Press Release: Doobie Brothers “In The Studio” Appearance
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
‘InTheStudio’ Salutes The DOOBIE BROTHERS On The 40th Anniversary Of The Captain And Me With Tom Johnston and Pat Simmons
Dallas, TX – MARCH 4, 2013. North American syndicated Rock radio show and website InTheStudio: The Stories Behind History’s Greatest Rock Bands celebrates the 40th anniversary of The Doobie Brothers’ third album The Captain and Me. After the breakthrough success of the Doobies’ second album Toulouse Street, the band was poised to add to their new found popularity, and did so with the 1973 million seller The Captain and Me which would garner the Top 10 hits “Long Train Runnin’” and the signature FM rock classic “China Grove”. The road demands on the band would prove to be especially difficult for singer/guitarist Tom Johnston, who reveals to InTheStudio host Redbeard how creative songwriting doesn’t always adapt well to the grind of a working band.
“After a while the road becomes such a factor that it becomes hard to be as creative as you were, because you’re not as carefree. Your life is scheduled. You’re going to do the soundcheck, you’re going to go back to the room, (then) back to the stage to do the show, and then back to your room, throw all these wet clothes into a bag and head off to the next town. You do that for month after month, and all those tours just become a blur.”
- The DOOBIE BROTHERS/ InTheStudio interview is available now to stream here.
- InTheStudio broadcast affiliate station list
- Doobie Brothers Official Website
Contact: Mark Fischer
Tel. 860-354-0455
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Comments
Comment from Big Dave
Time: March 4, 2013, 1:55 pm
The interview is gone already?? I was really looking forward to it. I’m excited to get the new dvd. Best of luck to you guys!!
Comment from admin
Time: March 4, 2013, 1:56 pm
The link has been corrected now and should work. Sorry for any confusion.
Comment from Big Dave
Time: March 4, 2013, 1:57 pm
It’s back up now! Thanks!!
Comment from Boston Don
Time: March 4, 2013, 2:45 pm
God, it’s been 40 years! I remember that when I heard “Long Train Runnin’” for the first time (my second semester of freshman year in high school), it knocked my socks off. When the DJ on WRKO 680 in Boston said that it was the Doobie Brothers, I couldn’t believe that the same band that had released “Listen to the Music” during the previous summer had been able to raise the already-high bar that it had so recently set for itself. “What Were Once Vices…” may have kicked more booty in a rock ‘n’ roll sense, but this album was more balanced between ballsiness and subtlety and had something for everyone. Hell; even my mother has her own copy of “The Captain & Me” and I didn’t even have to give/force-feed it to her.
Comment from Dave
Time: March 5, 2013, 7:32 am
I love what you guys did with Nobody. Any thoughts of re-recording any other tunes from the first album or earlier demos? How about an album of vintage Doobie do-overs and new stuff ? You know we’ll never let you guys retire!
Comment from Dave
Time: March 5, 2013, 7:35 am
FYI guys. I believe the Massachusetts tour dates for June are incorrect?
Comment from admin
Time: March 5, 2013, 11:09 am
These have been corrected to July. Sorry for any confusion! – admin
Comment from Bill Coyle
Time: March 5, 2013, 5:27 pm
Can it be 40 years!? It was shortly after “The Captain and Me” was released, I saw The Doobies for the 1st time at The Capitol Theater in Passaic,NJ. The Capitol is long gone, but The Doobies rock on!!
Comment from dan taylor
Time: March 6, 2013, 11:24 am
Great interview. One of my desert island discs for sure. I have never tired of this album. Never cease to enjoy it when I hear it. Thanks so much guys. Keep “Rockin down the Highway”
Comment from tony mcgill liverpool, england.
Time: March 7, 2013, 9:33 am
a classic album ,south city,cajun woman,china grove,all stand tall 40 years on,doobies rock & rule…
Comment from Bill Davison
Time: March 9, 2013, 12:10 pm
Great interview! I hope you all make it somewhere over to the Charlotte, North Carolina area or somewhere else close by this year. I can’t wait to see another show. Also, I love the Captain and Me and Stampede Albums. Keep on Rocking guys!
Comment from Joe from Colorado
Time: March 17, 2013, 7:11 pm
I can remember seeing the Doobie Brothers at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Denver Colorado. It was a most excellent show. I have been a doobie Brothers fan for all Imy life ever since I was a kid and after that show it was guaranteed they were my favorite band. Since then I’ve seen them 5 times. I have at least 1 copy of everythingand they’ve ever done. They are awesome
Comment from Jeff Hunter from Fargo, North Dakota
Time: March 27, 2013, 2:17 pm
Have been a fan of the Doobies since the early 70′s. I didn’t actually see them in concert until the were at WeFest in Detroit lakes, MN in 2002. Last year (2012) I saw them at Red Rock- this year I seeing them at the Shooting Star casino and Treasure Island Casino in Minnesota. Can’t get enough of them !! You guys are awesome !
Comment from Christine from Scotland
Time: March 29, 2013, 4:47 pm
ooooh 40 years, can’t believe that, I know exactly where I was when I first heard The Captain and me, brings back so many happy memories, luv ya, xx
Comment from Mary Ann Arlotta
Time: April 5, 2013, 11:04 am
Cap’t & Me is worth a celebration, but Stampede and What Were Once Vices…, are
priceless albums. All the Best, Mary Ann
Comment from Bob Baker
Time: April 16, 2013, 6:59 am
A part of the interview describing the “tour” as not allowing as much time to be creative made sense to me. “Sound check, room, show, room, wet clothes in a bag and next town..”
When you consider the band started with “all kinds of time” to write the “Captain & Me” album – it meant they – like we – were young then and life was all ahead of us! I bet the band would love to go back to the Brass Knocker (Saratoga), Marin, Wheelers at Bodega Bay, Novato, Santa Cruz, Sonoma, Alex Valley, Sausalito – and all that went with it in the 70′s. We had time, dreams and each other.
Comment from Mike Adams
Time: May 19, 2013, 2:26 pm
Wow—————-hard to believe it’s been 40 years!!! Was 14 years old when The Captain & Me was released and that Album really, was when I officially became a “Doobieholic”!!! Tommy’s guitarmanship and vocals are incredible and Pat too, contributed a couple classics. No doubt this Album was and still is my all-time favorite!!! So many memories, from an old Jr. High School pal and I being die hard fans over the years, to dragging my folks’ antique furniture out into the street, renting top hats, et all for the High School gang and doing a re-shoot of the Album’s centerfold, at our 5 year High School reunion,…
Comment from Michael
Time: March 4, 2013, 1:49 pm
Excellent interview. Cannot believe it is 40 years since The Captain and Me. Gotta figure out how to stop the wheels of aging from continuing to go around.