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Lisa & Russell - Rock & Roll Roots · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: There's another rock star who has exclaimed over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: it's my son that I never knew I had. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I knew I had, but.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever done one of those DNA tests? And
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean like in an unfortunate interrogation situation with
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  Speaker 2: the Homicide Squad. I mean, you know, like the 23andMe
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  Speaker 2: or the whatever, you spit in a tube and you
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  Speaker 2: find out, you know, what you're.
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  Speaker 1: I've thought about it, but no.
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  Speaker 2: This St. Louis man, Michael Gosling, did. He always knew
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  Speaker 2: he was adopted, but he'd wondered about his roots. It
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  Speaker 2: turns out he's got blues and roots.
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  Speaker 1: He's got rock and roll roots.
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  Speaker 2: An unknown half-brother did the 23andMe test, and that's when
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  Speaker 2: they discovered the family connection.
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  Speaker 1: To a man by the name of Michael McDonald, who
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  Speaker 1: you might not know the name, but he was the
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  Speaker 1: lead singer of the Doobie Brothers for many years. He
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  Speaker 1: was in Steely Dan. He's the voice that you heard
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  Speaker 1: on every second record in the late 70s and early 80s.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Cross's Ride Like the Wind.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There was a time when musicians would say to their producer,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the record just needs a little something at
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  Speaker 1: the end there. And you go, oh, I'll get Michael
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  Speaker 1: McDonald in.
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  Speaker 2: It needs a little Michael McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: He was in everything.
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  Speaker 2: Well- Yes, indeed he was. He got going early. Mike
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  Speaker 2: McDonald and this guy Michael's biological mum were 14 when
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  Speaker 2: Gosling was conceived.
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  Speaker 3: 14!
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  Speaker 1: He was living the rock and roll lifestyle before he
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  Speaker 1: was a rock and roller.
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  Speaker 2: He certainly was. But Michael Gosling thrilled to bits to
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  Speaker 2: find out about his dad. And this is him talking
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  Speaker 2: about his first interaction with Doobie Dad.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, so tell me about yourself.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do? He said, well, I'm a musician.
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  Speaker 1: And he went on to tell me that, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: looks like we'll be touring this summer and we'll be
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  Speaker 1: stopping in St. Louis.
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  Speaker 4: And then I.
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  Speaker 1: Finally said, are you Michael McDonald?
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  Speaker 2: And he said, yeah, I'm afraid so. And dad's pretty thrilled, too,
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  Speaker 2: thrilled to reconnect.
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  Speaker 3: It was a wonderful, wonderful experience to see Michael and
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  Speaker 3: me to get to meet my son, you know, after
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  Speaker 3: all these years, you know, thinking about him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because if you see a picture of Michael Gosling,
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  Speaker 1: Michael McDonald would have looked at him and gone, there
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  Speaker 1: ain't no way I'm wriggling out of this. And Michael
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  Speaker 1: Gosling said, Dad, you might want to make an adjustment
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  Speaker 1: to that will. Because it's just a spitting image of
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  Speaker 1: his old man. So there you go. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Surprise! Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Love the Doobie Brothers.
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  Speaker 4: Freddie Bonica used to tell a great story about how
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  Speaker 4: the Doobie Brothers had a, they had a, for touring,
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  Speaker 4: they had a private plane called the Doobie Liner.
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  Speaker 1: As bands did when they were that big back then.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. They had the Doobie Liner and their crew
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  Speaker 2: used to fly on another one called the Crewbie Liner.