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The Doobies - 1978
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:33 am
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:33 am
42 years ago, the Doobie Brothers at the new Baton Rouge Centroplex. This was the Minute By Minute tour featuring Michael McDonald on vocals. It would be the last tour for guitarist extraordinaire, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter and the first without original member, Tom Johnston. Soft rock band Ambrosia was the opener. This was the 2nd time for me to catch the band in 1978. The first show was with the Stones and a new band called Van Halen at the new Superdome.
This post was edited on 12/14/20 at 10:35 am
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Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:49 am to TreeDawg
Was that the tour the Commodores opened up for? I remember my dad having that Tour T-shirt with the map of the US on the back and all the stops.
Don't worry, you're not old tree, my dad was fairly young when I was born.
Don't worry, you're not old tree, my dad was fairly young when I was born.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 1:22 pm to Cdawg
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Was that the tour the Commodores opened up for?
Ambrosia opened for this show, but it was common for headliners to have different openers in different cities. Could have been the same tour, not sure.
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Don't worry, you're not old tree
My body tells me otherwise whipper snapper
Posted on 12/14/20 at 2:57 pm to TreeDawg
I remember a tour a couple years earlier. They were supposed to play at the Assembly Center. We sat through the opening act Gryphon, who had a bassoon player that fronted the band, then they announced that Johnston had an "illness" and they were cancelling the show. They did reschedule about 6 months later.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 3:44 pm to r3lay3r
Doobies w/Tom Johnston >>>>>>> Doobies w/ Michael McDonald.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 4:18 pm to TreeDawg
quote:The Doobies were really good that day. (even though the acoustic in the dome at that time were not...were not....were not)
The first show was with the Stones and a new band called Van Halen at the new Superdome
Posted on 12/14/20 at 4:31 pm to TreeDawg
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This was the Minute By Minute tour featuring Michael McDonald on vocals.
Interesting. They came back to the Centroplex merely 10 months later on the same tour. October of ‘79. Opening band named Night. The Doobies were great that night.
ETA: Man I’m so jealous you still have your ticket stubs. I had mine for years and somewhere along the way they went missing. Ugh. I started keeping them again once I started going to shows with regularity again as my kids got older. Got a nice little stack now but unfortunately actual real tickets are becoming more and more rare as we go.
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Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:30 pm to LSU Jax
Tom Johnston was the best Doobie of all time
Posted on 12/15/20 at 11:36 am to Crow Pie
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the acoustic in the dome at that time were not...were not....were not
I said on that night I would never attend another concert at the superdome it was so bad. 42 years later, I still have not......
Posted on 12/15/20 at 11:38 am to LSU Jax
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Man I’m so jealous you still have your ticket stubs.
My kids found them in a box and made me a desk with a glass top. They put all og them under the glass. One of the coolest gifts I ever received.
Hard to collect now as everything is digital. I still print out what I can to save tho.
Posted on 12/15/20 at 2:06 pm to TreeDawg
Wow, I was at this concert too. 7th grade, first ever rock concert.
(I've been wrong all these years, thinking KISS was my first rock concert. Checked the dates; it was the Doobies!)
(I've been wrong all these years, thinking KISS was my first rock concert. Checked the dates; it was the Doobies!)
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:18 pm to TreeDawg
Was there. Do you remember which one of the band members passed out on stage? My brain was a tad smokey that night but I seem to remember he returned to the stage later in concert.
Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:21 pm to Mizz-SEC
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Doobies w/Tom Johnston >>>>>>> Doobies w/ Michael McDonald.
ABSOLUTELY AGREE!
Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:40 pm to LSU Jax
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Interesting. They came back to the Centroplex merely 10 months later on the same tour. October of ‘79. Opening band named Night. The Doobies were great that night.
THIS was actually the show I saw (I remember Night being the opening band.)
Guess I wasn't so confused after all these years. KISS was my first rock concert after all!
Yeah, I wish I had saved all my ticket stubs...
Posted on 12/15/20 at 5:52 pm to TreeDawg
went to that Doobies show for that tour in Huntsville, Al.
It seems like there was 1 more act that actually opened, and then Ambrosia then the Doobies, I can't remember who that opener was now. It might have been that La. Leroux band.
It seems like there was 1 more act that actually opened, and then Ambrosia then the Doobies, I can't remember who that opener was now. It might have been that La. Leroux band.
Posted on 12/15/20 at 11:18 pm to auggie
I remember going to the Doobie Brothers concert at the PMac back in the 70’s and the show was cancelled because Tom Johnston couldn’t come out onstage because he was too fricked up!
Posted on 12/16/20 at 7:21 am to TreeDawg
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My kids found them in a box and made me a desk with a glass top. They put all og them under the glass. One of the coolest gifts I ever received.
Wow. That is an awesome gift. Cool kids you have there TreeDawg.
Posted on 12/16/20 at 7:26 am to Htowntiger90
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THIS was actually the show I saw (I remember Night being the opening band.)
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Guess I wasn't so confused after all these years. KISS was my first rock concert after all!
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Yeah, I wish I had saved all my ticket stubs...
Yep. Would be a great thing to have them all back.
Posted on 12/16/20 at 9:31 am to ForLSU56
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Do you remember which one of the band members passed out on stage?
I may have also passed out at some point
Posted on 12/17/20 at 7:14 am to Mizz-SEC
Doobies w/Tom Johnston >>>>>>> Doobies w/ Michael McDonald."
No doubt
I saw the Doobies for the first time off this tour and Firefall opened for them.
I remember Pat Simmons brought out a life sized cardboard cut out of Tom Johnston during the show in honor of Tom. It was funny, and a bit weird because it stayed up on stage through the rest of the show.
No doubt
I saw the Doobies for the first time off this tour and Firefall opened for them.
I remember Pat Simmons brought out a life sized cardboard cut out of Tom Johnston during the show in honor of Tom. It was funny, and a bit weird because it stayed up on stage through the rest of the show.
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