Michael McDonald has detailed his failed try and “make some straightforward cash” by promoting cocaine.
It was the ‘70s and McDonald was a member of Steely Dan’s touring band, whereas additionally offering backing vocals on their albums. The rockers’ widespread pursuits prolonged past music, as they have been additionally frequent cocaine customers on the time. In a second of inspiration – or stupidity, relying on the way you view it – the musicians devised a plan to promote medication on the facet.
McDonald particulars the scheme in his new memoir, What a Idiot Believes. He and Walter Becker determined they’d “purchase a couple of half ounce of a few of that exceptionally pure cocaine” from one in all their associates, then “make some straightforward cash (promoting solely to our mates, fully underneath the radar) however find yourself with a good portion of blow for our personal leisure consumption, freed from cost …. What may presumably go fallacious?”
In fact, issues did go fallacious. Rapidly.
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After making their cocaine buy, McDonald and Becker “snorted most of it earlier than even getting round to chopping it, not to mention promoting something.” The musicians spent “a few harrowing days” inside McDonald’s house binging on the drug. By the point their wild trip got here to an finish, they barely had any cocaine left. Thus, their facet profession got here to a speedy finish.
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McDonald has a busy touring schedule this summer time. The famed singer will likely be again on the street with the Doobie Brothers for an prolonged run of North American dates. The trek features a run of reveals with the Eagles, who’re out of their Lengthy Goodbye farewell tour.
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McDonald initially reunited with the Doobies in 2019 and plotted a fiftieth anniversary tour with the group. The pandemic put these plans on maintain, however the trek ultimately launched in 2021. It marked McDonald’s first tour with the Doobie Brothers in 25 years.
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They continue to be an intriguing dichotomy of a band.
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