by Ice Cream Jonsey » Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:54 am
We caught Daryl Hall and John Oates, with special guest Tears for Fears last night. I had never seen H&O in concert before. So these two bands together? Hell yes. I felt that in an infinite universe there was probably one time traveler that came back from the future to see Tears for Fears and Hall and Oates, but didn't go back far enough and caught them with us in 2017. "Close enough," the time traveler no doubt said.
Most of the times when I go to a show, I'm there because someone else wanted to see somebody. Of my favorite bands (them, Crowded House, Queen, Yes, Acceptance) I've only also only seen Yes. I think it's because it's easy to see a show when you're not invested in the music. You don't care if some jackass is loudly babbling elsewhere or not. I can be that jackass if I choose. (I usually don't choose.)
Tears for Fears was great, by the way. They had a lot more songs than we remembered, and we did recall every song that they played. "That was them??!" was the common sentiment.
Hall and Oates were amazing, I had never been to a gig before where I knew all the songs. Daryl still has most of his vocal chops. There's some higher notes he deferred to the crowd to get for him, but shit, I saw Nate Reuss do that at a Fun. concert and he's half Daryl's age. When I'm 70 I hope I'm half as good at my profession as Daryl is at his.
They did a song that I hadn't thought about in a long time. "Is it a Star" which was a song that John Oates wrote and sang. Daryl said to the crowd before the song, "This is off our album War Babies, which came out .... in, er..... "
I turned to my wife. "1974."
"1974," added Daryl.
I knew all the words and they sang all the hits. You know, a lot of social situations play out as a complete surprise to me and sometimes it's just good in life to know what's going to happen five seconds before it does.
We caught Daryl Hall and John Oates, with special guest Tears for Fears last night. I had never seen H&O in concert before. So these two bands together? Hell yes. I felt that in an infinite universe there was probably one time traveler that came back from the future to see Tears for Fears and Hall and Oates, but didn't go back far enough and caught them with us in 2017. "Close enough," the time traveler no doubt said.
Most of the times when I go to a show, I'm there because someone else wanted to see somebody. Of my favorite bands (them, Crowded House, Queen, Yes, Acceptance) I've only also only seen Yes. I think it's because it's easy to see a show when you're not invested in the music. You don't care if some jackass is loudly babbling elsewhere or not. I can [i]be[/i] that jackass if I choose. (I usually don't choose.)
Tears for Fears was great, by the way. They had a lot more songs than we remembered, and we did recall every song that they played. "That was them??!" was the common sentiment.
Hall and Oates were amazing, I had never been to a gig before where I knew all the songs. Daryl still has most of his vocal chops. There's some higher notes he deferred to the crowd to get for him, but shit, I saw Nate Reuss do that at a Fun. concert and he's half Daryl's age. When I'm 70 I hope I'm half as good at my profession as Daryl is at his.
They did a song that I hadn't thought about in a long time. "Is it a Star" which was a song that John Oates wrote and sang. Daryl said to the crowd before the song, "This is off our album War Babies, which came out .... in, er..... "
I turned to my wife. "1974."
"1974," added Daryl.
I knew all the words and they sang all the hits. You know, a lot of social situations play out as a complete surprise to me and sometimes it's just good in life to know what's going to happen five seconds before it does.