Live From Daryl’s House……
A couple of weeks ago (when I could still see clearly….), I was doing a little research on a planned entry on Nick Lowe, the British rocker. I came across this…..
It’s Nick with Daryl Hall and T-Bone Wolk doing “Cruel To Be Kind”, Nick’s 1979 hit, his only U.S. chart single.
Well, last week, a poster on a music forum I am a part of noted that Smokey Robinson had done a “show” with Daryl and it was posted on a website. I looked at the site, and lo and behold found the Nick Lowe video. And some other really nifty stuff. An example of Smokey and Daryl doing their thing……
Apparently Daryl has been doing this almost monthly for the past couple of years or so. It’s absolutely fascinating. Artists have included the aformentioned Mr. Lowe and Mr. Robinson (Smokey’s take on “Sara Smile” is something else again), Plain White T, The Bacon Brothers, Company of Thieves…….
…….(note you’ve got to wait until about 3 minutes in before the music starts)……. John Oates (of course) and others.
Where the webcasts really shine is when Daryl and the artist of the month do songs that are not common to either artist. For example, Travis McCoy’s (from Gym Class Heros) take on “Wake Up All The People”…..
….is worth the price of admission, and in one of the episodes (I’ll be darned if I can find it right now) is a really cool version of William DeVaughn’s “Be Thankful For What You Got”. Plain White T does a bang up job on Joe Jackson’s “Is She Really Going Out With Him”, too. Look at the K.T. Tunstall’s take on ”Something To Talk About” and you get the idea……
……… but all of the 22 episodes are terrific. Granted you have to get through a lot of talk to find the music sometimes, but it’s worth it. Give it a look. The link is below. It’s worth your effort.
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Where are the clips for Hall and Robert Fripp???? Seriously. In case you don’t know this story, Hall and Fripp did an album together in the summer of 77 called Sacred Songs. It was Hall’s idea at a time artistic frustration. (Fripp had just toured with Peter
Garbiel and spent a weekend in Berlin with Bowie and Eno recording “Heroes”)The band was Hall, Fripp and H&O’s touring band (they were not allowed to use them on their albums) Mostly recorded in one or two takes it has the pop feel (okay, there is some experimetation) of H&O’s but without the polish. RCA and H&O management (Tommy Matolia, future Mr. Marah Carey) refused to release the album. It was quietly released in March 1980 after Fripp had fully restarted his career and made it’s existance very well known. As the story goes, when Fripp reformed Crimso, he wanted a band with Hall as vocalist, but again management said no.
If you haven’t seen it already, check out Lowe’s “All Men are Liars” video.
Great version of North Star from Fripp’s Exposure.
Here is the Lowe vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6hzkBihaew