Doobie Brothers
The 50 Best Live Albums of the 1970s
The concert industry exploded in the 1970s, and the live album, a stopgap project once reserved for only the biggest artists, became a compulsory ritual and a pivotal moment for many artists. Live albums captured legendarily loud bands like The Who and The Ramones in their natural element. Once obscure regional acts like Bob Seger, KISS and Cheap Trick exploded into the mainstream with live albums. The Band, The Stooges, and Velvet Underground put their final gigs on vinyl. Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young (as his ongoing archive series shows), and Jackson Browne recorded entire sets of new songs onstage. The Grateful Dead released several official live albums (and continue to do so) that only made fans want to bootleg shows on their own more. With the 50th anniversary of a landmark live album, Th...
St. Vincent Covers Nine Inch Nails to Honor NIN’s Rock Hall 2020 Induction
In honor of the 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony happening this weekend, Amazon Music just released a special series of covers honoring this year’s class of inductees. St. Vincent and Jehnny Beth of Savages put their flair on Nine Inch Nails’ “Piggy” and “Closer” respectively. Eyelids took on Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence” off 1990’s Violator, while Real Estate covered “What a Fool Believes” by the Doobie Brothers. And while T. Rex was honored with a tribute album of covers this year, The Kills will be covering their iconic track, “Cosmic Dancer.” To honor the late Whitney Houston, Brandy will be covering one of the singer’s tracks, which will release in 2021. In other Amazon Music news, the service re-released The Birth of Biggie on the&nbs...
Bill Murray’s Lawyer Brilliantly Responds to Doobie Brothers’ Humorous Legal Threat
Bill Murray’s company, William Murray Golf, has been using the Doobie Brothers song “Listen to the Music” in ads without compensating the band, and the result has been a back and forth of dad jokes between both sides’ legal counsel. On Wednesday, the Doobies’ lawyer Peter Paterno publicly issued the funniest legal threat we’ve seen. “It’s a fine song. I know you agree because you keep using it in ads for your Zero Hucks Given golf shirts,” he wrote in the letter. “However, given that you haven’t paid to use it, maybe you should change the company name to ‘Zero Bucks Given.’” The attorney went on to point out that the actor’s unlawfully used songs from other clients as well. “It seems like the only person who uses our clients’ music without permission more than you do is Donald Trump,” he w...
