![]() ![]() This flag and variations of it were used by numerous pirates in real life, but many other designs were used, often featuring a skeletal or demonic figure engaging in piracy. The most famous image of the Jolly Roger consists of a white skull over a pair of Stock Femur Bones that are crossed in an X-shape, all on a field of black. In the modern day, it is often associated with those who engage in less literal forms of piracy, such as internet data theft. As such, it is associated in general with piracy and accompanies various other tropes about how pirates look and behave. I love Daryl's voice, but NOT his ego.A Jolly Roger (a term originating in British parlance) is a flag flown on a ship to indicate it is under the control of pirates. It may be great also, but I just haven't heard any of it yet. I haven't bothered listening to his stuff after that though. I think that given the chance it could have done much better than it did. By the way, I did like "Sacred Songs" and thought that it was criminal that RCA sat on that release. At this point, I'll just keep listening to the music they made and leave it at that. Daryl Hall IS a very talented and capable artist, but John Oates is no slouch either, and it's the music that they both made together that gave them such great success. I just listened to a YouTube interview with Tony Levin, and the contrast of a down to earth humble and unassuming person strikes a huge contrast to those kinds of giant ego artists, especially given the fact that Tony Levin is one of the greatest and most talented bass players ever, and could certainly crow about his success if he so desired. I'm more than a bit sick of artists with egos to rival the size of a large continent dissing others with whom they've had the privilege to make incredible music with. Get over yourself please! If you had been able to amass fans and draw as large of a fan base without Oates, then fine, but obviously that didn't happen, and it's the voices (plural, not singular) of both Hall & Oates that were behind all of those great songs. I actually like the Live at Daryl's House thing, and can see why he'd rather do that now, but don't take your frustrations out on the fans who've been loving and listening to you for so long. If you don't want to do the Hall & Oates thing anymore, then don't. I understand how an artist could get tired of doing roughly the same style of music with the same person, and even come to struggle with the temptation to resent not being able to have near the success in solo or other endeavors, but my response to that is this: 1. Toward the last part of the concert it seemed like Daryl finally decided to join the rest of us and participate with some degree of interest, but in light of that I'd never pay to see them again. I've long enjoyed the music of Hall & Oates, but my wife and I went to see them with Train opening at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, TN in 2018, and we really just came to see Hall & Oates and could have cared less about seeing Train, but H&O came out, and Daryl kind of mumbled his way through "Maneater" and basically it looked to me like he would rather be somewhere else, whereas ironically Train put on the much better show. ![]() He just has that neat little performing venue that he does his TV show from up in my mama's hometown & all I got is some mighty fine H2O! I'm sure Daryl Hall wonders "why don't I get the same deal that Glenn Frey, Don Henley or David Foster or 100 other megaconglomerate/songwriting/performing acts get where I get ALL the spoils because I generated most of the success?" Burns him up that HE'S stuck with something like a 50/50 til we die deal that he made when he was a kid & nobody had the decency to introduce him to Irving Azoff or Miles Copeland in time! Well I'm sure we all feel bad for Daryl on this Thanksgiving Eve. But to partner with some other guy and end up having a midas touch and voice in music and not be rewarded with the HUGEST CHUNK of everything that came from that success must upset you if you want to buy that $20,000,000 mansion but have to scale back to $10,000,000 all these years later. he also SHOULD be kneeling by the bedside every night! Sadly he ended up on the OTHER side of the coin of music biz success where people end up broke as a pre-2000 lottery millionaire having had just one hit or one REALLY bad publishing deal. ![]() but compared to the thousands or MILLIONS of people who dreamed of a career in entertainment and ended up with nothing or LESS than nothing. ![]()
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