John Oates speaks to Jon Chattman

"The project was put on the back burner for quite a long time, but this year it got resurrected and Daryl and I both got into it creatively — hands on. Working with the guys at Sony Legacy was great, because they were real fans and really had a lot of passion for the music. They did a lot of amazing archival work in digging out tapes and stuff like that. ... I dug some things out of my vault, Daryl had some stuff of his, and together it was a really great project. I had some stuff — for instance — the live tracks that appear on the set. They are from our first concert in England in 1974 — it was the first time we went and performed there. I had it actually on video tape which we took the audio from and remixed it and remastered it. It's impressive. The band was on fire that night. We didn't have a lot of material to draw from at that time, so the arrangements are sort of really baroque. It's a unique glimpse into where we were at at that time. I'm far enough away from a lot of the music now and I'm pretty amazed at the depth of the material and the wide variety of production styles and approaches that we evolved through over the years" ("Hall & Oates Interview Part 1," Huffington Post, 9/22/09).