Michael McDonald On The 'Yacht Rock' Resurgence
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- čas přidán 3. 10. 2017
- The '70s icon muses on how the music from his most famed career decade has become cool to love again.
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RIP Koko, we will never forget
Sideshow Bob no sir, he’s talking about the saint of smooth music
Avenge Koko's murder!
Ah, a man of culture
He says that it was pretty spot on.
Which means that he DID kill a lot of Jimmy Buffet fans to free Kenny Loggins. Man's stone cold.
Krell Krell Krell Krell Krell Krell
"Keep the fire, Mike."
"Don't you DARE lose the smooth!!"
Michael McDonald is the admiral of yacht rock.
Yep
More famous people need to be like Mr. Michael McDonald here. The Yacht Rock series was brilliant, and kudos to McDonald for taking everything with a good sense of humor.
I can't express how happy I am that Michael McDonald has not only seen the Yacht Rock series but LIKES it and says it's accurate. This just made my week. #RIPkoko #SMOOTH
Michael McDonald never went out of style in my book.
Hey, never lose the smooth
Keep it smooth baby!
I never realized to this day I have NEVER heard Michael McDonald speak 😂 he sounds just as amazing talking as he does singing!
He is the Poseidon of Yacht Rock,
I never appreciated sailing or anything in the sea until Yacht Rock became popular. Now I just want to be on a yacht drinking pina caladas with some good ol Yacht Rock playing in the background. My favorite type of Yacht Rock is the late-70's Country-influenced music and early-80's Soft Rock such as Christopher Cross.
That's "Cross", and most definitely not to be confused with Kris Kross.
I'm loving my yacht rock! Evokes long hot summers driving in an open top convertible by the sea.
Careful, that sounds like Parrothead talk.
He said it was uncanny so does that mean a record producer was actually killed by a harpoon during a back alley song writing duel?
Bingo!!!!!! ✔️
Yes
Micheal's looking pretty good.
and sounding pretty good too
Yacht rock for the win. He is correct about the humor aspect. Very cool he's such a good sport
Koko knows Michael never turned his back on smooth music
Yacht Rock resurgance ?- Yacht Rock Never went away ?
Yacht Rock Its a new term for great old music that I loved when growing up with !
Mike Mcdonald is a musical hero !
West Coat - Soft Rock - AOR - What ever you want to call this well polished sounding music ? It never went away in our home !
SB British Isles
The Titan... Of YachtRock
I love how he mentions relevance. His song IS relevant!!!
Be careful when you're out jogging in Compton, Mike
Regulate!
This is gonna be some good ass banana bread.
Very humble and grounded guy.
That mans drippin in Gratitude
Smewthe Mewsic!!! (-Vincent Price)
Love Michael Mc Donald, he looks amazing, even better than when I meet him backstage in 1979 when he was with the Doobie Brothers. Love Yacht Rock Radio! #SaveYachtRock
That's the main reason I like my dad's Ram truck better than his Ford: because I can still get Yacht Rock Radio year-round, whereas you only get it in the summer time on a lot of other XM radios.
In GTA V Kenny Loggins is the DJ on Los Santos Rock Radio. I didn't get all the nautical themed wink winks he was using in his banter until I heard the term Yacht Rock
The lesson is if you don’t take yourself so seriously, you will be happier.
It amazes me that you don't understand how talented you are. I think it was the first time I heard you sing with the Doobie Brothers that I immediately felt your voice was a great contribution to the band. With every new album it just got better. I wasn't a Steely Dan fan until I aquired my Aja CD from my ex and relieved you were singing on it. You've given me and thousands of others a gift we can never repay. Fan for life Tina
A true musician, kids today are missing out on such excellent musical content. George Michael, Whitney Houston, Freddie Mercury, there will never be someone that tops these complete musicians. No auto-tune, producing their own albums, sounding exactly like their studio albums while on stage, and simply pure through and through musical geniuses!
If anything, this video just made me love him more than ever!!!!! LOVE that he is not so stuck on himself that he can/refuses to have a sense of humor about the music that made him & others in his genre who they are today.
All fine words, but WHO KILLED KOKO?
vinyl is back and there is nothing like those bargain bin yacht rock all analogue origional vinyl pressings.
Yacht rock resurgence of today is like the swing movement of the late 90s
Early 90s. Maybe it got to you later? When did Swingers come out? There had already been a scene for 4 or 5 years on the west coast when it was released.
Brian Setzers cover of Jump, Jive, and Wail is what I remember from that. Cherry Poppin Daddies rode shotgun
That's the grizzled, gentle poppa bear wisdom of a man who can clearly see, that which only a fool believes. Don't save her, she don't want to be saved. Michael McDonald, the a Yacht Rock pimp of relationship wisdom. Reasoning away what a fool believes that he sees.
I mean, if you can cipher out that a sentimental fool is trying to make a relationship work with a woman that doesn't even know what love is... underlined by the hint that the fool is scared to be alone. It really is such a smooth jam that it's hard to notice anything except that's soulful and smooth.
A brilliant musical mind and voice talent. Not many stars I'd want to even meet... but he would make me cower with nervous energy. Definite top 5 I'd want to have a beer with.
I first heard the term Yacht Rock a week ago, although it apparently describes the music of an era and of of artists I have long admired and loved - Boz Scaggs, Doobies, Steely Dan, early 80s etc.
The term itself is underwhelming though. Sounds kinda like a "Musak" of some kind. In fact, in the sense that it grew up almost side by side with American jazz 'fusion', and was created and played by a lot of players with that background, it is actually streets ahead of 'Musak, or Britpop, or punk/ new wave, or and of the many other 'waves' that have arisen since the 1960s.
Great observation. I was talking to my husband about this era and the artist. I see it as a lot of the artist write their own songs as-well. Artist like Hall and Oats, Van Morrison etc..grew up in doo wop a Motown ..etc. Unlike the singer songwriters James Taylor and Carole King music that is not Yacht Rock. I think Yacht Rock is a state of mind.
Michael saw the show and said "this is gettin' too real"
Finally charmed that snake.
I’m 53 years old and grew up in Miami, yacht rock was a big deal. It has my heart! I have a 14-year-old daughter, and she knows yacht rock! I’ll be sitting there playing yacht rock on Alexa and she’s singing songs I’m like Shelby how do you know this song and she’s like mom I’ve been listening to you play this music for years. And let me tell you my 14-year-old daughter really appreciates yacht rock.
Michael McDonald's the man. Love McDonald era Doobies.
Went to see Yacht Rock Revue in concert the other night. They are selling out medium sized venues. Big demand right now.
That's what a fool believes!
Kenny
So glad to see he's such a good sport about it all!!!!!
Michael has one of the most distinctive- and best- voices in modern pop/rock. His work with the DB, solo stuff, and background vocals for Kenny Loggins and Steely Dan never goes out of style in my book. He’s the epitome of a yacht rock artist. Seems like a cool guy too.
Captain of yacht rock
The King!!
So handsome!
Good music never died off, people with good ears died off is all, Mr. McDonald. Timeless music lives in the heart. For me being born in 1987, that means a lot. Thank you! #doobiebrothers
Man,I get great pleasure asking Alexa to play me some yacht rock each day😄😄.
MM is an amazing talent.
The Godfather of yacht rock.
Am I an irrelevant joke? Jimmy Mussina??
Class act
CAPTAIN OF THE SHIP HE IS.
Haha -Thats true we have all been listening to a wonderful music genre for the past 45 years or so - (Just Great Music -From Great Musicians • Singers • Writers & Groups) - And nobody knew what it was called ? - FANTASTIC !
I do think it was the best genre out there even now !
P.S.
...Anyone know who came up with that name ? - Are they brave enough to hold their hands up & shout It was me ! Haha - Would love to know !
When I think of yacht rock, I think of a Christopher Cross cassette in a black 380SL parked in front of a dock.
According to a Rolling Stone article from back in the 70s, McDonald drove a 450SL convertable... somehow it all fits.
Keep the fire!
Wait a minute. Have Phil Donahue and Michael McDonald ever been in the same room?
A lot of those songs are just really really good songs too though… that’s why people are still listening to them and new listeners are like “hey, there something here we should pay attention to”. The funny get them in, but the songwriting and talent keeps them.
“When your music becomes less relevant your pathetic comic value might be of some worth” 🤣
Lol
Koko nooooo!!
Tony Baker/singing alligator: What a Fool believes...
He didn’t mention Rick Moranis...
The Second City TV skit. What a classic with MM running around from studio to studio!
But I'm Michael McDonald.. voice of the 70s'!! "It's 1985 dicknose!! Beat it, you irrelevant grey beard!" - Michael Jackson"
Good lookin' dude :-)
Hard to believe Yacht Rock was 18 years ago.
good music is good music. may grow out of style for a few years but good music will always stand the test of time. The Yacht Rock revue cover band in our area always sells out.
Michael McDonald's speaking voice seems so strange to me. It doesn't seem to match his singing voice, or for some reason I thought his voice might be a bit higher lol.
The distinctive quality of his singing voice comes from forcing a baritone into the tenor range.
@@kylec2761 while remaining in his chest voice. That's the trick!
Don't you dare.........lose the smooth
Toto tried and failed to make him an irrelevant joke
Always called it soft rock.
That’s a good term for a lot of the smooth rock of the 70s, but there was a particular strain that formed when certain musicians and music producers began living in Marina Del Rey and the nearby beach communities. They would all congregate at Koko’s Boathouse. It’s Koko’s Boathouse and the Marina that gives yacht rock it’s nautical theme. Do a search on CZcams for Yacht Rock HD if you’re curious. There’s 12 or 13 short episodes.
Attention Yacht Rock Radio: A tune containing "boat" in its title is not de facto "yacht rock". "Rock the Boat" by the Hues Corporation is not rock (let alone yacht rock), but rather an overplayed and lousy disco cut that long predates your stipulated "always high seventies to low eighties". Kindly take that one to the can.
he just seems like a cool dude... no doubt he was getting the ladies in the 70s ..
The seventies and eighties music is back because modern music is crap
miguel pedroso haha what an ignorant statement.
@@johnnyluna7824 It's broad brushing all right but to be fair, there will be far more memorable stuff from the 70's, 80's and even the 90's than there ever will be today. I mean, look at the noughties to 2010 - I can think of perhaps a few dozen songs that may stand the test of time. And the onesies (almost over at the time of writing - god, I'm getting old).... there's even less. There has not been that many songs that you will sit down and listen to in 2040 and listen to as classics. Most will be simple nostalgia trips or most forgotten altogether.
best music ever is being made now, just not on the radio
@@daggers101 One of the things that bugs me about modern music is that none of it sounds like something you would want to hear years from now when the fad is gone. Modern music doesn't seem to have longevity. How many people are still listening to Lady Gaga's first tracks? Who's gonnna wanna listen to Cardi B in 10 years?
@@magneto44 You can't be serious.
Dont you dare!.....lose the smooth.
"Uh yeah, can you tell me where Nancy Pelosi's office is?"
What an irrelevant joke.