When He Brought Michael McDonald Into The Doobie Brothers

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Michael McDonald is a class act and a helluva musician and vocalist. Not even a question that he took the Doobies to another level.

johnwebb
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Gotta say you are rockin that shirt! Is it postage stamps? I love it! Michael McDonald is my favorite musician. What a catalog he has!

frankbeer
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What a cool interview. Love this band! Everything the group has ever done!

jerrygeist
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I was so young I really didn't notice a change. Music was music then to me. I was a kid.

MRVISTA-wzvj
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Please ask Jeff if Tom Johnston had any animosity towards having Michael McDonald take over the lead singer role. Great video!! Thank you

mickeyf
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You’re a very good interviewer, John. Good job 👍🏽

julesjgreig
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Love your interviews so much. Thank you! You have the Passion


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lilmelvin
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I LOVE Michael McDonald's voice. Good hair. And he plays piano, too! What's not to like about the guy? 🙂

spiderlily
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Another great conversation from my favorite rock podcast

darrenbennion
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I like that this channel brings up all these great soft rock bands.

dansavik
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Funny things is...it was Michael McDonald who insisted that Baxter leave the Doobies. Apparently Baxter was a very pushy.

tlaw
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I listened to Speed of Heat this week. It's really, really good. Highly recommended.

mikestillwagon
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I'm not a Michael McDonald hater, but I wish there had been more of a balance between him and the other band members. Especially if Tom Johnston had stuck around.

Larrymh
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Calling on Michael McDonald-a keyboard player-to replace a lead guitarist like Tom Johnston seems counter-intuitive. That it worked spectacularly well has to have been because Patrick Simmons saw the value in letting the Doobies pivot to a more smooth rock combo. I like both phases of this group and when the album Cycles came out I realised that Johnston could re-energise the band with such rockers like The Doctor.
It never occurred to me when I first acquainted myself with the Doobies in 1973 that they would still be making music 50 years later. Farewell to a Bro’ John Hartman by the way.

stephengriffin
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I love McDonald, but I admit that I was not a fan of the DB's McDonald era as it unfolded. But, looking back, I missed the boat, it was a very lucrative move.

markburnham
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To be honest, I never liked Michael McDonald in The Doobies BUT, I like his solo stuff better. The Doobie Brothers sounded better Without Michael in my opinion. I never liked the silly Keyboard sound in The Doobies that Michael played.

rirchardrubio
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Interesting that “ Skunk” says he brought MM into the band, but live MM said “ Skunk” would play lead over his vocals many times, that didn’t sit well with MM. understandably.

charleswind
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A few semi-related thoughts...

I doubt that Tom J cared too much about the Doobies or Michael M when MM came into the band, given he (TJ) was just trying to survive in the hospital from a bleeding ulcer compounded with the effects of an intense party life style. When your dying or think you are dying, not much else matters at the moment.

Without TJ's availability, the Doobies probably would have faded into oblivion if MM hadn't showed up. Of course we'll never know for sure, because MM DID show up. MM helped keep the Doobies relevant when TJ wasn't around. Some may not like the MM sound, but being on top of the charts during the years when MM was singing with them was not a bad thing for their enduring legacy. Plus it gives something for the TJ/MM fan/anti-fans to argue about.

In the football draft, you either draft for a particular position or you just take the best player available. Most NFL teams will take the best player available, unless they really need to fill a particular hole in their line up. I view what the Doobies did as similar. They could have "drafted" a TJ sound alike to fill the hole of the TJ absence, but instead they picked the "best player" available, and it worked out, at least from a commercial-success perspective and a longevity perspective.

randall
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Would be nice if you joined him with the other doobies mr. Skunk

ligmabellz
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I think 'Takin' it to the Streets' was still in the Doobies format so didn't seem like a huge departure from 'Stampede'. 'Livin' on the Faultline' was a so-so album and for me just didn't have that Doobies sound. 'Minute by Minute' was classic and a great album but I think after that the music went elsewhere and lost some of that Doobies sound. That would be 'One Step Closer' and the last with Michael McDonald. I just have mixed feelings of the albums with McDonald. Of the four he did with them 'Minute by Minute' would be the best and the one I would listen to if I had to out of those four. The Doobies were a straight ahead rock band for the most part with Johnston and they lost some of that with McDonald which would be obvious because of McDonald's voice and sound which was bluesy and soul. But, at the end of the day, he maintained them through that time without Johnston.

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