{"id":2421,"date":"2012-10-13T10:10:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T14:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2012-10-13T10:10:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T14:10:28","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-299-roach-days-revisited-doobies-with-skip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/10\/13\/my-musical-evolution-part-299-roach-days-revisited-doobies-with-skip\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 299 Roach Days Revisited Doobies With Skip"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>If you have been following along from the beginning, you’ll know that up to this point, The Doobie Brothers<\/em> were limited to What A Fool Believes<\/em> and Minute By Minute<\/em>. That isn’t too bad and I’m sure that I was aware of some of these other Doobie<\/em> classics even if they didn’t find their way into mom’s Scratchy 45’s. <\/em>I owe my fondess for the old school Doobie Brothers <\/em>to a singer I know named Skip.<\/em><\/p>\n

The first time I saw Skip, he was singing. He Was still in High School. This goes all the way back to the College Intermission<\/em> era when I was dating Penny. She dragged me to a high school musical that fall and to be honest, I can’t tell you anything about it except a guy named Skip took a song a knocked it out of the park.<\/p>\n

You know how the typical high school musical plays out. A bunch of kids going through the motions doing what they can but most often nothing to write home about.\u00a0 Then there was Skip. His voice was brilliant. He was confident, not an ounce of that nagging teenaged self consciousness to hold him back. I swear, if American Idol<\/em> existed in 1985, you would all know Skip.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m not sure how it ended up that Skip and I formally met but he\u00a0ended up\u00a0a frequent guest at The Roach Motel<\/em>. One summer day, Skip was over and somehow we ended sort of jamming together.\u00a0 The song was Black Water<\/em> by The Doobie Brothers. <\/em>Skip guided us through it and maybe it was just the Doobies <\/em>talkin’ but it sounded amazing.\u00a0 A side effect of that afternoon was a new enthusiasm for this CD and these great classic Doobie Brothers <\/em>songs.<\/p>\n

It never ceases to amaze me how little events can have such profound results. Even though I didn’t run out and jump on the Doobie<\/em> bandwagon, I really got into Best Of <\/em> and listening to it right now, every track connects to my soul and leaves me grooving inside.\u00a0 Thanks Skip!<\/p>\n

China Grove<\/em>
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