From the Daily Swarm (www.dailyswarm.com):
The end of the Hall & Oates era came in a hotel bathroom in 1990 in Tokyo, where they had just performed at a Yoko Ono–sponsored concert commemorating the death of John Lennon. There, in a sad, reflective moment, John Oates said good-bye—to the mustache.
“It really was a kind of spiritual moment for me,” Oates says, laughing. “The mustache represented a me I no longer was. I shaved it off and never looked back.” The next day, he and Hall were waiting at the Tokyo airport for a flight back to the States when Miles Davis appeared. “He came up to me with those red eyes of his,” says Oates. “He got like three inches from my face and kinda drew his finger across his own upper lip, as if he was shaving, and he said to me [in a deep, raspy voice], ‘Now the lovin’s gonna be better.’ ” Oates pauses. “And then he went up to Daryl and said, ‘I used to tell my hairdresser, I want my hair to look just like Daryl’s.’ ”
Ummmmmmmm. Okaaaaaaaaay.....
if you have not read it, the Miles Davis autobiography is a treasure trove of great moments just like this. He pulls no punches for his own F'dupness, and certainly not that of others. I highly recommend it.
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Bird: When I start soloing, it just flows, and I just can't make the notes stop.
Miles: Take the goddamned reed out of your mouth.