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...homogenized form, to seep into the Doobies' music. Johnston dropped out of the group in 1975-accumulated years of hard touring and hard partying had given him an acute case of ulcers -and that same year Baxter suggested another draftee, a Steely Dan tour keyboardist named Michael McDonald...
...McDonald who wrote the band's first major hit in two years, Takin ' It to the Streets, and helped change the Doobies from journeymen to super stars. McDonald's sprightly, airy tunes telescoped neatly with Templeman's cushy production. The results had hints of funk and disco, discreet jazz inflections and uninsistent horn breaks, and sounded like contemporary nightclub music. McDonald, who professes vast admiration for R & B luminaries like Marvin Gaye and Sam and Dave as well as tunesmiths like Burt Bachrach, says, "I like to write hits. My biggest reason for writing a song...
...rock dwells, but the Doobies are flourishing anyway. Guitarist Pat Simmons, the only surviving original Doobie, keeps the group together and resents the oft-repeated criticism that the Doobies are a band musically at war within itself, between the raffishness of the old days and the calculated worldliness of McDonald's songs and his goose-down singing voice. "The Doobies are one band!" he shouted from a concert stage last year. Now, instead of yelling at the audience, he jumps down into the crowd, Springsteen style, and romps among them. Like our old friend Paul Free, he has also...
Having come up through the ranks in the oldest of political traditions. Rotenberg looks back fondly on her earliest campaign memories--carloads of kids handing out leaflets and then going to McDonald's to claim cheeseburgers and milkshakes as their reward...
...jurors believed the tapes and not the Congressman, who was the second to be tried of six House members charged with bribery in the Abscam operation. "It was all pretty clear in every one's mind," said Joseph D. McDonald, a member of the jury that took only 4½hours after a five-week trial to convict Jenrette, 44, and a longtime friend, John R. Stowe, of bribery. Added McDonald: "One picture is worth a thousand words." The video and telephone tapes showed Stowe accepting $50,000 from an undercover FBI agent and Jenrette agreeing to back legislation...