The New York Submit launches an exclusive new video series right now — “Music to My Several years.”
Famous artists will tour New York City neighborhoods that motivated them — and provide resident audio critic Chuck Arnold alongside as they stroll down memory lane.
For the premiere episode, John Oates went back to his roots. Chock-complete of background, the 76-yr-outdated musician chose 3 significant places from his Corridor & Oates times: Rudy’s Audio SoHo, Electric Lady Studios and the previous internet site of Gaslight Cafe.
Gaslight Cafe is the Greenwich Village coffeehouse the place Oates and former new music husband or wife Daryl Hall performed their 1st New York present collectively in the late ’60s — when they were equally in diverse teams.
“And so when you are with a single of the finest singers of all time, of course you are not heading to be the frontman. And it’s really Ok, mainly because I never consider I genuinely felt cozy accomplishing that anyway,” Oates stated to Arnold of their partnership.
The Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame duo achieved as learners at Temple University in Philadelphia. The band a short while ago split and Oates has absent solo with his new album, “Reunion,” which dropped this month.
“When we met, we pooled our unique influences and made one thing uniquely unique. But the person I was prior to that never definitely remaining. He just received pushed about to the facet, you know, variety of like an old bear sleeping by way of the winter,” he explained. “And now it is been reawakened. And so I truly feel like I’m rediscovering a portion of myself that I forgot about.”
New York, of study course, was the backdrop for numerous of the band’s hits — including 1982’s “Maneater,” which was also a metaphor for Manhattan in the ‘’80s.
Oates recalled looking at a “drop-dead gorgeous” lady stroll into the restaurant Marylou’s, which was close to the corner from Electric Girl Studios.
“And her terrific attractiveness was in stark distinction to her filthy vocabulary. And she opened her mouth, instructed the dirtiest joke I’d at any time heard, and some thing strike me and I said, ‘Man, she would chew you up and spit you out,’” he informed Arnold. “And then as I walked residence, which was only a few blocks away, I started imagining about that: ‘Oh, she’s a maneater. Uh-oh, Ok, I acquired this.’”
He quipped: “If you are living in New York City, you know this is the sort of position that will chew you up and spit you out. There’s a particular edge here.”
View the New York Post’s exclusive interview with Oates and the debut episode of “Music to My Years” earlier mentioned.
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