b'Bands Look BackManeaterJOHN OATES of Daryl Hall & John OatesT he music videosimportant as her music because have never reallythat is what made her who she sat well with you.was. To this day, she is still doing Over the years,the exact same thing. From her youve indicatedpoint of view, she was right, and your disdain for the Hall &from my point of view, I was Oates music videos. In fact,right. It was very interesting theres a video of you at themoment, where the beginning of 1984 New Music Seminara new generation was colliding talking about how you got intowith an older one.this for the music and you likeAnd James Brown was on that people in the music videothe panel too. the one with you and Daryl sitting and we decide, lets do somethingbackground, and then they never aired it. era expect you to be an actorHe was?! in chairs with all kinds of trippy that just blows their minds. SoThey thought it was so outrageous that they also.She cut him off and saidthings happening around you? for this video, we literallywouldnt put it on the air. The TV station That New Music Seminar that kids worship the televisionOh. Well, thats the besttook the two chairs fromactually tried to ban us from Philadelphia was that the one where I wasnow. I think to speak to whatvideo weve ever done.our living room since Darylradio! They said, we dont know what these sitting next to Madonna? you have said, Madonna(laughs) That was wayand I were roommatesguys are on, but theyre crazy, and no one Yes. needed the videos, and thebefore videos were theat the time, we hadshould play their record now. I think its one You know, Ill never forgetvideos didnt give you andnorm. That preceded MTVSara [the inspiration forof the greatest things weve ever done!that, because that was aDaryl a career, the songs did. by eight years or so, 1973Saras Smile] as the girl,If you go on YouTube, you can see some moment. I spoke the truthHer videos were part andor 1974 I believe. Therethe devil was our tourof the lesser known videos, like Portable from my point of view, andparcel of her recordings. It waswas a kids dance show calledmanager at the time RandyRadio and Intravino from your early you have to remember thatall the same thing for her, andSummertime at the Pier, aHoffman, I rented a penguinalbum X-Static.Id been recording for overI get that. For me, it was anteenage dance show at the Atlanticsuit, Daryl hadYes, but we did those on our own. Here twelveyears, and Madonnaamazing opportunity to expandCity New Jersey Shore. Every Saturday,his bathrobe, we brought was still on her first record.our awareness, and I just lookedit was a TV show, there was a DJ. He wouldMonopoly money, and So interestingly enough, Iat it like a giant TV ad. If therespin records, the kids would dance, similarwe did this crazy littlesaid what I said because Iwas every any problem withto American Bandstand, except it was a localplay. My sister, DianeShe\'s Gone"felt that way, and I still feelour videos, it was just that wePhiladelphia show in the afternoon. So theOates, who was a film that way. And she got on menever cared about them. Werecord company wants us on this teenagestudent at Temple about it like I was a dinosaurnever took them seriously, or asdance show, and we said, We cant singUniversity at the time, and didnt realize the powerpart and parcel of our artisticShes Gone, a ballad, on a teenage dancedirected it. Shes still of the medium, and she waspresentation. It was just an ad,show! The kids will just stand there and looka producer today for one hundred percent right,just a way for our music to beat us like were nuts! They thought wedABC-TV in New York. because for her, the videoseen and heard by more people.just show up in suits and lip sync this song.They looked at us like presentation was equallyIf I have any regrets about ourWe told them we couldnt, so they said,we were nuts. They videos, I guess thats what it is.Would you come to the local TV station andwere in shock, and What are the origins of therecord something for the show that wouldthey kind of let us do The \'stache remains the same! strange Shes Gone video thatbe inserted? And we said, Yeah, sure. Soit reluctantly with a pictured above: John Oates popped up a few years ago,were sitting in New York thinking about it,lot of grumbling in the If there was every any problem with our videos, it was just that we never cared about them.Adult Education14MVTMISSUE #1 ISSUE #1MVTM15'