This song is absolute perfection.

Gunsnhalen said:

Doalwa said:

Gunsnhalen said:

This song is absolute perfection.

The Doobie Brothers are severely under appreciated on the org: Long Train Runnin', Taking it to the streets, Jesus is just alright, Black Water etc. etc....discovered their Greatest Hits in my mothers CD stash 20 years ago and have been hooked ever since! [Edited 7/17/14 12:41pm]

Yes! an interracial band with southern rock roots. That incorporated funk, r&b, heavy rock, and country. These guys were rebels of their time! and amazing musicians.

Doalwa said:

Gunsnhalen said:

This song is absolute perfection.

The Doobie Brothers are severely under appreciated on the org: Long Train Runnin', Taking it to the streets, Jesus is just alright, Black Water etc. etc....discovered their Greatest Hits in my mothers CD stash 20 years ago and have been hooked ever since! [Edited 7/17/14 12:41pm]

You must be a young'in (Nothing wrong with that.) The Doobie are highly praise on the org, and have been for years.

Thebigpill said:

Doalwa said:

Gunsnhalen said: The Doobie Brothers are severely under appreciated on the org: Long Train Runnin', Taking it to the streets, Jesus is just alright, Black Water etc. etc....discovered their Greatest Hits in my mothers CD stash 20 years ago and have been hooked ever since! [Edited 7/17/14 12:41pm]

You must be a young'in (Nothing wrong with that.) The Doobie are highly praise on the org, and have been for years.

I watched a great video interview of Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (side note: You will not BELIEVE what he does for a living these days. It's worth looking up!).

He said back in those days, the Doobies were obsessed with framing the most complex chord progressions they possibly could.

This song is a testament to that. It's not their most complex but boy is it fun to play!

RodeoSchro said:

I watched a great video interview of Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (side note: You will not BELIEVE what he does for a living these days. It's worth looking up!).

He said back in those days, the Doobies were obsessed with framing the most complex chord progressions they possibly could.

This song is a testament to that. It's not their most complex but boy is it fun to play!

I agree! man, the combination, of the drum and bass. Is just amazing mixture of funk and rock. The Doobies good go from hippy rock to serious soul & r&b. I give them credit! cause not all rock bands could do it so easily.

Gunsnhalen said:

RodeoSchro said:

I watched a great video interview of Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (side note: You will not BELIEVE what he does for a living these days. It's worth looking up!).

He said back in those days, the Doobies were obsessed with framing the most complex chord progressions they possibly could.

This song is a testament to that. It's not their most complex but boy is it fun to play!

I agree! man, the combination, of the drum and bass. Is just amazing mixture of funk and rock. The Doobies good go from hippy rock to serious soul & r&b. I give them credit! cause not all rock bands could do it so easily.

But in the '70's pretty much all rock bands COULD do this kind of stuff. That's the difference between rock then, and rock now.

Rock musicians from back then grew up learning how to play intricate chord progressions, because that's what everyone did. When I learned to play guitar, the first song I learned was "Take Me With U". The second one was "The Beautiful Ones". Those are very intricate songs. Now, I had no idea I was starting with such hard stuff. I just knew they were my favorite songs, and I wanted to learn them first.

Then I went to Boz Scaggs and Steely Dan. That's the kind of stuff everyone learned on back in the 60's - 80's.

But starting in the 90's, with the advent of: (a) three-chord, drop-D grunge; and (b) no-chord rap. most young beginners only learned very basic stuff. If you don't know, drop-D tuning means tuning the E strings to D. That allows you to make chords by merely using one finger and pressing down on three strings on the same fret to make a major chord. You can't get easier than that, but you sure don't learn how to play anything of substance that way.

We are now into the second generation of young musicians that have learned basically only simple stuff. And it shows in today's music, doesn't it?

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[Edited 7/18/14 9:01am]