Radioland (1980)

Nicolette Larson

Bass

The first time I met her she was singing with Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. Nicolette was lovely and a total sweetheart. Her zodiac sign was Cancer. In 1979 at the No Nukes shows The Doobie Brothers backed Nic on “Lotta Love” and she sang lead vocals with us on “Sweet Feelin”. I was not comfortable with that performance of “Lotta Love.” It was too fast in tempo and that made my part shaky at best. Later in 1980 Nicolette asked me and some other members from The Doobies and Little Feat to be her band on her album Radioland. It was really fun playing on Nic’s album. The songs were well chosen with the composers playing on the tracks in some cases. I used my Music Man bass on her album. Nicolette also sang backup vocals for three songs on our 1980 Album, One Step Closer.

The NO Nukes Concerts, September 19 to the 23,1979 Madison Square Garden, NYC This concert was put on by MUSE - Musicians United for Safe Energy which was founded by Bonnie Raitt, John Hall, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash and Harvey Wasserman. MUSE organized in response to the partial nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island on March 28, 1979, along the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The No Nukes Concert was a five-night run of shows in NYC featuring such as James Taylor, Chaka Kahn, Sweet Honey and the Rock, Crosby Stills and Nash, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Carly Simon, Nicholette Larson, The Doobie Brothers and more. They raised over $600k for pro solar organizations and anti-nuclear organizations. The Doobie Brothers played one night and performed a very full set of ten songs.