{"id":242,"date":"2015-01-01T15:08:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinyldialogues.com\/VinylDialoguesBlog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2015-01-01T15:08:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:08:31","slug":"daryl-hall-bursts-into-new-year-with-online-concert-deep-album-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinyldialogues.com\/VinylDialoguesBlog\/daryl-hall-bursts-into-new-year-with-online-concert-deep-album-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Daryl Hall bursts into new year with online concert, deep album cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a file shot of Daryl Hall during a 2014 Hall & Oates performance at the Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City.
Photo by Mike Morsch<\/p><\/div>\n

We know what we\u2019re going to get at a Hall & Oates concert. All those classic and timeless hits, the ones that sound as good today as they did in the 1970s and 1980s.<\/p>\n

There are no complaints with that. What we don\u2019t usually hear from Hall & Oates, though, are lesser hits or deep album cuts from the vast catalog of their careers.<\/p>\n

For that, one has to attend a solo show by either of the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers.<\/p>\n

John Oates will tell his audiences up front that if you want to hear the greatest hits of Hall & Oates, then you should go to a Hall & Oates show.<\/p>\n

The thing is, if you go to a solo Oates show, you appreciate the stuff that\u2019s strictly Oates because you don\u2019t get to hear it as much in concert. The real treats are the deep album cuts, or in Oates\u2019 case, the new solo stuff. Inevitably though, you can\u2019t help but miss Hall\u2019s presence on a song or two.<\/p>\n

It was the same thing on the final day of 2014 when \u201cLive From Daryl\u2019s House\u201d presented \u201cDaryl\u2019s Rock \u2019n\u2019 Soul New Year\u2019s Eve,\u201d live-streamed exclusively online at Stageit.<\/p>\n

For $5 – and when was the last time a concert ticket was that price – one could buy an online ticket, log into Stageit, and see Daryl Hall and his band perform at the new and recently opened \u201cDaryl\u2019s House\u201d in Pawling, New York.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the next best thing to actually being at the concert. One can grab a cocktail in the comfort of one\u2019s own family room, slap on the headphones, turn it up, and rock some Hall & Oates.<\/p>\n

Mostly Hall, this time. And why not? It\u2019s his house.<\/p>\n

Hall didn\u2019t disappoint, but he rarely does. It wasn\u2019t a stretch to want to hear Oates on a couple of the numbers, but the real treat was the handful of deep cuts Hall performed.<\/p>\n

\u201cDreamtime,\u201d from Hall\u2019s 1986 second solo album \u201cThree Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine,\u201d was outstanding. Hall also pulled out two cuts from his first solo album in 1980, \u201cSacred Songs\u201d – \u201cDon\u2019t Leave Me Alone With Her\u201d and \u201cBabs and Babs\u201d – the latter of which was a unique but refreshing choice for his first encore.<\/p>\n

Hall & Oates fans will recall that the \u201cSacred Songs\u201d album was deemed not commercial enough by RCA Records in 1977 because it was so different than what Hall & Oates had produced to that point. That and the fact that record officials didn\u2019t believe the album contained a hit single and feared that the record might alienate mainstream fans kept the album on the shelf for three years. It was eventually released in 1980.<\/p>\n

Hall said goodbye to 2014 with \u201cI Can\u2019t Go For That\u201d and opened 2015 with \u201cAuld Lang Syne.\u201d His final two encores were \u201cKiss on My List\u201d and \u201cPrivate Eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the first time that I can recall, Hall didn\u2019t perform \u201cShe\u2019s Gone\u201d at a live show. Off the 1973 \u201cAbandoned Luncheonette\u201d album, it\u2019s been a staple at every Hall & Oates show, every solo Oates show and every solo Hall show that I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n

But Hall said before the livestreamed show that he was going to do something different for this New Year\u2019s Eve bash, and he did. No complaints from where I sit. I have the \u201cAbandoned Luncheonette\u201d album and I can play it at any time. It\u2019s one of my favorite records and interviews with Daryl and John about the making of that album are included in \u201cThe Vinyl Dialogues.\u201d<\/p>\n

As if opening the curtain on a new year with Daryl Hall from the comfort of one\u2019s own home wasn\u2019t enough, the online show delivered even more than that.<\/p>\n

Philly native Mutlu, a frequent opener for Hall & Oates for several years now and the current generation of Philly soul, did a killer 12-song set to kick things off. He\u2019s got a sweet voice and stage presence. While his original songs are outstanding, he\u2019s just as good on covers, especially Van Morrison\u2019s \u201cCrazy Love.\u201d If you\u2019re a Hall & Oates fan, you can\u2019t help but like him. Check his stuff out at www.mutlusounds.com.<\/p>\n

In addition, after Daryl had packed it in for the evening, his band hung around and played well into the night, offering great versions of some Philly soul classics, among them \u201cTSOP\u201d (The Sound of Philadelphia), which you know as the theme song of the television show \u201cSoul Train\u201d; and \u201cBackstabbers\u201d by The O\u2019Jay\u2019s, another of the early hitmaking groups for Philadelphia International Records in the 1970s. Nice finishing touches on a great show, especially for those of us who live in Philly and have a special place in our hearts for the Sound of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

The online format had a few glitches throughout the evening. At one point, some users – me included – lost the feed and were given the message \u201cThis stream is currently unavailable at the broadcaster\u2019s request.\u201d It may as well have said, \u201cCommence screaming curse words at your computer now.\u201d<\/p>\n

All one had to do though was hit refresh or log out and log back in and the problem seemed to correct itself. It was annoying, and it happened to me three or four times, but I was only offline for a few moments and missed only a portion of a few songs.<\/p>\n

The event had the added appeal of being for a good cause. Fifty percent of the proceeds from the online ticket sales were donated to City of Hope, a leading research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases.<\/p>\n

All of that for only $5. On the final day of 2014, Daryl Hall won the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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