DOOBIE BROS PATRICK SIMMONS 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Quinny Cantara picks one oh six.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Super excited to talk to Patrick Simmons from the Doobie
Brothers who were coming to Saratoga August eighteenth. But I
just grabbed mister Simmons. Your your new ten track studio album,
Walk This Road. Congratulations.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Oh that's so nice of me. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
And I'm a huge Mayvas Staples fan. What's your relationship
with Mavis?

Speaker 3 (00:20):
You know, more of a fan probably than anything we
you know, when we were recording the track, we tried
to figure out who would be a great, you know,
representative of the message that we were trying to send
out there, and everybody thought of Maybis and that's kind

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of how she ended up. We ended up contacting her
and asking her if she would sing on the record.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
How important is a message in a song these days?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I think probably more important than ever at the moment.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Maybe play Holland Water, Isn't it these days? Not easy?

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, that's crazy. Pat Simmons for the Doobie Brothers, walk
me through if you can, briefly if you want. When
people ask you, how did you get the name the
Doobie Brothers, Well, well, how did you decide on it?

Speaker 3 (01:11):
We were doing a gig, our very first gig, to
be honest with you, and uh, we had a gig
at this club up in the mountains in California, Santa
Cruz Mountains is a little club. So we got hired
anyway to do the gig, and they called, what's the
name of your band? And we didn't have a name.

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So we were all sitting around the kitching table over
Tommy's house, smoking, you know, a substance, and one of
the guys said, you know, you smoke so much weed.
Used to put yourselves to Doobie Brothers and boom everybody's
everybody said that's that's stupid, that we'll never do that.

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And but we needed a name, so we build them
out and then and that was such a good gig
for us that that would that would say we hung
under the name rock.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
And Roll Hall of Famer founding member Patrick Simmons for
the Dowie Brothers. You are you're the only one to
Pete to be on every album every tour, right, I guess.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
So yeah, you come across uh Sly and the family
stone ever and ever get to know him or or
the or them.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh, sure Fly was around here and there. You know,
in our early days, everybody admired him. He was such
a fantastic musician, writer, player, singer. He had it all
going on. So he was kind of a legend in
the in the Bay Area for greatness and excess and

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everything else.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
You know, to be known for excess in the Bay
Area is really saying something too. How to do up there?
Love it?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Patrick Simmons for the Dewey Brothers. Dewey Brothers coming to
Spack on August eighteenth with the Coral Reefer Band. How
did that come to be? That's Jimmy's old man, right.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, well we said, you know, our name is Adobie
Brothers and you guys are the Reefers, so you should
come with us.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
I'm so glad that they're out touring because I don't
want I don't want Jimmy's music to stop.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, you know, we uh, you know, been friends with
a lot of those guys for a long time. So Jimmy,
we used to tour together in the mid seventies. Jimmy
was always on the on the bill with us for
literally years on and off. So you know, we have
a long standing friendship and relationship. Missed that guy, you know,

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he was such a good person.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Was he part of your your Hawaii friend group a
little bit?

Speaker 3 (03:46):
You know. I used to see him over there in
May from time to time.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
There. Who's your buddy in Hawaii?

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well, we'll I'm closer to WILLI than anybody out there.
Will and family, Lucas and uh and Mike so talented. Yeah,
they are all talented people and and just wonderful folks,
great friends.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
You mean, do you feel like you've lived a hall
of fame life. I feel like you've lived in a
hall of fame life.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
I don't know. I'm just I'm just a person like
everybody else. You know, we're all and we are.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
It's important to live that life too.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
We're all. We're all. We're all fans of all the
folks that you know, we that we come in contact with,
you know, along the way. I mean, it's we're more
than we're friends, but you know, we're we're fans. We
love music so much, or I speak for myself, I
love music so much. When I when I meet people
on O G.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Rockstone, it comes, it comes through. On the new album
Walk This Road from the Doobie Brothers, first studio album
in a long long time. And then the tour coming
up our way to Saratoga in August. Wish you a
ton of luck on the tour. Can't wait to see
you when you get here.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Thanks past Hey.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Thank you so much. Thanks for taking us on

Speaker 1 (05:02):
You guys our pleasure man, It's Quinny can Tara Pat
from The Doobie Brothers picks one oh six