"Long Train Runnin': Our Story of The Doobie Brothers" isn't loaded with the tales of debauchery you'd get from books about, say, the Stones, Led Zeppelin or Mötley Crüe.
More than most bands, the Doobies, as depicted by frontmen Tom Johnston and Patrick Simmons, were all just down-to-earth dudes who wrote a bunch of beloved boogie-rock songs and went about their business without an excess of drama.
A director looking to thrust people into the action with a dramatic first scene might go to chapter 18, where the Doobie Brothers were in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on the Stampede tour in April 1975. Just before showtime, Johnston, the guitarist and singer on most of the band's hits, was rushed back to Los Angeles on the Doobies' plane with a bleeding ulcer.
