| After the taping,
Mottola, Hall and Oates and assorted members of their management company went to Jerry's
Bar and Mesquite Grill, an in-spot Manhattan restaurant owned by the former manager of the
Ritz, Jerry Brandt, an in-spot Manhattan nightclub. Warren Beatty, Melanie Griffith,
Steven Bauer and assorted other notables join their party. It was an unusual evening:
Daryl Hall and John Oates, who live only a few blocks from each other in Greenwich
Village, don't socialize together much. Actually, they're not terribly social types to
begin with. Hall pals around with actors Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn, and Oates spends a
lot of time with his wife, Nancy, a model. There isn't much time for socializing: these
guys are always working. They're in business. They're either recording in the studio or
they're on the road or they're preparing for the studio or they're preparing for the road.
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It's an endless
cycle. Hall and Oates have become the most successful duo in music history by combining
art with business. And they know it - they've been balancing the two extremes for the last
fifteen years. But their strategy, despite its success, has its price: business can easily
overwhelm art. “You’re often in situations
where you think, ‘Why am I doing this?’ “ says Hall. “You think,
‘Nobody really understands what I’m doing. I’m killing myself out here.
and why? Is my life Spinal Tap? Is my life just a giant cliché?’ Most artists
try to avoid clichés, but it’s pretty hard to avoid them if you, yourself, end up
being one. But that’s the nature of show business. It’s ridiculous, but, yet,
it works. The operative word becomes business. And the business of music has
never been foreign idea to me or to John.” |
Daryl Hall and John Oates
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