Doobie Doobie Doo....!
With so much strife, ill feelings and heartache abounding in the country today it's nice to know that there is a very bright spot looming on the horizon for Julie and Me...especially Me. A trip down memory lane.
The Doobie Brothers are coming to town. I'm ecstatic. They are my group from the dim past. Beach Boys, Beatles, Doobies. This dates me of course, but that's OK, facts is facts and chronologically these were the groups that saw me through the awkward teenage years and into young manhood. By the time The Doobies came along, The Beach Boys and Beatles had morphed into quasi- psychedelic existentialism [you can quote me on that] that may have been "art" but didn't hit the mood of the majority of us teens moving into our 20's. The Doobies filled the void for me. Great music, beautiful harmony combined with some hard hitting Rock and Roll licks.
My love affair with the Doobies began in 1971 when I was in the Army and headed so far West it became East. A new Lieutenant, I had to take my brand new Triumph TR-6 to Oakland to be shipped to Hawaii, my eventual destination after a stop across the Pacific, to await my arrival months later. The trip, taking a couple of weeks, was a grand loitering, roaming trip around the West ala Route 66 style. Just me, the new sports car and the road. I ended up in San Francisco for 3 days and with top down, drove aimlessly around the city and the bay area. The real treat was that I had an FM-Stereo radio! You had to have listened to AM radio, one speaker cars all your previous life to know what this meant. FM stereo was new then and it was heaven. Especially cruising the streets of San Francisco, home of the Doobies, and listening to one of their first big hits, "Listen to the Music". I was hooked.
As time passed the Doobies evolved, many times for the better, with additions like Michael McDonald. While many groups simply fade away the Doobies music stayed above par and did so until they decided to move on to other things as individuals. In 1987 the Doobies decided to re-form the band for a series of benefit concerts. Concerts not to support left-wing 60's ideologies, but instead to become sponsors of Veterans of The Vietnam War, a non-profit group which has evolved into the The National Veterans Foundation of which the Doobies are major benefactors. Great music, great memories, great guys. What can I say, I'm excited.
With so much strife, ill feelings and heartache abounding in the country today it's nice to know that there is a very bright spot looming on the horizon for Julie and Me...especially Me. A trip down memory lane.
The Doobie Brothers are coming to town. I'm ecstatic. They are my group from the dim past. Beach Boys, Beatles, Doobies. This dates me of course, but that's OK, facts is facts and chronologically these were the groups that saw me through the awkward teenage years and into young manhood. By the time The Doobies came along, The Beach Boys and Beatles had morphed into quasi- psychedelic existentialism [you can quote me on that] that may have been "art" but didn't hit the mood of the majority of us teens moving into our 20's. The Doobies filled the void for me. Great music, beautiful harmony combined with some hard hitting Rock and Roll licks.
My love affair with the Doobies began in 1971 when I was in the Army and headed so far West it became East. A new Lieutenant, I had to take my brand new Triumph TR-6 to Oakland to be shipped to Hawaii, my eventual destination after a stop across the Pacific, to await my arrival months later. The trip, taking a couple of weeks, was a grand loitering, roaming trip around the West ala Route 66 style. Just me, the new sports car and the road. I ended up in San Francisco for 3 days and with top down, drove aimlessly around the city and the bay area. The real treat was that I had an FM-Stereo radio! You had to have listened to AM radio, one speaker cars all your previous life to know what this meant. FM stereo was new then and it was heaven. Especially cruising the streets of San Francisco, home of the Doobies, and listening to one of their first big hits, "Listen to the Music". I was hooked.
As time passed the Doobies evolved, many times for the better, with additions like Michael McDonald. While many groups simply fade away the Doobies music stayed above par and did so until they decided to move on to other things as individuals. In 1987 the Doobies decided to re-form the band for a series of benefit concerts. Concerts not to support left-wing 60's ideologies, but instead to become sponsors of Veterans of The Vietnam War, a non-profit group which has evolved into the The National Veterans Foundation of which the Doobies are major benefactors. Great music, great memories, great guys. What can I say, I'm excited.
