Choosin' a mustache over music?
They've lost that lovin' feeling. Hall & Oates has canceled the Florida leg of their upcoming U.S. tour, according to the promotion company. Just a conflict of dates, we're told. Hopefully, the dates will be rescheduled.
(Among the half dozen gigs was a March 26 show at Clearwater's Ruth Eckerd Hall.)
The soulful pop 80s duo does seem to have a lot of their plate this spring. There are rumors they'll appear on American Idol again as performers or mentors. Daryl Hall also is scheduled to speak and give interviews during Austin's SXSW music super-conference in mid-March.
And the now-cleanshaven John Oates is busy working on a new cartoon in development about the superpowers of his formerly famous mustache. Seriously. No telling if Hall's signature sideburns are going to serve as the 'stache's crime-fighting sidekick.
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John Oates is developing a facial hair 'toon and playing an acoustic set at a guitar shop in Carbondale, CO?
This strikes me as a career nadir of Spinal Tap-ian proportions ("I told them a thousand times, first 'John Oates' then 'Puppet Show'!")
Posted by: Jeff in Cuba | January 17, 2008 at 01:24 PM
Don't know anything about facial hair. Don't have a stache and hope to never get one but I saw them in concert a few years ago and they were awesome.
Posted by: Melissa | January 17, 2008 at 02:16 PM
If you watch the videos closely, it's actually the 'stache playing guitar. Oates only sang.
Posted by: Walter Cox | January 17, 2008 at 02:34 PM
Do you suppose that Oates' 'stache encounters other famous celebrity hair items in his cartoon adventures -- fighting crime against The Shatner's toup or Dolly's wig or getting into a Deathmatch 'Stache-off with Magnum's facial hair?
That'd be awesome.
PS: Jeff, I aspirated diet coke imagining 'John Oates', then 'Puppet Show' on the marquis at Knott's Berry Farm. Or the Holiday Inn.
Posted by: jane | January 17, 2008 at 03:13 PM
Without the 'stache, I'm afraid John Oates just looks like a much older version of Daniel-san from Karate Kid.
Posted by: Spears | January 17, 2008 at 03:30 PM
I can only hope the 'stache as superhero cartoon is something being developed for Adult Swim... So weird!
Posted by: Merujo | January 17, 2008 at 03:47 PM
It's the "Super 'Stache League" John Oates, Burt Reynolds, Tom Selleck's 'staches fighting crime and lovin' the ladies...and signing autographs at the next Taco Shack grand opening. It's a living...
Posted by: Tom | January 17, 2008 at 04:13 PM
Hey there Merujo -- Adult Swim would be perfect. I've only lately become a fan. I'm sure I've missed a ton of great stuff there.
Posted by: Spears | January 17, 2008 at 04:22 PM
Lots of perversion on Adult Swim. Robot Chicken is so sick. Yes. I watch it.
Posted by: Marissa | January 17, 2008 at 07:15 PM
I can just see Oates' moustache shacked up with William Shatner's toupee.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Posted by: Charles Apple | January 17, 2008 at 09:52 PM