I saw this one originally way back in 1984 on an RCA CED videodisc player. It's a very good one but their WILDLIFE CONCERT is their best by far and is also on video. Also titled as their "Rockin' Down The Highway" concert. Give it a look if you have not yet. The WILDLIFE show lacks Michael McDonald but the SB show didn't have original member and singer Tommy Johnston who sang many of their biggest hits. The band is always incomplete to me without him. BOTH shows are worthy!
@@AirDOGGe Hi and thank you for that info! I will look for it and watch it I actually have front row seats to their concert next week in NC I didn’t get into Doobie brothers until 3/4 years ago and since have consumed all I can Really excited to see and hear them all especially Michael McDonald Trying to see all the greats before they retire and stop touring
It was the summer of 1982. I was not quite 16. On what seemed like a whim toward the summer's end, my parents packed my brother and I into the car and took us to Six Flags Over Georgia. While we were strolling through the park, trying to figure out what to ride next, I heard music coming from somewhere, and it sounded good! My parents gave me permission to follow it, and when I caught up with it, it was the Doobies on their first farewell tour. And it was free with admission to the park! I couldn't believe how lucky I was, and it was the first real rock concert I'd ever been to. In fact, wouldn't attend another big concert until about 1993. There were a few thousand people there already, but somehow I got pretty close to the stage anyway, and with a great view. Seeing the Doobies was AWESOME! What I loved about the band most was that, with the rise of punk rock, new wave, and right past the prime of Kiss, the Doobie Brothers were the antithesis of posturing and preening. There was no makeup, no theatre, no fireworks, no costumes, and no fake names. There wasn't an ounce of pretension in the band, and no hero worship in the audience. It was like an overblown backyard barbecue with friends over to jam with! In fact, at one point, Pat Simmons, with a wireless guitar connection on his hip, wandered right out into the crowd during a solo and stood right there, deep into the aisle, a hundred feet into the audience, tearing into the fretboard. Nobody rushed him or grabbed for him, because he was just Pat, our super cool friend who played guitar. In other words, there was only one reason to go to a Doobies concert. That was to listen to the music, and that was plenty good enough all by itself. It was inspiring, and I had such a good time, I bought the t-shirt and wore it like a badge of honor for ten years after --- the only concert merchandise I've ever bought, in fact. Today, when I perform, I strive to be that transparent and accessible, because it's not about me. It's about the shared experience and hope that live music can bring. If that's what we were all taking to the streets today, the world would be a lot better place. God bless the Doobie Brothers.
Takin' It to the Streets 1:25 Jesus is just Alright 5:50 Keep This Train A-Rollin’ 9:55 Take Me in Your Arms 14:00 Real Love 18:00 Minute by Minute 22:20 Acoustic Jam (?) 26:55 Long Train Runnin' 29:05 What a Fool Believes 34:50 China Grove 41:10 Listen to the Music 45:56 John Way posted this 3 yrs ago, I'm re-posting to bring to the top. Thanks John!!!!
Such great musicians! They just plugged in and played. No dancers, no video presentation, no lights no nothin‘ ‚cept really, really good music. Thanks Doobie Brothers for a great concert and thanks SpeedMerchants for a great upload.
I agree the engineering and mix on this is amazing, this is so good I wonder if its been live recorded via sound truck full multi-track during and then re-mixed and mastered to perfection later as it sounds just so good.
Back in the day this would have been taken off the monitor engineers desk feed and yes this is long before in ear monitors and these guys in production were the best at that time
@David Brown No. Just No. You must be unfamiliar with the band. I play bass and guitar professionally...I've watched this video several times over the years and focused primarily on Willie Weeks (bass) and Patrick Simmons (guitarist with mustache) and everything matches up; what you hear is what they're playing. It might be a frame or two out of sync with the audio (maybe), but they're playing and singing live...they brought a mobile studio to record it and then sent that feed to the PA. They later mixed it and that's why it sounds so great. Everyone on that stage is a top level musician and they might make playing it with barely any mistakes look easy...but rest assured they were playing.
People don't understand how hard is is to have this great a sound in an open venue like this. The greatness of the Doobies musicianship shines through. Phenomenal stuff. I was in elementary school but raised on great music like this! Long live the Doobie Brothers!
I listen to music both live recordings and studio recordings of the same songs out of personal interests and preference and first thing can clearly tell something is overdubbed or mixed out. Its just too perfect for a live recording usually there's ambience noise, background flutter, and just that mix of cooked air going through the mic. Especially during that time period never heard live recordings that perfect.
Right on Debra! that brings chills to me. I attended my first concert in '82, was a freshman in HS. The WHO, at the san Diego stadium. John Cougar opened and got "WHO'D" off the stage after two songs.
@@dgodrummer8110 Mine was Led Zeppelin/Rick Derringer/Judas Priest in 1977 at Oakland Coliseum, one of the "Day On The Green" productions. I was invited. The first concert I ever bought my own ticket to was YES at Oakland Indoor Arena in 1978 (Tourmato Tour fro the Tormato album).
I'd be honored if some Doobies/Michael McDonald fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal covers of HEART TO HEART and HOME AT LAST by Steely Dan on my channel in tribute to late 70s/early 80s groove. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and peace.
Takin' It to the Streets 1:25 Jesus is just Alright 5:50 Keep This Train A-Rollin’ 9:55 Take Me in Your Arms 14:00 Real Love 18:00 Minute by Minute 22:20 Acoustic Jam (?) 26:55 Long Train Runnin' 29:05 What a Fool Believes 34:50 China Grove 41:10 Listen to the Music 45:56
Born 1950 so BLESSED to be able to listen to this NOW Really hearing like I I never heard before. Thank YOU & Thank you JESUS who I'm perfectly ALRIGHT with NOW!!! Jesus, He's my friend "Jesus, well, He's my friend He took me by the hand He led me far from this land Jesus, He's my friend* Thank you DOOBIE BROTHERS I'M SO BLESSED TO HEAR THIS NOW!!!!!!
Wow... What an amazing band... Man that drummer is kick ass... The percussion is top-notch all the way... Real music real musicians love this completely
I'm 19, and i cant express how jealous i am of the people who experienced concerts like these. Watching back the concerts of Michael Jackson, Earth wind and fire, Santana, Phil collins, The doobie brothers.. No iphones, no flashing cameras, just people living in the moment enjoying something together.
20 year old here and i’ve been into this type of music forever cuz of my parents especially my dad and it’s hard to get my friends into it which is crazy cuz it’s insane how good this sounds
Michael McDonald is from my hometown of Ferguson and graduated from my high school about 14 years before me. We grew up listening to them on the radio. So proud of him. He's definitely my fave American singer of all time!!! The Doobie Bros were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 and my fave band,...most of the band members sing lead on a great song.
I drove for 2-1/2 hours from the San Francisco bay area to see them at Angels Camp in the Sierra Nevada foothills. GREAT show. Ambrosia, Toto and Huey Lewis & the News were there too. Great times! The event was called "Mountain Aire '80". They had small aerobatic air shows between acts as the stage was prepared for each band, so there was always something happening. Google it.
I sang with Michael back in the day when I was living in Seattle...Tom Johnson's sis was a friend of mine and she took me to see the Doobs at Key Arena...backstage ...and she had them all to her home in Bellevue, WA after...that is when I got to listen to their stories, laugh with them and sing with all of them....Patrick is a GEM and very humble and sweet...and incredibly GIFTED...and Michael...he stole my heart and I sang some songs with him (and the whole passel of the group)...that night...it was special and it is forever ingrained in my memory and heart... Michael...you are an angel...and thank you for coming off stage during a ZooTunes concert you gave up at that Seattle zoo when you recognized I was sitting on a blanket with my work friends by the stage... you pulled me up, gave me a hug and asked me to come on stage and sing with you... to which I said...HEY BUDDY...YOU ARE GETTING PAID TO DO THAT...not no but no....SMILING....I'm wayyyyyyy below YOUR PAY GRADE IN THE SINGING DEPARTMENT...but you are an angel for the hug and being so sweet.... the one song I want to sing with you sometime... and I HAVE TO HAVE FREE REIN while recording it... I'll do background and backup...smile... All In Love is Fair..... bless you honey...
Anybody else mention how Cornelius Bumpus killed the "Long Train Runnin'" vocals? What an amazing voice. Also, huge Michael McDonald and Doobie Brothers fan. I watch this concert at least once a year. One of the best live performances ever.
The doobies are the best, its sad cleophus past away, he was a great asset to the band.he could play anything. The drummer ias also really tallented and michael is a great man of musical tallent
Cornelius killed it on the keys, Sax and the vocals. He's a massive loss to the music industry. But, we'll never hear about it because these days most music industry people wouldn't even know who he was. Some nice work by Patrick Simmons too.
Every guy here are first class musicians. I´m a musician and i would have given anything to play with these guys. Cornelius is a multimusic performer RIP. Thanks for all good music from the time music was real music. Now a days whoever gets a grammy with the autotune, i would be embarraced.
There is not another band that can play standard rock, southern-style melodies, R&B and even jazz as fluently as the Doobies. They float from genre to genre effortlessly. One of the finest bands of the rock era, no matter what the iteration.
He finally coming here to this town Fresno I con Dobbie Brothers an it going to be alot of fun an old school people there. It's going to be nice he no how to perform give it money worth best
Yes there is😻I love the Doobies n I’ve just heard the Russian band Leonid and Friends cover my old school and they sound exactly like the Doobies😍unbelievable
@@annetter0bison179 watch Leonid and friends cover their song 👈🏻My old school!! They’re unbelievable and sound exactly like the Doobies. Voices n instruments
2020 - Can you believe Michael's voice, this is an open air live show and his vocals sounds absolutely like a studio session, simply one of the great vocalists of modern music.
Right here!!!!!! Cornelius Bumpus is such a Cool Cool dude. He is so soulful, he makes my insides bleed. So sad that this fine fine brother was taken from us! Breaks my heart. And Michael, well there just are no words. And my boy John Mcfee, well its just not possible to be any more cool and talented that this cat. And Keith, and, Pat and Willie, I could keep going. There will never be another Doobie Brothers I'm so glad I was 15 in 1981 and born in the 60's. There will never be a MAGICAL EXPLOSION in music like there was in the 70 and 1980's. Thank God I was alive to experience it live.!!!!!!!!!!!!! .
One of the greatest mysteries in life is Michael McDonald's voice. And the fact that in every concert, every record, his pitch was perfect and hardly ever missed a note. He sounded like the record every time. And yet, it is one of the hardest voices to imitate. I could never figure where that voice comes from. Is it something he worked on? Was this just the way it came out? Was it a machine? Incredible voice. His work with Steely Dan was just from another world.
Perfect pitch is inborn. He has perfect pitch and he is wonderful live! He needs no in ear monitors or other aids to sound like he does. He is amazing!
Never knew that til just now and I heard that he also worked with Billy Joel and Ambrosia , too much talent to last , may he rest in peace , he owes us nothing !!
That’s the thing; this is unequivocally a brilliant performance. Those down voters will probably go their whole lives listening to crap music and thinking it’s good. It’s sad, tbh. They have no clue about life.
Young folks, their whole lives in front of them, listening to awesome music on a sunny day. Please let it happen again! I promise not to be distracted by petty crap any more!
I saw the Doobies at Lantz Gym at Eastern Illinois University back in the late 90's. They brought their 'A' game as usual. When everyone was leaving I told my girlfriend at the time that the bus has to be somewhere, so we walked around the other side. The bus was there and Tommy Johnson was standing by it and I said hello. He said hello and told us to go on in the side door and we could see the band and there were a few fan club members there. We ended up in one of the classrooms in the building visiting with the guys and a couple other fans. I remember enjoying talking with Pat Simmons and telling him how much I loved their music. It was a great and memorable night.
This concert was absolutely perfect in every single detail, including the outsatnding mixing work of this recording. What an incredible moment it might had been for all those standing in the audience.
I was in Santa Barbara… went to college there … woo Hoo lots of fun 😍 I came from abuse and this music took me away. Abused no more … still listening 💕
I ran into Tiran Porter at a gas station in Los Gatos. I told him the Doobies were awesome. He told me they worked their ass off. Rehearsing 5 days a week like a day job. Serious perfectionists. It shows.
Serious professionals, whether musicians or other, master their craft. Rehearsing is just getting everything down perfect. I'm an e.r. nurse, and I can save your life in so many ways. Years of making sure I do everything perfect. The players here are simply doing the same thing with their craft. Absolutely, perfect.
Like a lot of bands back then. Just read Maurice White Biography about his life with EWF. Same ther. Rehearsal, rehearsal, rehearsal. Nowadays people want to sound that perect but don't want to rehearse. TOTO was another one. And, oh, Steely Dan, Heatwave, The Commodores etc. Making music back then was a totally different game!
@@d.e.b.b5788 ER? Thank you so very much! When I'm in the hospital, I make sure I tell everyone how much I appreciate them. From their surprised reaction to me, they (you) don't hear that enough. Thank you!
Never seen so many musicians so into each other at a big concert as these guys 38 years ago at Santa Barbara blended along by Michael McDonald. If there had been a roof, it would have been blown to hell off
@@maralynfarber2068hi maralyn, at the ripe old age of 67, I've decided to take some singing lessons so I can sharpen up as I sing along with my boys ❤ x
Wow!! This performance- every song!- so tight!! The rhythm section is so in sync with each other! Pat Simmons just killing it - great versions of the Tom Johnstone songs, too! Truly one of America’s greatest bands!!
The last show on the End of the Road concert tour (1982 tour) was even better than this, (if you can imagine it) but also bittersweet. Michael McDonald did two of his solo project songs at the end and announced he was leaving. The band also was very close up and personal. My daughter was 7 months in utero (born two months later) and they came to rub my belly and told me it was awesome that they were her first concert. Such AWESOME memories and the show was fantastic!
Outdoor concert sounds this good??!!...This is out of this world. Now-a-day concerts are nothing compared to this. They're not even close. Viva classic rock.
Only saw the Doobies once, about 4-5 years before this. One of those bands that is totally devoted to giving the audience their very best. A very good time.
This superb band comprised of 8 members, at that time (1982). Unfortunately half of them have passed away already (Cornelius Bumpus, Bobby Lakind, Keith Knudsen and Chet McCracken). R.I.P. The others are still active: Michael McDonald, Patrick Simmons, John McFee (these 3 touring with the Doobies) and Willie Weeks.
John Hartman, Michael Hossack, and Dave Shogren have died also. Of the 14 people who've been listed as a member of the band on at least one album, only seven are still living. McDonald, Simmons, McFee, and Weeks, as you mentioned, plus Tom Johnston, Tiran Porter, and Jeff Baxter.
Willie Weeks, their bassist during these years, said years later that the thing he loved about being in the Doobies was they "just wanted to get at the music."
It is a total disgrace that a band with a varied catalogue of work such as their's is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This concertwas a wonderful example of their talent.
+Bob Coleman They should've been in before steely dan and the EAGLES, MADONNA NWA , even Chicago. so many, many more. Goes to show what influential mgrs. and labels can do for you.
+Bob Coleman Not only did the Doobies have a great catalogue of work, they had two different sounds: One when Tom Johnson was the lead singer, which was more rock-and-roll; the second under Michael McDonald, which was more bluesy and jazzy. It's rare that a band changes its sound so greatly, and be good at both.
Its wonderful to see intelligent comments about a great band and not the usual crap comments comparing Justin B. with yesterday's music - its all about the time, the place and what caused the kind of music to be created. Thank God for the Doobie Brothers.
I was six years old in 1982 so at least I was alive when they did this. LOL! I was raised on real music and The Doobie Brothers always played on the radio! This band is so awesome! R.I.P. to Cornelius Bumpus (Sax, Keyboard, vocals) and most recently John Hartman (drums).
Just stumbled across this video. As a musician/sound tech I can not believe the quality of this recording--simply incredible. If any of the Doobie's sound crew from this show ever monitor this video, you are are awesome. I don't know what it sounded like live, but given the quality of this recording, there must not have been a bad seat in the house. Not to sound like an old fart, but this was back in the day when sound engineers knew their craft. Not just plugging equipment in and turning everything to "11."
You had me till the end. Live sound reinforcement is still such an art form. When you say this you just come across as the miserable old sod who says "back in my day" whenever something new happens that you don't fully understand or like. Can't argue the quality of this recording but I do wonder if it was significantly mastered after.
I have been a Michael McDonald fan since 1972 and was fortunate to move to Santa Barbara in 1981! Every chance I got I saw him! His voice made my heart ache! He wrote my love life with his songs!
Michael McDonald was just gifted with the most unique and beautiful voice. Seriously, a thousand scientists couldn't recreate that voice in a laboratory.
Just like Peter Gabriel, he has an extremely rare type of voice where there are always two or three "microtones" happening under any note he sings. This is part of why it sounds so unique. There is the primary pitch he's singing, but then there are harmonics. You can hear what I mean if you compare to singers with very pure tones. Steve Perry in his heyday, for example, or Karen Carpenter for another example... their voices were always a single pure frequency, almost like a synthesizer.
I'm 63. Hubby and I belonged to the music clubs and played our record music from the 60's and 70's often. Our two boys grew up with it and they play it now on their CD's and their MP3. They tell us we had the best music ever. They don't have to tell us we already knew it! ✌
If you love this ... listen to the Dukes of September !! Michael Mcdonald, Boz Scaggs and Steely Dan playing together, Live from the Lincoln Center. Unbeatable and Charged !!
Yeah but with actually mind ! When I was younger in this back years i don't had this passion for jazz rock. I was influenced by my parent's music... So since i'd dicovered most of beutiful musicians and learned to appreciate them !
Amazing that you can randomly click on a concert and it plays like a Greatest Hits record, bloody superb songwriting and musicianship, it sounds like every guy in the band is right in the pocket to an atom. What did the tickets cost....$10? Michael McDonald is other worldly, his voice is incredible live and his sense of melody is a music addicts dream, I can listen to him all day long and then start over from the beginning!
Wow, so perfect, so tight! Michael’s voice is so IN THE POCKET! Unbelievable!! New artists should set this as their standard for live performance! No autotune, yet every note is perfect! They all sing harmonies so f’*king amazingly! Quite a revelation!!
Wow, McDonald came out swinging. One after another, man what a voice. Yes kids there were mythical creatures back in the time before autotune and computers who actually played their instruments and wrote and sang their own songs. Doobies Musicus Maximus.
I'd be honored if some Michael McDonald fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal cover of HEART TO HEART (his 1982 composition with Kenny Loggins) on my channel. Real live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and please excuse the promo.
You have to realize Tom Johnston (Original lead singer song/writer) had to quit right in the middle of a booked and sold out tour! He was spitting up blood and seriously ill. They give Micheal McDonald a shot and literally over a few days they learned his songs and they finish the tour that's how great these musicians are to be able to do just that!
![Michael McDonald with The Doobie Brothers - I Keep Forgettin' [Live 1982]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/O5cd8nT-tDM/mqdefault.jpg)
This is the best doobie brothers live concert ive found on TH-cam
Yes, it is fabulous!
I saw this one originally way back in 1984 on an RCA CED videodisc player. It's a very good one but their WILDLIFE CONCERT is their best by far and is also on video. Also titled as their "Rockin' Down The Highway" concert. Give it a look if you have not yet.
The WILDLIFE show lacks Michael McDonald but the SB show didn't have original member and singer Tommy Johnston who sang many of their biggest hits. The band is always incomplete to me without him.
BOTH shows are worthy!
@@AirDOGGe Hi and thank you for that info!
I will look for it and watch it
I actually have front row seats to their concert next week in NC
I didn’t get into Doobie brothers until 3/4 years ago and since have consumed all I can
Really excited to see and hear them all especially Michael McDonald
Trying to see all
the greats before they retire and stop touring
live at the Greek Theater is another really good one
@@tobyrichardson5488 I saw Santana at the Greek Theater in Berkley, Calif.. Great venue.
It was the summer of 1982. I was not quite 16. On what seemed like a whim toward the summer's end, my parents packed my brother and I into the car and took us to Six Flags Over Georgia. While we were strolling through the park, trying to figure out what to ride next, I heard music coming from somewhere, and it sounded good! My parents gave me permission to follow it, and when I caught up with it, it was the Doobies on their first farewell tour. And it was free with admission to the park! I couldn't believe how lucky I was, and it was the first real rock concert I'd ever been to. In fact, wouldn't attend another big concert until about 1993. There were a few thousand people there already, but somehow I got pretty close to the stage anyway, and with a great view.
Seeing the Doobies was AWESOME! What I loved about the band most was that, with the rise of punk rock, new wave, and right past the prime of Kiss, the Doobie Brothers were the antithesis of posturing and preening. There was no makeup, no theatre, no fireworks, no costumes, and no fake names. There wasn't an ounce of pretension in the band, and no hero worship in the audience. It was like an overblown backyard barbecue with friends over to jam with! In fact, at one point, Pat Simmons, with a wireless guitar connection on his hip, wandered right out into the crowd during a solo and stood right there, deep into the aisle, a hundred feet into the audience, tearing into the fretboard. Nobody rushed him or grabbed for him, because he was just Pat, our super cool friend who played guitar.
In other words, there was only one reason to go to a Doobies concert. That was to listen to the music, and that was plenty good enough all by itself. It was inspiring, and I had such a good time, I bought the t-shirt and wore it like a badge of honor for ten years after --- the only concert merchandise I've ever bought, in fact. Today, when I perform, I strive to be that transparent and accessible, because it's not about me. It's about the shared experience and hope that live music can bring.
If that's what we were all taking to the streets today, the world would be a lot better place. God bless the Doobie Brothers.
Went to many concerts at that Six Flags during that era... don't know how I missed the Doobies!
I love this comment! Well-written and evocative.
@@itgoestoeleven Thank you so much. It was an milestone moment in my young life.
Great story there Little Brother 👍
Love this 🙌🙌
Takin' It to the Streets 1:25
Jesus is just Alright 5:50
Keep This Train A-Rollin’ 9:55
Take Me in Your Arms 14:00
Real Love 18:00
Minute by Minute 22:20
Acoustic Jam (?) 26:55
Long Train Runnin' 29:05
What a Fool Believes 34:50
China Grove 41:10
Listen to the Music 45:56
John Way posted this 3 yrs ago, I'm re-posting to bring to the top. Thanks John!!!!
What is labelled as "Acoustic jam" is actually Slack Key Soquel Rag
Thx!
@@kevin17m th-cam.com/video/Ds3xwoWv3DQ/w-d-xo.html
Steamer Lane Breakdown
Thank you.
38:35 I Cheat the Hangman
Such great musicians! They just plugged in and played. No dancers, no video presentation, no lights no nothin‘ ‚cept really, really good music. Thanks Doobie Brothers for a great concert and thanks SpeedMerchants for a great upload.
agree, imagine getting tickets to this gig, to help them party a little bit, classy
Off the highest order! 🫡 🌎 🎸 🎹 🥁 🪘 😅🎷
Agree 👍 the way real music should be!
Whoever the sound man was at this concert, deserves a Gold medal!!!!!!!!!
I agree the engineering and mix on this is amazing, this is so good I wonder if its been live recorded via sound truck full multi-track during and then re-mixed and mastered to perfection later as it sounds just so good.
Back in the day this would have been taken off the monitor engineers desk feed and yes this is long before in ear monitors and these guys in production were the best at that time
@@vidworxsfx probably recorded multi-track through tape and then mixed and mastered on a studio desk.
U should check out Leonid n friends playing My old school 👍❤️sounds exactly like them👍
re-recorded in the studio of course.. like Live and Dangerous from Thin Lizzy. good live albums though !
Michael McDonald is simply one of the greatest male singer's of all time. His singing is as good live as it is recorded.
sometimes it's even better live which is insane
he is unique sounding for sure. to me, great background vocalist but sounded like he was constipated and trying to push one out when singing lead.
@@BanBanChi nobody asked you
Yes indeed
@David Brown No. Just No. You must be unfamiliar with the band. I play bass and guitar professionally...I've watched this video several times over the years and focused primarily on Willie Weeks (bass) and Patrick Simmons (guitarist with mustache) and everything matches up; what you hear is what they're playing. It might be a frame or two out of sync with the audio (maybe), but they're playing and singing live...they brought a mobile studio to record it and then sent that feed to the PA. They later mixed it and that's why it sounds so great. Everyone on that stage is a top level musician and they might make playing it with barely any mistakes look easy...but rest assured they were playing.
Stumbled on this and realized I was there. Wow.. Mind Blown...
That's pretty cool
So a fantastic concert
Oh Yes! I agree with everyone here about the sound quality of this show. Absolutely Fabulous!!!
People don't understand how hard is is to have this great a sound in an open venue like this. The greatness of the Doobies musicianship shines through. Phenomenal stuff. I was in elementary school but raised on great music like this! Long live the Doobie Brothers!
it is produced...audio recorded live into a mic and then mixed afterwards
@@redzwestisbest it 'd have to be fantastic though very clear . .
Most of the vocals are also overdubbed in the studio. That's why it's all so perfectly on pitch. Great live show nonetheless!
For a love recording its shockingly good. Sounds like studio.
I listen to music both live recordings and studio recordings of the same songs out of personal interests and preference and first thing can clearly tell something is overdubbed or mixed out. Its just too perfect for a live recording usually there's ambience noise, background flutter, and just that mix of cooked air going through the mic. Especially during that time period never heard live recordings that perfect.
Freakin killin still in 2023. My god lol one of the tightest shows I’ve ever seen
What a fantastic day the audience had that day and with perfect Santa Barbara weather too.
I was there as an undergrad and yes the sound was amazing and experience unforgettable!
Deve ter sido loucura...anos de ouro da música.
Right on Debra! that brings chills to me.
I attended my first concert in '82, was a freshman in HS. The WHO, at the san Diego stadium. John Cougar opened and got "WHO'D" off the stage after two songs.
Lucky you Deborah 👍
@@dgodrummer8110 Mine was Led Zeppelin/Rick Derringer/Judas Priest in 1977 at Oakland Coliseum, one of the "Day On The Green" productions. I was invited. The first concert I ever bought my own ticket to was YES at Oakland Indoor Arena in 1978 (Tourmato Tour fro the Tormato album).
No Auto-tune, no overdubbing, no pre-recorded backing tracks, no sequencer, no sampler. This is musicianship at its best.
Soooo, yes. You are absolutely right.
Completely Agree! Most musicians don´t sound this good in studio and this is live!
They play so smooth & tight! Nothing is off key!
I'd be honored if some Doobies/Michael McDonald fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal covers of HEART TO HEART and HOME AT LAST by Steely Dan on my channel in tribute to late 70s/early 80s groove. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and peace.
And no Tom Johnston. China Grove and Long Train are pretty lame without him. I saw them several months ago and he can still rock it.
Takin' It to the Streets 1:25
Jesus is just Alright 5:50
Keep This Train A-Rollin’ 9:55
Take Me in Your Arms 14:00
Real Love 18:00
Minute by Minute 22:20
Acoustic Jam (?) 26:55
Long Train Runnin' 29:05
What a Fool Believes 34:50
China Grove 41:10
Listen to the Music 45:56
Acoustic Jam aka Slack Key Soquel Rag
I miss this feel good/ old school music!!!!!!$$$🔠🏩▶🔤💾🎅🏰🇯🇵⬅🇬🇧🌵😜😒😔😁😚😜😞😝😛😛
You da man
@@MrAitraining god bless you!
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Good old days no cell phones. Just enjoying the concert. Living in the moment.
Great point.
Yes ♥
Born in 1976 here to listen in 2021. Who's coming back in another 45 years? Pure musical talent.
Born 1950 so BLESSED to be able to listen to this NOW Really hearing like I I never heard before. Thank YOU & Thank you JESUS who I'm perfectly ALRIGHT with NOW!!! Jesus, He's my friend
"Jesus, well, He's my friend
He took me by the hand
He led me far from this land
Jesus, He's my friend* Thank you DOOBIE BROTHERS I'M SO BLESSED TO HEAR THIS NOW!!!!!!
Im too young for doobie brothers but when i heard michael mcdonald for the very 1st time ......he is on fire..............
Wow... What an amazing band... Man that drummer is kick ass... The percussion is top-notch all the way... Real music real musicians love this completely
Are you talking about Keith in the blue shirt or Chet in the red?
Perfect sound. Almost 40 years ago this great live concert of the Doobies. Incredible, even now end of 2023!
I'm 19, and i cant express how jealous i am of the people who experienced concerts like these. Watching back the concerts of Michael Jackson, Earth wind and fire, Santana, Phil collins, The doobie brothers.. No iphones, no flashing cameras, just people living in the moment enjoying something together.
yeah, we didn't have computers or cell phones. Imagine that!
Exactly
We didn't have cell phone pollution, we had tape running 30 inches per second and most of all we had soul, we had brotherly love.
I am 53 and I was like 15 years old when this came on I can't believe how great it is and still and brings back great memories
20 year old here and i’ve been into this type of music forever cuz of my parents especially my dad and it’s hard to get my friends into it which is crazy cuz it’s insane how good this sounds
Michael McDonald is from my hometown of Ferguson and graduated from my high school about 14 years before me. We grew up listening to them on the radio. So proud of him. He's definitely my fave American singer of all time!!! The Doobie Bros were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 and my fave band,...most of the band members sing lead on a great song.
One of the greatest bands of the 70s/80s without a doubt
I drove for 2-1/2 hours from the San Francisco bay area to see them at Angels Camp in the Sierra Nevada foothills. GREAT show. Ambrosia, Toto and Huey Lewis & the News were there too. Great times! The event was called "Mountain Aire '80". They had small aerobatic air shows between acts as the stage was prepared for each band, so there was always something happening. Google it.
I sang with Michael back in the day when I was living in Seattle...Tom Johnson's sis was a friend of mine and she took me to see the Doobs at Key Arena...backstage ...and she had them all to her home in Bellevue, WA after...that is when I got to listen to their stories, laugh with them and sing with all of them....Patrick is a GEM and very humble and sweet...and incredibly GIFTED...and Michael...he stole my heart and I sang some songs with him (and the whole passel of the group)...that night...it was special and it is forever ingrained in my memory and heart... Michael...you are an angel...and thank you for coming off stage during a ZooTunes concert you gave up at that Seattle zoo when you recognized I was sitting on a blanket with my work friends by the stage... you pulled me up, gave me a hug and asked me to come on stage and sing with you... to which I said...HEY BUDDY...YOU ARE GETTING PAID TO DO THAT...not no but no....SMILING....I'm wayyyyyyy below YOUR PAY GRADE IN THE SINGING DEPARTMENT...but you are an angel for the hug and being so sweet....
the one song I want to sing with you sometime... and I HAVE TO HAVE FREE REIN while recording it... I'll do background and backup...smile... All In Love is Fair..... bless you honey...
Thank you for sharing ! I’m sure yur reflecting and we’re glad you are 🫶🏽
I bet your friends were soooo jealous!
You mean Tom Johnston??
Without love was an absolutely incredible jam.....
Michael MacDonald is unbelievably good here. The band is on fire too.
Anybody else mention how Cornelius Bumpus killed the "Long Train Runnin'" vocals? What an amazing voice. Also, huge Michael McDonald and Doobie Brothers fan. I watch this concert at least once a year. One of the best live performances ever.
The doobies are the best, its sad cleophus past away, he was a great asset to the band.he could play anything. The drummer ias also really tallented and michael is a great man of musical tallent
Cornelius killed it on the keys, Sax and the vocals. He's a massive loss to the music industry. But, we'll never hear about it because these days most music industry people wouldn't even know who he was. Some nice work by Patrick Simmons too.
Every guy here are first class musicians. I´m a musician and i would have given anything to play with these guys. Cornelius is a multimusic performer RIP. Thanks for all good music from the time music was real music. Now a days whoever gets a grammy with the autotune, i would be embarraced.
There is not another band that can play standard rock, southern-style melodies, R&B and even jazz as fluently as the Doobies. They float from genre to genre effortlessly. One of the finest bands of the rock era, no matter what the iteration.
He is the greatest singer to me the best white man he could rock me day an nite
He finally coming here to this town Fresno I con Dobbie Brothers an it going to be alot of fun an old school people there. It's going to be nice he no how to perform give it money worth best
Steely Dan?
Yes there is😻I love the Doobies n I’ve just heard the Russian band Leonid and Friends cover my old school and they sound exactly like the Doobies😍unbelievable
@@annetter0bison179 watch Leonid and friends cover their song 👈🏻My old school!! They’re unbelievable and sound exactly like the Doobies. Voices n instruments
2020 - Can you believe Michael's voice, this is an open air live show and his vocals sounds absolutely like a studio session, simply one of the great vocalists of modern music.
That's how you can tell how talented he really is. Most people sound nothing like they do in the studio...
It's all recorded through the board and mixed with the PA.
I like them alot. Excited about the city I found out there from. San Jose. I was shocked. I love California's now. ❤
Stoned cold facts
Perfectly mixed. Sound techs were on point this day
9 time doobie bros concert lover, shame on TH-cam allowing so many commercials in the middle of songs
Still lovin this concert in 2019!! Anyone else??
u kiddin', right?!
?? Kidding??
LOVE THIS. It's a day after Easter 2019. I have followed these guys since the '70s.
Right here!!!!!! Cornelius Bumpus is such a Cool Cool dude. He is so soulful, he makes my insides bleed. So sad that this fine fine brother was taken from us! Breaks my heart. And Michael, well there just are no words. And my boy John Mcfee, well its just not possible to be any more cool and talented that this cat. And Keith, and, Pat and Willie, I could keep going. There will never be another Doobie Brothers I'm so glad I was 15 in 1981 and born in the 60's. There will never be a MAGICAL EXPLOSION in music like there was in the 70 and 1980's. Thank God I was alive to experience it live.!!!!!!!!!!!!! .
It's got to be one of the top 10 if not 5 best concerts ever. McDonald is dead on. The band is flawless here...RIP Cornelius! You were amazing here!
2023!!! I knew the 1st time I heard (70's Born) the Doobie Brothers & Michael McDonald They Would Both Stand the Test of Time, Period!!! Bravo!!
amen!!
Michael's voice is still in top shape 40 years later, a fraction more bluesy grit but there's nothing wrong with that!
One of the greatest mysteries in life is Michael McDonald's voice. And the fact that in every concert, every record, his pitch was perfect and hardly ever missed a note. He sounded like the record every time. And yet, it is one of the hardest voices to imitate. I could never figure where that voice comes from. Is it something he worked on? Was this just the way it came out? Was it a machine? Incredible voice. His work with Steely Dan was just from another world.
JT Michaelson , oh yes, Michael McDonald is spectacular. His voice is just the best ever to my ears.
It's a one in a generation voice. Sinatra is same.
Perfect pitch is inborn. He has perfect pitch and he is wonderful live! He needs no in ear monitors or other aids to sound like he does. He is amazing!
@@Bootrosgali There are some who have it and most do not. It is rare but not one of a kind.
@@Umihime whether he has perfect pitch or not is irrelevant.. he just sings great.
Cornelius Bumpus is the MAN. Doobie Bros. AND Steely Dan. I wish that I could have been at this concert. What an amazing time...
Never knew that til just now and I heard that he also worked with Billy Joel and Ambrosia , too much talent to last , may he rest in peace , he owes us nothing !!
Cornelius is absolutely not edited. His playing is perfect. Watch his fingerings as he plays. Perfect right off the bat!
I feel sorry for them 717 folk who gave this concert a thumbs down. Their lives must really suck.
That’s the thing; this is unequivocally a brilliant performance. Those down voters will probably go their whole lives listening to crap music and thinking it’s good. It’s sad, tbh. They have no clue about life.
Rap fans ;-)
Jesus this almost sounds like a studio recording. Insane talent.
Chris PLAYSley You can tell that they have added the harmony vox later in the studio. the rest is live tho
Chris PLAYSley Was thinking the same thing! Amazing!
Pete B What is a harmony vox?
gahloot It took all of them to make that sound for one of Michael's songs. Look for yourselves.
Sharon Moore Oops...Almost all of his songs.
This is just the best. How many of us wish we could be permanently transported to this time and place in history?
Ahhhh the 80s with the voice of Michael McDonald supplying the soundtrack. If I could go back in time...
Wow! Just.......WOW! Nothing fancy.....just a group of guys jamming.....and they sound good!
Michael McDonald is a national treasure. No one on this Earth could ever replicate his voice. Dooby Brothers RULE!
I love when we can ear the bass. Normally bands think that they can put the guitars really high but this is the way to do it.
Couldn’t tell the difference between their live and studio performance sheer brilliance…I’m a millennial by the way this group is amazing
I was at this concert. It was amazing!
Which venue was this performed at?
@@jeshkam Santa Barbara County Bowl
@@carriek1271 Thanks, Carrie! 😉
Young folks, their whole lives in front of them, listening to awesome music on a sunny day. Please let it happen again! I promise not to be distracted by petty crap any more!
I saw the Doobies at Lantz Gym at Eastern Illinois University back in the late 90's. They brought their 'A' game as usual. When everyone was leaving I told my girlfriend at the time that the bus has to be somewhere, so we walked around the other side. The bus was there and Tommy Johnson was standing by it and I said hello. He said hello and told us to go on in the side door and we could see the band and there were a few fan club members there. We ended up in one of the classrooms in the building visiting with the guys and a couple other fans. I remember enjoying talking with Pat Simmons and telling him how much I loved their music. It was a great and memorable night.
This concert was absolutely perfect in every single detail, including the outsatnding mixing work of this recording. What an incredible moment it might had been for all those standing in the audience.
Oh yeah … 2022 ! Going to see them in Las Vegas for 50th anniversary ❣️. It’s in May … hope I live that long lol 😂
Probably the best recorded live performance I've ever seen.
We were not perfect in the 1980s BUT WE KEPT IT REAL AND in THE HEART.
I was in Santa Barbara… went to college there … woo Hoo lots of fun 😍
I came from abuse and this music took me away. Abused no more … still listening 💕
Just went to the Doobie brothers 50th anniversary in Las Vegas and had a excellent time. 65 and still a hippi✌️
I ran into Tiran Porter at a gas station in Los Gatos. I told him the Doobies were awesome. He told me they worked their ass off. Rehearsing 5 days a week like a day job. Serious perfectionists. It shows.
Serious professionals, whether musicians or other, master their craft. Rehearsing is just getting everything down perfect. I'm an e.r. nurse, and I can save your life in so many ways. Years of making sure I do everything perfect. The players here are simply doing the same thing with their craft. Absolutely, perfect.
Like a lot of bands back then. Just read Maurice White Biography about his life with EWF. Same ther. Rehearsal, rehearsal, rehearsal. Nowadays people want to sound that perect but don't want to rehearse. TOTO was another one. And, oh, Steely Dan, Heatwave, The Commodores etc.
Making music back then was a totally different game!
@@d.e.b.b5788 ER? Thank you so very much! When I'm in the hospital, I make sure I tell everyone how much I appreciate them. From their surprised reaction to me, they (you) don't hear that enough.
Thank you!
I believe it. They also, back in the 70's, were on the road over 300 days a year. That's a fact.
Never seen so many musicians so into each other at a big concert as these guys 38 years ago at Santa Barbara blended along by Michael McDonald. If there had been a roof, it would have been blown to hell off
Incredible live performance from one of the greatest bands ever - and MM’s voice is a gift from the heavens.
I am a trained vocalist, and I am picky as heck about voices. I LOVE MM’s voice! Indeed, MM is a very rare gift!🎵🎵🩵
@@maralynfarber2068hi maralyn, at the ripe old age of 67, I've decided to take some singing lessons so I can sharpen up as I sing along with my boys ❤ x
This video is what make America great again means ❤
I’d love to go back to 1982. So many things I would change.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls The Doobie Brothers!! Real music, real musicians!!
Amen brother!
Wow!! This performance- every song!- so tight!! The rhythm section is so in sync with each other! Pat Simmons just killing it - great versions of the Tom Johnstone songs, too! Truly one of America’s greatest bands!!
Is this the best live performance ever? Seriously every song is perfect.
Taken it to the Streets was a little fast, even MM had a hard time keeping up.
The last show on the End of the Road concert tour (1982 tour) was even better than this, (if you can imagine it) but also bittersweet. Michael McDonald did two of his solo project songs at the end and announced he was leaving. The band also was very close up and personal. My daughter was 7 months in utero (born two months later) and they came to rub my belly and told me it was awesome that they were her first concert. Such AWESOME memories and the show was fantastic!
@@MrYogipee lmao there's always that guy
One of the best live performances for sure, those people who were there, wow!!! what a treat!!
Yes it is!
The show is in open sun, the crowd is in cutoffs and Michael McDonald comes out in a sports coat. Rock on.
Fun, fun
Someone has to look like a class act. ;)
Class act all the way, that's Michael McDonald....and remains the same today 👍
I noticed that too.
@@maryellenolson Yes he does !
The Doobie Brothers (and many other bands & musicians during this era) are proof of how a lot of contemporary music has lost creativity and soul.
This was the start of the best decade of my life.
TH-cam truly has a great repository of free live music that emphasizes amazing talent like this
20 year old here to say the Doobie Brothers are awesome ! got to see them a couple years ago in palm springs with Tom !
Outdoor concert sounds this good??!!...This is out of this world. Now-a-day concerts are nothing compared to this. They're not even close. Viva classic rock.
I was there. That was a great concert! Dave Mason was the opening act.
Congrats for election to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Doobie Brothers Forever!!!
Very Cool 👍😎👌
Saw Dave Mason headline in summer of 1977. Amazing musician.
Was this at UCSB? Great concert!
omg WOW! So awesome! Was listening to this and recognized the dining hall and the lagoon... was like, "I've been there!" :D
@@camparsons8255 Did you ever get an answer to this? Where is SB? I live here, and I can't call it. ~ jH
Only saw the Doobies once, about 4-5 years before this. One of those bands that is totally devoted to giving the audience their very best. A very good time.
This superb band comprised of 8 members, at that time (1982). Unfortunately half of them have passed away already (Cornelius Bumpus, Bobby Lakind, Keith Knudsen and Chet McCracken). R.I.P. The others are still active: Michael McDonald, Patrick Simmons, John McFee (these 3 touring with the Doobies) and Willie Weeks.
John Hartman, Michael Hossack, and Dave Shogren have died also. Of the 14 people who've been listed as a member of the band on at least one album, only seven are still living. McDonald, Simmons, McFee, and Weeks, as you mentioned, plus Tom Johnston, Tiran Porter, and Jeff Baxter.
As a guitarist, I am very impressed with Patrick Simmons playing; he is really versatile, and plays with aplomb.
Cornelius!!
Willie Weeks, their bassist during these years, said years later that the thing he loved about being in the Doobies was they "just wanted to get at the music."
This is one of the best things I've ever heard in my life.
Nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today - way overdue!!
Que hermosa voz la amo
Yeah, man.
They made it!! Awesome!!!!!
I totally agree with you. A long time coming.
Much deserved for sure!! The Doobies rock!!!
It is a total disgrace that a band with a varied catalogue of work such as their's is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This concertwas a wonderful example of their talent.
+Bob Coleman They should've been in before steely dan and the EAGLES, MADONNA NWA , even Chicago. so many, many more. Goes to show what influential mgrs. and labels can do for you.
+Bob Coleman Not only did the Doobies have a great catalogue of work, they had two different sounds: One when Tom Johnson was the lead singer, which was more rock-and-roll; the second under Michael McDonald, which was more bluesy and jazzy. It's rare that a band changes its sound so greatly, and be good at both.
Probably before Madonna, the Eagles and NWA. But NOT before Chicago.
I wish I could have clicked Like 100 times
Even Mike McDonald himself wouldn't disparage The Dan like that. #CmonMan
Saw them on a summer night outdoors back then. We danced in front of the stage and I remember it like it was yesterday.
Michael McDonald's singing gives me goosebumps every time !
Seen the Doobies more times then I can recall, they never dissapoint.
Could listen to this forever Oh wait a minute I have CLASSIC 🙋♀️🥰❤️
Its wonderful to see intelligent comments about a great band and not the usual crap comments comparing Justin B. with yesterday's music - its all about the time, the place and what caused the kind of music to be created. Thank God for the Doobie Brothers.
Justin Bieber is shit, there, fixed it for you :D
There is no comparison to be made so intelligent posters don't waste time trying to make one.
I was six years old in 1982 so at least I was alive when they did this. LOL! I was raised on real music and The Doobie Brothers always played on the radio! This band is so awesome! R.I.P. to Cornelius Bumpus (Sax, Keyboard, vocals) and most recently John Hartman (drums).
I'm glad this concert was recommended to me again after 4 years. Thanks, algorithm :)
Just stumbled across this video. As a musician/sound tech I can not believe the quality of this recording--simply incredible. If any of the Doobie's sound crew from this show ever monitor this video, you are are awesome. I don't know what it sounded like live, but given the quality of this recording, there must not have been a bad seat in the house. Not to sound like an old fart, but this was back in the day when sound engineers knew their craft. Not just plugging equipment in and turning everything to "11."
You had me till the end. Live sound reinforcement is still such an art form. When you say this you just come across as the miserable old sod who says "back in my day" whenever something new happens that you don't fully understand or like. Can't argue the quality of this recording but I do wonder if it was significantly mastered after.
Audio dubbed from the recording desk, that's why you can't hear the audience at all
@@xx-bg2dj you do the recording with a split. maybe there's a recording truck.
recording is done with a split from the mic lines. likely a recording truck. look up Wally Heider
The dead head tapers were also way ahead of anyone a decade before this. The good ones were clean as a cucumber on live sound.
talk about a group of EXPERT musicians... amazing.
I have been a Michael McDonald fan since 1972 and was fortunate to move to Santa Barbara in 1981! Every chance I got I saw him! His voice made my heart ache! He wrote my love life with his songs!
What a great time to be alive.
Ah the 80’s...no internet, no mobile phones, just good music , live concerts, LP’s
Oh memories of Julie and my days in Santa Barbara...we were 4th row for this...and of course plenty of mood enhancing substances.
Michael McDonald was just gifted with the most unique and beautiful voice. Seriously, a thousand scientists couldn't recreate that voice in a laboratory.
That voice is just one of Gods voices.
Just like Peter Gabriel, he has an extremely rare type of voice where there are always two or three "microtones" happening under any note he sings. This is part of why it sounds so unique. There is the primary pitch he's singing, but then there are harmonics. You can hear what I mean if you compare to singers with very pure tones. Steve Perry in his heyday, for example, or Karen Carpenter for another example... their voices were always a single pure frequency, almost like a synthesizer.
I'm 63. Hubby and I belonged to the music clubs and played our record music from the 60's and 70's often. Our two boys grew up with it and they play it now on their CD's and their MP3. They tell us we had the best music ever. They don't have to tell us we already knew it! ✌
"Real Love" was worth the price of admission.
I was at this show sitting down front on the grass!! Dave Mason played warm up for them!!
the sound quality for this show was so spot on!!
I sure do envy you....To be front and center for such a masterpiece of a concert had to be an absolute blast.
Dave Mason?!
The DBs vs The Eagles. Two over the top muti-talented bands. Real musicians for real.
Still loving this in 2020 at 32 years old
I'm 66 still loving it I pray you had a blessed Thanksgiving 🙏❤️
If you love this ... listen to the Dukes of September !! Michael Mcdonald, Boz Scaggs and Steely Dan playing together, Live from the Lincoln Center. Unbeatable and Charged !!
If i had a time machine i would go back to 1976-1983 and never leave
Mine would be 1966-1982, but I here you.
1970 to 1986 for me
Yeah but with actually mind ! When I was younger in this back years i don't had this passion for jazz rock. I was influenced by my parent's music... So since i'd dicovered most of beutiful musicians and learned to appreciate them !
Amazing that you can randomly click on a concert and it plays like a Greatest Hits record, bloody superb songwriting and musicianship, it sounds like every guy in the band is right in the pocket to an atom. What did the tickets cost....$10? Michael McDonald is other worldly, his voice is incredible live and his sense of melody is a music addicts dream, I can listen to him all day long and then start over from the beginning!
One of those tickets would be worth more than the cost of building the time machine to get there!
yup
Wow, so perfect, so tight! Michael’s voice is so IN THE POCKET! Unbelievable!! New artists should set this as their standard for live performance! No autotune, yet every note is perfect! They all sing harmonies so f’*king amazingly! Quite a revelation!!
Wow, McDonald came out swinging. One after another, man what a voice. Yes kids there were mythical creatures back in the time before autotune and computers who actually played their instruments and wrote and sang their own songs. Doobies Musicus Maximus.
Totally in agreement... This is REAL music. Today's 21st Century music is just JUNK!
you're sounding old....there's just as much great music now as then...it's just harder to find
yes indeed
I'd be honored if some Michael McDonald fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal cover of HEART TO HEART (his 1982 composition with Kenny Loggins) on my channel. Real live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and please excuse the promo.
perfectly stated! saw em 3 times and better every time!!
Santa Barbara 1982 , one of the best years of my life , what a great day , what wonderful music . How lucky we were . ❤️
Where in SB was this?
@@MurderMike41370it looks like UCSB
The drummer is relentless. Like having a cannon metronome, deep in your pocket.
Both drummers
Keith, Chet and Bobby and the bongos all.
You have to realize Tom Johnston (Original lead singer song/writer) had to quit right in the middle of a booked and sold out tour! He was spitting up blood and seriously ill. They give Micheal McDonald a shot and literally over a few days they learned his songs
and they finish the tour that's how great these musicians are to be able to do just that!
For me it is always one band with multiple singers. Good and bad in both discographies.
He had a bleeding ulcer.
Saw them this past month with mcdonald and they still sound great as ever! Nobody can sing mcdonald songs like he does.