You can’t go wrong with the Doobie Brothers, the Eagles and Creedence Clearwater Revival, Add in some Chicago and you have a certain kinda vibe. Use to just lay on my bed listening to these albums amongst all the others. lol
70s were the decade of musical fusion, all of it came together, singers moved freely from rock to country to jazz to funk to blues, and we moved with them. They had a freedom that musicians today, in their marketing boxes, don't have.
@Cchan53 Precisely because the marketing machine became the most important element. Add auto tune, and you end up with a manufactured "superstar." Who cares if they can't sing? So long as they have the "right look," we can "fix" everything else. It's a shame.
Yes! Black Water is my fave! Doobie Brothers pre Michael McDonald are the best. He changed their whole vibe! I like the years with him but it’s different! Thanks BP! ❤️🔥✌🏻🫶🏻
Never cared much at all for the Mikey McDonald years. Def a different vibe-way too commercial/AM radio vibe for me. This is MY Doobies with Tom Johnston at the helm,thank you! Cheers, T
Yep - exactly agree.. just responded to another post where I said this.. Black Water is my favorite.. but I may perhaps have been a little less charitable about M. McDonald.. I guess his voice was okay, but to me, that was just a whole different, and much less interesting vibe...
Like I stated above, this is my favorite Doobie Brother's era. Love that southern drawl and Michael McDonald just doesn't have it. I seldom listen to his singing with them. He couldn't have sung Black Water!
So many great songs by The Doobie Brothers. This one is before Michael McDonald as are a lot of their great songs. ‘ Black Water ‘ is definitely a must listen to. I bought the 45 record for the song on the A side titled ‘ Take Me In Your Arms and Rock Me ‘ just so happened they put ‘ Black Water ‘ on the B side. Never heard a song by them I didn’t like. This 65 yr old gal hopes you listen to more Doobie Brothers. 😊
Music can change your mood if only for just a little while! I am 63 and I do have health problems BUT you get me in the car listening to 70's on 7 and they play the music that get you feeling like i am that 9 to 17 year old and the windows down the music loud and singing along! MAKES ME FEEL YOUNG AGAIN IF ONLY FOR A LITTLE WHILE!
This song is a time machine. It brings me back to the summer of '73 when I was shooting hoops as a kid in my parent's backyard. A different time and space...
Doobies were untouchable on # of hits they had, didn’t matter what their line up was with Tommy or Michael singing. 70’s is without a doubt the best time for music.
We constantly played their greatest hits album in the mid-70s. Super talented musicians, creative, and singular best music of the times! Harmonies incredible. Both melodic to dominate the pop charts and a star among music critics. Sorta The Eagles on steroids! Country rock with jazz and blues. My other favorites were New Riders of this peak era of mixed genres: New Riders of the Purple Sage (saw, hit was Louisiana Lady, my fave was Last Lonely Eagle), The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (saw twice, hit was House at Poo Corners), and The Band.
These bruddahs are still touring today!! Their music is timeless and classic that resonates with the youngsters today! Like Chicago and Earth Wind and Fire, the Doobie Brothers just UPLIFT the people of EVERY kind!! This to me is their "anthem". I was lucky to have seen them in concert recently along with Chicago and EWF. How lucky I was able to grow up in the 70s with the best music ever!!
Go to their 3rd album "The Captain and Me" and then go to the song "Dark Eyed Cajun Woman" and you will have found the best Doobies song in their long line of excellent songs. This is pure unadulterated blues heaven, with some of the _tastiest_ blues guitar licks you will ever hear. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200, just go to this song and you will be in bliss! 🎸🎸🎸😎👌💖💖💖
The Doobie Brothers have regrouped over the years and still tour. They were their own genre, changing as the musicians changed. Radio played a broad assortment of musical genres in the 60’s & 70’s, so labels didn’t matter all that much so you were exposed to so many wonderful artists. About a year ago they celebrated 50 years of DB music. It’s on UA-cam and worth a watch.
I gave up TV service 5 years ago and have never been happier. I get to pick and choose what I watch on UA-cam and spend most of my time watching movie and music reactions. No politics.
We also haven’t had cable for many years, I just subscribe to movie services and watch what I want to along with UA-cam and Spotify for music 🎵 streaming!❤❤ Definitely happier and w/o watching politics too, for me anyway.❤❤
Music is therapy. It gives us peace, brings us joy, makes us smile. It has a way of transporting us back to another time like nothing else. Music is life to me, I couldn’t live without it. Great song to react to. 🙂
Love these guys ! They make excellent music ! Makes you feel like you're part of the song ! Their song Blackwater will really make you feel like your living on the water man that song really gets me !
Doobie Brothers are so very awesome. They are icons and this song is iconic. Home Free did an awesome cover of this song. It is worth a listen. Love your reaction!
Listen to the Music- over 50 years of making me so happy and washing any blues away. Every time i hear this song i feel better. The Doobies were another band who were great live. Saw them tour with Peter Frampton.
Great group, song and reaction. Love to see you loving these classics. Agree with those below who recommend Black Water...it is my favorite Doobie song too.
Doobie Brothers are still touring and they sound great! I just saw them in Seattle in September. Michael McDonald, who went on to have a great solo career was there, too! Wonderful concert. I saw them in the early 70’s at the height of their careers along with the band, Chicago.. Great concert!
@@janflewelling6277 - I, too, like McDonald Doobies, and they are quite good. I just like classic Doobies more :) - It's a comparative thing. - Whatever one's preference, LISTEN TO THE MUSIC! :) ...
This stuff brings tears to my eyes, all the good times I had with my friends listening to it. 63 now and I really miss the music, time in the treehouse or trailing on my Kawasaki. Magical time it was…..
This band is multi-layered no specific genre. Iconic band with many hits. BTW They were performing on New Year Day, thus the odd clothing. Also they are a California band.
Doobie Brothers were fire in the 70's, reminds me of my high school days, this is early Doobie Brothers. Love them, this is one of their best songs and I would definitely consider their early music as southern rock. Black Water was very popular my Junior and Senior year in high school, you should check it out if you haven't already.
This is my favorite Doobie Brother's era. The tall guitarist in white also sings lead. Check out their masterpiece Black Water to hear him. Love the southern drawl they bring to their music in this era.
I love how 70's bands weren't primped and made to look perfect like artists are now but they were clean and had style. These guys look like everyday dudes who can sing and play with their natural long hair and facial hair, sporting their stylish duds. This song sounds like a state of mind you get into after the happiness you hear from ELO's MR Blue Sky. MR Blue Sky being start to your morning going outside once the bad weather has gone away and the sun is out. Then you start to Listen to The music after and once you've reached your destination you hit Chicago and sing about Saturday in the Park. :)
"Black Water" & "China Grove" is the very best of the Doobies! I am really glad I grew up in the Era when this and much more of the very best Music Mankind has ever known was filling the Radio Waves!
We always called this "style/type" of music as "Rock-a-Billy." Definitely in the rock-'n'-roll category. But with some folk, southern rock, and a dash of country guitar. As a teen, when the Doobie Brothers were hitting the charter, their name was the first thing that grabbed my attention. Hearing the word "Doobie" on the radio in the car with my parents. A doobie was slang for a marijuana cigarette back then! So here I am, hanging with my crew at nights, smoking a Doobie (or three) and hearing these guys' band name on the radio. Now is there some connection there? Rumors around neighborhood and school was "Hell Yeah!" But I never saw/read anything that said these were the "Pot Smoking Brothers" or if they came up with the name from some other source. Either way I always loved hearing these guys in the radio! Such a great sound and cool vibe.
You make me feel really good seeing how you really appreciate the true talent of the bands back in the day. I'm glad I got to live in those times. I miss them.
Love your reaction to all the oldies. Just an fyi the world was in a very similar place as it is now. We were at war in Vietnam, it was a time of racial unrest, women were fighting for equal rights. We were going through a political scandal called Water Gate but we got through it and in many ways came out better on the other side.. Of course there were casualties, hardships and more to learn but the music brought us through it all. It gave is a reason to dance, sing and sometimes cry. So today when we find ourselves in a world full of unrest we know we can get through this too. The same God who had us then has us now. Keep playing all the tunes. Thanks
This was their first big hit and put them on the map! Saw them on their first tour when they opened for T-Rex. They were fantastic! T-Rex came out, and Marc Bolan, singer and guitarist for the band, was high as a kite and couldn’t sing or play a lick. After two songs the crowd was booing them off the stage and yelling “We want the Doobie Brothers.” One of those concert memories you never forget
You are so correct, music is therapeutic, right now I got in this habit coming from work everyday, have to listen to music or you guys doing tractions! If I were suppose to be stranded on a deserted island, I would need my music with me! Music is everything to me, I grew up with it from young, one of the old school people!
In the 80’s movie Romancing The Stone, Michael Douglas played a guy who had been out of the country for years because he was on the run. When he finally got his hands on an American newspaper, he was really excited and started flipping through it to find out what had happened since he left. Then he got really mad and said “THE DOOBIE BROTHERS BROKE UP?!?! SONOFABITCH!!!!”
I was a teenager from 1969 to1975 so this was my era for music.....the 70s ! We called this soft rock or easy listening rock, then there was rock, hard rock, acid rock and classical rock(El+P and Yes)
Go down that rabbit hole! Doobies rocked. My favorite Doobie Brother is Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter (on guitar with long hair & Fu Manchu 'stache in black. He is also a missile defense expert!
Been listening to the Doobies since high school in the 70's. Saw them live in college - amazing. My kids got introduced to them when we would go on road trips and I'd slide in the CD starting with Rockin Down the Highway. China Grove, Long Train Running, Take Me in Your Arms, Black Water, I Cheat the Hangman, SouthCity Midnight Lady (my fave). List goes on. Back in the time machine.
This is one of their early great songs, along with China Grove, Long Train Running, Blackwater, Taking It To The Streets, What A Fool Believes. My favorite is Long Train Running.
Very 70s vibe. Doobie Brothers put out some really fun songs. Good harmonies, and they have a few interesting sounds sprinkled in there. I swear I hear a banjo.
First lol I listen to almost all your reactions. I was going to say, before you brought it up again, if the music brings you peace, don’t stop doing the reactions. We will miss you. I heard you say you would step away on a reaction yesterday, but we would prefer if you just took a break lol. Just kidding, it’s whatever is good for you. But good reaction. You always seem to intelligently get to the heart and meaning of the song. Just gotta vibe and listen to the music, man. Lol It’s definitely a positive mindset and message. Very mindful lol.
'music is medicine'! -- so many know this but so many don't take their meds! --- sit with music! just be with it!... also - performers are the medicine keepers and can really help alleviate the pains... the toxicity of the internet is real - the antidote is a good de-tox... peace to you BP!
In this particular performance you have Tom Johnston. Lead Vocals/ Guitar Tiran Porter. Bass Pat Simmons Guitar / Vocals John Hartman. Drums Jeff Baxter. Guitar Keith Knudsen. Drums / Percussion **. Side Note Jeff “ Skunk” Baxter is not only a great guitarist who was a founding member of Steely Dan and sessions musician he also has a side hustle Jeff Baxter holds a Top Secret Pentagon clearance , he’s works on missile defense systems with defense contractors & home land security / counter terrorism With a big mustache, and a long ponytail
This song is a vibe. I remember as a really little kid dancing around to this ( I was probably 5 yrs old ) with my older sisters. Doobie brothers take me all the way back! ❤
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It was the 70's we didn't care what genre it was. We just cared if it sounded good and/or made us want to dance.
You can’t go wrong with the Doobie Brothers, the Eagles and Creedence Clearwater Revival, Add in some Chicago and you have a certain kinda vibe. Use to just lay on my bed listening to these albums amongst all the others. lol
Oh c’mon now. “Disco sucks” “I hate country” “ROCK N ROLL MAN”. But the Doobie Brothers were certainly part of the soundtrack of times.
Exactly!!
@@garyjohnston-f9m I like disco and country but I was in Texas for the 70's. 🤣
@@toodlescae me too! San Antonio
70s were the decade of musical fusion, all of it came together, singers moved freely from rock to country to jazz to funk to blues, and we moved with them. They had a freedom that musicians today, in their marketing boxes, don't have.
You're so right...hardly any talent out there nowadays!
@Cchan53 Precisely because the marketing machine became the most important element. Add auto tune, and you end up with a manufactured "superstar." Who cares if they can't sing? So long as they have the "right look," we can "fix" everything else. It's a shame.
well said.
"Blackwater" is my fave by them. Great reaction!!! 40!
one of my all time faves too!
YES.. my favorite as well.. gotta say that I lost interest a bit when they brought in Michael McDonald.. just not the same "groove"..
Yes! Black Water is my fave! Doobie Brothers pre Michael McDonald are the best. He changed their whole vibe! I like the years with him but it’s different! Thanks BP! ❤️🔥✌🏻🫶🏻
Never cared much at all for the Mikey McDonald years. Def a different vibe-way too commercial/AM radio vibe for me. This is MY Doobies with Tom Johnston at the helm,thank you! Cheers, T
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Yep - exactly agree.. just responded to another post where I said this.. Black Water is my favorite.. but I may perhaps have been a little less charitable about M. McDonald.. I guess his voice was okay, but to me, that was just a whole different, and much less interesting vibe...
Like I stated above, this is my favorite Doobie Brother's era. Love that southern drawl and Michael McDonald just doesn't have it. I seldom listen to his singing with them. He couldn't have sung Black Water!
Blackwater and China Grove are my favorite Doobie songs. Definitely should hear Blackwater
So many great songs by The Doobie Brothers. This one is before Michael McDonald as are a lot of their great songs. ‘ Black Water ‘ is definitely a must listen to. I bought the 45 record for the song on the A side titled ‘ Take Me In Your Arms and Rock Me ‘ just so happened they put ‘ Black Water ‘ on the B side. Never heard a song by them I didn’t like. This 65 yr old gal hopes you listen to more Doobie Brothers. 😊
"Oh, black water , keep on movin'
Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shining on me..."😊
Multi-Hit Makers! Multi-Singers…
“Jesus is just alright”
This!!!^^^^
Great live version of Jesus is just Alright on the Midnight Special channel!
One of my favorites
Music can change your mood if only for just a little while! I am 63 and I do have health problems BUT you get me in the car listening to 70's on 7 and they play the music that get you feeling like i am that 9 to 17 year old and the windows down the music loud and singing along! MAKES ME FEEL YOUNG AGAIN IF ONLY FOR A LITTLE WHILE!
Hands down my favorite song! It makes me happy whenever I hear it. Love this reaction! 🎶🎵❤️
You can't go wrong with any Doobie Brothers song. So many great memories.
This song is a time machine. It brings me back to the summer of '73 when I was shooting hoops as a kid in my parent's backyard. A different time and space...
Just.... joy. No deeper message, just be happy with the music.
I highly recommend The Doobie Brothers "Black Water" and their song "Jesus Is Just Alright".
This is what made us happy in the 70's. It was all about the music and hanging out with good friends or strangers :)
Always here for the Doobies❣️
Doobies were untouchable on # of hits they had, didn’t matter what their line up was with Tommy or Michael singing. 70’s is without a doubt the best time for music.
Classic southern rock baby
☮️❤️🙏🌎🌍🌏🇺🇸❤️☮️
The Doobie Bros are a great rabbit hole to jump into.
The Doobies crossed all styles of music, excellent musicians!
We constantly played their greatest hits album in the mid-70s. Super talented musicians, creative, and singular best music of the times! Harmonies incredible. Both melodic to dominate the pop charts and a star among music critics. Sorta The Eagles on steroids! Country rock with jazz and blues. My other favorites were New Riders of this peak era of mixed genres: New Riders of the Purple Sage (saw, hit was Louisiana Lady, my fave was Last Lonely Eagle), The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (saw twice, hit was House at Poo Corners), and The Band.
"LONG TRAIN RUNNING!!"
The studio version and also their "live" are both gems!!!
He did that one
These bruddahs are still touring today!! Their music is timeless and classic that resonates with the youngsters today! Like Chicago and Earth Wind and Fire, the Doobie Brothers just UPLIFT the people of EVERY kind!! This to me is their "anthem". I was lucky to have seen them in concert recently along with Chicago and EWF. How lucky I was able to grow up in the 70s with the best music ever!!
love that bass line...it walks through the whole song
I agree with the great base line it almost takes the place of lead guitar in this song
This song just makes you Happy ❤
The classics are classics for a reason
Go to their 3rd album "The Captain and Me" and then go to the song "Dark Eyed Cajun Woman" and you will have found the best Doobies song in their long line of excellent songs. This is pure unadulterated blues heaven, with some of the _tastiest_ blues guitar licks you will ever hear. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200, just go to this song and you will be in bliss! 🎸🎸🎸😎👌💖💖💖
This song takes me back to my childhood. My older sister loved the Doobies. Thx for keeping it real. People like you restore my faith in humanity.
The Doobie Brothers have regrouped over the years and still tour. They were their own genre, changing as the musicians changed. Radio played a broad assortment of musical genres in the 60’s & 70’s, so labels didn’t matter all that much so you were exposed to so many wonderful artists. About a year ago they celebrated 50 years of DB music. It’s on UA-cam and worth a watch.
I gave up TV service 5 years ago and have never been happier. I get to pick and choose what I watch on UA-cam and spend most of my time watching movie and music reactions. No politics.
We also haven’t had cable for many years, I just subscribe to movie services and watch what I want to along with UA-cam and Spotify for music 🎵 streaming!❤❤ Definitely happier and w/o watching politics too, for me anyway.❤❤
Music is therapy. It gives us peace, brings us joy, makes us smile. It has a way of transporting us back to another time like nothing else. Music is life to me, I couldn’t live without it. Great song to react to. 🙂
Love these guys ! They make excellent music ! Makes you feel like you're part of the song ! Their song Blackwater will really make you feel like your living on the water man that song really gets me !
Doobie Brothers are so very awesome. They are icons and this song is iconic. Home Free did an awesome cover of this song. It is worth a listen. Love your reaction!
I was going to San Jose State University, living near campus and these guys lived just down the street... heard some good tunes. Good times.
I went to Leigh High with Patrick!
Love love love watching you enjoy.. and LISTEN TO THE MUSIC!! ENJOY MY FRIEND!!
The Doobie Brothers have some truly happy songs. Black Water is another one.
The 70's were definitely genre neutral, & crossed over, mixed, & fused, just like humans did, back in the 70's! What a great time to be alive!
“Long Train Runnin’” is my fav Doobie song but any one of their songs brings its own vibe. I think you’d like “Jesus is Just Alright”
Listen to the Music- over 50 years of making me so happy and washing any blues away.
Every time i hear this song i feel better. The Doobies were another band who were great live. Saw them tour with Peter Frampton.
Great group, song and reaction. Love to see you loving these classics. Agree with those below who recommend Black Water...it is my favorite Doobie song too.
Doobie Brothers are still touring and they sound great! I just saw them in Seattle in September. Michael McDonald, who went on to have a great solo career was there, too! Wonderful concert. I saw them in the early 70’s at the height of their careers along with the band, Chicago.. Great concert!
Jesus is just alright, is a Doobie Brothers must.
Doobie Brothers always makes ya feel good 😊
This has been one of the best feel good songs for over 50 years of my life! Glad you like it BP👍
- Country? Hip swing? Soul? Southern rock? YES! YES! YES! YES!
I do like the Michael McDonald era, but when I think Doobies, it's definitely Tom Johnson.
@@janflewelling6277
- I, too, like McDonald Doobies, and they are quite good. I just like classic Doobies more :)
- It's a comparative thing.
- Whatever one's preference, LISTEN TO THE MUSIC! :) ...
Southern Rock? Yes, if you mean southern Bay Area. They were from San Jose.
@@richdiddens4059it was referring to music style not geographic location….
This stuff brings tears to my eyes, all the good times I had with my friends listening to it. 63 now and I really miss the music, time in the treehouse or trailing on my Kawasaki. Magical time it was…..
Love your reaction and the song.
You definitely need to listen to Black Water. It’s one of my favorites of any group.
The music of my youth which is what I still listen to.
..."Class of 76"...They had a constant radio presence, The Doobies are in my top 10 all time favorite bands...Play Blackwater and China Groovin...
This band is multi-layered no specific genre. Iconic band with many hits. BTW They were performing on New Year Day, thus the odd clothing. Also they are a California band.
I love the bass line on this song. The bass player always added a funky vibe to their music
The best group of guys you could ever meet and were so humble and kind. They put on a great concert!! Timeless Classic!! Love me some Doobie Brothers!
Doobie Brothers were fire in the 70's, reminds me of my high school days, this is early Doobie Brothers. Love them, this is one of their best songs and I would definitely consider their early music as southern rock. Black Water was very popular my Junior and Senior year in high school, you should check it out if you haven't already.
Almost criminally unappreciated…… Top-tier catalog going on 40+ years to this day.
This is my favorite Doobie Brother's era. The tall guitarist in white also sings lead. Check out their masterpiece Black Water to hear him. Love the southern drawl they bring to their music in this era.
Love, love, love this song ✌️ from Day 1. 💗So happy, everytime. 🌼
Great band! Great album, their best in my view, great song, and the best era by far for music. Mid 60’s to 1979 let’s say.
I love how 70's bands weren't primped and made to look perfect like artists are now but they were clean and had style. These guys look like everyday dudes who can sing and play with their natural long hair and facial hair, sporting their stylish duds. This song sounds like a state of mind you get into after the happiness you hear from ELO's MR Blue Sky. MR Blue Sky being start to your morning going outside once the bad weather has gone away and the sun is out. Then you start to Listen to The music after and once you've reached your destination you hit Chicago and sing about Saturday in the Park. :)
You will love and appreciate this one by the Doobie Bros: Jesus in Just Alright
"Black Water" & "China Grove" is the very best of the Doobies! I am really glad I grew up in the Era when this and much more of the very best Music Mankind has ever known was filling the Radio Waves!
The Doobie Brothers are awesome
We always called this "style/type" of music as "Rock-a-Billy." Definitely in the rock-'n'-roll category. But with some folk, southern rock, and a dash of country guitar.
As a teen, when the Doobie Brothers were hitting the charter, their name was the first thing that grabbed my attention. Hearing the word "Doobie" on the radio in the car with my parents. A doobie was slang for a marijuana cigarette back then!
So here I am, hanging with my crew at nights, smoking a Doobie (or three) and hearing these guys' band name on the radio.
Now is there some connection there? Rumors around neighborhood and school was "Hell Yeah!" But I never saw/read anything that said these were the "Pot Smoking Brothers" or if they came up with the name from some other source.
Either way I always loved hearing these guys in the radio! Such a great sound and cool vibe.
I love the DOOBIES there music always makes me happy...
these guys have a great catalog to delve in to. You will have fun discovering more. Music is my therapy in a lot of ways as well.
❤❤One of my all-time favorite songs ! 😊😊
You make me feel really good seeing how you really appreciate the true talent of the bands back in the day. I'm glad I got to live in those times. I miss them.
The amazing Tiran Porter on bass... so funky.
What you need to help you chill is Dream Weaver
Chiming in with 'China Grove', a favorite Doobie Brothers tune.
Its what I call Rock and Soul
Love your reaction to all the oldies. Just an fyi the world was in a very similar place as it is now. We were at war in Vietnam, it was a time of racial unrest, women were fighting for equal rights. We were going through a political scandal called Water Gate but we got through it and in many ways came out better on the other side.. Of course there were casualties, hardships and more to learn but the music brought us through it all. It gave is a reason to dance, sing and sometimes cry. So today when we find ourselves in a world full of unrest we know we can get through this too. The same God who had us then has us now. Keep playing all the tunes. Thanks
Love this! And you're spot on. When I can't stand the "noise of the world," I put my headphones on and go into my garden. It balances me.
He is just saying the music is a way to make you smile. And it is
This was their first big hit and put them on the map! Saw them on their first tour when they opened for T-Rex. They were fantastic! T-Rex came out, and Marc Bolan, singer and guitarist for the band, was high as a kite and couldn’t sing or play a lick. After two songs the crowd was booing them off the stage and yelling “We want the Doobie Brothers.” One of those concert memories you never forget
You are so correct, music is therapeutic, right now I got in this habit coming from work everyday, have to listen to music or you guys doing tractions!
If I were suppose to be stranded on a deserted island, I would need my music with me! Music is everything to me, I grew up with it from young, one of the old school people!
They are a bad ass band. Live their great. I'm glad I got to see so many live bands. I'm blessed.....
I've seen them twice! Both times with Skynyrd, great show!
In the 80’s movie Romancing The Stone, Michael Douglas played a guy who had been out of the country for years because he was on the run. When he finally got his hands on an American newspaper, he was really excited and started flipping through it to find out what had happened since he left. Then he got really mad and said “THE DOOBIE BROTHERS BROKE UP?!?! SONOFABITCH!!!!”
Its the guitars and their perfect sync that gets me everytime
This was my first favorite song of theirs! ❤
The Doobies still tour and sound better than ever
We did this song in high school music classes, band and chorus. Great to learn harmonies and listening to those singing beside you.
I HIGHLY recommend their song Toulouse Street. Sit back in a comfy chair, close your eye, and let the music sing to your soul.
Loved the Doobies, every song was held together by Tyrone Porters ripping bass beats , he was beast
Love the Doobie Brothers! Just saw them in concert last month!
The Doobies are my probably my favorite band. If anyone hears me casually singing this one, they know I’m in really good mood.
Keep on Rocking! ☮️🎶✝️
What an iconic jam !
I was a teenager from 1969 to1975 so this was my era for music.....the 70s ! We called this soft rock or easy listening rock, then there was rock, hard rock, acid rock and classical rock(El+P and Yes)
Go down that rabbit hole! Doobies rocked. My favorite Doobie Brother is Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter (on guitar with long hair & Fu Manchu 'stache in black. He is also a missile defense expert!
Been listening to the Doobies since high school in the 70's. Saw them live in college - amazing. My kids got introduced to them when we would go on road trips and I'd slide in the CD starting with Rockin Down the Highway. China Grove, Long Train Running, Take Me in Your Arms, Black Water, I Cheat the Hangman, SouthCity Midnight Lady (my fave). List goes on. Back in the time machine.
This is one of their early great songs, along with China Grove, Long Train Running, Blackwater, Taking It To The Streets, What A Fool Believes. My favorite is Long Train Running.
@jamesdagenais6494. YES!
"Long Train Running" has been my most listened to of any!
There's something magical in the opening guitar riffs!
Very 70s vibe. Doobie Brothers put out some really fun songs. Good harmonies, and they have a few interesting sounds sprinkled in there. I swear I hear a banjo.
I was in my teens when they came out. I used to love how their music would do channel separation in my stereo.
This song was on classic rock FM radio every single day through the 1970s and 1980s... probably still is!
Music is definitely a type of therapy, I agree 💯
First lol I listen to almost all your reactions. I was going to say, before you brought it up again, if the music brings you peace, don’t stop doing the reactions. We will miss you. I heard you say you would step away on a reaction yesterday, but we would prefer if you just took a break lol. Just kidding, it’s whatever is good for you. But good reaction. You always seem to intelligently get to the heart and meaning of the song. Just gotta vibe and listen to the music, man. Lol It’s definitely a positive mindset and message. Very mindful lol.
'music is medicine'! -- so many know this but so many don't take their meds! --- sit with music! just be with it!... also - performers are the medicine keepers and can really help alleviate the pains... the toxicity of the internet is real - the antidote is a good de-tox... peace to you BP!
Love this song. Such sweet memories returning of a different America that my grandchildren will never know. 😢
We had many big problems in the 70s but the music was wonderful
***BLACK WATER*** got to check that one out by them!
This type of music is called Southern Rock". It has a lot of soul as well
In this particular performance you have
Tom Johnston. Lead Vocals/ Guitar
Tiran Porter. Bass
Pat Simmons Guitar / Vocals
John Hartman. Drums
Jeff Baxter. Guitar
Keith Knudsen. Drums / Percussion
**. Side Note
Jeff “ Skunk” Baxter is not only a great guitarist who was a founding member of Steely Dan and sessions musician he also has a side hustle
Jeff Baxter holds a Top Secret Pentagon clearance , he’s works on missile defense systems with defense contractors & home land security / counter terrorism
With a big mustache, and a long ponytail
This song is a vibe. I remember as a really little kid dancing around to this ( I was probably 5 yrs old ) with my older sisters. Doobie brothers take me all the way back! ❤
Same.. love me some Doobie Brothers!