acoustic strings on a lot of things, more so than on a lot of other 70s recordings. Like, "shit, this guitar is right next to me!"

their whole catalog thru at least Minute By Minute is richly worthy of close listening. Beautifully recorded, beautifully played records

Johnny, those are nice. As is Black Water as long as you stop it before it becomes acapella barber shop.

Thirteen by big star is the acoustic recording holy grail imho.

Ah, Michael McDonald.

I did a deep dive into the catalog last year, and I wound up nearly hating them. They can be a fine meat-and-potatoes band, but after 15 or 20 minutes, the vocals (at least before McDonald came on board), the lyrics and the musical clichés start to wear thin, and stretched beyond an hour, it wasn't so enjoyable anymore. It was much more palatable to string all of their singles together - I didn't like them all, but even at their worst (like "Listen to the Music" or "Takin' It to the Streets" as Alfred suggested) there were still parts of their music that could be enjoyed, usually a riff or a light groove to hang on to while letting the rest zip on by.

I enjoy three songs apiece from their first two best-of collections (five sung by Mike McDonald), but get sufficiently annoyed by the ones I don't like that I'd never consider listening to an original album.

A lot of their music just sounds like nothing is at stake. There’s a bit of a blankly cherry, up with people kind of vibe to it.

*blankly cheery

For people who found the Eagles too intense.

For people who found the Eagles too intense.

LMAO

A lot of their music just sounds like nothing is at stake.

Pretty damning when one of their signature tunes is "Takin' It to the Streets."

Yeah but that song is just about getting a new remote-controlled car for Christmas

Neil Young:Model Trains::Michael McDonald:Radio-Controlled Cars

REMOTE-CONTROLLED

For people who found the Eagles too intense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9URZfqYf2o

^ pretty funky jammed-out version w Cornelius Bumpus leading the band

full show is here, those live mcdonald vocals are ridiculous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LCB_RdfdXc

Damn, that show is dope

Started crying this morning listening to Here to Love You for the first time, what a song.

that set is unbelievable

feel like this video disproves every old "Doobies pre-Mcdonald is real Doobies" douchebag so hard. This band only got classic when they went full funky r&b.

Yass ^

They can sit on the bench with the "Fleetwood Mac pre-Buckingham Nicks is real Fleetwood Mac" dorks imo

My dad insists everything post Peter Green stinks. xTRUEDADCHALLOPSx

feel like this video disproves every old "Doobies pre-Mcdonald is real Doobies" douchebag so hard. This band only got classic when they went full funky r&b.

They can sit on the bench with the "Fleetwood Mac pre-Buckingham Nicks is real Fleetwood Mac" dorks imo

I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland
Pretty Mama come and take me by the hand
By the hand (hand), take me by the hand pretty Mama
Come and dance with your daddy all night long
I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland
Pretty Mama come and take me by the hand
I want to honky tonk (take me by the hand)
Honky tonk (take me by the hand pretty Mama)
Honky tonk (come and dance with your daddy all night long) with you all night long

I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland
Pretty Mama come and take me by the hand
I want to honky tonk (take me by the hand)
Honky tonk (take me by the hand pretty Mama)
Honky tonk (come and dance with your daddy all night long) with you all night long

I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland
Pretty Mama come and take me by the hand
C'mon baby, c'mon baby (I want to honky tonk) (take me by the hand)
Honky tonk (take me by the hand pretty Mama)
Honky tonk (come and dance with your daddy all night long) with you all night long

I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland
Pretty Mama come and take me by the hand
C'mon baby, c'mon baby (I want to honky tonk) (take me by the hand)
Honky tonk (take me by the hand pretty Mama)
Honky tonk (come and dance with your daddy all night long) with you all night long

I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland
Pretty Mama come and take me by the hand
C'mon baby, c'mon baby (I want to honky tonk) (take me by the hand)
Honky tonk (take me by the hand pretty Mama)
Honky tonk (come and dance with your daddy all night long) with you all night long

imo

I always think of that line in Romancing the Stone.

LOL, he found out a couple of years too late

Michael McDonald, Living Meme, strikes again

Yah Mo Zoom U

Hope this story ends better than the little girl obsessed with Wire.

“Is your best friend Christopher Cross?” Hahaha