John Oates
John Oates
John William Oates is an American rock, R&B and soul guitarist, musician, songwriter and record producer best known as half of the rock and soul duo, Hall & Oates...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth7 April 1948
CountryUnited States of America
If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.
music players
I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.
communication purpose
The purpose of this communication is a heads-up,
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I live in the middle of the mountains in Aspen Colorado, I have the tractor on my ranch. Right out my door is thousands of acres of national forest.
americana
I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.
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I grew up in Pennsylvania, only fifteen miles away from Daryl where all the local kids with a German background looked like he did.
until
I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.
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I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great songs are great songs, and they stand the test of time, and they can be interpreted and recorded with many points of view, but yet still retain the essence of what makes them good songs.
freedom releasing
We've done that over the years, each of us releasing solos. I think that's why we're still together. That freedom doesn't keep us too restricted.
If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.
clark deserves
With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
coast hall
With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.
There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.
people
When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.