In an era of sappy pop, progressive and heavy rock bands, disco and eventually punk, they supplied us with some of the most smokin' "black music" ever performed by a white band. Geils Band weren't a singles band and the hits were few and far between. "Whammer Jammer", "Musta Got Lost", "First I Look At The Purse", "Homework", "Love-Itis" and "Detroit Breakdown" are among the many key live and album tracks included. What we have is a typically thorough Rhino compilation that does justice to the Geils legacy. Rather it's their long Atlantic legacy that defines them and ultimately it was a truly appropriate record label for these guys to be on back then considering it's rich R & B history (Otis/Pickett/Carla/Aretha/Booker T. Most people will know "Centerfold" & "Freeze Frame" but those tracks DON'T represent the real psyche of the J.Geils Band. They pre-dated the Blues Brothers concept by a good few years and carved a solid & deservedly long career in the process. This was a white band playing great, gritty & honest rhythm & blues/soul. So I delved deeper and "Live-Full House" was my first Geils LP. I don't remember what the song was but it left an impression. Magic Dick was burning up the stage on his harp and the band was locked in tight.
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Geils Band was a film clip on TV sometime in the early 70's. The band disbanded in 2017 after the death of bandleader J. On, the six original members had a surprise reunion, the first time they had all played together in over 20 years, at bassist Danny Klein's 60th birthday party at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston. Since the semi-retirement of the band, Geils has been restoring sports cars in Massachusetts. Wolf continues to tour with his own backup band, and the rest of the Geils band makes occasional appearances. The group was not reunited with Wolf until 1999, and subsequently broke up again when ticket sales proved extremely disappointing.
The group then disbanded in 1985 after contributing the title song to the 1985 horror film Fright Night. The band toured in support of the album, but never again recorded anything new. The album produced only one single - "Concealed Weapons", a song about breasts - and was not a success. He was not replaced, and Seth Justman took over most of the vocal duties. The band went on to record one more album of new material, You're Gettin' Even While I'm Gettin' Odd, after Wolf left. Wolf left the group in 1983 for a solo career not long after, over disagreements about whether to continue to take the band in more of a popular direction, or continue with the purist tradition. The group's commercial fortunes improved in the early 1980s, first with the humorous "Love Stinks", then with their great success with the Freeze Frame album which included "Centerfold" (#1 for six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100) and then the title cut (#4). Besides the well-known aforementioned "First I Look at the Purse" from The Contours, they covered the more obscure "I Do" from The Marvelows and "Ain't Nothing But a House Party" from The Showstoppers. The band had good success covering soul singles. Later in the 1970s, the band signed with EMI America Records. Geils Band first received FM radio airplay with the live single "First I Look at the Purse", then had several hit singles in the 1970s, the most successful of which was "Must Of Got Lost" (1974). The following year Seth Justman joined as an organist, and the group signed to Atlantic Records in 1970. In 1967 the band switched focus, starting to play electric guitar and bass and recruiting drummer Stephen Jo Bladd and fast-talking ex-disc jockey singer Peter Wolf, born Peter Blankenfeld, both from Boston. The band formed under the name Snoopy and the Sopwith Camels while Geils was attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute for a couple of semesters.
Funk) and harpist Richard Salwitz (stage name Magic Dick). Geils (born Februdied April 10, 2017), bassist Danny Klein (Dr. The band started as an acoustic blues trio in the mid 1960s with singer and guitarist J. Geils Band was an American music group from Worcester, Massachusetts, USA that had a successful blues-rock/R&B-influenced sound in the 1970s, before moving towards a more pop-influenced sound in the 1980s, which brought them MTV airplay and their 1982 international hit single "Centerfold".
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