Tag Archives: doobie brothers

2 Bs or not 2Bs?…a Rock Hall of Fame Question

August 11, 2011 | Phill | 1

Brook Benton is one of the biggest singles sellers of all time and Bobby Day gave Rock four of its most enduring classics ►

Backstage Pass: Doobies are still ‘Takin’ It To the Streets’

July 6, 2011 | Susan Sliwicki | 0

The drastic changes in the music industry over the last few years are not lost on Doobie Brothers singer-guitarist Tom Johnston. “People now put out product to back up touring. It used to be the exact opposite.” ►

Goldmine’s June issue on newsstands now: Blackmore’s Night, Doo-wop bands

June 23, 2011 | princep | 1

There’s still time to pick up our June 2011 issue on the newsstand now. ►

Last year’s Doobie release what you’d expect

January 4, 2011 | princep | 0

The Doobie Brothers “World Gone Crazy,” their first release in over a decade, was much what you’d expect and then some. ►

The best non-metal solos of all time

April 14, 2010 | Zach Sorscher@fwmedia.com | 0

In case you were wondering, here’s what Goldmine writer Martin Popoff and his voting army came up with as the greatest non-metal guitar solos of all time (Can you guess which two Martin snuck in there? Here’s a clue: ZZ T_p and F_ank Za_pa). ►

Backstage Pass: CCR's Stu Cook reminisces about Jackdawg

May 21, 2009 | Goldmine Staff | 0

In the late ’80s, Creedence Clearwater Revival bassist Stu Cook and two members of the Doobie Brothers formed Jackdawg. A more rock-oriented animal propelled by the high-powered guitar wrangling of John McFee (Clover, Doobie Brothers), Jackdawg — also featuring the late Keith Knudsen from the Doobie Brothers — convened in 1990 to record what would become a lost album of solid, rip-roaring rockers with a Southern heart. That debut LP is only now being released. ►