Chords for Daryl Hall On His Relationship With John Oates & THE Rumour About Hall And Oates (2007)

So we were all speculating, how come the other cat isn't here?
I mean, I know you're the guy with the talent and you wrote all the songs.
_ I knew you were somehow, knew you were going to say that.
The other guy with the talent and wrote, who wrote Man Eater Out of Touch and She's Gone.
Let's see, where is he?
He's in the woods also in Colorado though.
Is that [G] where, do you live in the woods?
Yeah, I live up in Dutchess County.
[B] Oh you do, but you're not close with, I mean when I say Hall and Oates, we think of like two brothers who, you know, went through all the woods.
That would be correct.
Two brothers that live on [F#m] opposite sides of the [Fm] world.
But the [G] fact of the matter is you're not crazy about Oates [E] personally, right?
Is that true?
[B]
Come on, be honest.
Be honest?
Do you [D#] want me to be honest?
_ Am I crazy about him?
Well he [C#] makes me crazy sometimes.
He makes you [N] nuts.
No, no, I like John, man.
John and I have been friends since we were teenagers, man.
But you're not friends.
I mean you don't hang out together.
Well we're more than friends.
We're like brothers.
No, but wait a second.
You do not.
Sometimes you're not friends with your brother.
Hall and Oates [F#] don't hang out together.
You guys don't go to a bar together.
You don't go and play video games together.
I don't do any of that stuff alone.
Do you call each other on the phone?
[F] _ Not [N] very often.
Really?
So when it comes time to tour, when it comes time to do a new album or something musical, you pick up the phone and you call him and say,
okay, it's time, but it's not awkward that you don't speak to each other other than that?
No, because we see each other all [C] the time.
We're working all the time.
But you don't like him.
Because if you liked him, you would hang out with him, wouldn't you?
If he lived close to me, I'd hang out with him.
What irritates you about him?
You know, he used [F#] to_
What goes wrong?
[G] _
Oh, I see.
Okay, let's see.
Nothing [D#] irritates me because I'm so used to it.
[B] Do you ever have a non-work?
I'm beyond irritation.
Is there ever a non-work conversation?
Like, do you ever say, hey, how you doing?
How's your family?
Well, basically, [A#] well, I see his family all the time [G] because we travel together and, you know.
He's married?
Yeah, he has a [N] wife and a really cool kid, Tanner.
And, yeah, we travel together.
I mean, we, in fact, we seldom have musical conversations.
How's that?
How old were you when you met your partner?
Sixteen.
Sixteen years old.
You were in bands.
You were both musical guys.
The way I heard it is you were playing somewhere.
He was playing in the same place.
There was some sort of fight broke out and you guys met each other in an elevator.
Actually, we were 17.
Yeah, we had [A] just started.
We were just finishing high school and [F#] starting Temple University.
[G] And he had a band and I had a band and that's how we [C] met.
And you said, we'll be a twosome.
Let's go out.
Let's go to some coffee houses.
Let's play some places [E] together.
Actually, no.
We were friends because we both liked Philly [F#] Soul.
We were both in soul bands [N] and we started sharing rooms together when we were in college.
[G] And we didn't work together until [C#] after we got out of school.
Do _ _ you write together ever or is it always separate?
Not so much anymore.
_ We always did things separately.
Our first thing was [G#] we said we're going to be two guys.
[C#] We're going to share a stage.
So from the very [Fm] beginning, it was sort of [C] two separate guys.
But [F] we write together occasionally and [A] we write separately.
[N] So you meet each other at 17.
You say, let's form a band together.
We'll call it Hall and Oates.
It was on the mailbox.
Was there ever a [A#] discussion that it would be Oates and Hall?
[A] No, because my name was first on the mailbox.
I see.
[G#] So it became Hall and Oates.
That sounded [D] good.
It sounded good to you.
Yeah, it [G] sounded good to me.
_ [F] _ Talk about that.
Didn't people for years think you guys were gay?
[G] Like you were lovers?
Yeah, _ _ because like a lot of people in the early 70s, we were doing the whole [E] glam rock thing.
[C#] Did anybody think Gene Simmons is gay?
Jesus Christ.
[G] Maybe he is.
I don't know.
But [C#] yeah, that went down.
And then we had some fag [F#] from Rolling Stone that [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ decided he was going to out us because he made his bones outing Elton [B] John.
So he basically [G] outed us [E] when we weren't out.
[N] You've never had sex.
You weren't in.
And I used that word, by the way, in a very respectful way.
You and John never had sex together.
We had sex together, but not with each other.
In the same room you would have sex with women.
Yeah, no problem.
Did you ever share a woman?
_ _ Maybe.
I can't remember to tell you the truth.
Who had the bigger penis? _ _ _
I haven't actually noticed.
You notice when you're in the same room with a guy and he's got a boner and you're both doing the same girl.
You absolutely notice.
We always say that John Oates is a German Shepherd Balls with Chihuahua pants.
Ah, interesting.
I'm going to have to analyze that.
Do you have video of you high-fiving Oates while you're double teaming?
No, we didn't go that far.
When a guy outs you, a journalist, what do you do?
Do you fight back or do you just say, screw it?
What do you do?
_ It's kind of hard to fight back.
That's the whole problem with me _ _ and the media.
You can't fight the media.
You can't sue.
They always have the last word.
What are you going to say?
You couldn't sue and say, hey, listen, you've disparaged me.
You've said I'm gay.
I'm a straight man.
Yeah, that sounds malicious to me.
It's kind of a weird thing to sue for.
I don't know.
Yeah, it is because you're almost saying you don't like gay people.
Yeah, exactly.
What _ _ they did to us is an insult to gay people.
Really.
Right.
That's why I feel.
Did you ever actually beat up Oates?
Did you ever have to kick his ass?
You know something?
I'd have a hard time.
[F] He was a wrestler.
Do you know that?
I didn't know that.
[F#] John could kick ass, man.
Really?
So, I mean, mano a mano would be a tough fight.
He wrote that song, by the way.
[G#] Yeah.
It would be an [F] interesting