{"id":60101,"date":"2015-06-01T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60101"},"modified":"2015-05-31T09:23:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T13:23:54","slug":"two-from-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60101","title":{"rendered":"A Couple of Doobies . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . really helps pass the time on the road.  (smile)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be finishing up a longish road trip tomorrow.  This time I decided to do some Doobies while driving to help pass the time. <\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> talking about the kind of doobies Colorado recently made legal. Geez.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m talking the <em>musical<\/em> Doobies \u2013 AKA the Doobie Brothers.  <\/p>\n<p>I have to admit I\u2019d forgotten how good those guys were. Before Michael McDonald arrived and turned the group into essentially a backing band for his version of blue-eyed-soul, their music was quite different. Their earlier incarnation could rock with anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two often-overlooked gems from the Doobies.  Both are from their \u201cThe Captain and Me\u201d release.<\/p>\n<p>The first is a reminder of just how well the band could rock. It\u2019s titled \u201cWithout You\u201d \u2013 and it\u2019s <i>nothing<\/i> like the Badfinger tune of the same name made famous by Harry Nillson.  You might want to grab a good set of headphones to listen to this one &#8211; so you can crank it up.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2Bn_to1uNVg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The second tune which follows is one of my personal favorites by the band.  It&#8217;s a reminder of how well the guys clicked when they slowed things down and stepped out-of-character as rock-n-rollers.  I think most of our male readers will be able to identify with this one.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/QxfKYhvgDPI?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all for now.  I still have a few hundred more miles before this trip ends, but I thought this was apropos today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . really helps pass the time on the road. (smile) I&#8217;ll be finishing up &hellip; <a title=\"A Couple of Doobies . . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60101\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Couple of Doobies . . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}