![]() We’ve played gigs with The Stones, Albert King, The Beach Boys, Journey, The Dead, Billy Joel, The Faces, Bonnie Raitt, most all the bands, and people I’ve mentioned above. Jeez, I’ve jammed with Al Green, Sam and Dave, Elvin Bishop, John Lee Hooker, Carlos Santana, Johnny Winter, The Allman Brothers, Gregg Allman, and his band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Willie Nelson, Dave Mason, Michael Jackson, Steve Cropper, Warren Haynes, Kenny Chesney, Alice Cooper, Steve Tyler, Huey Lewis, Peter Frampton, Joe Walsh, Sammy Hagar, Chicago, Ginger Baker, Steve Stills, Train. Also, I’ve gotten to meet so many people and artists that I’ve admired. The highlight, of course, is my participation in this band. Wow… I have to say, I have been so fortunate in my life, and I give thanks all the time. Of all the highlights of your career is there anything that stands out to you as most memorable? We wanted it to be the best we could possibly make it. And of course time individually, on our own, practicing, refining the intricacies of particular passages, etc. As with all our performances, we spent a lot of hours rehearsing together as a band, relearning, reinventing parts, and polishing arrangements. What’s it been like revisiting those albums and preparing for the show?Īs I said, it entailed a certain challenge, but in the end, it has been extremely satisfying, and a hell of a lot of fun. After so much prompting from our West Coast fans, we felt it would be a natural idea to bring the show to The Masonic Auditorium. We performed the show at The Beacon Theatre, in New York. Luckily for us, we have a wonderful expanded group of musicians we work with these days, as well as an added group of horn players that we brought in to supplement the ensemble. We figured it out, but there were certain logistics we had to work out. I say this in terms of the challenge of performing songs we have never played live before, and bringing the complexity of studio production into a live setting. Little did we know we were kind of stepping into the deep end. A few other bands have done this, and it sounded like a lot of fun. Patrick Simmons: We have talked about doing something like this for a long time. Louis Raphael: What inspired this special album night and how does it feel to be doing it at home? We recently spoke to Simmons about what’s in store for San Francisco fans, what he believes accounts for the longevity of the band, and what he thinks of the current state of the music industry. The classic rock icons will be performing landmark albums, Toulouse Street and The Captain and Me, in their entirety, plus a few select hits. But proof will come when the Doobie Brothers play the Masonic next week for a night that is not to be missed. With the recent success of tours like the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, and Guns N’ Roses, it’d be hard to argue otherwise. “People still are in love with the music.” “There’s a reason the movies about Elton John, and Queen are huge successes,” said Simmons. ![]() For founding Doobie Brothers member Patrick Simmons, Rock n’ Roll never died and is very much still alive.
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