Mike Greenblatt, at Goldmine [Pg.
36 Vol. 40 No. 7 ] talks to John Oats about Hall of Fame and
career and of course Todd gets a mention
GM:
Then you go and turn around and work some hard rock with Todd Rundgren on your very next album,
"War Babies" [1974].
JO:
Here again, that's another trademark of our careers: We weren't afraid to
experiment. If you take it in the context of the times, "Abandoned
Luncheonette" wasn't really that successful. The hit on that album,
"She's Gone," only went into the Top 20 or 30, I think. That album
didn't really reinforce to either us or the record company that, "Hey, you
guys should make 'Abandoned Luncheonette 2.'" There was no thinking on
those terms. So, because of that fact, we had no reason to think that was our style
or what we should be doing for the rest of our lives. So we said, "OK, we
made a good record. A lot of people liked it. Let's do something
different." I think if you take "Abandoned Luncheonette" and you
take "War Babies" and you put them together, you'll see that it
opened up a door for us to be able to do all sorts of things going forward. The
music we made in the '80s was some combination of our experimental rock
credibility, plus our R&B and folkie credibility that we could draw upon.
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