Hall & Oates
My Father's Place
Roslyn, New York
12.14.79

Pre-FM SBD feed > Nak 550 > Maxell UDXL2 (no NR) via Peter Hedeman
Transfer: MC > Nak CR7-A (azimith adjust) > SBM-1 (s/pdif) > Lynx Studio Technology One (soundcard) > SoundForge 4.5 > CD Architect 4.0f > Red Book CDR
Re-Master: CDR > WAV > Wavelab 5.0 (X-noise to reduce tape hiss; L3-Ultramaximizer to increase headroom) > FLAC

1. John Dabella Intro >
Woman Comes & Goes
2. Don't Blame It On Love
3. Rich Girl
4. Do What You Want, Be What You Are
5. Sweet Soul Music *
6. Serious Music
7. Wait For Me
8. Sara Smile
9. She's Gone
10. Pleasure Beach >
11. Re-Bop Drop
Encore:
12. Intravino

* 28:17 -- some wierd analog noise, which I muted.

What do Jimmy Carter and the Long Island Railroad have in common?

Performed shortly after the release of X-static (RCA, 1979), this has much more kick than their studio material. To quote a popular music history site: "Hall & Oates were masters of soft-rock, the genre that was born out of white soul when studio high-tech allowed to pen mellow, languid, romantic ballads set in lush arrangements. They successfully fused two apparently conflicting traditions (the white folk duos a` la Everly Brothers and the black "barber-shop" vocal groups) into a new form of catchy dance music. A singles-oriented band, the duo was highly successful churning out some of the least imaginative albums recorded in the 1970s."

Just before track 10, Pleasure Beach, Hall (or Oates) says "all you people at Orchard Beach, Rye Beach, wherever those beaches are." Those beaches are in Westchester, north of Long Island, near Playland Amusement Park. Perhaps the show played to an audience there, as well?

The date is tough. It's usually listed as 12.13.19 or 12.14.79, with 12.14 beating out the 13th more then 2 to 1. The cassette itself is labelled "11/30/79" and also "12/79". The tracks came to me dated 12.07. The folks who run Hall & Oates websites generally think it's 12.14, because the band was in Canton, Michigan on 11.30 and Boston on 12.07, and did a few shows in New York immediately after that. (For example: http://members.aol.com/BillSA3/index.html).

Daryl Hall - guitars, keyboards, vocals
John Oates - guitars, vocals
Charlie DeChant � saxophones, keyboards
John Siegler - bass
G.E. Smith - guitars
Jerry Marotta - drums

Enjoy

--mhg :: June 20, 2005