RANGELEY — The Doobie Brothers, one of the most popular Californian pop/rock bands of the 1970s, will fill the night air at the Wellness Pavilion with iconic songs from their long list of recordings on July 30.
Limited tickets for this all-weather concert will be available beginning at 9 a.m. Wednesday, March 30, online at www.ticketweb.com. Tickets may also be purchased by calling the Rangeley Region Health and Wellness Partnership at 864-4397.
Opening the concert, presented by RRHWP and 94.9 WHOM radio, will be Ernie and the Automatics, a rocking blues band from Boston, and the Elmore Twist Band, a classic rock cover band hailing from Portland.
From the 1970s to today, the Doobie Brothers have released more than 30 million albums in the United States. They were were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004.
Their first album, “Listen to the Music,” was released in 1972, followed within a year by “China Grove.” Their first platinum selling album, “Takin’ It To The Streets,” released in 1976, was based on the strength of the iconic No. 1 single “What a Fool Believes.” In 1978, their album “Minute by Minute” spent five weeks at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Charts.
Over the years, the Doobie Brothers have gone through their share of personnel changes. But last year, the core group of Pat Simmons, Tom Johnston, John McFee and Michael Hossack reunited to release a new album, “World Gone Crazy.” They have since been touring extensively.
“In a sense, ‘World Gone Crazy’ is an analogy for the Doobie Brothers as a whole,” according to the band’s website, www.doobiebros.com. “We had been compiling songs with the idea we would eventually do a record,” Simmons said. “Our old producer Ted Templeman came by tour rehearsals one day and was impressed with how we were sounding. He asked if we were doing any new material or thinking about recording. And that’s where it really started.”
Aside from a few years in the mid-1980s, the Doobie Brothers have continued to perform and record for 20-plus consecutive years. “The Doobies have always been about playing live,” Johnston states on the website. “We’re not a studio hot house group and we’re not a concept album band. We’ve always just brought in the tunes we had, put them together and made an album. That’s the way it’s been from the very first album and that’s still the way it’s being done.”
All parking will be off-site within walking distance of the Wellness Pavilion overlooking Rangeley Lake. Gates will open at 3 p.m. with the concert scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.; there will be food and drink for purchase.

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