Hall & Oates MusikLaden part 2 - Do What You Want

MusikLaden 1977 "Do What You Want, Be What You Are" performed by Daryl Hall. John Oates, Stephen Dees, Eddie Zyne, Todd Sharp, David Kent & Charlie DeChant.

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Music

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• Music
• Rock
• Soul
• Daryl
• Hall
• John
• Oates
• Stephen
• Dees
• Eddie
• Zyne
• Todd
• Sharp
• David
• Kent
• Charlie
• DeChant
• MusickLaden
• Bremen

[Hokdonfonix]

Eddie...thanks for sharing the videos!!! I have this on DVD but geez, all the other Musikladen footage isn't on it. Where is "Falling". I've only ever seen it on Youtube. You guys will ALWAYS be my favourite lineup. Can you hookup once more???? Reunion??? Maybe Stratford, Canada??? I'd LOVE to get a Hall & Oates necklace too...Can I have yours? Just joking!!! Love you guys and keep on making me smile!!!! Love yas!!

[ezyne]

My silver wings are somewhere amongst all the stuff that I brought down from my NYC apartment stored in one of the two warehouses that I keep my seven drum sets in. If I ever find them, I'll probably keep them. Daryl and John signed them using a jeweler's tool, so they're pretty special.

[downcard11]

If I was Daryl Hall, and I could sing, "Do What You Want, Be What You Are" the way that he does (especially during this performance), I would never speak again. I would never talk. I would simply walk around singing this song over and over as much as I could until the day that I died. I wouldnt have many intellectual conversations, but I would be getting laid nearly every second that I took a break from singing. That is how good he is while singing this song.

[dereka79]

Daryl and John, please keep recording!!! The music industry is filled with out and out trash!! Please come back and redeem it!!!

[ezyne]

@africkinamerican I completely agree about the tempo issue. In order to insure that I get get it to go that slow every night I used an old fashioned Franz metronome with a light on it and the sound off. It sat in my stick tray and only used for that one song. Nowadays drummers use a lot of really high tech gizmos, but I only used it to count the song in and then it was shut off and we were on our own just feeling it. It's one of my favorites. I wish they had included that version on the box set.

[africkinamerican]

and btw, good work bangin those drums! And for my curiosity, what happened to John's voice? early on he sounded good, and was IMO stronger than Daryl on the first couple albums. But into the late '70s and '80s it seemed like he kinda gave up. Did he overstrain his voice or something, smoke too much, have bad allergies (like I do), or just fall into Daryl's shadow (literally and otherwise) and just resign to being mostly a BGV?

[africkinamerican]

@ezyne well thanks for playin it right! That's one of my pet peeves, when they play songs too fast. H+O almost *always*, except for recent years, would speed up their songs. More exciting, maybe, but some of them (like "One on One") are supposed to be slow. Speeding them up essentially changes it into a different song!

[africkinamerican]

@chthonic19 although I would hope he harmed none.

[africkinamerican]

"Be what you are" -- if only more people could and would do that, how much more sense things would make and how much better a world this would be.

"If you think life is so hard, gotta take a lesson from your heart" -- so right. Going against your heart (if you have one) is the hard way. It catches up with you sooner or later. You may even find yourself with a heart attack, or some other physical or mental malady. Following your heart, despite all appearances, is the easy way.

[ezyne]

@Jaheartsjonas I was in my mid twenties, just a tad younger than them.

[Jaheartsjonas]

@ezyne How old were you back then? More or less than H&O?

[GirlPaint]

Goddam the 70's ruled.

[BabsTen]

What talent !!! What a voice !!! All day listening to these guys .

ABSOLUTE HAPPINESS. Love Daryl.

[kja427]

This is the tune that gave people around the world a sneak peek at who was going to dethrone The Everly Brothers as THE BEST DUO IN POP MUSIC HISTORY!Hell, this was better than "Rich Girl", and that went to #1 in 1977. Long live Hall and Oates!