Author |
Topic: RIP J. Geils |
Dave Mudgett
From: Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
|
Posted 16 Apr 2017 4:52 pm
|
|
Surprised nobody else picked up on this - he died this past Tuesday April 11, 2017 - Boston Globe Story
He and his band, who were essentially the house band at the Boston Tea Party for a period, were hugely influential on me and tons of other Boston-area blues musicians in the late 60s, early 70s. I hung out at their gigs multiple times a week back then, and I might just as easily have blown off school at that point.
Most people think about "Centerfold" and their MTV exposure in the 80s. But they really were a hard core blues band more in the mold of the Butterfield Blues Band. In the early days, they were electrifying. |
|
|
|
Nick Reed
From: Russellville, KY USA
|
Posted 17 Apr 2017 1:54 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jeff Garden
From: Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
|
Posted 17 Apr 2017 2:12 pm
|
|
J. Geils "Full House" Live Album was huge when I was growing up. J. Geils, Boston, Aerosmith, and the James Montgomery Blues Band put New England on the rock/blues map back in the early 1970's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvm1_WrF3ns |
|
|
|
Lefty
From: Grayson, Ga.
|
Posted 28 Apr 2017 8:50 am
|
|
I was a huge fan of the J Geils Band.
I would see them every time they came through town (early 70s).
I remember Peter saying "Magic Dick, blow your face out". They were great musicians. I believe Faye Dunaway hung with Peter Wolfe for a while.
Lefty |
|
|
|
Godfrey Arthur
From: 3rd Rock
|
Posted 24 Jun 2017 8:01 am
|
|
Godspeed John Warren.
Centerfold off of Freezeframe was a fave!
So was Love Stinks.
You had a cool name for the time.
_________________ ShoBud The Pro 1
YES it's my REAL NAME!
Ezekiel 33:7 |
|
|
|
Doug Beaumier
From: Northampton, MA
|
|
|
|
Mike Brown
From: Meridian, Mississippi USA
|
Posted 26 Jun 2017 6:37 am J.Geils band
|
|
Whammer Jammer was one of my favorites. |
|
|
|