25 November 2025

“I could always live in my art, but never in my life.”

 


2018 10 18

 


 Copperhead Road performed by Steve Earle

 

If you play this in the morning, you don't need coffee: 


I went to the doctor early morning at 08:00 hours:

Colonoscopy

After 4 days of strict diet food coming home, I also still needed to go to the bathroom more often.  Then I enjoyed 2 glasses of white wine, Gewürztraminer from Alsace, and having a good stereo, I turned on real loudness with "Without You" by The Doobie Brothers, 1973:

Or:

If you play this after a colonoscopy, you don't need a toilet. It was loud!


 Hey Baby, 
Baby, baby:

I get a feelin', lost without you baby Livin' alone is drivin' me crazy Don't you know I got nowhere to go You should be the one that's hurtin' You got everything you need Back in the days when love was so easy I was fancy free and laughin' with no reason Things have changed Your touch has grown strange I can't help myself I know that you have left me dyin' here Baby, baby I can't live without you Baby, baby I can't live without you no more Baby, baby I can't live without you I feel you know it, huh Oh, baby, now I'm lost without my baby Oh, baby, baby, babe, don't you hear right now
 
The baby part is the rocking best. "Baby, Baby-I can live without you"!
 
The doobie brothers played this song badass at balboa stadium in July 73’ It was loud!
 Cajun rock ‘n’ roll roll 4:02
 1975, Doobies on stage at dusk, awesome show at the State Fair Grounds in Syracuse, NY. They were sharing the bill with America, Beach Boys, Jefferson Starship, New Riders of the Purple Sage. 
3:14...STUNNING!!!! 
I remember cruising in my 1972 Comet GT in 1976 blasting this in the 8 Track......good time.
ROCKS your socks of .............unless you ain;t got any socks! 1973.. had it on 8trk..!
I saw the Doobie Brothers in concert on March 1974. It was a great show and they did a longer version of Without You. That was my favorite song that night.
I saw the Doobie Brothers yards away from the stage at the old Balboa Stadium in San Diego, in July 1973. It was a couple months after this album was released. They opened up for Chicago when Chicago had just released Chicago 6. They played almost every song on this album. What was badass about the Doobies. Was that after every song the sound would backfire to the back of the stadium. And the crowds would cheer loud! If anybody can find that concert in 73 at balboa stadium please share it.
saw the Doobies at the Garden in 1975....3 bands....The Outlaws, Poco, and the Doobies for $7.50 !!!
these guys are the best in good time rock 'n roll and guess what? " Baby, I can't live without you".
@Daniel Golus  yes, that checks out with my raw memory. I believe it was September. I graduated at 18 in 1972. Started at UW, ran out of money 💰. Went back home to work until I could get back in at WSU. This is when I saw the Doobie Brothers. Straight from working, painting a house, to the venue. (Paint stained flannel was not unfashionable then). You are right, I was lucky, even a few weeks later, they"d have been too big to see the in anything less than a stadium. Mason Prophet, a blues grass band, started the show. First Doobie song of the night was "listen to the music."   
Savanah Ga summer 1975 heading to Orlando FL from Washington DC on the old 8 track tape this album. Spent the night there met this girl and we rocked to this album.
Summer of 74 live in Ames,IA. $3.50 a ticket. Guest star Billy Paine
The guitars move your ass along    
   

 

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