{"id":686,"date":"2007-07-05T13:06:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T17:06:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-25T09:27:54","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T09:27:54","slug":"title-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/title-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall and Oates Confirm Group Now a Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our very own <strong>Townsman Oats<\/strong> made mention of how strange it is seeing <strong>T-Bone Wolk<\/strong> play guitar with <strong>Hall and Oates<\/strong> these days, making particular note of the fact that the former bassist has different faces to accompany his guitar playing. Good point!<\/p>\n<p>I guess Wolk&#8217;s former compadre <strong>G.E. Smith<\/strong> no longer plays with them. I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s moved onto bigger and better things since wincing for the cameras as SNL cut to commercial breaks during the show&#8217;s <strong>mullet years<\/strong>. Not much is made of Smith&#8217;s departure from the Hall and Oates fold, but I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s significant.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ag_UHB8IX-g?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><em>A video to make you reconsider seeking out those Hall and Oates &#8220;deep cuts.&#8221;<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>However, the most significant change in the pop duo&#8217;s line-up has gotten even less ink. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/s.yottamusic.com\/i\/amCh.1lfv\" title=\"http:\/\/s.yottamusic.com\/i\/amCh.1lfv\" target=\"_blank\">Check out<\/a><\/strong> this old publicity shot of the band. As usual, key sidemen like Wolk and Smith are not pictured, but a third member who might have been considered an equal member of a trio act &#8211; not a duo &#8211; is.<\/p>\n<p>Now <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/us.ent1.yimg.com\/images.launch.yahoo.com\/000\/010\/611\/10611183.jpg\" title=\"http:\/\/us.ent1.yimg.com\/images.launch.yahoo.com\/000\/010\/611\/10611183.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">check out<\/a><\/strong> this more recent shot of the &#8211; no doubt about it, anymore &#8211; duo.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAnyone know what&#8217;s become of Oates&#8217; &#8216;stache?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our very own Townsman Oats made mention of how strange it is seeing T-Bone Wolk play guitar with Hall and Oates these days, making particular note of the fact that the former bassist has different faces to accompany his guitar playing. Good point! I guess Wolk&#8217;s former compadre G.E. Smith no longer plays with them. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/title-22\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}