Let's Talk About The Doobie Brothers!

foreign happy Saturday I'm going to talk about the Doobie Brothers today I've actually never ever talked about the Doobie Brothers on my channel which is really unbelievable and I was thinking about that the other day um somebody asked me a question about the Dewey Brothers like Rick why haven't you talked about the Doobie Brothers in a comment and I said I thought um I have no idea I love the Doobie Brothers I used to play The Doobie Brothers a lot when I was in high school all the time one of my favorite bands I've never mentioned them once on this channel we're going to talk about them in a second but I have a couple things so I'm playing in Chicago on November 18th at Park West tickets are on sale they'll be in the description below or you can go to their website and uh and get tickets I'm going to be doing one of my Rick beato unedited um shows where I do breakdown of what makes us sound great I uh uh I'll talk about a bunch of different things and and it's um it's really fun I mean for me these are these are very very fun gigs and it's great to get out and see people I said yesterday on a live stream on Instagram that I may uh do something I may go over to uh Chicago Music Exchange I probably will the day before I don't know when but I'll probably show up there I've never been to that store I like to go to music stores in the towns that I go visit just like I did in Iceland even though I didn't make a video uh about it but I always go and visit the local music stores one of my favorite things to do uh and I have a gig in um in London that is on I just announced it yesterday or on Wednesday is on March 30th of next year and I think a lot of the tickets are sold out so I don't know what uh I don't know if they're gonna add a show but um anyways go check it out or maybe the the floors sold out in the balcony but as I was on the live stream yesterday on Instagram people are like uh Rick the the gig sold out I said there's no way it can be go to there if you're in London I want to see the show go check it out um you go to it's at uh the Bloomsbury Theater which is about 550 seat theater and one of my buddies Harper who was over visiting the other day is like oh I've been there before I was like what no way it's like yeah I went to this show I went to a show there I said come on you've been there he's like yeah anyways I just thought that was very funny um and uh my ultimate bundle is on sale I'm just gonna run the sale for another week which is all of my um educational products I know it annoys people on here but you know but this is how I make a living and it it's actually a way that you can purchase something to help me do things like I did with my Thomas Newman interview where I go out I hire a camera crew I fly out to LA I rent a studio and I do an interview with Legends like Thomas Newman the film composer who did uh we talked about oh my God uh 1917 we talked about Shawshank Redemption American Beauty The Green Mile uh uh Cinderella Man um Finding Nemo Finding Dory uh he's done so many huge soundtracks I can't even he's done 75 soundtracks and uh and he's unbelievable if you haven't seen that video check it out uh but the uh my ultimate bundle is my uh ear training course which has 80 of 80 video lessons hundreds of interactive training modules 20 20 27 page booklet my 500 page P Autobook interactive which has video lessons video lectures and audio examples and I've Rewritten the whole book and my quick lessons Pro guitar course is all for 99 bucks total if you want to get a better ear and be able to figure out things like I'm gonna play along when I play along with Doobie Brothers songs now this is how I do it I listen to the stuff I don't have perfect pitch but I know what the intervals are and I know uh what the chords are because I uh have a vocabulary of recognized sounds and I'm going to attempt to play some of these songs play along with it with a guitar at a really weird angle um like this that's okay I might mess up a little bit I'm gonna try and get it like this so you can see because some of the songs here have some really interesting really interesting Parts okay um so there's two different phases of the band there's the early phase of the band which has amazing songs and then there's a Michael McDonald I believe he joined in 75 if I'm not mistaken and there's a Mike McDonald uh band which is equally great okay um but I want to talk about my favorite songs I'm going to talk about about seven songs or so um and one of them is is a b side that is one of the best riff songs of the 70s I think one of the best guitar riff songs it's kind of an unknown song It's a song I used to play in high school I'm gonna do that last so stick around for it but it's got a really tricky Riff to play uh that's a skunk Baxter riff and the main part of the song You may not even know it I call I asked my brother John I said you know this song He's like oh yeah yeah um anyway so early songs you've got [Music] um um this obviously Long Train Running [Music] [Music] every guitar players [Music] [Music] [Applause] okay so what's amazing about this song is that it's a vamp song right with uh [Music] so it's G minor seven to to f over G very 70s song killer Melody Killer singing and then then C minor seven same shapes [Music] that to me is amazing I love how they use sus chords there to really create the tension on the um on the end of the chorus like that right listen again let me go back here listen [Applause] and they do the suspension in the vocals and the harmonies and also the groove is incredibly great listen to the bass in the drum [Applause] [Music] and you have in the left speaker you have the kind of the acoustic guitar uh improv thing and then you have the the electric guitar rhythm in the right speaker once again the uh in the 70s the 70s was all about um not having mirror parts or what I call a big mono which which kind of became the norm in the 90s and the 80s where they play the same thing in both sides in the 70s they would play different things in each side so that's why I always call 70s music ahead headphone music okay things that would pan you think of a Pink Floyd you think of of Queen you think of uh of the Doobie Brothers headphone music right where there's different things going on in different speakers um um so [Music] so um uh listen to The Long Train Running incredibly great song one of their early hits next another song same record [Music] [Music] okay I love the the the the film [Music] I love the inversions too just that simple right with that uh with that first inversion a major chord but the real Brilliance of the song is the singing The Melody oh my god um [Music] the people [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] thank you well the pizza and a pizza [Music] [Music] [Music] wait really killer drumming I love the whole 70s funky drums funky bass um the the melodic um the the blues melodies uh Tom Johnson Patrick Simmons the great guitar guitar work there that they did um the um just incred like they've got the hookiest guitar riffs and they have killer Melodies and they have killer groove right so it's like the perfect combination of everything this is the kind of the the ultimate 70s Jam rock that goes along with the Allman Brothers and bands like that um this is really strong writing strong singing and great Groove music these songs to me never have um have never lost a step in the entire time that I've been listening to them and I don't know why I've NE I've never talked about the Doobie Brothers it's honestly it's kind of embarrassing that I've not talked about the Doobie Brothers before now and I and I apologize to people for that okay um okay so um so China Grove um hold on sorry off their first record listen to music [Music] [Applause] [Music] great Melody I love this [Music] right there they go to the Asus [Music] Blues feel on that then [Music] and then once again here we go oh listen to Bass [Music] he goes [Music] and I love them when you actually stagger the bass notes and this is a thing of the 70s of the 70s Funk funky bass lines um just the the you just you really don't have that kind of playing you have it with a lot of the jam bands of the era like the Allman Brothers but this is the these are this is very very specific to the 70s um listen to music one of the finest songs of the 70s I think honestly and the the bridge [Music] [Applause] and then the flanger and then beautiful surroundings [Music] you notice there's like a flanger on the whole mix it sounds like I mean this is really great I love the flange it's amazing [Music] remember um it's just uh absolutely uh brilliant and um this is Ted templeman that produced This Record um uh Toulouse Street uh Ted templeman for those of you that don't know is one of the finest producers uh um who did Van Halen pretty much all the Van Halen uh Ted is absolutely a genius producer and this stuff is just so good he knew um he he knew I I mean I don't know what his I know all his records just are great so there's something I've been honestly I've been trying to get an interview with Ted templeman forever I have his autobiography he's a person I really want to interview I I um I'm trying to figure out how to do it so Ted's probably late 70s or so and um you know you you know I wanna I wanna talk about these things with them I want to talk about these records because this is you know this is such a um such production so good on this stuff oh my God oh my God okay so now I want to talk about the Micah McDonald era okay so this starts in the mid 70s and um Let's uh let's start with this uh or wait actually let's talk about Black Water another song that is an incredibly great song [Music] okay [Music] first of all not only is this one of the best songs of that era the recording listen to the stereo put headphones on and listen to it [Music] I'm not playing along with it because I don't want to spoil it because the recording is so good listen to the stereo Imaging the vocal is so up front these are important things to be as a producer right the vocal is there listen to the hard panning listen to the harmonies everything great I'm gonna make everything all right killer stereo guitar [Music] once again let me just go back here let's listen to the harmonies [Music] us then fall back wanna keep on rolling Mississippi notice the harmonies are in the right speaker [Music] so this is a another thing of the 70s that I don't um I've talked about this in the past the the um that panning panning meaning where things are placed in the stereo image was incredibly important in the 70s it was all it's always been important but the way that that people created space Led Zeppelin uh uh the Stone's records of the 70s um you you'll you'll have I talk I've talked about it in some of my episodes somebody won't make this song great episodes about the the panning and it's not the stereo of the of the Beatles you know where you'll have the drums on one side that they were kind of limited because of recording on four tracks but as we get to eight tracks and 16 tracks in the 70s uh the panning of things really became creative Pink Floyd Queen like I said and this is where this headphone music got to be really important uh Steely Dan I see on here um and so you get um just the incredibly high quality sound the these people that engineers and producers mastered the recording the close close-making and distant miking of instruments um they mastered things like if you think of the beginning of of Angie by the Stones or Stairway to Heaven you have one acoustic guitar in one speaker the left speaker let's say in the Reverb and the right speaker then uh in Angie the piano comes in and the right speaker and it's Reverb is in the left speaker and these are uh ways to to create space then you have these people like skunk Baxter okay skunk Baxter who we're going to talk about in a second guitar player of the Doobie Brothers and also of Steely Dan he was one of the original guitar players and plays all these incredible guitar solos and my favorite Doobie Brothers song which we're going to talk about is a skunk Baxter riff okay and uh uh but let me talk about Michael McDonald I'm gonna uh for the people who just joined us I have a gig coming up on November what is it November 18th at Park West in Chicago get your tickets there's still tickets available um that's in what four weeks or so something like that four weeks five weeks um it's gonna be a Rigby Auto unplugged uh unedited and I'll be doing song breakdowns basically I'm gonna have a it's like having a live show on here but I'll do stuff that I can't do on my channel uh and then I have a show in London on March 30th we'll be talking about that that's next year but there's a few tickets left for that show I think [Music] um and my sale today biato book ultimate bundle 99 bucks for everything 178 dollar savings for my ear training course my uh biato book which is my music theory be audible book interactive and my guitar um quick lessons guitar course uh uh all right now we're gonna talk about Michael McDonald era of the Doobie Brothers okay and [Music] oh man [Music] foreign [Music] this is one of the most inventive songs of the 70s so we got um so this is F minor over G there's no song that starts with this chord in that was a hit that I can think of not nothing even close and then so it's F so it's F minor over G and then F to C over G and then two G D7 over G to G7 sus4 nothing starts like this right this is really [Music] listen listen again and the bass listen how the bass is staggered and the drum part together listen [Music] oh foreign [Music] the pre-chorus this is when we started to get things like pre-choruses Michael McDonald uh this incredibly brilliant writing right uh so they start with this uh the pre-chorus and is uh uh so it's going like C to b six nine to um F over a to uh a flat 13. [Music] um to G back to C J listen [Music] yes [Music] [Music] okay so this chord progression is a is a killer turn around Blues Kevin thank you wow man this is incredible uh wow Kevin I have a couple uh super chats here really appreciate hold on let me close this thing Martin Turner Kevin wow really appreciate that that's that's amazing that's really really cool thank you guys um okay the chorus this turnaround uh chord progression [Music] um it's just like you know it'd be like right it's it's a it's a classic Blues turnaround listen again [Music] you will find him everywhere [Music] wherever people live together I totally screwed up to turn around there when it goes back into it okay [Music] then oh did it um okay wow that's such a great turnaround there [Music] take this message okay one of the finest vocals and vocalists of all time Michael McDonald it's interesting so you got skunk back stir who played with the Doobie Brothers you have Mike and Steely Dan you have Michael McDonald that's on every Steely Dan song singing background vocals in pretty much every song thank you Kevin every song of the 70s Michael McDonald's on I need to do a video just about that on itself but my God this is an amazing song I Love It I mean this is an incredibly great Arrangement it's one of the best recorded songs of that era I mean this is really a keyboard part that I'm playing foreign [Music] who does that love that okay uh taking the two streets and then on the same um and then on the minute by minute record because because of the way that Micah McDonald played keyboard [Music] uh he brought this Soul element to the band and I don't mean Soul like they didn't have soul before but like Soul music to the band along with the groove music [Music] I mean come on [Music] one of the greatest vocalists of all time Blue Eyed Soul that's it there we go [Music] okay so you'll notice this uh how this section sneaks in there is no crash but you hear that the the key the synth come in right listen [Music] I guess it's real strings yeah or maybe it's keyboard it's hard as hell she Rises all those upbeats now to have a pre-chorus like this that has a chorus tag is incredibly sophisticated [Music] I mean honestly this song deserves some of these songs deserve their own video I'm I'm really not doing them I'm doing them a disservice because songs like this these songs are so sophisticated part Wise It's just absolutely brilliant What a Fool Believes uh Jesus is just all right with me another one of my favorite songs but I want to get to this particular song that's a that's a um one of my favorite um uh one of my favorite Doobie Brothers songs and it's really not a known song and this is just a thing with me this is something that I played in high school I love to turn people onto this tune I think it's actually done in an open tuning uh it's a skunk Baxter thing um and I want to it sounds like using an open D tuning but I'll play you know basically what the notes are but it's definitely not played because I don't want to retune the guitar right now but it's this song it's on the minute by minute record and but it's this listen [Music] ers [Music] [Music] okay this is called Don't Stop to watch the wheels okay that is unbelievable that is an incredibly great riff he's muting it he's definitely playing it with open strings but you know that is so cool [Music] hard to plan [Music] that is hard to play I'm gonna try and play along with it uh and and fail because I'm holding the acoustic really weirdly and it's impossible to play on this but I'm gonna try hold on [Music] foreign [Music] strings in there okay so if I tune to open I hear the oh I hear that e being a d I think and I hear an F open F sharp string in there so I think it's I think it's open D tuning that he's doing um I'd love to have skunk on and actually ask him because there's obviously skunk Baxter is um one of the finest session players and one of the finest guitar players of that era of you know ever and this is absolutely brilliant playing the muting of it and um and where the open strings are but but the lick uh [Music] um I can't even bend that string I have 13s to 56 on here [Music] foreign [Music] open strings in there but that's the um um [Music] great vocal do you notice that the uh the his part skunks Park is only in the left speaker the other speaker is the um is the Rhythm this is called Don't Stop to watch the wheels it's on the the minute by minute record I think came out in 1978 uh let me see who produced this because it's incredibly well produced too let's see here this is Ted templeman of course uh came out 1978 okay Van Halen one came out in 1978. so Ted templeman produced Van Halen one and minute by minute by The Doobie Brothers okay think about that think about how different this is let me let me look up Van Halen one okay this was released on December 1st 1978. let me look up Van Halen one you guys probably can look this up uh before I did I can but I'll just let me quickly look at this um Van Halen one was released on um what day February 1978 okay so this was done so Van Halen won okay it was recorded the in 77 August through September um in uh in 77 came out in 78 and uh and This Record was recorded in 78 the the minute by minute record but these could not be any different but you know what the one thing that's consistent between them they have amazing songs on them they have great grooves and they are incredibly well recorded and mixed okay this is absolutely unreal and uh but this uh don't stop to watch the wheels let me let me look up this um so Pat Simmons lead that's Ayan lead vocals on this but um skunk Baxter let me see here don't stop to watch Wheels yes so um so it's it's bad Sims Jeff Baxter and um and Michael Eber wrote this one and and Patrick Simmons is is doing the um doing the um is it Simons or Simmons Simons is that right uh is doing the lead vocals on this and he's I mean he's just the vocals are unbelievable on this absolutely absolutely phenomenal um somebody said Templeton did Thriller he did not that's Quincy Jones produced Thriller uh Pat Simmons okay uh but skunk Baxter this is this is one of the finest guitar riffs of that era and it's really kind of an unknown song unless you listen to those records back then this is a song that I used to play in high school I used to love playing guitar to this thank you Juan appreciate that um I used to love playing guitar along with this and this stuff is really absolutely genius music musically so um um got my biato bundle on sale if you haven't gotten it it's 178 off 98 bucks for all three educational things I sell I only sell things to make you a better musician that's it you want to support the channel that's great that's how I paid for things that's why I pay for all my interviews when I go out and do things I'm not supported I don't do ads I only do ads for things for my own things right this is this is a listener supported right or viewer supported station here only uh you guys are the best I got a gig at Park West in Chicago November 18th get your tickets love to see you there love to meet you uh and um Doobie Brothers killer sorry that it took me so long to uh to get to them but here we go all right we'll see you guys later have a great rest of your weekend take care bye

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Length: 39min 49sec (2389 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 15 2022