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
acoustic beauty bring guitar hall record sit songs sound stood sure written
We just wanted to make sure every song, like if you could sit down and play it with an acoustic guitar or whatever, it stood on its own, ... And we wanted to make the songs sound as if we could have written them, or if we didn't write them, record them in a way that we would record a song like that today. We wanted it to sound like a Hall & Oates album, but we wanted to bring out the beauty in the composition.
guitar style synthesis
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.
fortunate hall lets position whatever
I'm really in such a fortunate position to have that foundation with Hall and Oates that lets me do whatever I want. That's the dream of a lot of creative people, and I don't take it for granted. I try to make the most of it.
road together travel turn
The thing is that we travel so much together that it wouldn't be a vacation. You get off the road and you're going to turn around and travel again?
area bit creative grew grounded looks love
I'm a bit more grounded than Daryl. I'm more practical, more pragmatic. Daryl looks more at the creative side. We have very different families, we're very different persons. But because we grew up in the same area and because we love the same music, we have a bond.
I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.'
helps intense keeps minds
It keeps us loose. You go out here and everybody's intense and the expectations are so big, it just relaxes us a little bit. It helps take our minds off of things a little bit.
early good life month personal record run songs videos year
We had a good run in the '70s but we got really big in the early '80s, ... It was a whirlwind. It was non-stop demands. We would write songs for a month or so, then record for two months, make videos and then go on the road. We put out a record a year from 1971 to 1985. We had more than one record some years. My personal life was my professional life. There was no down time.
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.
christmas
The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.
artist business extreme foot indie major music
I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
guy shaved
The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off. It was ritualistic in a way.
bands certainly embraced
I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.