Doobie Brothers Tickets

About The Doobie Brothers

Rockin' Down the Highway brings together Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons, and Michael McDonald for an exceptional live appearance, and marks the first live recordings by The Doobie Brothers since 1983. The performances were taped in May at Sony Music Studios in New York, and on-tour in Nashville, where McDonald joined the lineup for three Doobies classics, "What A Fool Believes," "Minute By Minute" and "Takin' It To The Streets." The tapings were directed by Ernie Fritz and produced by Automatic Productions. The album was produced by The Doobie Brothers and Charlie Midnight.

One of the most commercially successful rock/pop bands of the 1970s, the Doobies evolved from a roots-influenced, post-hippie West Coast rock outfit with dazzling guitar work into a pop-conscious, keyboard-dominated ensemble tinged with R&B and fronted by the distinctive, soulful vocals of Michael McDonald. Though they found their greatest chart success with McDonald, the band's early recordings with singer Tom Johnston produced some impressive hits as well ("Long Train Running," "Without Love," "Black Water").

The Doobie Brothers are an American rock band, best known for hit singles like "Black Water". They were popular throughout the 1970s.

The founding members were lead vocalist Tom Johnston and drummer John Hartman, both former members of a group called Pud. In 1970, after leaving that band, they joined up with bass player Dave Shogren and guitarist Patrick Simmons, and thus The Doobie Brothers was formed. The band's name was taken from a slang term for the marijuana joint.

The group's 1971 self-titled debut album failed to chart. But it was after their next album (on which bass player Dave Shogren was replaced by Tiran Porter), Toulouse Street (which spawned the hit singles "Listen To The Music" and "Jesus Is Just Alright"), that brought the band their breakthrough success. Under the leadership of Johnston and Simmons, the Doobies' trademark sound (a cross between heavy metal and Southern rock) helped lead the band to the Top Ten charts with such other hits as "Long Train Runnin'" & "China Grove" (from their 1973 album The Captain And Me), and "Black Water" (from 1974's What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits). These early singles continued to be hits for the next few years and eventually earned continued airplay among today's Classic Rock radio stations. The following year (1975), Steely Dan member Jeff Baxter (nicknamed "Skunk") joined the band as a guitarist.

Their live shows had given them an energetic fanbase, primarily among the Hells Angels of Southern California.