About four years ago, Mickey Curry’s life changed radically. From the club band he had been playing with, he went straight into the major leagues, recording with Hall & Oates and Bryan Adams. He was out on the road with Hall & Oates’ guitarist G.E. Smith when he got the call to join the duo permanently. Since that time, he has been recording and touring with Daryl Hall and John Oates, as well as doing outside sessions when time permits. The Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles seemed a long way from Guilford, Connecticut, where Mickey was raised and still resides. Sitting over a breakfast of eggs and greasy bacon, Mickey related with ease how he got from there to here, how he’s adjusted to being one of the musicians most caught up in the electronic revolution, and what goes into creating and playing the music of one of the […]

June 1985 Issue