![]() Don’t tune out and drop out, man –– tune in.’ If a lot of young people will get involved, there’s hope. All we gotta do is say, ‘Tune in and get involved. They weren’t all Frts: Bob Seger, the Eagles, the Cars, Billy Joel. We’re not a band that really comes on like preachers. Wolf is trying to recall some of the more memorable acts that have opened for the J. “It’s just that there are a lot of people that are interested in us now,” he says. The return of the political lectern as a stage prop does not seem a particularly zingy idea. In the Sixties, you’ll recall, rock stars were also going to lead a revolution. But it don’t look good –– there’re no major leaders out there.” Geils Band Follow Artist + Down-and-dirty blues band with a pulverizing live show, fronted by Peter Wolf, that became a surprise hit machine in the early '80s. FREE show Join Danny Kleins Full House on April 29, 8 PM-MIDNIGHT at Revolution Lounge. They got their fuckin’ bomb, they’re startin’ the war drums goin’ again. It’s madness out there – libraries are goin’ bankrupt, the cities are goin’ bankrupt. Geils Band' LiveBuffalo, NY 2012 ejacak 208 subscribers Subscribe 1.1K 125K views 10 years ago Whammer Jammer / (Aint Nothing But A). The other would be a real collective sense of community, almost like what happened with the New Deal. 'Whammer Jammer / (Aint Nothing But A) House Party' 'J. “There are two directions America could go in now,” he says. And so now it is with no little elation that the world’s greatest party band realizes that the ultimate payoff –– not just big bucks, but major stardom –– is within their unwavering grasp. Geils never entertained outside options –– never went disco, for instance. But even at their financial nadir (not so long ago), they never lost the rock & roll faith –– that touching belief in the music’s transcendent magic, so common at the outset of careers, so rare among older rockers. Geils Band, in the words of former lead vocalist Peter Wolf, felt obligated to. It’s been a long, traumatic haul, and some of the personal wreckage they’ve left bobbling behind them –– Wolf’s broken marriage to Faye Dunaway, the band’s busted bank accounts – is still painful to contemplate. For the next 15 years-14 albums and what mustve been a million gigs - The J. This must be the big one: Fifteen years after first hooking up in their hometown of Boston, the J. They’re riding the commercial and artistic crest of Freeze-Frame, their 12 th and most ambitious album, which is already perched on the brink of platinum just a few weeks out of the box. ![]() Geils, harmonica virtuoso Magic Dick, bassist Danny Klein, drummer Stephen Bladd and, on mouth and mike, the irrepressible Peter Wolf himself –– are selling out big halls and arenas around the country. Geils Band formed in the late-'60s, early-'70s, the guys brought in R&B influences like Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and James Brown, which was pretty cool. At a time when fewer and fewer rock fans can afford to buy records, and many bands are afraid even to venture out on the road, the Geils group –– keyboardist Seth Justman, guitarist J. Another incremental indication that, at long, long last, the year of the J. The rented Greyhound scuds on through the icy Rhode Island night, bound for Providence.
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