The Doobie Brothers are heading to Las Vegas and one fortunate UCR reader will win tickets to see them, together with airfare and lodging.
4-time Grammy Award winners and Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame inductees the Doobie Brothers will headline an eight-show unique Las Vegas restricted engagement at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & On line casino. As a part of their Fiftieth Anniversary Tour, Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald, Pat Simmons and John McFee, will carry out iconic hits beginning Friday, Could 13, 2022, and can shut out the run on Could 28, 2022.
Shaped in 1970, the Doobie Brothers established themselves as one in all rock’s premier acts due to their well-crafted songs and dynamic harmonies. McDonald joined the band in 1975, coinciding with a few of their largest industrial hits, together with “Taking It to the Streets,” “What a Idiot Believes” and “Actual Love.” The group disbanded in 1982 and McDonald solid a profitable solo profession. The Doobies would reunite with out him, however the singer nonetheless sometimes rejoined his former bandmates over time.
In 2019, the Doobie Brothers introduced McDonald would return to the group for a Fiftieth-anniversary tour. And although the trek was initially postponed by the COVID pandemic, the band felt the identical previous magic after they have been lastly capable of get again onstage.
“It feels so pure; it doesn’t really feel prefer it’s a lot completely different than it ever was,” McDonald admitted to USA Today. “Our friendships have at all times existed, so it’s nearly like we’ve at all times been doing it. However however, we’ve grown due to it. If you spend the higher a part of a month collectively at any given time, we’ve been capable of sit round and reminisce about quite a lot of stuff. I used to be speaking to John [McFee] about how at our age, enjoying these venues nonetheless and attending to exit and tour like this, that’s one thing we don’t take as a right.”
To your likelihood to see the Doobie Brothers in Las Vegas — together with tickets to their Could 20 efficiency, roundtrip airfare and two-night lodging at Planet Hollywood Resort & On line casino — enter your identify, e-mail and cellphone quantity into the entry type on the high of this web page. Should be 21+ to enter. The competition ends on April 19, 2022, at 11:59PM ET. Click on right here for our official contest guidelines, and good luck!