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The Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me Audio CD

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The Doobie Brothers Band: The Doobie Brothers
Title: The Captain and Me
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Release Date: 2006-12-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Natural Thing 2: Long Train Runnin' 3: China Grove 4: Dark Eyed Cajun Woman 5: Clear as the Driven Snow 6: Without You 7: South City Midnight Lady 8: Evil Woman 9: Busted Down Around O'Connelly Corners 10: Ukiah 11: Captain and Me

I don't eat fast food
What else can be said? Oh man. . this record makes me want to wear jeans and grow my hair long. I will never wear jeans or grow my hair long. I'll surely drink a beer or 7 to this record, though. 70's. Another reminder that I was born too late. Good times. Two words. . . CHINA GROVE.

Case closed.


BEAUTIFUL SOUNDING AUDIOPHILE MASTER LP !!!!!
Loaded with great tracks, and smash hit singles, it deserved the 180 Audiophile treatment, and this new version of Friday Music sounds fantastic. The Captain and Me were always one of their finest albums, but this Doobie Brothers album was one for the history books.

The album cover, the graphics, all make this a great package indeed.

Wait until you cue up Natural Thing into Long Train Runnin'. . . . . WOW.

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Don't buy this for Audiophile quality sound.
And the quality of the vinyl record and the jacket manufacture is very nice. The Captain and Me (180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl)
The best Doobie Brothers album release? No question. But I bought this re-issue in vinyl to get that warm, full analog sound I love from vinyl records. I was terribly disappointed immediately with the sound quality on this record. My wife even comented immediately on the poor sound. It is a bright, harsh, hollow mess with no low end. It is claimed that noted audio experts mastered this record from vault tapes, but I don't beleive it. It sounds like an MP3 from a CD was cut to vinyl. I put my 30 year old copy of Takin It To The Streets on to compare, and the old worn out record put this to shame. FYI, for those that are interested, I am using a refurbed Technics SL-D2 direct drive turntable with a vintage 1976 Stanton 681EEE cartridge I bought new in 1976. I have a Stanton old-stock replacement stylus with less than 50 hours use. A minimal system to say the least, true audiophiles with great equipment will hate this product.


The Doobie Brothers' last gasp at rock
There was the greasy hard rocking Doobies that was powered by Tom Johnston's biker bar rockers tempered with some progressive SoCal rock. There were two bands called The Doobie Brothers. Then there was the Michael McDonald led Doobies, who had all but made the Doobies into his backing band by Takin' It to the Streets. But in 1973, The Doobies were still a doobie chasing bunch of guitar slingers, and they hit their peak with "The Captain and Me. "

This was were the band fused their biker rock with southern California hippie-rock. The monster riffs that propelled "China Grove" and "Long Train Runnin'" are classic guitar 101, but both "Dark Eyed Cajun Woman" and "Ukiah" tease the folk-rock vein. However, for me it was always the two songs that closed the original album's sides, "Clear as The Driven Snow" and the title track. "Clear" roared to a finale of crashing bells atop a lyric that was allegedly about drug addiction, it's a fiery showcase of the band's musicianship. The title track is a Utopian view of the future that I've always thought of as one of the Doobies' best but unheralded songs.

To my ears, this was this version of The Doobie Brothers' best album. What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits had the magnificent "Black Water," bit you could hear the winds of change seeping in. By the time Jeff Baxter and McDonald were Steely Danning the band for Livin' on the Fault Line, the guitars were muted for keeps. "The Captain and Me," like the juxtaposing cover imagery of the band riding an old fashioned stagecoach riding into a sunset along an uncompleted California interstate highway, is the sound of a band at a peak point where their old ways are about to slip off into the future.


Cream of the Doobie crop....
Solid from the first note to the last and packed with the most consistent songwriting the Doobs ever did. What a tremendous album. This is real Doobies--not the soft rock, Christopher Cross clones that they became when mushmouth Michael MacDonald took over( the beginning of the end for me as a Doobies fan--at least until Tom Johnston returned). I'd give this one six stars if it was possible.


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