Yacht Rock

[brian]

Looks like a Soviet knockoff of a 70s album cover.

[Giff]

Does this qualify cause it's one of my favorite songs of the year so far.

[L-Jam3]

Whenever "Steal Away" by Robbie Dupree pops up I immediately recall clips from This Week In Baseball of Rickey Henderson, Vince Coleman, and Tim Raines swiping 2nd base.

[brian]

For my money the best yacht rock song is Jay Ferguson’s “Thunder Island”.

However his most famous composition will likely always be the theme song to The Office (US).

[sancarlos]

For my money the best yacht rock song is Jay Ferguson’s “Thunder Island”.

However his most famous composition will likely always be the theme song to The Office (US).

Ferguson was also the lead singer for the old rock band, Spirit, best known for their song, “I got a line on you”.

[Rush2112]

For my money the best yacht rock song is Jay Ferguson’s “Thunder Island”.

However his most famous composition will likely always be the theme song to The Office (US).

Ferguson was also the lead singer for the old rock band, Spirit, best known for their song, “I got a line on you”.

or Stairway to Heaven if you want to believe Randy California's allegation that Page stole his riff from Taurus.

[DaveInSeattle]

Did you know that Michael McDonald, the crown prince of Yacht Rock, has a memoir coming out?

And would you have guessed he co-wrote it with Paul Reiser?

How Paul Reiser helped Michael McDonald write his memoir

What do you get when you combine a 1970s music legend, a 1990s sitcom star and a global pandemic?

Michael McDonald’s memoir, obviously.

It seems a bit odd, but so is McDonald’s career. The crooner, once a member of Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers, has collaborated with everyone including Patti LaBelle, David Cassidy, Joni Mitchell and Thundercat.

So why not ask “Mad About You” star Paul Reiser to write his memoir?

“What a Fool Believes,” out May 21, is oddly difficult to classify, standing out somewhat from the deluge of celebrity memoirs. It’s a little bit of everything: an addiction memoir, a career retrospective, funny rock-and-roll vignettes, a rumination on family.

Reiser, whose other upcoming projects including the next “Beverly Hills Cop” movie on Netflix, keeps things light, even as it wanders down unexpected alleyways, including a look at the technical side of music-making. McDonald’s titanic struggles with drugs and alcohol — at one point, he couldn’t make it to 10 a.m. without a drink — underpins an otherwise breezy affair, filled with stories of a rock-and-roll lifestyle: playing one-on-one hoops with James Taylor, frequent run-ins with the cops, that time every member of Steely Dan got crabs.

[Giff]

YIL that Chris Griffin's middle name is Cross.