Takin' It To The Streets
March 14, 2024 3:06 PM Subscribe
If, like me, you saw the recent Rick Beato interview with Michael McDonald and thought "I could use more Doobie Brothers in my life right now," then you could do worse than this 1982 outdoor concert in Santa Barbara, California during the band's "farewell" tour. Apparently ripped directly from SelectaVision VideoDisc, the concert is presented in glorious 480p and has excellent sound. Bonus: footage of McDonald on a Christopher Cross session.
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
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
I was really hoping that last link would be what it in fact is. And for that I thank you.
posted by badbobbycase at 4:09 PM on March 14 [7 favorites]
posted by badbobbycase at 4:09 PM on March 14 [7 favorites]
That last link was pretty awesome. Thank you!
posted by Saxon Kane at 4:20 PM on March 14 [1 favorite]
posted by Saxon Kane at 4:20 PM on March 14 [1 favorite]
And personally, Yah Mo Be There is my favorite Michael McDonald song.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 4:26 PM on March 14
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 4:26 PM on March 14
There is no song ever written/performed that can't be ruined with Michael McDonald yowling in the background, (or lead). Man do I hate his voice so much...
PEEEEEEG...
posted by Windopaene at 4:27 PM on March 14 [2 favorites]
PEEEEEEG...
posted by Windopaene at 4:27 PM on March 14 [2 favorites]
Man do I hate his voice so much...
Really? He's great fun to imitate. There's this thing you do where you open up the back of your throat while also pulling your voice actively back in and you can get his sort of interesting tone. I've always liked his voice, but matters of taste are not to be argued.
posted by hippybear at 4:31 PM on March 14 [3 favorites]
Really? He's great fun to imitate. There's this thing you do where you open up the back of your throat while also pulling your voice actively back in and you can get his sort of interesting tone. I've always liked his voice, but matters of taste are not to be argued.
posted by hippybear at 4:31 PM on March 14 [3 favorites]
The Rick Beato video reference should be complemented by a Pat Finnerty video reference. I discovered Finnerty on Metafilter.
posted by JDC8 at 4:31 PM on March 14 [5 favorites]
posted by JDC8 at 4:31 PM on March 14 [5 favorites]
Agreed hippybear, it is easy-peasy to imitate. Doesn't make it any less intrusive when I hear it.
posted by Windopaene at 4:34 PM on March 14
posted by Windopaene at 4:34 PM on March 14
I actually heard this parody before I heard the actual song.
posted by potrzebie at 5:31 PM on March 14 [3 favorites]
posted by potrzebie at 5:31 PM on March 14 [3 favorites]
My piano skills aren't yet up to the challenge of playing the Fender Rhodes part of Minute By Minute (especially the intro), but it's on my To Do list.
posted by Greg_Ace at 5:45 PM on March 14 [3 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 5:45 PM on March 14 [3 favorites]
"Hi, I'm Hollywood Steve, you caught me relaxing in my music nook. From 1976 to 1984 the radio airwaves were dominated by really smooth music, also know as 'Yacht Rock'...."
posted by otherchaz at 6:09 PM on March 14 [10 favorites]
posted by otherchaz at 6:09 PM on March 14 [10 favorites]
Here’s Michael McDonald mostly staying out of the way, but definitely not ruining “Black Water” (probably my favorite Doobies song regardless of Michael McDonald status)
posted by mubba at 7:01 PM on March 14 [2 favorites]
posted by mubba at 7:01 PM on March 14 [2 favorites]
I waited on him in...99? 00? at Zoe in Soho, Prince Street, NYC. He was just a normal guest, no "I'm a celeb" behaviors. In fact, the thing I remember most about it was at one point I went to my floor manager and said " hey the guy on table 21 asked me to tell you he don't know you but he's your brother."
"What a fool believes." said the floor manager. Good times.
I'm not a huge fan of the music, I run more punk and indy, but I grok the significance and timelessness and don't change the station when it comes on the radio.
posted by vrakatar at 7:12 PM on March 14 [6 favorites]
"What a fool believes." said the floor manager. Good times.
I'm not a huge fan of the music, I run more punk and indy, but I grok the significance and timelessness and don't change the station when it comes on the radio.
posted by vrakatar at 7:12 PM on March 14 [6 favorites]
I know it was the 70's and a different time, but none of the Doobie Brothers looks like they should be playing that style of music on stage. They look like studio musicians, not rock stars. They look like they show up to the studio, play some mind-blowing riffs or sing some amazing lyrics (in one take, mind you), and then go home to the wife, have a nice dinner and tuck the kids into bed, maybe hang out with the sound engineers on weekends, etc.
Sort of like Dave Grohl, but he's mastered the whole rockstar look and feel thing, too.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 9:03 PM on March 14 [4 favorites]
Sort of like Dave Grohl, but he's mastered the whole rockstar look and feel thing, too.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 9:03 PM on March 14 [4 favorites]
I listen to a lot of Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, certainly more than is healthy probably. To me it was interesting to see the shift between his talking voice, it's tone, pattern and confidence and his singing voice at the end. It really is a different brain space.
posted by drewbage1847 at 9:19 PM on March 14 [3 favorites]
posted by drewbage1847 at 9:19 PM on March 14 [3 favorites]
Much better sound quality than the time Raj, Dwayne, and ReRun got scammed into bootlegging that Doobie Brothers show on What's Happening
posted by bartleby at 10:34 PM on March 14 [6 favorites]
posted by bartleby at 10:34 PM on March 14 [6 favorites]
McDonald might be the face and voice of the Doobies, but Pat Simmons is the heart.
I too have lived almost always at the margins of music, but I'm an sfbay kid and this band is burned into my DNA. I remember on the radio, "Takin' It to the Streets" was the theme for "Father Harry of the God Squad"'s late night interstitials, which I must have heard thousands of times. I kinda miss those post-hippy Christians, come to think of it.
posted by rhizome at 11:50 PM on March 14 [2 favorites]
I too have lived almost always at the margins of music, but I'm an sfbay kid and this band is burned into my DNA. I remember on the radio, "Takin' It to the Streets" was the theme for "Father Harry of the God Squad"'s late night interstitials, which I must have heard thousands of times. I kinda miss those post-hippy Christians, come to think of it.
posted by rhizome at 11:50 PM on March 14 [2 favorites]
They look like they show up to the studio, play some mind-blowing riffs or sing some amazing lyrics (in one take, mind you), and then go home to the wife, have a nice dinner and tuck the kids into bed, maybe hang out with the sound engineers on weekends, etc.
One of them became a defense consultant.
posted by pracowity at 2:38 AM on March 15 [3 favorites]
One of them became a defense consultant.
posted by pracowity at 2:38 AM on March 15 [3 favorites]
I was going through a trunk in my closet a few weeks ago and found my T-shirt from that 1982 "farewell tour."
good memories of that day, minimal though they are. and the shirt's a little snug, but still fits.
posted by martin q blank at 7:55 AM on March 15 [1 favorite]
good memories of that day, minimal though they are. and the shirt's a little snug, but still fits.
posted by martin q blank at 7:55 AM on March 15 [1 favorite]
SelectaVision was an interesting collection of releases--Urgh! A Music War, Shadows and Light, The Single File, DTV...
posted by box at 9:16 AM on March 15
posted by box at 9:16 AM on March 15
Always enjoyed the Doobs and saw them several times - really could hardly avoid them if you were frequenting summer "festival" kinda gatherings - mid-70's to mid 80's (so pre- and post McDonald). And while I've pretty much given up on the eternal / annual farewell tours, was invited to attend their tour with Santana just months before Covid and was remarkably impressed by how great both bands sounded and the insanely good energy that radiated through the entire crowd.
On reflection, though, it is perhaps possible my memory of it is elevated by the fact that it's one of the last large events I enjoyed (besides college basketball right up to the literal moment everything got shut down) prior to a prolonged, multi-year absence of any such joyful large-scale communing.
posted by thecincinnatikid at 9:22 AM on March 15
On reflection, though, it is perhaps possible my memory of it is elevated by the fact that it's one of the last large events I enjoyed (besides college basketball right up to the literal moment everything got shut down) prior to a prolonged, multi-year absence of any such joyful large-scale communing.
posted by thecincinnatikid at 9:22 AM on March 15
PEEEEEEG...
Steely Dan--Michael McDonald Vocals on Peg It will come back to you.
posted by kirkaracha at 6:09 PM on March 18
Steely Dan--Michael McDonald Vocals on Peg It will come back to you.
posted by kirkaracha at 6:09 PM on March 18
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