The musicianship was uniformly impeccable, but the cerebral mood on Livin' on the Fault Line was too often simply uniform.
If that sounds a world away from "China Grove," " Black Water" or even the title track from Takin' It to the Streets, that's because it is. I felt like Jeff and Mike might be able to help with the crazy ideas that had worked their way into my consciousness." "Our boundaries had shifted and so, for me anyway, I kind of let go of more traditional forms and tried to write songs that were a little more experimental. "I knew this record, which became Livin' on the Fault Line, was going to be different," Simmons said in Long Train Runnin'. They filled it with hushed, jazzy asides. Suddenly, McDonald and Simmons had a blank canvas, with none of the biker-boogie constraints from the group's early years. Rock 'n' roll means a lot to me, and I feel terrible being around you guys – because I see you cookin' and I ain't doing shit.'" Simmons told Rolling Stone that "Tommy said, 'I'm going to Rio. Simmons tried to convince Johnston to stay but couldn't. "I didn't feel like I was adding enough to the band at that point," he told the Los Angeles Times in 2022. None would appear on the finished product, as Johnston ultimately quit. Johnston arrived with five songs for consideration on Livin' on the Fault Line. Listen to the Title Track From the Doobie Brothers' 'Livin' on the Fault Line' It was incredible writing by Michael but not right for me." I was used to Little Richard-style R&B and good hard rockin.' I like to be very energetic onstage, and the music didn't lend itself to that. The music was good, definitely respectable, but it was more of a subdued sound. "It had nothing to do with personalities.
"I wasn't feeling so comfortable musically with the things that were happening," Johnston told Rolling Stone in 1979. Johnston's fellow co-founder Patrick Simmons had also bought into McDonald's adult-contemporary vibe. It wasn't just that McDonald arrived with a host of new ideas for Livin' on the Fault Line. released the Johnston-heavy compilation Best of the Doobie Brothers in the meantime, but the musical changes happening around him were quickly diminishing Johnston's role. "The second I heard him open up his mouth, I said, 'Holy shit,'" former bassist Tiran Porter wrote in 2022's Long Train Runnin': Our Story of the Doobie Brothers. McDonald's voice was perfectly suited for the more R&B-inflected era that followed. The Doobie Brothers replaced him with McDonald, who was recommended by guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter based on previous collaborations with Steely Dan. Co-founder Tom Johnston had taken a step back while on tour before the sessions for Takin' It to the Streets, citing worsening health.
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