The Doobie Brothers
Mid-South Coliseum
Memphis, TN
Oct. 8, 1975

Soundboard recording (quite possibly pre-FM)

Boot title: Rockin' Down In Memphis (OH BOY 1-9118)

Note: This show is commonly mislabeled as coming from The Showboat (Memphis, TN), Oct. 31, 1975.
(See additional discussion below regarding this error.)

**mp3 samples provided (as always) in the Comments section**

TheCommish notes:
This is perhaps the ULTIMATE Doobies show to have in one's collection. In fact, many of us already have this show and can vouch for the QUALITY of both the sound and performance.

Since this show fell off the tracker about a month or two ago, I figured I'd put it back up for those who don't already have it. Don't miss out.

Artwork is also included.


Here are some notes from when nobby3 shared it the last time:
Taken from KBFH broadcast recording. Inspired by the huge commercial success of WHAT WERE ONCE VICES ARE NOW HABITS album, the band delivered such a powerful and tight performance throughout the states. It's a tremendous loss for them (and US!) not to release the live album from this period officially... Enjoy!


Tracklist:
01. Jesus Is Just Alright
02. Rockin' Down The Highway
03. Road Angel
04. South City Midnight Lady
05. Eyes Of Silver
06. Black Water
07. Long Train Runnin'
08. China Grove
09. Without You

Lineage:
Silver CD --> xACT (secure) --> Wav --> Flac (level 6) (except tracks 02 and 03--see below)

Editing notes (by TheCommish):
I grabbed this particular FLAC fileset when it was shared on DIME by nobby3 in June 2007, and, for the most part, this torrent includes the FLAC files downloaded from nobby3.

HOWEVER, for this new torrent I decided to fix the dreadful track split that existed between tracks 02/03 on the previous version (the previous track 02 included "Rockin' Down The Highway" and a good portion of "Road Angel"--before splitting tracks--with the rest of "Road Angel" continuing in track 03). I accomplished this as follows: (1) used Traders Little Helper to convert the two "bad" FLAC files (track 02 and 03) into WAV files, (2) used Audacity to combine both WAV files into a larger WAV file, (3) used CD Wave to split the combined WAV file at the correct track points, and (4) used Traders Little Helper to re-convert the 2 resulting WAV files back into FLAC files (aligned on sector boundaries).

I also renamed track 06 from "Blackwater" to "Black Water", and I added an apostrophe to the song title for track 07.


Bandmembers:
Patrick Simmons - Guitars, Vocals
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter - Guitars, Pedal steel, Vocals
Tiran Porter - Bass
Michael McDonald - Keyboards, Vocals
John Hartman - Drums
Keith Knudsen - Drums, Percussion, Vocals

Special Guest - The Memphis Horns
Wayne Jackson, Andrew Love, James Mitchell, Lewis Collins, Jack Hale



Additional notes regarding the venue/date/band:

#1851796 by raksharoo at 2007-06-10 03:26:42 GMT
I have this as 10-08-75 and there is a picture of the poster for this show in the ART of ROCK book, 10-31-75 was most likely the air date


#1851808 by gv0000 at 2007-06-10 03:33:15 GMT
You are correct raksharoo. The date of this show was 10/8/75 at the Memphis Mid-South Coliseum. After the show they had a tour celebration party for invited guests at The Showboat. The KBFH air date of the 10/8/75 Mid-South show was 10/26/75. The Doobies played New York Madison Square Garden on 10/31/75 with Poco & The Outlaws.


#1851935 by granjefe at 2007-06-10 05:49:53 GMT
Tom Johnston (who IS the Doobie Brothers) was NOT participating at this show. Listen to China Grove on the mp3. Pat Simmons is singing lead. Tom had personal issues and had left the tour to go home and recuperate. Michael McDonald was brought in to bolster the line up during the 75 tour of the 'Stampede'.

If you decide to download this show, won't you please consider posting a comment on the show's board? It would be nice to know that this show is appreciated. My thanks again to nobby3 for sharing it most recently with us.


Uploaded on DIME by nobby3
June 2007;
Re-posted on DIME (with updated text file)
by TheCommish
January 2010

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