same thing here, born in 88, got the vinyl from my dad. H&O were huge here in germany. also, i cannot get over how perfect the backing vocals are live! gives me the chills
G bless ya. My memory of my dad in a happy sense was hearing Private Eyes on a subway w him like a million years ago. I'm 45. Happy 2020 to you & yours😉
Those were the days when singers can sing live and make it sound better than recording. When their actual voice really worked, not relying on "RECORDING REPAIRS"
@@smokeyfanWhy are you calling him blue eyed soul? Soul is soul no matter who sings it. He sounds like a black soul singer and if he was black you wouldn't have a problem with him being top 5. But because he's white you want to not give him all the credit, what even is blue eyed soul? There's no brown eyed soul, the person above is not mistaken, Daryl hall is top 5 best soul singers ever. No matter his color, there is no blue eyed soul, just soul.
The drummer is G.E. Smith who rose to fame with Hall and Oates playing lead guitar and writing guitar solos on songs like Kiss On My List and Wait for Me before he became the musical director on Saturday Night Live for several years. He is only playing drums on this one song for the concert, he played lead guitar for the rest of the concert. The regular drummer (Mickey Curry at the time) moved back on the electronic drums for this song and G.E. too over on Mickey's drum set.
My God he killed this song right here! Man that was sooooo gooooood!!! Artist today come no where even close. Damn Daryl sang da hell outta dis song!!!
@@alysonsomerville3654 No. I saw them in concert a few years ago and he didn’t have anywhere near the same range he once had. He practically talked through some of the songs. It’s to be expect at his age and with his health issues. He will always be one of my favorite musicians!
I am so lucky, as are my cohorts, to have gone through high school in the 80s. Class of 1984 here, and man did we have great stuff. Hall & Oates, everyone in my two thousand student school knew the words to this entire album! We didn’t study our homework, but we sure knew every word to these awesome, timeless songs! What a great time that was to be alive!
Blue Eyed Soul!! I have to respect these men along with many others like the four tops and the temptations!! Being a white boy raised on this music is one memory that I will remember forever.
Agree all the way but for what it's worth, Daryl says he hates that term. “I f-ing hate it; it’s a racist term,” Hall tells VH1. “It assumes I’m coming from the outside. There’s always been that thing in America, where if you’re a white guy and you’re singing or playing in a black idiom, it’s like: ‘Why is he doing that? Is he from the outside, looking in? Is he copying? What’s the point of it?’ C’mon, it’s music! It’s music.” Tougher thing to say in public today than it was in 2016, I'm thinking.
Had to stop for a phone call. But seriously, the roar of the fans! Wow! Guess yall are used to that sound. Every performance by Hall & Oates is fabulous. That's why Hall & Oates are such legend!
What a rhythm section - GE Smith on drums, Mickey Curry on the Simmons pads playing percussion, and TBone Tom Wolk on bass guitar. I mean, come on! Can't get much better than that
I don't know how many times I have listened to this over the years. I love the way Daryl sung this and I love the band too. T-bone on bass and what John is doing on guitar... Perfect to me. Love this song. Crushing on Daryl😍
I was 15 when they came out with this song. So GREAT to be coming of age when this AWESOME music came out. This was why you stayed up to watch Friday Night videos or MTV because it was SO WORTH it!!! Is it any wonder we used to say: "Totally Awesome!!!"
I REMEMBERED WHEN I FLEW TO MONTREAL JUST TO SEE HALL AND OATES PLAY LIVE IN CONCERT IT WAS A ABSOLUTELY AWESOME CONCERT BRINGS BACK LOTS OF GREAT MEMORIES!!! 😎👍
Best of the best of 1983 … one on one I wanna play that game tonight , one on one so slow my dearly husband . Covid took you from me but, not the memories …. One on one I wanna play that game , play that game so slowww……
WOW!!! Lead electric guitarist G.E. Smith on the acoustic drum set keeping basic perfect timing...and bonafide drummer Micky Currie over on the electronic drum pads, doing all those pre-programmed drum sample fills, heard on the album & single versions. That G.E. Smith was an INCREDIBLE multi-instrumentalist, eventually leaving the Hall & Oates studio & touring band to become the legendary Musical Director & Band Leader for Saturday Night Live (SNL) for a huge bulk of the late 80s & into the 90s. BolsaChicaRadio
80's baby. We are too cool. Love H2O. Great memories. Great music. What tha hell happened to the Sax in pop music? All of our greats had cool Sax players.
O que me encanta nesse cantor era sua maneira muito solto não tinha vergonha de dançar,muito charmoso,sua voz belíssima,quem não gostaria de dançar juntinho com essa rapaz?Acho q era um grande pé de valsa hahaha
Here here!!! Agreed! Truly an eclectic array or music. In the 80s a pop song would be number 1 then the next it would a rock song or a new wave ditty, like Billy Idols Dancing with myself. I mean it was truly an incredible decade for music. We had Michael Jackson, Prince. We had Lionel Ritchie. Depeche Mode, Culture Club. Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, kim Karnes with her hit Betty Davis Eyes. We had the Milli Vanilla fiasco, lol that was sad. Then we had David Bowie with that incredible album Lets Dance, who can forget the Stray Cats, Duran Duran. My God Guns N Roses they flipped the music world upside down! Bands like Simple Minds with songs that helped define the decade truly, " Don't you forget about me" man what a classic oh how about Come on Eileen by the Dixie Midnight Runners great song! We had great rap music then. Run DMC, LL Cool J, Whodini. We can't forget about Ozzy Osbourne with the late great Randy Rhoads. There were so many great artist then Devo with their hit " Whip it" lol.. We had Iron Maiden We had A very young Sebastian Bach lead of Skid Row man they were awesome. I can go on and on and on for days and still couldn't encompass the amazing music of this decade. Like Falco with his catchy hit "Rock Me Amadeus and so on. I could literally spend days and days listing all the great singers and their songs...
They have an acoustic drum set and the synth drums. For this song, mickey switches to the synth drums and they put GE on the other set doing the cymbals and rim shots mostly. The synth drums at that time probably couldn't replicate the sound of real cymbals, also it gave GE something to do during this song!
I love this song since around 1985 ... i hear this song in my friends home and until now we are still best friend and she just get surpruse how i still remembered our best day in hight school
Cymbals and rimshots. They showed it pretty clearly towards the end. Great version, and to think I was ready to skip this. I often overestimate their hits, but they are great hits for a reason unlike many bands.
