Remember when your crazy evangelical mom threw all of your albums into a bonfire because they were "the devil's music"? Was there any Hall & Oates up in there? No? You still had that copy of
Private Eyes collecting dust on the shelf? That's probably because Daryl Hall's black magic wanted it that way.
But all you had to do was ask, Daryl. All you had to do was ask.
Daryl Hall, also known as "the pretty one" (sorry, Oates -- you look like somebody shrank Edward James Olmos and gave him half of Tom Selleck's mustache),
fostered a long-term occult interest that peaked right around his first solo album,
Sacred Songs. The album directly references Aleister Crowley's
Magick Without Tears in its final track, "Without Tears." It also alludes to Hall's own great-grandfather being a sort of warlock or male witch -- a fact that he reiterates
in this interview.
http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6673-daryl-hall/
Hall describes a period of six or seven years starting around 1974 -- which you'll recognize as the height of Hall & Oates' success -- in which he studied "the Chaldean, Celtic, and druidic traditions" and techniques for "focusing the inner flame." Truly, Satan gives, and he takes away.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Lztkuvi7E7YC&pg=PA68&dq=walk dark side daryl hall&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rk1BUbX1GIS_rQHftoDABA&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=walk dark side daryl hall&f=false
Satan wins again
#TUMF
solid track doe
