The Doobie Brothers Soak Up The Citrus
briefly shot the band back into the Internet’s consciousness last night. Thanks, classic rock stations that don’t back-announce! Finally, a fun fact: The Doobies’ current drummer used to be in Vertical Horizon. Yes, that Vertical Horizon. (Bet you thought you wouldn’t hear that track in 2009, ha ha.) [YouTube]
The Doobie Brothers performed their 1973 rock-radio staple “Long Train Runnin'” on last night’s Orange Bowl, and they actually sounded pretty good in the face of generally crappy live-TV presentations of music and what seemed to be a gigantic wind machine (or maybe it was just the crazy Florida weather?). I will confess to you all that while I’m quite familiar with “Train,” I actually never knew what it was called until performing the YouTube searches on this halftime show, which