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The Doobie Brothers are an American rock band formed in 1970. The group is comprised of founding members Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons & Michael Hossack, as well as guitarist/violinist John McFee and ; but the band has often had a large cast list, and many members have come and gone. Doobie Brothers have sold over 30 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present. The Doobie Brothers were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004. The group continues to tour heavily and remains a popular concert draw. This year, they are again going to perform in Uk with amazing collection of songs.

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Doobie Brothers Tickets for Doobie Brothers UK Tour 2010

Buy Doobie Brothers Tickets for Oct 29, 2010
Day: Friday
Venue: Hammersmith Apollo
Time: 19:00

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Day: Saturday
Venue: Colston Hall Bristol
Time: 19:00

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Day: Sunday
Venue: Wolverhampton Civic Hall
Time: 19:00

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Day: Monday
Venue: Manchester Apollo
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Doobie Brothers - Sibling Rivalry

In 2000 Doobie Brothers released the album entitled, "Sibling Rivalry", offered the band's first new studio album in nine years. The materialin Doobie Brothers album, which reflected significant contributions from both Knudsen and McFee, ranged from rock to hip-hop, jazz to adult contemporary, and even country. The album sold poorly, reflecting the declining sales throughout the adult-oriented rock musical scene. The band and some of its supporters felt it did not find the large audience it deserved. Others found the album to be musically and lyrically weak and unfocused, lacking in solid songwriting or inspired playing, this in part perhaps due to the fact that the band tried to accommodate every member with a songwriting credit, & in some cases, lead singing.

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Doobie Brothers - cycles

The Doobie Brothers hibernated for almost five years with various members getting together in different configurations. Early in 1987 Knudsen persuaded eleven of the Doobie alumni to join him for a concert to benefit veterans' causes. Answering the call were Tom Johnston, Pat Simmons, Jeff Baxter, John McFee, John Hartman, Michael Hossack, Chet McCracken, Michael McDonald, Cornelius Bumpus, Bobby LaKind and Tiran Porter. The successful reunion sparked discussions about reconstituting the band on a permanent basis. They eventually decided to replicate the Toulouse Street/Captain and Me incarnation, settling on a line-up featuring Johnston, Simmons, Hartman, Porter and Hossack plus more recent addition LaKind.

After being united Doobies released their next album "Cycles" on Capitol Records in 1989. The song in the album is very similar to "China Grove" and the connection is further enhanced by guest Bill Payne's tinkling piano. There was more strong material on the album, including Johnston's "South Of The Border", Simmons' "Take Me To The Highway", a great version of the Isley Brothers' "Need A Little Taste Of Love", and perhaps the best version ever done of the Four Tops classic, which had been covered by Santana years before. Cycles proved a successful, strong and very solid comeback album and was certified Gold.

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Doobies - One Step Closer

Doobie Brothers another album "One Step Closer" was released in 1980. The LP featured the hit title track and the Top Ten smash "Real Love" but did not dominate the charts and the radio as other albums largely due to an over saturation of the "McDonald sound" by many other artists heard on the radio at that time. The album itself was also noticeably weaker musically than the previous three Because the band itself sounding tired and seemingly devolving to little more than McDonald's "backup band".

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Doobie Brothers - Minute by Minute

Doobie Brothers became more popular with the release of their next album "Minute by Minute" in 1978. It spent five weeks at the top of the music charts and dominated several radio formats for the better part of two years. McDonald's song "What a Fool Believes," written with Kenny Loggins, was the band's second #1 single and earned the songwriting duo a Grammy Award for Record of the Year. McDonald-penned title song received the Grammy for Pop Vocal Performance by a Group and the album was honored with an Album of the Year nod.

The triumph of Minute by Minute was bittersweet, however, because it coincided with the near-dissolution of the band. The pressure of touring while recording and releasing an album each year had worn the members down. Jeff Baxter and Michael McDonald had been in the midst of a creative conflict for some time. McDonald desired a direct, soulful and polished rock R&B sound while Baxter insisted on embellishing guitar parts in an increasingly avant garde style. Because of their contradiction the album could not achieve higtest popularity as compared to others.

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Doobie Brothers - Stampede

Doobie Brothers Fifth album "Stampede" was released in 1975. It featured yet another hit single, Johnston's cover of the Holland-Dozier-Holland-written Motown hit "Take Me in Your Arms". The song included a distinctive Baxter guitar solo. Simmons contributed the atmospheric "I Cheat the Hangman," as well as "Neal's Fandango," an ode to Santa Cruz, Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady. Ry Cooder added his slinky slide guitar to Johnston's cowboy song, "Rainy Day Crossroad Blues".

At the time of releasing the album Johnston's health was suffering from the rigors of the road. By the start of the Spring 1975 promotional tour for Stampede, Johnston's condition was so precarious that he required emergency hospitalization for a bleeding ulcer. With Johnston convalescing and the tour already underway, Baxter proposed recruiting a fellow Steely Dan alum to fill the hole: singer, songwriter and keyboardist Michael McDonald. Simmons, Knudsen, Porter and McDonald divvied up and sang Johnston's parts on tour while Simmons and Baxter shared lead guitar chores and the Doobies became one of the most popular rock bands in the country.

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Doobies Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits

The fourth album of Doobie Brothers, "What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" released in 1974, included "Black Water," the band's first #1 record which eventually sold more than 2 million copies, and was the first hit to feature Simmons as lead vocalist. In the midst of recording sessions for their album Hossack abruptly departed the band citing burnout from constant touring. Drummer, songwriter and vocalist Keith Knudsen was recruited promptly and left with the Doobies on a major tour within days of joining in September 1973. Hossack subsequently replaced Knudsen in the band Bonaroo, which served as an opening act for the Doobies shortly thereafter. Both Hossack's drums and Knudsen's voice are heard on Vices.

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Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me

The third album of Doobie Brothers, "The Captain and Me" was released in 1973. A string of hits followed, including Johnston's "Long Train Runnin'" and "China Grove," from The Captain and Me album. Other noteworthy songs on the album were Simmons' country-ish ode "South City Midnight Lady" and the explosive, hard rocking raveup, "Without You," for which the entire band received songwriting credit. Onstage, the latter song would sometimes stretch into a 15-minute jam with additional lyrics ad-libbed by Johnston. A 1973 appearance on the debut episode of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert featured one such epic performance of the tune.

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Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street

Doobie Brothers second album "Toulouse Street" in 1972 brought the band their breakthrough success. In collaboration with manager Bruce Cohn, producer Ted Templeman and engineer Donn Landee, the band put forward a more polished and eclectic set of songs. They also made a change to the line-up, supplementing Hartman's drumming with that of Navy veteran Michael Hossackthe band recorded several songs on the second album with Shogren on bass, guitar & background vocals. But during the album's recording, Shogren left after disagreements with producer Templeman. Shogren was replaced with singer, songwriter and bass guitarist Tiran Porter. Porter and Hossack were both stalwarts of the northern California music scene, Porter having previously played in Scratch with Simmons. Porter brought a funkier bass style to the band and added his husky baritone to the voices of Johnston and Simmons, resulting in a rich three part harmonic vocal blend.

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Doobie Brothers - Debut Album

The band's self-titled 1971 debut album, "The Doobie Brothers", yielded no hit singles. It was departed significantly from that image and their live sound of the period. The album, which failed to chart, emphasized acoustic guitars and frequently reflected country influences. The bouncy lead-off song "Nobody," the band's first single, has surfaced in their live set several times over the ensuing decades.

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Doobie Brothers Live in 1970

The Doobie Brothers improved their playing by performing live all over Northern California in 1970. They attracted a particularly strong following among local chapters of the Hells Angels and got a recurring gig at one of the bikers'favorite venues, the Chateau Liberte' in the Santa Cruz Mountains. An energetic set of demos, eight of which were briefly and illegally released on Pickwick Records in 1980 under the title Introducing the Doobie Brothers, and have since been bootlegged on CD under that title and On Our Way Up as well, both with expanded song selections, showcased fuzz-toned dual lead electric guitars, three-part harmonies and Hartman's frenetic drumming and earned the rock group a contract at Warner Bros. Records. At this point in their history, the band's image reflected that of their biggest fans - leather jackets and motorcycles.

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Doobie Brothers - Band Formation

Drummer John Hartman arrived in California in 1969 determined to meet Skip Spence of Moby Grape and join an aborted Grape reunion. Spence introduced Hartman to singer, guitarist and songwriter Tom Johnston and the two proceeded to form the nucleus "The Doobie Brothers" Johnston and Hartman called their fledgling group "Pud", and experimented with lineups and styles as they performed in and around San Jose. They were mostly a power trio but briefly worked with a horn section. In 1970 they teamed up with bass player Dave Shogren and singer, guitarist and songwriter Patrick Simmons. Simmons, who had belonged to several area groups, an acoustic trio with future Doobies bassist Tiran Porte and also performed as a solo artist, was already an accomplished fingerstyle player whose approach to the instrument complemented Johnston's rhythmic R&B strumming. In a recent interview, Johnston attributed the band's eventual name to friend and housemate Keith "Dyno" Rosen, who noted the guys' fondness for "doobies". They considered the new moniker an improvement over "pud" and named their band "Doobie Brothers".

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Doobie Brothers - Introduction

With over two decades worth of great music to feed their hungry fans, a band called "Doobie Brothers" continued to rock, playing 47 dates with Foreigner in the summer of 1994 alone. This included tours of Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The Doobie Brothers are an American rock band formed in 1970. The group is comprised of founding members Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons & Michael Hossack, as well as guitarist/violinist John McFee and ; but the band has often had a large cast list, and many members have come and gone. The Doobie Brothers were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004. Modeled roughly on the three-guitar, three-part vocal harmony sound of the San Francisco band Moby Grape, The Doobie Brothers were founded in San Jose, California in 1970. The blending of the folk-style finger-picking of Pat Simmons with the rough-hewn rock licks of Tom Johnston, whose soulful lead vocals gave the band its initial distinctive sound, helped to define what would become known as the California sound of the 70s. They have sold over 30 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present. As they entered their second quarter century together, The Doobies Brothers continued the musicianship and showmanship that made them into one of the most popular American rock bands of all time.

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