Doobie Brothers
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The Doobie Brothers: The Doobie Brothers (Warners)
Review by Colman Andrews, Phonograph Record, August 1971
THE DOOBIE Brothers may turn out to be, it has been subtly hinted by the Warner Brothers promo department, the world's first successful "over-the-transom" recording ...
The Doobie Brothers: Toulouse Street
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 30 September 1972
THERE IS SOMETHING strangely deceptive about the Doobie Brothers. First of all, their name conjures up images of Maynard G. Krebs, the ultimate beatnik and ...
Doobie Brothers: Toulouse Street
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, October 1972
I DON'T KNOW about you, but it happens to me all the time. I get some album in the mail, listen to the whole thing ...
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 16 December 1972
LAST YEAR, when the Doobie Brothers made their recording debut with Warner Brothers, there was little reaction either at the time of the release of ...
The Doobie Brothers: The Captain And Me
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 10 May 1973
THE DOOBIE BROTHERS are a mainstream rock band with a few crucial limitations and a knack of making good records despite their flaws. Their big ...
Doobie Brothers, Mike Bloomfield, ZZ Top: Palladium, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 1973
DOOBIE QUINTET PLAYS UNCOMPLICATED ROCK ...
Doobie Brothers: How Stampede Drove Their Fans Into Bars
Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, May 1974
LATE ONE summer night in 1974, a clean-cut bar band plugged in on the stage of a waterfront singles menagerie in southern Connecticut. ...
Review by Jonathan Morrish, Let It Rock, May 1974
ALTHOUGH NOT many people had heard of the Doobie Brothers before they came here in early February, they still received what was very much superstar ...
The Doobie Brothers: What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits (Warner Bros. W 2750)
Review by Alan Niester, Rolling Stone, 9 May 1974
VICES MARKS the latest step in the career of one of America's more noteworthy and consistent singles bands. And like most albums released by bands ...
Cancel the inquest: the festival she lives
Report by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 27 July 1974
If Buxton was beastly and Olympia just plain limp, then even the gloomiest of us have to admit that the Knebworth Festival was indeed pretty ...
Knebworth: Great music but a non-event
Report by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 27 July 1974
ROCK FESTIVALS come these days without loud trumpetings and laying-on of hands — without, in fact, the blah and hoo-hah that attended the Isle of ...
Letter from Britain: Something Might Happen
Report by Ian MacDonald, Creem, November 1974
SITUATION UNCHANGED. Still hanging on in here, waiting for something to happen. (Wait — was that a heart-grazing lobe-grinder of a new single from Mick, ...
Doobie Brothers: Doobies — With Added Skunk
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 11 January 1975
KALAMAZOO: Over thirty guitars, mostly Gibsons, sit on racks in one dressing room and a wooden packing case in another contains suits of clothing that ...
Doobie Brothers/Little Feat: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 January 1975
CURIOUSER and curiouser. There was no denying the deserving nature of the ovation that greeted Little Feat the boogie band that plays more music than ...
In Defence Of The Doobie Brothers…
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 1 February 1975
IT IS, PRIMARILY, totally incorrect and irrelevant to give the Doobies an out-of-hand dismissal simply because their role as bill-toppers over Little Feat at the ...
Doobie Brothers: How Stampede Drove Their Fans Into Bars
Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, May 1975
LATE ONE summer night in 1974, a clean-cut bar band plugged in on the stage of a waterfront singles menagerie in southern Connecticut. ...
Doobie Brothers: One Guitarist On, One Guitarist Off
Report and Interview by Joel Selvin, Rolling Stone, 5 June 1975
SAN FRANCISCO – Three years ago, the Doobie Brothers lived on food stamps in San Jose, playing at ramshackle area clubs for as little as ...
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 19 July 1975
THERE'S A delicately detailed brass rubbing of Burlington House above the bed-head in room 420 at the Inn On The Park. Some rock musicians would've ...
Doobie Brothers: The Reward Of Facelessness
Interview by Wayne Robins, Creem, December 1975
WHO WERE THEY? Just a bunch of street people who "looked like bikers and said they wanted to be rock 'n' roll stars" – with ...
The Doobies Brothers: Street Fighting Men
Interview by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 24 January 1976
DRUMMER JOHN Hartman leans back precariously in the Memphis Hotel room chair, fingers locked behind head and mouth working in a typically rapid manner. He's ...
Doobie Brothers: Takin' It To The Streets (Warner Bros. BS 2899)
Review by Bruce Malamut, Crawdaddy!, July 1976
THESE GUYS were always a little too boogie-static for my taste, playing everybody's perfect AM riff. That was the old Doobies, however, under the leadership ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 8 May 1977
Downpour fails to dampen Day on the Green spirits ...
Doobie Brothers: Livin' On The Fault Line
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 10 September 1977
WHATEVER HAPPENED to the Doobie Brothers? I've often wondered. And this new album is no help. None of them play on it and the sleeve ...
Review by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, November 1977
DON'T CRY DADDY ...
Tom Johnston: The Former Doobie Still Listens To The Music
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 19 October 1979
THE YEAR was 1972. Summer had waned and I was driving along Highway 101, with the only source of music being a static-laden AM car ...
Interview by Sam Sutherland, Musician, January 1981
Songwriter, keyboardist, arranger, member of the Doobies and owner of The Voice reveals himself as a somewhat reluctant superstar. Thrust into pop music's center stage ...
Report by Geoffrey Himes, Musician, 1982
THE DOOBIE Brothers are one of the last great AM radio bands, one of the last rock groups to concentrate primarily on hit singles. Now ...
Interview by David Gans, BAM, 1982
The super producer talks about Little Feat, Van Halen, the Doobies, and staying sane in a world of crazies. ...
The Doobie Brothers: Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia MD
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 5 August 1982
A sloppy good-bye kiss from the Doobies at Post. ...
Michael McDonald: You Wouldn't Believe Some Of The People This Guy Has Worked With
Interview by Edwin J. Bernard, Record Mirror, 16 August 1986
Yup, Michael McDonald is definitely not a grade A bearded bozo. Proof? Just check his list of credits... Talking the Mickey: Edwin J. Bernard ...
Review by Tom Graves, Rock & Roll Disc, July 1989
WHEN IN DOUBT, regroup. At least that seems to be the formula these days for the rock era's dinosaurs, has-beens, and once-wases. This ...
Tom Johnston of The Doobie Brothers
Interview by Carl Wiser, Songfacts, 8 October 2009
AS A GUITARIST and vocalist with The Doobie Brothers, Tom Johnston wrote the kind of joyful rock that is truly classic: 'Listen To The Music', 'China ...
The Doobie Brothers: Let The Music Play
Film/DVD/TV Review by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 23 February 2013
THERE'S NOTHING all that special about Let the Music Play: The Story of the Doobie Brothers, but it's a well-made, thorough documentary of one of ...
The Doobie Brothers' Long Train Is Still Runnin'
Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 6 June 2017
RELEASED AS A single in the summer of 1973, 'China Grove' became one of the biggest and most recognizable hits for the Doobie Brothers. The ...
Wide Open: An Interview with Michael McDonald
Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages, November 2017
GM: I attended three Dylan shows in your hometown St. Louis in the noughties. Visiting the arch sculpture one day felt weirdly sad, a hopeful ...
see also Tom Johnston
see also Michael McDonald
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