Grab your suntan lotion – we’re going to Santa Barbara, California.
The year is 1982 and yacht rock has peaked. Yacht rock is a sort of relaxed beach music, seemingly created for being on a yacht in warm waters, surrounded by tropical drinks, bathing suits, and cocaine. Think Toto, Kenny Loggins, Gerry Rafferty, and those smooth-sounding rock bands from that time and place.
The Doobie Brothers, once a country rock sort of band, had completely transformed itself into a yacht rock leader with Michael McDonald at the helm, to the point of super-popularity and extinction. This was their farewell tour.
It was a simpler time when your big hair, Ocean Pacific shorts, and sunglasses could keep you going all summer long. When music was insipidly nice.
As a bonus, if you want to laugh, go get yourself hooked on the Channel101 parody series ‘Yacht Rock,” which is a laid-back soap opera type of story featuring actors playing Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Toto, Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, and the Eagles as they battle it out on the yacht rock scene.
Yacht Rock!
That is hilarious term! I have never heard it.
I actually enjoyed the show, it kind of is wierd knowing the Doobies started as a biker bar anf morph into , well, a yacht rock band. I am only sorry Jeff “Skunk” Baxter isn’t in the concert.
The Doobies/Michael Macdonald is sort of like the musical equivalent of a James Patterson novel, a real guilty pleasure. I still like the material, call me a wimp….
Back to Yacht Rock, I googled that term and I came up with a show called Yacht Rock. This episode made me wet my pants. The Eagles vs. Steely Dan.
http://www.channel101.com/episode/395
Same here
Me, too. A guilty, white-soul kind of pleasure from the brothers.
The show Yacht Rock is brilliant. Up there with the best.