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Hall & Oates pay back San Diego fans
By David Moye
June 12, 2006
San Diego--June 15 is an important day for San Diego’s Hall & Oates fan – and not just because it’s payday for many of them. It’s also payback.
The rock-soul duo is performing at the Del Mar Fair that night and it’s important because it represents payback for last year when the band was forced to cancel a show there because of a flare up of Daryl Hall’s Lyme Disease.
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Hall’s partner, John Oates says the two are “going back to replay the show we should’ve done last year” and promises the group will put its heart and soul into hits like “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do),” “She’s Gone,” and “Private Eyes.” However, Oates admits he doesn’t feel the need to put anything extra in the show because “we put one-hundred percent into every show we do – and you can count the number of shows we’ve canceled in the last thirty years on one hand. It’s less than five.” He says that it might seem like Hall & Oates haven’t spent much time in the city, but the band actually plays a lot in San Diego, mostly charity gigs, private parties and corporate functions. |
“I love San Diego, especially the beach.”
Hall & Oates are common fixtures on the summer tour circuit and Oates says the band really comes alive during concerts, so much so that their main struggle as recording artists has been “trying to get the records to sound like the live show.”
He thinks the latest album, “Our Kind Of Soul,” may be the most successful in that regard, in part because since it’s an album of covers “all the songs were hits” so it’s easy to translate them from the studio to the stage and vice versa.
“A song dictates how it should be treated. You can do any song on acoustic guitar but making records is a completely different process.
“For instance, ‘Private Eyes’ is marked by an ‘80s sound, with drumbeats and keyboards where ‘I Can’t Go For That’ doesn’t have that stamp but both songs needed to be recorded those ways for them to work.”
Oates says his belief in the band’s songs and the ever-changing production styles is vindicated by a growing interest in the H&O body of work by hipsters who download the songs in ever expanding numbers.
“It’s very gratifying,” he admits.
Once the summer tour is over, Oates plans to finish up work on the latest recording, their first Christmas album. Although the record will feature holiday classics, he is most proud of a new song, “No Child Should Ever Cry At Christmas,” and says the recording of the tune helps explain how he and Hall work together.
“We collaborate when we can best utilize each other. Sometimes I write a song with him. Sometimes it’s by ourselves with other people.
“I wrote ‘No Child’ by myself in a dressing room before a show and showed it to him and while I had a straight-forward arrangement in mind, he heard a Philly Soul thing – and he definitely improved the song.”
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David Moye is a fifth generation resident of San Diego county and has the same birthday as Reggie Bush--but none of the athletic ability.
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