I was at an outdoor Doobies show in the early '90s. At some point during a lull, I shouted "PLAY NEAL'S FANDANGO!!!" as loud as I could two or three times. The one of them who actually heard me said into a mic that it wasn't on that day's set list but they'd give it a shot anyway. Didn't miss a beat.......
Tom Johnston never got the recognition he deserved.... it took until 2020 for the Doobies to make it to the Hall of Fame? Tiran Porter, one of rocks all time great bassists!
Saw them on the Captain and Me tour at Winterland in SF. ‘73 I believe. Holy Crap! Vices and Captain-2 of the best rock albums. Got something for er’body on ‘em!
I always felt so fortunate to have seen Skunk play with Steely Dan in April '75 on the "Pretzel Logic" Tour and later that same year with The Doobies. The two best concerts I've ever attended.
Saw the Doobies many times from 74-80 while living in Pensacola. The early Doobies from this video were hands down as great as any touring band and put on the most powerful shows. Those were great days in the South.
Thanks for posting this! I grew up with these guys in Loma Prieta in the Santa Cruz mountains. This song was the anthem of my youth. I remember hanging out with these guys at the Chateau Regis (later became the Chateau Liberté) way back when they were just a local mountain-grown band. There may be better quality videos out there...but none more authentic. This is the *real* Doobie Brothers! Thanks for the memories!
Tight sound. Especially with Skunk on guitar. Tom was having health issues around this period of time. He actually left the band and then returned for the Taking It to The Streets album. Great upload!
I used to see Tiran at the old Quement Electronics store in San Jose. My favorite song of his “For Someone Special” Thanks Tiran for the great music and memories.
I hear ya. The Doobs, however, were one of the few bands that were able to pull it off, without the 2 getting in each other's way. The studio version of "Road Angel" really shows some great interplay between the two. Nothing against the live version here, I'm lovin' it! It's just tough picking up everything. Great band!
I met Tiran Porter about 8 years back in Los Gatos. You're right, super nice guy and we talked for quite a while. He was playing with some bands around the Bay area, but he seemed to really like being home. He said the never being home part just finally wore him out and he had to back off. Again, great guy and I really appreciated meeting him.
I grew up with these guys every waking moment listening to all great songs they produced!! Thanks for getting me thru my teenage years at the drag strip !!
This is great!! I am so thankful I grew up with the Best of the Best Classic Rock! Tom & Patrick still holding it together! I can't wait to See The Doobie Brothers in San Diego CA USA on September 22,2018 with the Eagles and Zac Brown Band!! Love The Classic's Forever!!! With All the Memories that go with All the Many Year's The Doobie Brothers and so many other Classic Rock Artist still going for 4-5 Decades! Amazing Talent so glad to have Them still with Us Today!!! Classic Rock!!! 🎶❤🎶❤🎶❤🎶❤🎶
Thanks for sharing.I stayed at a Ramada Inn in Starkville Ms.and they were staying there also.They left out in big station wagons pulling u-hauls.That was in 1975.Good memories.
That drum break on the recorded version of Road Angel is one of the best in Rock and Roll. It seemed abbreviated here. But this is a great video, THANKS!! This is true ROCK & ROLL music.
I love the theatre and the sound in Neal's Fandango. This was the best rock around in 1975! Road Angel - not at the same level to my ear, interesting though it is. I find Pat and Tom miraculous, and always will. This should not be the opportunity to put down Michael McDonald because his contribution was enormous too.
Road Angel. Just awesome. After all these years I finally got to see this performed by one of the best lineups before Tommy got sick and they turned into something I was no longer a fan of. Glad I got to see this!
Pretty much seen all the great bands from late 60's to present and the early Doobies 72-75 were by far one of the most incredible bands I have seen live. Even liked their progression with McDonald. Thanks for this great video w/ Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.
I was at the 1975 Capital Centre performance with the 3 lead guitars and yes if I had a time machine or a way to go back in time. This would probably be one of my top 2 or 3 places to return to. That night was incredible. Imagine festival seating, all the kind, booze and pretty young teenage girls in the world in the almost brand new Capital Centre with that overhead screen. It looks like it could be the French Jukebox footage but then again more and more of that Cap Centre footage is starting to re-appear. CSNY even used it for their 1974 Tour Box and the Eagles the same thing used the 1977 Cap Centre overhead for the live 1977 Hotel California release. Who knows what an incredible jam this is! I had to watch it twice!
February 1975 YOU WERE THERE ?? I can imagine ? Booze Hot chicks! Sex in backseats or in the open, is my guess? I wasn't there, but i dont think that is far off from the truth! am i Right?
I was there in 77. Unfortunately, Tommy had left 2 years prior and Pablo Cruise opened. I had to wait years until Cycles came out to see Tommy with the band. Of course, I never thought that they’d ever get back together with the original lineup. I thought I died and went to Heaven! Seen them 20 plus times since!! RHOF 2020!
Anybody know of any early Doobies recordings with some good jamming stuff like this? A lot of live stuff from them is the more mainstream Doobies. Road Angel is just rippin'!!
@@squankbo Actually, it was 5 albums before Michael McDonald. Too many forget about their 1st album with no title and no hits, then, Toulouse Street, The Captain and Me, Vices and Stampede. 5 albums. Michael came in with Taken It To the Streets. number 6.
Didn't realise it was Tiran singing Road Angel. There's one live recording on Wolfgang's Vault where Bobby LaKind sings it and that's while TP was still in the band around 1978.
Neal Cassady & Jack Kerouac helped launch the Beat Generation, predecessor to the Hippie Movement. Neal hung out in the Santa Cruz Mountains & took trips w/ Ken Kesey in the magic bus known as Further; the bus didn't even need to move! That was the mid-sixties when being 'hip' was cool. Pat Simmons must remember those days well. ...OK, maybe not!
How these great Oakland rockers went from this to "lite" smooth music is really quite an enigma. Maybe Tommy's leaving and Michael's coming aboard had something to do with the direction the band took, way back when. Still, we love our Doobies.
I believe this was the point in time right before Tommy had to leave to get better. Maybe he asked Tiran to sing. I know Tommy left on the Vices tour and this show looks like that tour.
Johnston-Baxter-Porter-Simmons -one of the best gutiar lineups ever, certainly the best of any American band, with the possible exception of Walsh-Felder in the Eagles.
Does anyone else remember a section of "Road Angel" (6.18 in this video) was used in Guitar Center commercials back in the 70's? I always thought that was pretty cool.
@3Rubee Oh, man, how could I not mention Skynyrd? What an incredible layered guitar sound! But Skynyrd to my knowledge did not do acoustic picking like Simmons -Skynyrd was almost 100% hard driving electric rock, whereas Simmons comes out with a "Toulouse Street" and a "Black Water", showing a little more diversity. I would also throw in Stills-Crosby-Young during the rare CSNY forays -those guys fed off eachother in concert, some real guitar duels.
@wheelinthesky300 Gary Rossington could do some acoustic, but it obviously wasn't the Skynyrd "sound." And talking about under-rated...try Pat Simmons of course, and Stephen Stills. whew. I know we're meandering here, but there will never be another "scared shitless" moment in rock history like CS and N at Woodstock. Long live Tommy Johnston.
Has to be one of my favorite Doobie songs, Neal's Fandango, and since when the hell did Jeff Baxter ever sing? I know this is one of his favorite songs with the band, his other being How Does the Fool Survive, probably cause he got the awesome ass guitar solo at the end of it. Patrick Simmons is kinda forcing his voice on this one I think.
@wheelinthesky300 OK, OK. But I agree even more with your recent post of the incredible "foursome" that they were. The ultimate guitar arsenal. Would make even Skynyrd in their prime look like Mary Poppins. For further example, there's always "Without You." Talk about blowing your socks off. "Without You" could be one of the top 5 under-rated songs of all time. Thanks for your honest reply.
@3Rubee McDonald didn't fuck up anything. He brought his own sound. TJ was out of gas creatively -after 1975, he didn't make a dent until Cycles (1989). I prefered the 1971-1975 lineups, but judge the McDonald era on its own merits, and there is plenty to recommend it. Have you seen the shows Johnston/Simmons/McDonald did in the last 15 years? They were awesome.
@skunkdoobie personally, I don't think McDonald would make a pimple on TJ's ass. McDonald just fucked up the whole band sound.. TJ Dropped off the road of course due to severe larnyx distress, and the doobs were never the same..until recently touring again.
Why is the bass player singing the lead vocal on Road Angel? On the album it's Tom Johnston's lead vocal voice not the bass player. Perhaps Johnston's voice was blown out during that tour or something? The album version of Road Angel is some of the finest lead guitar playing of the 1974 era. This live crappy recording and the guitar playing on it are very weak compared to the studio version. Just my opinion as a lead guitarist.
I was at an outdoor Doobies show in the early '90s. At some point during a lull, I shouted "PLAY NEAL'S FANDANGO!!!" as loud as I could two or three times. The one of them who actually heard me said into a mic that it wasn't on that day's set list but they'd give it a shot anyway. Didn't miss a beat.......
Mr. Tiran Porter sings Road Angel very Cool!!
Tom Johnston never got the recognition he deserved.... it took until 2020 for the Doobies to make it to the Hall of Fame? Tiran Porter, one of rocks all time great bassists!
Saw them on the Captain and Me tour at Winterland in SF. ‘73 I believe. Holy Crap! Vices and Captain-2 of the best rock albums. Got something for er’body on ‘em!
The Doobies are the Greatest!
I always felt so fortunate to have seen Skunk play with Steely Dan in April '75 on the "Pretzel Logic" Tour and later that same year with The Doobies. The two best concerts I've ever attended.
Patrick Simmons is THE MAN. He is the glue that held the band together through thick and thin.
Little John created the "explosive" breaks & was a huge part of the heart from early days.
Comfort to his family for their loss. RIP Little John.
Damn, now these are the real Doobie Brothers!
Saw the Doobies many times from 74-80 while living in Pensacola. The early Doobies from this video were hands down as great as any touring band and put on the most powerful shows. Those were great days in the South.
Patrick Simmons is timeless.
Wow. Road Angel is an absolute classic. One of my favourite numbers of all time.
Two great tunes for getting out and hitting the road.
What a tight live band they were/are!!!
Thanks for posting this! I grew up with these guys in Loma Prieta in the Santa Cruz mountains. This song was the anthem of my youth. I remember hanging out with these guys at the Chateau Regis (later became the Chateau Liberté) way back when they were just a local mountain-grown band. There may be better quality videos out there...but none more authentic. This is the *real* Doobie Brothers! Thanks for the memories!
Mountain Grown? Tommy Johnston is from Visalia, Ca.. Mountains are there but not near. It's all flat farm country
Tight sound. Especially with Skunk on guitar. Tom was having health issues around this period of time. He actually left the band and then returned for the Taking It to The Streets album. Great upload!
I used to see Tiran at the old Quement Electronics store in San Jose. My favorite song of his “For Someone Special” Thanks Tiran for the great music and memories.
I hear ya. The Doobs, however, were one of the few bands that were able to pull it off, without the 2 getting in each other's way. The studio version of "Road Angel" really shows some great interplay between the two. Nothing against the live version here, I'm lovin' it! It's just tough picking up everything.
Great band!
Road Angel is absolutely on fire!
I met Tiran Porter about 8 years back in Los Gatos. You're right, super nice guy and we talked for quite a while. He was playing with some bands around the Bay area, but he seemed to really like being home. He said the never being home part just finally wore him out and he had to back off. Again, great guy and I really appreciated meeting him.
I adore that Skunk-man. So much fun!!
I grew up with these guys every waking moment listening to all great songs they produced!! Thanks for getting me thru my teenage years at the drag strip !!
This is great!! I am so thankful I grew up with the Best of the Best Classic Rock! Tom & Patrick still holding it together! I can't wait to See The Doobie Brothers in San Diego CA USA on September 22,2018 with the Eagles and Zac Brown Band!! Love The Classic's Forever!!! With All the Memories that go with All the Many Year's The Doobie Brothers and so many other Classic Rock Artist still going for 4-5 Decades! Amazing Talent so glad to have Them still with Us Today!!!
Classic Rock!!!
🎶❤🎶❤🎶❤🎶❤🎶
Thanks for sharing.I stayed at a Ramada Inn in Starkville Ms.and they were staying there also.They left out in big station wagons pulling u-hauls.That was in 1975.Good memories.
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Wow! Great stuff! The doos are so under
rated.......I have seen both tunes in concerts through the late 1990's and early 2000's....
Yes more of the rockin era of the Doobie Brothers! I like the weird video splice at the end, it threw me for a loop the first time
This version of Raod Angel is great! Tiran does of great job of singin on it(though it is Tom on the recording).
@wolfgar2
Listen to the Doobies with a good set of headphones and you will hear the advantage of 2 drummers.
Two drummers create a much more dynamic sound. That is just one of the reasons that made the Doobies unique.
That drum break on the recorded version of Road Angel is one of the best in Rock and Roll. It seemed abbreviated here. But this is a great video, THANKS!! This is true ROCK & ROLL music.
I agree, "Road Angel" is definately their all-time most underrated song. Stellar guitar work on the album version.
Tom Johnston rules!!
Saw the Brothers on New Year's 1975 Cow Palace 1975 to 1976...
Smokin! You'll never hear a band this again.
And we haven't.
Two great songs by a great line-up. This is probably the best footage of them on youtube
In Feb 1975, "Neil's Fandango" had yet to be released. It would appear on the "Stampede" LP, released two months later in April.
Great song man!, Doobie bro. rules!.Greetings from Chile, south america
What a JAM!!
I love the theatre and the sound in Neal's Fandango. This was the best rock around in 1975! Road Angel - not at the same level to my ear, interesting though it is.
I find Pat and Tom miraculous, and always will. This should not be the opportunity to put down Michael McDonald because his contribution was enormous too.
Road Angel. Just awesome. After all these years I finally got to see this performed by one of the best lineups before Tommy got sick and they turned into something I was no longer a fan of. Glad I got to see this!
I saw them earlier tonight! it's a shame they didn't play this
Pretty much seen all the great bands from late 60's to present and the early Doobies 72-75 were by far one of the most incredible bands I have seen live. Even liked their progression with McDonald. Thanks for this great video w/ Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.
This is some of the best Doobie Brothers footage... and "Road Angel" (@ 3:40) is one of my *favorite* songs by the band.
The REAL doobie brothers. UN.FUCKING> REAL
Road Angel is a hidden gem on their hidden gem of an album, What Were Once Vices are Now Habits. This lp is criminally underrated.
Agreed. Despite growing up in the '90's, that's one of my favorite albums of all time.
I was at the 1975 Capital Centre performance with the 3 lead guitars and yes if I had a time machine or a way to go back in time. This would probably be one of my top 2 or 3 places to return to. That night was incredible. Imagine festival seating, all the kind, booze and pretty young teenage girls in the world in the almost brand new Capital Centre with that overhead screen. It looks like it could be the French Jukebox footage but then again more and more of that Cap Centre footage is starting to re-appear. CSNY even used it for their 1974 Tour Box and the Eagles the same thing used the 1977 Cap Centre overhead for the live 1977 Hotel California release. Who knows what an incredible jam this is! I had to watch it twice!
February 1975 YOU WERE THERE ?? I can imagine ? Booze Hot chicks! Sex in backseats or in the open, is my guess? I wasn't there, but i dont think that is far off from the truth! am i Right?
Actually you nailed it bro!!!!
I was there in 77. Unfortunately, Tommy had left 2 years prior and Pablo Cruise opened. I had to wait years until Cycles came out to see Tommy with the band. Of course, I never thought that they’d ever get back together with the original lineup. I thought I died and went to Heaven! Seen them 20 plus times since!! RHOF 2020!
I like these members most
Anybody know of any early Doobies recordings with some good jamming stuff like this? A lot of live stuff from them is the more mainstream Doobies. Road Angel is just rippin'!!
CBH440 the first four albums are
Pure R’N’R before they went kinda mainstream with Michael McDonald
@@squankbo Actually, it was 5 albums before Michael McDonald. Too many forget about their 1st album with no title and no hits, then, Toulouse Street, The Captain and Me, Vices and Stampede. 5 albums. Michael came in with Taken It To the Streets. number 6.
Didn't realise it was Tiran singing Road Angel. There's one live recording on Wolfgang's Vault where Bobby LaKind sings it and that's while TP was still in the band around 1978.
Neal Cassady & Jack Kerouac helped launch the Beat Generation, predecessor to the Hippie Movement. Neal hung out in the Santa Cruz Mountains & took trips w/ Ken Kesey in the magic bus known as Further; the bus didn't even need to move! That was the mid-sixties when being 'hip' was cool. Pat Simmons must remember those days well. ...OK, maybe not!
How these great Oakland rockers went from this to "lite" smooth music is really quite an enigma. Maybe Tommy's leaving and Michael's coming aboard had something to do with the direction the band took, way back when. Still, we love our Doobies.
I believe this was the point in time right before Tommy had to leave to get better. Maybe he asked Tiran to sing. I know Tommy left on the Vices tour and this show looks like that tour.
Johnston-Baxter-Porter-Simmons
-one of the best gutiar lineups ever,
certainly the best of any American band,
with the possible exception of Walsh-Felder in the Eagles.
Yeah thats the JAM. Baxter is on.Tom too.
Class act.
Does anyone else remember a section of "Road Angel" (6.18 in this video) was used in Guitar Center commercials back in the 70's? I always thought that was pretty cool.
Yes, I had my info incorrect. Tommy must have left sometime during the Stampede tour, not Vices.
@3Rubee Oh, man, how could I not mention Skynyrd?
What an incredible layered guitar sound!
But Skynyrd to my knowledge did not do acoustic picking like Simmons
-Skynyrd was almost 100% hard driving electric rock,
whereas Simmons comes out with a "Toulouse Street" and a "Black Water",
showing a little more diversity.
I would also throw in Stills-Crosby-Young during the rare CSNY forays
-those guys fed off eachother in concert, some real guitar duels.
@wheelinthesky300 Gary Rossington could do some acoustic, but it obviously wasn't the Skynyrd "sound."
And talking about under-rated...try Pat Simmons of course, and Stephen Stills. whew.
I know we're meandering here, but there will never be another "scared shitless" moment in rock history like CS and N at Woodstock.
Long live Tommy Johnston.
Has to be one of my favorite Doobie songs, Neal's Fandango, and since when the hell did Jeff Baxter ever sing? I know this is one of his favorite songs with the band, his other being How Does the Fool Survive, probably cause he got the awesome ass guitar solo at the end of it.
Patrick Simmons is kinda forcing his voice on this one I think.
Tiran is the most musical bass player...not just rythm.
Badass!
Skunk standing?
I thought the same thing, and singing, to boot!
@wheelinthesky300 OK, OK. But I agree even more with your recent post of the incredible "foursome" that they were. The ultimate guitar arsenal. Would make even Skynyrd in their prime look like Mary Poppins. For further example, there's always "Without You." Talk about blowing your socks off. "Without You" could be one of the top 5 under-rated songs of all time.
Thanks for your honest reply.
I got to see them in San Diego in 1975 with my ex-fiance 😏
I was there. Rockin Show
Steve Anderson
😊Cool,, i had a blast,, it was my "FIRSTest" concert ever,,,, memories,,,
I was there, my 2nd Doobie bros. concert. Lookin' forward to my third!
good video. but i don't think this was 1976, i guess it was around 1974~1975. cause if this was 1976, there should have been michael mcdonald.
i need the time machine!
Duan Alman anyone Splendid
@3Rubee McDonald didn't fuck up anything.
He brought his own sound.
TJ was out of gas creatively
-after 1975, he didn't make a dent until Cycles (1989).
I prefered the 1971-1975 lineups,
but judge the McDonald era on its own merits,
and there is plenty to recommend it.
Have you seen the shows Johnston/Simmons/McDonald did in the last 15 years?
They were awesome.
When did Elliott Randall join the band?
@skunkdoobie personally, I don't think McDonald would make a pimple on TJ's ass. McDonald just fucked up the whole band sound.. TJ Dropped off the road of course due to severe larnyx distress, and the doobs were never the same..until recently touring again.
TJ also had severe stomach ulcers as well.
To the ghost hunter / alien conspiracy theorists...answer me this...why is an "orb" circling around Johnstons package here....6:35
jeff baxter.
Why is the bass player singing the lead vocal on Road Angel? On the album it's Tom Johnston's lead vocal voice not the bass player. Perhaps Johnston's voice was blown out during that tour or something? The album version of Road Angel is some of the finest lead guitar playing of the 1974 era. This live crappy recording and the guitar playing on it are very weak compared to the studio version. Just my opinion as a lead guitarist.
Im thinking they burned one. Doobie brothers were a rock band
@tenbarsteam He w
One of their best tunes. this video is pretty weak.