Loving Crowd Embraces Hall And Oates’ Return To Grand Rapids [Video]

The duo brought a boatload of catchy ’70s and ’80s pop hits to stoke the embers of a Saturday night dance party for an audience of about 7,500 at Van Andel Arena.

By Tricia Woolfenden | Local Spins

Daryl Hall and John Oates sailed into Van Andel Arena on Saturday night powered by the winds of a recent, well-deserved career resurgence and riding a wave of nostalgia.

Hall & Oates, veritable captains of the musical quasi-genre of yacht rock, charted a reliable course that delivered roughly 90 minutes of nothing but hits.

Yeah, it was a safe show (opening with “Maneater” and closing out the evening with “Private Eyes”? Gold.), but also pretty, pretty great. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers gave the people what they wanted, in this case a hit-studded ten-song set with two, two-song encores, featuring surefire crowd-pleasers like ’70s’ heartbreakers (“She’s Gone,” “Sara Smile”) and ’80s-era mega-hits (“Kiss on My List” and “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do).”

Here's a fan video of the duo performing "I Can't Go For That" Saturday Night.