{"id":973644,"date":"2019-11-21T10:32:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=915865"},"modified":"2019-11-21T10:32:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:32:57","slug":"flashback-michael-mcdonald-plays-i-keep-forgettin-with-the-doobie-brothers-in-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/flashback-michael-mcdonald-plays-i-keep-forgettin-with-the-doobie-brothers-in-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Michael McDonald Plays \u2018I Keep Forgettin\u201d With the Doobie Brothers in 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Doobie Brothers<\/a> became yet another band to announce a reunion earlier<\/a> this week when they rolled out dates for a 2020 50th-anniversary tour with former keyboardist-singer Michael McDonald<\/a> back in the fold for the first time since 1995. They announced it to fans during a show at Nashville\u2019s Ryman Auditorium on November 18th when McDonald came out for the final encore of \u201cTakin\u2019 It to the Streets.\u201d<\/p>\n

McDonald wasn\u2019t an original Doobie. He joined in 1976 when original singer Tom Johnston was sidelined by health issues. They had some pretty major hits before that point (\u201cListen to the Music,\u201d \u201cChina Grove,\u201d and \u201cBlack Water\u201d), but McDonald helped them continue the streak by contributing \u201cTakin\u2019 It to the Streets,\u201d \u201cWhat a Fool Believes,\u201d \u201cReal Love,\u201d and \u201cMinute by Minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

He stuck around through their 1980 LP One Step Closer<\/em> and a farewell tour two years later. By the time the tour ended on September 11th, 1982, at L.A.\u2019s Greek Theatre, he\u2019d already released his solo debut If That\u2019s What It Takes<\/em> and the lead single \u201cI Keep Forgettin\u2019 (Every Time You\u2019re Near)\u201d was all over the radio. Here\u2019s video of the Doobies playing it at the final concert.<\/p>\n

The Doobie Brothers reformed in 1987, but McDonald was an established solo artist by then and declined to rejoin. Johnston\u2019s solo career wasn\u2019t nearly as successful, so he came back and has remained there to this day. McDonald did briefly return for a series of co-headlining shows with the Steve Miller Band in 1995 and has popped up at their gigs a handful of times over the years, but this tour next year is a major event in Doobie history and, quite likely, the last chance fans will have to see Johnston and McDonald onstage at the same time.<\/p>\n

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The Doobie Brothers became yet another band to announce a reunion earlier this week when they rolled out dates for a 2020 50th-anniversary tour with former keyboardist-singer Michael McDonald back in the fold for the first time since 1995. They announced it to fans during a show at Nashville\u2019s Ryman Auditorium on November 18th when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 22:38:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}