Old Enough to Forget

The Doobie Brothers, yeah I know what you're thinking. Actually, I have no idea. More than likely you're asking, "What were you thinking?" Fair. As a kid it was "China Grove" that really got under my skin. That riff. Bam! My aunt and uncle had an 8 track copy of The Captain and Me along with a few others that to this day are indelibly stamped into my DNA. It's weird though that I don't remember more about that tape, aside from the weird fades and clicks as it moved from track to track and the cover. Something about that overpass just felt, sad . There were a few songs by the band I always really liked, but by the time I really got into music, the band was old and tired. Well, old at any rate. They'd been around for years. How old were those guys? I mean, my goodness, I was listening to them when I was ten. Then when Michael McDonald joined the band, things changed. There was a four-year period between 1976 and 1980 when this new brand of Doobie ...