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Behind the Music
Doobie Brothers
60 min.
The band's moniker is of course a joke about the propensity of its members
for smoking doobies (a.k.a. joints). But as the jarring interviews with
bandsmen show here, drugs were soon anything but a joke. Cocaine and heroin
use, health crises and personality clashes threatened to destroy the band as
it churned out hits. But even through a radical shift from a rock, country
and blues sound under original lead singer Tom Johnston to blue-eyed soul
with Michael McDonald as front man, the band---and its music---survived. As
guitarist Pat Simmons explains: “We're first and foremost a family.”
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Also: From the actual TV GUIDE weekly Magazine that most of the world
recieves:
Behind The Music
(Sun, VH1) The sound of the Doobie Brothers---from their "Listen to the
Music" boogie-band days to the soul-pop of "What a Fool Believes"---made
millions smile in the 70's. But there were plenty of frowns within the band.
For while the group's name came from slang for a marijuana joint, there were
problems with harder drugs as well, lending an ironic twist to the title of
their 1974 album What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits. Despite those woes and
numerous line-up changes, the band still tours and the music endures. As
ex-Doobie guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter says, "If I drop dead tomorrow, I've
done something that's touched alot of people." That's true in more ways than
one: Baxter is now a missile-defense consultant.
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