Brotherhood (1991)

Bass, guitar and vocals

In the past I have compared myself to other musicians and my propensity to quit. In retrospect, I’ve learned something about “quitting”. I don’t leave a band because it’s hard or there’s difficulties. I fade out because there’s stagnation or lack of creativity. For Brotherhood, they asked me to come back because I was part of the original band. They were selling the original band, and this is when I finally decided I was done. Same shit, different decade. By that time our audience had pretty much moved on and the sound was still the same. Performing live with musicians I’ve known for almost two decades is………….

Capital dropped The Doobie Brothers after this album and the band went to perform live shows only. Brotherhood never crested past #82 on the charts (82 is a reverse of my number…) and…………