Talk:The Doobie Brothers
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[edit] NPOV Violations
I have written a substantial portion of this article and most of my non-NPOV fanisms have been properly edited or removed over time, in accordance with Wikipedia policy. Recent edits have added substantial non-NPOV opinion regarding Michael McDonald and Sibling Rivalry. I modified it once, but the user essentially reverted my edits and restored his strong, non-NPOV opinions. In my view, this violates Wikipedia's NPOV policy and allows a single user's opinions to hijack the article. However, since I am not interested in engaging in running combat with other users, I'm going to leave it to someone else to decide whether the article, in its current form, is consistent with Wikipedia's NPOV policy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.97.239.130 (talk) 18:09, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Fanisms & opinions
This really is a good, enjoyable and very informative article, but it has a number of POV opinions rather than fact-based material and contains a lot of statements not cited/verified by legitimate sources. I removed one statement entirely concerning Simmons' resignation due to his alleged remark/feelings about essentially being in "The Michaal McDonald Group", which may be true if you look at the last album credits, but it's not sourced. I also adjusted one statement about "The Doctor" being "China Grove" in reverse, which is not true; being a musician, I can verify that based strictly on the 30-second clip on Amazon as I can't find my "Cycles" CD at the moment and it's not a cited statement anyway. If you find a legitimate source to back these claims up, add them back with the citation added for them. For the record, I didn't add the header at the top of the article, so I'm not the only one who feels the article needs sourcing badly, but I really do enjoy it nonetheless; there are some really knowledgable die-hard fans contributing to this article indeed.--Bamadude 00:58, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] What's Happening
Maybe you should mention their appearance on What's Happening!!. My foggy memory is that they had a two-part episode. The gang gets to know them and go to their concert, but Rerun accepts money to carry a tape recorder to the concert to make a bootleg live album and gets caught. The Doobies then have a long explanation of the moral of the story and Rerun tries to con out the bootleggers... Or something like that. Mpolo 19:34, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)
- Very true. It was one of the first times What's Happening!! had important guest stars like that. The episodes aired in January 1978...and for the most part, you have all the details correctly. Rerun didn't do it for his own benefit, though; thugs basically told him to do it or else. Mike H 22:07, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Origins
Where are they from though? --71.112.134.81 02:06, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- San Francisco--Bamadude 00:58, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Yacht Rock reference necessary at the end of the article.
Why haven't they made the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Not enough stability? They certainly have sold enough albums.
[edit] The album "On Our Way Up" is a bootleg
The album "On Our Way Up" I have learned to be an unauthorized release of early Doobie Brothers demos from 1970. As such I think it shouldn't be included and I am therefore removing it from the list. It's a bootleg in other words.--Peter Jensen 04:51, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] B. R. Cohn Winery is part of Doobies history
I have contributed a substantial amount of information to this entry, but several different people over the past several months have removed my references to the B. R. Cohn Winery on grounds that Bruce Cohn is "advertising his products" on Wikipedia. I'm a knowledgeable fan of the band and not affiliated with B. R. Cohn in any way. I personally find it interesting that he's carved out a niche as a successful vintner on the side, while still managing the Doobie Brothers full-time for 36 years. I don't understand how disclosure of this fact constitutes abuse or misuse of Wikipedia.
[edit] Sibling Rivalry
I must disagree with the opinion of whoever claimed that this was the best of the reunion bands albums. As one who has been a loyal fan of the band since their very first LP I found it to be the single most disappointing project put out by the band. The sound was thin and didn't showcase either Pat or Tommy's guitar work very well. It reminded me of Pat's solo album Arcade in terms of sound (which I believe was the reason that Pat's solo album didn't do well, since the single off it did well in the live shows where it had the thick, chunky sound people loved.). There are some good songs on the album however it certainly wasn't the best and the sales reflect this.
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Minutedooobie.jpg
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[edit] Citations & References
See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton (talk) 09:00, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
