Camp, Revamped, and On Tap

“It’s the beginning of a new age..."

—Lou Reed

“When John and I first got together,” says Daryl Hall, the taller half of Hall and Oates, “it was to try and devise an alternative way of making a musical career for ourselves...outside the normal mode.”

I sit talking with Daryl and John in Hall’s tastefully appointed Greenwich Village apartment. Illusions are being shattered right and left.

“When we first started it was just the two of us, without a band. Then we got a band fairly fast. But I remember us talking about it that long ago, saying how do we do this so it’s not going to be the normal, typical rock ’n’ roll situation where you have your two or three years and that’s the end of it? How do you make a life of it? We always had that in mind.”