Jeff Baxter

American guitarist (born 1948)

For the member of the Washington State Senate, see Jeff Baxter (politician).

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Jeff Baxter

Baxter performing at USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore’s 36th Annual Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C. May 10, 2018.

Background information
Birth name| Jeffrey Allen Baxter
Born|  (1948-12-13) December 13, 1948 (age 75)
Washington, D.C., United States
Genres|

* Rock
* jazz-rock
* blue-eyed soul

Occupations|

* Musician
* songwriter
* producer
* military advisor

Instruments|

* Guitar
* pedal steel · piano · congas[1]

Years active| 1968–present
Labels|

* Warner Bros.
* Capitol
* Glass Records
* Arista

Musical artist

Jeffrey Allen "Skunk" Baxter (born December 13, 1948) is an American guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s and Spirit in the 1980s. More recently, he has worked as a defense consultant and advised U.S. members of Congress on missile defense.[2] He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Doobie Brothers in 2020.[3]

## Early life and education

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Jeffrey Baxter was born in Washington, D.C., and spent some of his formative years in Mexico.[2][4] He graduated from the Taft School in 1967 in Watertown, Connecticut, and was a self-described preppie.[5][6] He enrolled at the School of Public Communication (now College of Communication) at Boston University[7] in September 1967, where he studied journalism[8] while continuing to perform with local bands. His freshman roommate was blues musician James Montgomery.[9]

## Music career

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### Early years

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Baxter joined his first band at age 11.[8] At the Taft School, he played drums in a band called King Thunder and the Lightning Bolts.[10] While still a high school student, he worked at Jimmy's Music Shop in Manhattan in 1966. At Jimmy's, Baxter met guitarist Jimi Hendrix, who was just beginning his career as a frontman.[11] Later, Baxter claimed to have sat in with the Hendrix-led band Jimmy James and the Blue Flames, when the regular bassist could not make the show.[11] Moving to Boston to attend college, Baxter worked as a guitar technician and amplifier repairman at Jack's Drum Shop on Boylston Street.

Baxter first reached a wide rock audience in 1968 as a member of the psychedelic rock band Ultimate Spinach.[8]

Baxter joined the band for Ultimate Spinach III, their third and final album.[12] After leaving the band, he played with the Holy Modal Rounders and backed singer Buzzy Linhart.[5][13][14] He was using the moniker "Skunk" by this time; so far, Baxter has kept the origin of the nickname a secret.[15]

### With Steely Dan

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After the breakup of Ultimate Spinach, Baxter relocated to Los Angeles, finding work as a session guitarist.

In 1972, he became a founding member of the band Steely Dan, along with guitarist Denny Dias, guitarist-bassist Walter Becker, keyboardist-vocalist Donald Fagen, drummer Jim Hodder and vocalist David Palmer.[16]

Baxter appeared with Steely Dan on their first three albums, Can't Buy a Thrill in 1972, Countdown to Ecstasy in 1973, and Pretzel Logic in 1974. He contributed the guitar fills and signature solo heard on the group's highest charting hit "Rikki Don't Lose That Number."[12]

### With The Doobie Brothers

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Baxter performing with The Doobie Brothers in the 70s.

While finishing work on Pretzel Logic, Baxter became aware of Becker and Fagen's intentions to retire Steely Dan from touring and work almost exclusively with session players. With that in mind, Baxter left the band in 1974 to join The Doobie Brothers, who at the time were touring in support of their fourth album What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits.

As a session man, he had contributed pedal steel guitar on Vices as well as "South City Midnight Lady" on its predecessor, The Captain and Me. Baxter's first album as a full member of the group was 1975's Stampede. He contributed an acoustic interlude ("Precis") and significant turns on slide and pedal steel guitar.

While preparing to tour in support of Stampede, Doobie Brothers founder Tom Johnston was hospitalized with a stomach ailment. To fill in for Johnston on vocals, Baxter suggested bringing in singer-keyboardist Michael McDonald, with whom Baxter had worked in Steely Dan. With Johnston still convalescing, McDonald soon was invited to join the band full-time. McDonald's vocal and songwriting contributions, as well as Baxter's jazzier guitar style, marked a new direction for the band. They went on to continued success with the 1976 album Takin' It to the Streets, 1977's Livin' on the Fault Line, and particularly 1978's Minute by Minute, which spent five weeks as the #1 album in the U.S. and spawned several hit singles; Baxter's work on the album includes an extended solo at the end of the closing track "How Do the Fools Survive?".

In early 1979, Baxter left the band, as did drummer and band co-founder John Hartman.

### Later music career

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Baxter has continued working as a session guitarist for a diverse group of artists, including Willy DeVille, Bryan Adams, Hoyt Axton, Eric Clapton, Gene Clark, Sheryl Crow, Freddie Hubbard, Tim Weisberg, Joni Mitchell, Ricky Nelson, Dolly Parton, Carly Simon, Ringo Starr, Gene Simmons, Rod Stewart, Burton Cummings, Barbra Streisand, and Donna Summer.[5] He has worked as a touring musician for Elton John,[5] Linda Ronstadt,[5] and Billy Vera and the Beaters.

In 1982, he featured on Spirit's album Spirit of '84, released as The Thirteenth Dream outside of the US.[17]

In 1984, Baxter played keyboards with Bobby and the Midnites' Bob Weir, Billy Cobham, Bobby Cochran, Kenny Gradney ("Tigger"), and Dave Garland at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey.[18] That same year, he produced and played guitar and synthesizer on the band's album Where the Beat Meets the Street on Columbia Records.

In 1986, Baxter joined James Brown and Maceo Parker on guitar for several North American tour dates.[19]

In 1990, Baxter joined John Entwistle, Joe Walsh, Keith Emerson, Simon Phillips and relatively unknown vocalist Rick Livingstone in a supergroup called The Best. The group released a live performance video in Japan before disbanding. He also produced two albums for the hard rock band Nazareth, and also produced albums for Carl Wilson, Livingston Taylor, The Ventures, and Nils Lofgren. He was producer on the 1982 Bob Welch album Eye Contact. In 1991 Baxter also produced a documentary video, "Guitar" (Warner Brothers VHS and LaserDisc), in which he travels the world and interviews guitarists he admires. In 1994 he performed on the video game Tuneland.

In 1997 Baxter scored the movie The Curse of Inferno.[20]

Baxter continues to do studio work, most recently on tribute albums to Pink Floyd and Aerosmith. In 2012, he appeared on keyboardist Brian Auger's Language of the Heart, and The Beach Boys' That's Why God Made the Radio. He also occasionally plays in The Coalition of the Willing, a band comprising Andras Simonyi, Hungarian Ambassador to the United States; Alexander Vershbow, US Ambassador to South Korea; Daniel Poneman, formerly of the United States National Security Council and later the Obama Administration's Deputy Secretary of Energy; and Lincoln Bloomfield Jr., former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs. On June 19, 2007, Baxter jammed with former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow's band Beats Workin' at the Congressional Picnic held on the White House South Lawn.

### Other media

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Baxter appeared on the TV sitcom What's Happening!! in the two-part episode "Doobie or Not Doobie" (1978) as a member of the Doobie Brothers.

Baxter worked on the animated TV series King of the Hill in 1997, composing songs for three episodes: "Peggy the Boggle Champ", "Hank's Unmentionable Problem", and "Square Peg". Also in 1997, he worked on two other TV series as a composer: The Blues Brothers Animated Series and The Curse of Inferno. He composed for Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories TV series episode "Bootsie Barker Bites/Ruby the Copycat" in 1993, the Pee-wee's Playhouse episode "Tons of Fun" in 1987, and the Beverly Hills, 90210 episode "The Green Room" in 1990. He is credited on the movie soundtrack for the feature film Roxanne (1987) as writer and producer for the songs "Party Tonight" and "Can This Be Love". Other credits include music for Class of 1984 (1982): "You Better Not Step Out of Line" and as a performer on "Suburbanite".[citation needed] He appeared in the film Blues Brothers 2000 and can be heard on the cast album.

Baxter has appeared in a number of documentaries, including Jan & Dean: The Other Beach Boys (2002), The History of Rock 'n' Roll (1995), American Bandstand's 40th Anniversary Special (1995), Emerson (2013), Turn It Up! (2013), Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who (2007), Overnight (2003), The Doobie Brothers: Let the Music Play (2012), The Making of 'Blues Brothers 2000'  (1998) and Guitar (1991).[21]

## Defense consulting career

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Baxter fell into his second profession almost by accident. In the mid-1980s, his interest in music recording technology led him to wonder about hardware and software originally developed for military use, specifically data compression algorithms and large-capacity storage devices.[8]

His next-door neighbor was a retired engineer who had worked on the Sidewinder missile program.[8] This neighbor bought Baxter a subscription to Aviation Week magazine, provoking his interest in additional military-oriented publications and missile defense systems in particular. He became self-taught in this area, and at one point wrote a five-page paper that proposed converting the ship-based anti-aircraft Aegis missile into a rudimentary missile defense system.[8]

He gave the paper to California Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, and his career as a defense consultant began. Baxter received a series of security clearances so he could work with classified information. In 1995, Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Curt Weldon, then the chairman of the House Military Research and Development Subcommittee, nominated Baxter to chair the Civilian Advisory Board for Ballistic Missile Defense.

Baxter's work with that panel led to consulting contracts with the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. He consults for the US Department of Defense and the US intelligence community, as well as defense-oriented manufacturers such as Science Applications International Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corp., General Dynamics, and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. He has said his unconventional approach to thinking about terrorism,[8] tied to his interest in technology, is a major reason the government sought his assistance.

"We thought turntables were for playing records until rappers began to use them as instruments, and we thought airplanes were for carrying passengers until terrorists realized they could be used as missiles,"[22] Baxter has said. "My big thing is to look at existing technologies and try to see other ways they can be used, which happens in music all the time and happens to be what terrorists are incredibly good at."

Baxter has also appeared in public debates and as a guest on CNN and Fox News advocating missile defense.[8] He served as a national spokesman for Americans for Missile Defense, a coalition of organizations devoted to the issue.

In 2000, Baxter considered challenging Representative Brad Sherman for the 24th Congressional District seat in California before deciding not to run.[23]

In April 2005, he joined the NASA Exploration Systems Advisory Committee.

Baxter was a member of an independent study group that produced the Civil Applications Committee Blue Ribbon Study recommending an increased domestic role for US spy satellites in September 2005.[24] This study was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on August 15, 2007.[25] He is listed as "Senior Thinker and Raconteur" at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition,[26] and is a Senior Fellow and Member of the Board of Regents at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.[27]

## Discography

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With Richie Havens

* The End of the Beginning (A&M Records, 1976)
* Connections (Elektra Records, 1980)

With Steve Cropper

* Night After Night (MCA Records, 1982)

With Glen Campbell

* Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like (Capitol Records, 1980)

With Dolly Parton

* Heartbreaker (RCA Records, 1978)
* 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs (RCA Records, 1980)
* Heartbreak Express (RCA Records, 1982)

With Ringo Starr

* Time Takes Time (Private Music, 1992)
* Vertical Man (Mercury Records, 1998)

With Jackie DeShannon

* Quick Touches (Amherst Records, 1978)

With Livingston Taylor

* Man's Best Friend (Epic Records, 1980)

With Al Kooper

* Championship Wrestling (Columbia Records, 1982)

With Steely Dan

* Can't Buy a Thrill (ABC Records, 1972)
* Countdown to Ecstasy (ABC Records, 1973)
* Pretzel Logic (ABC Records, 1974)

With Rod Stewart

* Tonight I'm Yours (Warner Bros. Records, 1981)
* When We Were the New Boys (Warner Bros. Records, 1998)

With Dalbello

* Drastic Measures (Capitol Records, 1981)

With Judy Collins

* Hard Times for Lovers (Elektra Records, 1979)

With Carly Simon

* Carly Simon (Elektra Records, 1971)
* Playing Possum (Elektra Records, 1975)
* Another Passenger (Elektra Records, 1976)

With Leo Sayer

* Here (Warner Bros.Records, 1979)

With Joe Cocker

* Heart & Soul (EMI, 2004)

With Elton John

* Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy Deluxe Edition - Live Concert, Wembley, June 21, 1975 (Island reissue, 2005)[28]

With Deniece Williams

* I'm So Proud (Columbia Records, 1983)
* Let's Hear It for the Boy (Columbia Records, 1984)

With John Mellencamp

* Nothin' Matters and What If It Did (Riva Records, 1980)

With Albert King

* Red House (Essential Records, 1991)

With Dusty Springfield

* It Begins Again (Mercury Records, 1978)

With Barbra Streisand

* Wet (Columbia Records, 1979)
* Till I Loved You (Columbia Records, 1988)

With Tom Rush

* Ladies Love Outlaws (Columbia Records, 1974)

With Donna Summer

* Bad Girls (Casablanca Records, 1979)
* The Wanderer (Geffen, 1980)

With Cher

* Stars (Warner Bros. Records, 1975)

With Carl Wilson

* Youngblood (Caribou Records, 1983)

With Steve Goodman

* Hot Spot (Asylum Records, 1980)
* Unfinished Business (Red Pajamas, 1987)

With Joni Mitchell

* The Hissing of Summer Lawns (Asylum Records, 1975)

With The Beach Boys

* That's Why God Made the Radio (Capitol Records, 2012)

### Solo albums

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* Speed of Heat (2022, BMG Records)

## References

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1. ^ "Do It Again - Steely Dan | The Midnight Special". May 30, 2023. Retrieved July 31, 2024 - via YouTube.
2. ^ a b "Jeff Baxter | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
3. ^ "The Doobie Brothers | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame". Rockhall.com. Retrieved January 15, 2020.
4. ^ "Jeff Baxter - Electronic Musician - Roland Users Group Interview - Volume 1 - Number 1". Joness.com.
5. ^ a b c d e Baxter, Jeff (July 13, 1992). "Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter online interview". AOL.com. America Online. Archived from the original on May 30, 2000. Retrieved September 5, 2017 - via Granatino.com.
6. ^ "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame". Taft School. March 25, 2010. Archived from the original on August 8, 2013. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
7. ^ "Jeff "Skunk" Baxter Interview". Trajectorymagazine.com. Archived from the original on February 2, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
8. ^ a b c d e f g h Dreazen, Yochi J. (May 24, 2005). "Rocker Jeff Baxter Moves and Shakes In National Security". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on June 7, 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2017 - via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Alt URL
9. ^ "Jeff "Skunk" Baxter-This Week's Podcast". Leftsetz.com. May 5, 2022.
10. ^ Brown, Chris "Kit" (Summer 2016). "King Thunder Band" (PDF). Taft Bulletin. Taft School: 5. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
11. ^ a b Roby, Steven (2002). Black Gold: The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix. New York City: Billboard Books. pp. 53–54. ISBN 0-8230-7854-X.
12. ^ a b "Jeff Baxter (credits)". Discogs.com. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
13. ^ Obrecht, Jas. "GP Flashback : Jeff Baxter, December 1980". Guitarplayer.com. Archived from the original on July 20, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
14. ^ Menn, Don. "GP Flashback : The Doobie Brothers, June 1976". Guitarplayer.com. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
15. ^ Bustillo, Miguel; McGreevy, Patrick (May 20, 1999). "Origin of Ex-Doobie's Nickname Revealed--Well, Maybe". Articles.latimes.com. Retrieved December 14, 2017.
16. ^ "Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and a ballistic missile and anti-terrorism expert". San Diego Union-Tribune. July 31, 2022. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
17. ^ Review of Spirit of '84 at Allmusic.com
18. ^ "Bobby and The Midnites - Full Concert - 08/01/84 - Capitol Theatre (Official)". Capitol Theatre (Passaic, New Jersey). Archived from the original on December 12, 2021. Retrieved September 5, 2017 - via YouTube.
19. ^ 1/26/1986 - Ritz (New York, NY) Archived May 18, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Music Vault
20. ^ Ryon, Ruth (July 21, 1996). "'J.R.' Will Sell Malibu Spread". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
21. ^ "Guitar". EW.com. September 20, 1991. Archived from the original on December 21, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
22. ^ Quiggin, Thomas. Seeing The Invisible, World Scientific, 2007, p. 37. ISBN 981-270-482-5
23. ^ Barone, Michael; Cohen, Richard E. (2002). The Almanac of American Politics. p. 222.
24. ^ "Civil Applications Committee Blue Ribbon Study" (PDF). Department of Homeland Security. September 2005.
25. ^ Block, Robert (August 15, 2007). "U.S. to Expand Domestic Use of Spy Satellites". The Wall Street Journal.
26. ^ "Jeffrey Baxter". Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
27. ^ "Fellows". Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
28. ^ "Elton Expands 'Captain Fantastic' With Live Tracks". Billboard.com. August 4, 2005. Retrieved July 18, 2023.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jeff Baxter.

* Editor & Publisher article referencing the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association dinner
* Article and photos about the "Coalition of the Willing" band
* NASA Establishes Exploration Systems Advisory Committee Archived October 27, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, NASA.gov
* Interview on Today show (December 2005), MSNBC.com
* Beets, Greg (March 14, 2003). "Crash Course: Guitar Workshop With Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter". Austin Chronicle. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
* Jeff "Skunk" Baxter Interview at NAMM Oral History Library (2001)
* Appearances on C-SPAN

Awards for Jeff Baxter

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Grammy Award for Record of the Year

1950s|

* "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)" – Domenico Modugno (1958)
* "Mack the Knife" – Bobby Darin (1959)

1960s|

* "Theme from A Summer Place" – Percy Faith (1960)
* "Moon River" – Henry Mancini (1961)
* "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" – Tony Bennett (1962)
* "Days of Wine and Roses" – Henry Mancini (1963)
* "The Girl from Ipanema" – Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz (1964)
* "A Taste of Honey" – Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (1965)
* "Strangers in the Night" – Frank Sinatra (1966)
* "Up, Up and Away" – The 5th Dimension (1967)
* "Mrs. Robinson" – Simon & Garfunkel (1968)
* "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" – The 5th Dimension (1969)

1970s|

* "Bridge over Troubled Water" – Simon & Garfunkel (1970)
* "It's Too Late" – Carole King (1971)
* "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" – Roberta Flack (1972)
* "Killing Me Softly with His Song" – Roberta Flack (1973)
* "I Honestly Love You" – Olivia Newton-John (1974)
* "Love Will Keep Us Together" – Captain & Tennille (1975)
* "This Masquerade" – George Benson (1976)
* "Hotel California" – Eagles (1977)
* "Just the Way You Are" – Billy Joel (1978)
* "What a Fool Believes" – The Doobie Brothers (1979)

1980s|

* "Sailing" – Christopher Cross (1980)
* "Bette Davis Eyes" – Kim Carnes (1981)
* "Rosanna" – Toto (1982)
* "Beat It" – Michael Jackson (1983)
* "What's Love Got to Do with It" – Tina Turner (1984)
* "We Are the World" – USA for Africa (1985)
* "Higher Love" – Steve Winwood (1986)
* "Graceland" – Paul Simon (1987)
* "Don't Worry, Be Happy" – Bobby McFerrin (1988)
* "Wind Beneath My Wings" – Bette Midler (1989)

1990s|

* "Another Day in Paradise" – Phil Collins (1990)
* "Unforgettable" – Natalie Cole with Nat King Cole (1991)
* "Tears in Heaven" – Eric Clapton (1992)
* "I Will Always Love You" – Whitney Houston (1993)
* "All I Wanna Do" – Sheryl Crow (1994)
* "Kiss from a Rose" – Seal (1995)
* "Change the World" – Eric Clapton (1996)
* "Sunny Came Home" – Shawn Colvin (1997)
* "My Heart Will Go On" – Celine Dion (1998)
* "Smooth" – Santana featuring Rob Thomas (1999)

2000s|

* "Beautiful Day" – U2 (2000)
* "Walk On" – U2 (2001)
* "Don't Know Why" – Norah Jones (2002)
* "Clocks" – Coldplay (2003)
* "Here We Go Again" – Ray Charles & Norah Jones (2004)
* "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" – Green Day (2005)
* "Not Ready to Make Nice" – Dixie Chicks (2006)
* "Rehab" – Amy Winehouse (2007)
* "Please Read the Letter" – Alison Krauss & Robert Plant (2008)
* "Use Somebody" – Kings of Leon (2009)

2010s|

* "Need You Now" – Lady Antebellum (2010)
* "Rolling in the Deep" – Adele (2011)
* "Somebody That I Used to Know" – Gotye featuring Kimbra (2012)
* "Get Lucky" – Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers (2013)
* "Stay with Me" (Darkchild version) – Sam Smith (2014)
* "Uptown Funk" – Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars (2015)
* "Hello" – Adele (2016)
* "24K Magic" – Bruno Mars (2017)
* "This Is America" – Childish Gambino (2018)
* "Bad Guy" – Billie Eilish (2019)

2020s|

* "Everything I Wanted" – Billie Eilish (2020)
* "Leave the Door Open" – Silk Sonic (2021)
* "About Damn Time" by Lizzo (2022)
* "Flowers" – Miley Cyrus (2023)

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – Class of 2020

Performers|

* Depeche Mode
* Vince Clarke, Andy Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Alan Wilder
* The Doobie Brothers
* Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, John Hartman, Michael Hossack, Tom Johnston, Keith Knudsen, Michael McDonald, John McFee, Tiran Porter, Patrick Simmons
* Whitney Houston
* Nine Inch Nails
* Alessandro Cortini, Robin Finck, Danny Lohner, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Ilan Rubin, Chris Vrenna
* The Notorious B.I.G.
* T. Rex
* Marc Bolan, Steve Currie, Mickey Finn, Bill Legend

Non-performers
(Ahmet Ertegun Award)|

* Irving Azoff
* Jon Landau

* v
* t
* e

The Doobie Brothers

* Tom Johnston
* Patrick Simmons
* Michael McDonald
* John McFee

* John Hartman
* Dave Shogren
* Michael Hossack
* Tiran Porter
* Keith Knudsen
* Jeff "Skunk" Baxter
* Chet McCracken
* Cornelius Bumpus
* Bobby LaKind
* Willie Weeks

Studio albums|

* The Doobie Brothers
* Toulouse Street
* The Captain and Me
* What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
* Stampede
* Takin' It to the Streets
* Livin' on the Fault Line
* Minute by Minute
* One Step Closer
* Cycles
* Brotherhood
* Sibling Rivalry
* World Gone Crazy
* Southbound
* Liberté

Live albums|

* Farewell Tour
* Rockin' Down the Highway: The Wildlife Concert
* Live at Wolf Trap

Compilations|

* Best of The Doobies
* Best of The Doobies Volume II
* Listen to the Music: The Very Best of The Doobie Brothers
* Greatest Hits
* Divided Highway
* The Very Best of The Doobie Brothers

Singles|

* "Listen to the Music"
* "Jesus Is Just Alright" / "Rockin' Down the Highway"
* "Long Train Runnin'"
* "China Grove"
* "Another Park, Another Sunday" / "Black Water"
* "Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)"
* "Takin' It to the Streets"
* "Wheels of Fortune"
* "It Keeps You Runnin'"
* "Little Darlin' (I Need You)"
* "Echoes of Love"
* "What a Fool Believes"
* "Minute by Minute"
* "Dependin' on You"
* "Real Love"
* "Wynken, Blynken & Nod"
* "You Belong to Me" (live)
* "The Doctor"
* "Dangerous"

Related articles|

* Discography
* Band members
* Southern Pacific

* v
* t
* e

Steely Dan

* Donald Fagen

* Walter Becker
* Jeff "Skunk" Baxter
* Denny Dias
* Jim Hodder
* David Palmer
* Royce Jones
* Michael McDonald
* Jeff Porcaro

Studio albums|

* Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
* Countdown to Ecstasy (1973)
* Pretzel Logic (1974)
* Katy Lied (1975)
* The Royal Scam (1976)
* Aja (1977)
* Gaucho (1980)
* Two Against Nature (2000)
* Everything Must Go (2003)

Live albums|

* Alive in America (1995)
* Plush TV Jazz-Rock Party (2000)
* Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Steely Dan (2005)
* Northeast Corridor (2021)

Singles|

* "Dallas"
* "Do It Again"
* "Reelin' In the Years"
* "Show Biz Kids"
* "My Old School"
* "Rikki Don't Lose That Number"
* "Pretzel Logic"
* "Bad Sneakers"
* "Kid Charlemagne"
* "Peg"
* "Deacon Blues"
* "FM (No Static at All)"
* "Josie"
* "Hey Nineteen"
* "Time Out of Mind"
* "Cousin Dupree"

Album tracks|

* "Aja"
* "Any Major Dude Will Tell You"
* "Dirty Work"

Compilations|

* Greatest Hits (1978)
* Steely Dan (1978)
* Gold (1982/91)
* A Decade of Steely Dan (1985)
* Reelin' In the Years (1985)
* Do It Again (1987)
* Citizen Steely Dan (1993)
* Then and Now (1993)
* Showbiz Kids (2000)
* The Definitive Collection (2006)
* Found Studio Tracks (2007)

Related articles|

* Discography
* Gary Katz
* Members
* Roger Nichols
* Yacht rock

* Category

* v
* t
* e

Jimi Hendrix

Original studio albums|

* Are You Experienced
* Axis: Bold as Love
* Electric Ladyland

Posthumous studio albums|

* The Cry of Love
* Rainbow Bridge
* War Heroes
* Loose Ends
* Crash Landing
* Midnight Lightning
* Nine to the Universe
* Voodoo Soup
* First Rays of the New Rising Sun
* South Saturn Delta
* Valleys of Neptune
* People, Hell and Angels
* Both Sides of the Sky

Live albums|

* Band of Gypsys
* Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival
* Experience
* Isle of Wight
* Hendrix in the West
* More Experience
* The Jimi Hendrix Concerts
* Jimi Plays Monterey
* Johnny B. Goode
* Band of Gypsys 2
* Live at Winterland
* Radio One
* Stages
* Live Isle of Wight '70
* Woodstock
* BBC Sessions
* Live at the Fillmore East
* Live at Woodstock
* Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight
* Live at Berkeley
* Live at Monterey
* Winterland
* Miami Pop Festival
* Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival
* Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show
* Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts
* Live in Maui
* Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969

Anthologies and
retrospective
albums|

* Smash Hits
* Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi Hendrix
* The Essential Jimi Hendrix
* The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume Two
* The Singles Album
* Kiss the Sky
* Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show
* Cornerstones: 1967–1970
* Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story
* The Ultimate Experience
* Blues
* South Saturn Delta
* Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
* The Jimi Hendrix Experience
* Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection
* The Singles Collection
* Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix
* West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology
* Fire: The Jimi Hendrix Collection

Official bootlegs|

* Live at the Oakland Coliseum
* Live at Clark University
* Morning Symphony Ideas
* Live in Ottawa
* Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions
* Paris 1967/San Francisco 1968
* Hear My Music
* Live at the Isle of Fehmarn
* Burning Desire
* Live in Paris & Ottawa 1968
* Live at Woburn
* Live in Cologne

Concert tours|

* The Cry of Love Tour

Films, books,
and tributes|

* Rainbow Bridge
* Jimi Hendrix
* Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
* Hendrix
* Power of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
* Room Full of Mirrors
* An Illustrated Experience
* Becoming Jimi Hendrix
* Jimi: All Is by My Side

Related people
and acts|

* Curtis Knight
* Lonnie Youngblood
* Jimmy James and the Blue Flames
* The Jimi Hendrix Experience
* Noel Redding
* Mitch Mitchell
* Chas Chandler
* Eddie Kramer
* Roger Mayer
* Michael Jeffery
* Billy Cox
* Buddy Miles
* Alan Douglas
* Leon Hendrix
* Kathy Etchingham
* Monika Dannemann

Related articles|

* Original discography
* Posthumous discography
* List of songs
* Videography
* Canadian drug charges and trial
* Handel & Hendrix in London
* Fender Stratocaster
* Electric Lady Studios
* Black Gold
* Unfinished fourth album
* Death of Jimi Hendrix

* Category

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* WorldCat

National|

* Germany
* United States
* France
* BnF data
* Czech Republic

Artists|

* MusicBrainz

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