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All of you old timers here know of The Doobie Brothers, and Steely Dan, but did you also know that the guitarist was also a missile defence expert? Read on...



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10480407/

Guitarist Jeff Baxter is a founding member of Steely Dan and a member of the Doobie Brothers. The 56-year-old Baxter has eight platinum albums and two Grammys, but he likes to call himself a hippie rock guitarist with top secret clearances. Now, believe it or not, he's one of the top counterterrorism experts in the United States. “Today” national correspondent Jamie Gangel caught up with Baxter in between top-secret meetings in our nation’s capitol.

All of you old timers here know of The Doobie Brothers, and Steely Dan,-snip-
I love it when people think that the music of thier youth vanished from the face of the earth when they turned 25 or somehow is inaudable to people born more than five years after they where.

Especially when it comes from a generation so obsessed with nostalgia that it was practically a fetish...

I love it when people think that the music of thier youth vanished from the face of the earth when they turned 25 or somehow is inaudable to people born more than five years after they where.

Especially when it comes from a generation so obsessed with nostalgia that it was practically a fetish...
[ makes a fetish out of Cannot think of a name! ] :D

I love it when people think that the music of thier youth vanished from the face of the earth when they turned 25 or somehow is inaudable to people born more than five years after they where.

Especially when it comes from a generation so obsessed with nostalgia that it was practically a fetish...

Many of the "younger" people here on this forum wouldn't know The Doobie Brothers from Donna Reed. :rolleyes:

Believe me I'm not very nostalgic for that part of my life, I mean just look at my hair back then. Holee Jesus.

Many of the "younger" people here on this forum wouldn't know The Doobie Brothers from Donna Reed. :rolleyes:
So adorable. Like when people would come in to a record store thinking the clerks wouldn't have heard of the Beatles.

But, you know, the eyeroll convinces me.

So adorable. Like when people would come in to a record store thinking the clerks wouldn't have heard of the Beatles.

But, you know, the eyeroll convinces me.

Some people wanna walk down Hard Ass Avenue I guess.

BTW when was the last time you purchased a Doobie Brothers Album.

Record stores are for Bakersfield Chimps, the internet is where it's at.

Some people wanna walk down Hard Ass Avenue I guess.

BTW when was the last time you purchased a Doobie Brothers Album.

Record stores are for Bakersfield Chimps, the internet is where it's at.
It's alright, we'll get you a rocking chair and a porch dog and you can live out your "Kids these days" fantasy like there isn't whole channels dedictated to nostalgia, that the internet doesn't refer to anything before 1995, on and on...

It's alright, we'll get you a rocking chair and a porch dog and you can live out your "Kids these days" fantasy like there isn't whole channels dedictated to nostalgia, that the internet doesn't refer to anything before 1995, on and on...

I never said anything of the sort, I'm just saying that without hearing The Doobie Brothers or Steely Dan, would you know who Jeff Baxter is?

3pts half court at the buzzer. Count it.

I never said anything of the sort, I'm just saying that without hearing The Doobie Brothers or Steely Dan, would you know who Jeff Baxter is?

3pts half court at the buzzer. Count it.
Okey dokey pokey. Whatever belief works for you...