Re: (TV) Old Tom & Hall & Oates / Strokes on Letterman

[Jesse Hochstadt <Jesse_Hochstadt@brown.edu>]

Perhaps the writer meant Crosby & Nash (or Stills & Nash, or Crosby & 
Stills), who'd have some chance of knowing Neil's mike choices on 
Zuma, but thought it was amusing to call them by the name of the 
other duo? Not likely, I suppose. But to supplement Leo's soiree 
theory, keep in mind that there was a time when Darryl Hall was 
hanging out with some of the artsier element: He sang on Robert 
Fripp's "Exposure," and Fripp produced (or was supposed to produce?) 
Hall's "Sacred Songs." Since Fripp was a part-time member of NY's 
artistic/musical demimonde around that time - playing on Blondie's 
"Fade Away and Radiate" and Talking Heads' "I Zimbra," and producing 
the Roches - Hall may have also been on the scene.

- Jesse

Leo wrote:

> As far as Verlaine questioning Hall and Oates (kind of boggles the
> mind just imagining it, doesn't it!?), I have never seen/read the
> original source of this.  Can anyone on list recall anything about
> it? (Or do you think the Village Voice writer was pulling the readers'
> proverbial legs?)
>
> Speculation:  Our Tom was quite the social butterfly back then, and
> would frequently host these well attended and extended salons/soirees  
> on the front stoop of his tiny old apartment, during which most
> of NYC's literati and intellectuals (e.g., Hall and Oates) would
> wax philosophically on some of Tom's favorite musicians such as Ravel
> and Neil Young.

[snip]

>  >Thanks Leo. Good read.
> > "Or the time [Verlaine] asked Hall and Oates what mikes Neil Young used on
> > 'Zuma', as if they'd know?
> > When did this happen??
>  >--Philip
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