Apart from soundtrack work?notably, Peter Fonda's Outlaw Blues from 1977?John Oates has never recorded a studio album, unlike his partner Daryl Hall, who is onto his fourth. He's ridiculed for being the original Andrew Ridgeley, and for rocking the moustachioed waiter look (actually, he's clean-shaven on Phunk Shui's appalling cheapo sleeve), yet Oates was responsible for some of the best songs on their fabulous mid-'70s records Abandoned Luncheonette, War Babies and Daryl Hall John Oates. This is mostly efficient self-penned funk-lite and acoustic soul, with covers of Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready" and "Electric Ladyland", wherein Hendrix's psychedelic edges get smoothed into ersatz oblivion.
Apart from soundtrack work?notably, Peter Fonda’s Outlaw Blues from 1977?John Oates has never recorded a studio album, unlike his partner Daryl Hall, who is onto his fourth. He’s ridiculed for being the original Andrew Ridgeley, and for rocking the moustachioed waiter look (actually, he’s clean-shaven on Phunk Shui’s appalling cheapo sleeve), yet Oates was responsible for some of the best songs on their fabulous mid-’70s records Abandoned Luncheonette, War Babies and Daryl Hall John Oates. This is mostly efficient self-penned funk-lite and acoustic soul, with covers of Curtis Mayfield’s “People Get Ready” and “Electric Ladyland”, wherein Hendrix’s psychedelic edges get smoothed into ersatz oblivion.
