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American rock ring

The J. Geils Band
L to R: J. Geils, Magic Dick, Peter Wolf Not pictured: Seth Justman, Danny Klein, Stephen Bladd
Background information
Origin	Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Genres	Rock, blues stone (early), new wave (belatedly)
Years active	1968–1985, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2009–2015
Labels	Atlantic, EMI America
Website	www.jgeilsband.com
Past members	J. Geils Stephen Bladd Magic Dick Danny Klein Seth Justman Peter Wolf

The J. Geils Band was an American rock band formed in 1967, in Worcester, Massachusetts, under the leadership of guitarist John "J." Geils. The original band members included vocalist Peter Wolf, harmonica and saxophone histrion Richard "Magic Dick" Salwitz, drummer Stephen Bladd, vocalist/keyboardist Seth Justman, and bassist Danny Klein. Wolf and Justman served as principal songwriters. The band played R&B-influenced blues rock during the 1970s and shortly accomplished commercial success before moving toward a more mainstream radio-friendly sound in the early 1980s, which brought the band to its commercial peak. They performed a mix of encompass songs of classic dejection and R&B songs, along with original compositions written past primarily past Wolf and Justman, as well as some group compositions written under the pseudonymous name Juke Joint Jimmy, representing compositions credited to the entire band equally a whole. After Wolf left the band in 1983 to pursue a solo career, the band released one more album in 1984 with Justman on lead vocals, before breaking upward in 1985. ^[one] Starting time in 1999, the band had several reunions prior to the death of its namesake, J. Geils, on April 11, 2017.

The band beginning released several Top 40 singles in the early 1970s, including a comprehend of the song "Lookin' for a Dearest" by The Valentinos (which reached No. 39 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972), as well as the unmarried "Give Information technology to Me" (No. 30 in 1973). Their biggest hits included "Must of Got Lost" (No. 12 in 1975), "Come up Dorsum" (No. 32 in 1980), "Love Stinks" (which reached No. 38 in 1980 and was featured in several films), "Centerfold" (No. i in 1982), and "Freeze-Frame" (No. 4 in 1982).

Early days [edit]

The ring started in the mid-1960s while John Geils was attention Worcester Polytechnic Institute for a couple of semesters after transferring from Northeastern Academy in Boston (where he lived in "The Playboy Room" of the Gamma Phi Kappa Fraternity). Originally named Snoopy and the Sopwith Camels, the group was an acoustic blues trio with Geils on guitar, bassist Danny Klein ("Dr. Funk"), and harmonica thespian Richard Salwitz ("Magic Dick").

In 1968, the band switched focus, going electric and recruiting 2 swain musicians from Boston band The Hallucinations, drummer Stephen Bladd and vocalist Peter Blankenfeld, a fast-talking onetime WBCN disc jockey with the air name Peter Wolf.^[2] Initial influences included James Cotton and Petty Walter — in 2008 interview, harmonica star Magic Dick said they were all "harp freaks".^[3]

They became The J. Geils Blues Band, later on dropping the word "Blues" from the ring name. Before long, fan Seth Justman joined on keyboards and the band started to earn a sizable following in the Boston area.^[4]

The ring took its time carefully considering various offers of contracts. Unofficial alive recordings circulated: every bit noted in Creem, "WBCN had the infamous J. Geils 'bathroom tapes' (that were virtually exactly what the name implies) and a tape of their functioning at Alternate Media Briefing at Goddard College, but these hardly sufficed" to fans who wanted a proper album.^[5] The group ultimately signed to Atlantic Records in 1970.

1970s touring, recordings and early top 40 success [edit]

Subsequently spending the meliorate part of 1970 playing live shows effectually the US opening for artists as eclectic as BB King, Johnny Winter, The Allman Brothers, and The Byrds,^[vi] The J. Geils Band recorded their debut LP The J. Geils Ring in August 1970 in A&R Studios in New York City and information technology was released in November. The ring started to get airplay with release of their starting time unmarried, a rock-encompass of The Contours' Motown hit, "Start I Look at the Purse", and soon the band would get more AM radio airplay with a series of several successful singles in the early on 1970s, the first one being a cover version of The Valentinos' "Lookin' for a Love", which appeared on their second album The Morning Later and was their Pinnacle xl debut in 1972 (at No. 39 on the Billboard chart). The anthology was released in October 1971. The song "Cry One More Time" (also on The Forenoon After) was afterwards covered by Gram Parsons on his debut album in 1973.

Through abiding touring, the band before long built a large post-obit in the US for their energetic live shows,^[4] with the charismatic stage-antics and "microphone-stand-pole-vaulting"^[7] of singer Peter Wolf, likewise as its innovative use of the harmonica as a atomic number 82 musical instrument.^{[ citation needed ]} Harmonicalinks.com later called Magic Dick "a pioneer in sound and style for rock harmonica."^[8] AllMusic.com described their 1970s menstruum as a band "pure and uncomplicated, churning out greasy covers of obscure R&B, doo wop, and soul tunes, while cutting them with a good for you dose of Stonesy swagger."^[four] On Baronial 17, 1971, at a evidence on the Boston Common, The Allman Brothers Ring named The J. Geils Band every bit its favorite local band.^[9] Both bands afterward played the last show at the Fillmore East prior to the venue'due south closing. Although living in Boston, the band had always considered Detroit its 2d home considering of its enormous popularity there. Two of its three live albums were recorded in Detroit at the Cinderella Ballroom and Pine Knob Music Theater. Their second live album, 1976's Blow Your Face Out, was recorded at the Boston Garden and Detroit's Cobo Arena.

After the release of their first two albums and keeping a busy show schedule, it was The J. Geils Band's third album Bloodshot which was the first commercial breakthrough for the band, reaching #10 on the Billboard 200 album charts in the United States in 1973 and spawning the unmarried "Requite It to Me", which went to No. 30 in the Billboard charts following the album'southward release in 1973. The original U.South. copies of Bloodshot were distributed in carmine vinyl, (instead of the customary black), with matching blood-red 1950'south style Atlantic Records labels. The ring would continue to utilize these vintage-manner Atlantic labels, in different colors with each anthology release, throughout their remaining tenure with the label.^{[x] [ circular reference ]} Seeking to seize on this commercial success, the ring released their following album Ladies Invited in Nov of that same year, which debuted at No. 51 but did not match the commercial success of Bittersweet. Subsequently spending the early part of 1974 on the road with an agile touring schedule, the band went dorsum into the studio and recorded their fifth album Nightmares...and Other Tales from the Vinyl Jungle, which yielded a large hit single, the Justman/Wolf composition "Must of Got Lost", which reached #12 on the Billboard Meridian 100 in early 1975. Later that year the band started playing arenas beyond the US with a variety of artists including The Rolling Stones, Peter Frampton, and Rod Stewart.^[6] Later on their initial commercial success and with constant touring, the group seemed destined to be nothing more than a party ring until the release of Monkey Island (1977), after which the grouping left Atlantic Records and signed to EMI America for Sanctuary (1978), which charted at No. 49 on the Billboard 200 and spun off a sizable hit unmarried in "One Terminal Kiss" (No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100).

1980s commercial acme and breakup [edit]

The group striking their commercial pinnacle and accomplished mainstream success in the early 1980s, start with the humorous Love Stinks which was released in January 1980 and yielded ii Top twoscore singles, the vocal "Come Back" which peaked at #32 on the Billboard chart, equally well equally the title rails "Honey Stinks" which went to #38. "Love Stinks" remained a staple in FM radio in the '80s and was showcased in the 1998 striking film The Wedding Vocalizer when Adam Sandler performs it in the film, and it also appeared on the film's soundtrack The Wedding Vocalizer Book 2, also released in 1998. The band spent the better office of 1980 touring the US, Europe as well as touring Nihon for the offset fourth dimension.^[11] The band followed up the success of Love Stinks with their hit album Freeze Frame, which reached #1 in early 1982 for four weeks. The starting time single "Centerfold" which hit No. 1 for six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100) "Centerfold" likewise became their only major hit unmarried in the United Kingdom, where it reached No. iii in Feb 1982. The title-cut "Freeze Frame" peaked at #4 in April 1982. The flip side of "Freeze Frame", "Flamethrower" received airplay on Urban gimmicky radio notably, in Metro Detroit, and reached number 25 on the Billboard soul chart and peaked at 12 on U.S. Billboard Hot Trip the light fantastic Club Play. The song also received airplay on rock and Top twoscore stations. The third and final singles released from the album "Angel in Bluish" peaked at #forty on the Billboard Hot 100 The ring's videos for "Centerfold" and "Freeze Frame" were in heavy rotation on MTV besides, which contributed to the album'due south success. During 1982 the band was ofttimes selling out arenas around the United states, including a month-long tour with U2 as their support human activity in March 1982.,^[11] The band as well undertook a two-calendar month tour of Europe playing with The Rolling Stones from June and July of that year as well.^[11] The ring followed up on the international success of Freeze Frame with the release of some other alive album, First!, which contained their #24 alive hit cover of "I Do", originally a 1965 hit by the Marvelows, which the band remade for their 1977 Monkey Island album.

Wolf left the group in 1983 over disagreements on the grouping's musical direction. Many years later in 2016, Wolf offered the following recollection of the disagreements inside the group that led to his departure: "I did non leave the ring, but the majority of the band wanted to move in some other management.[...] They wanted to proceed in a popular-techno fashion, [and] it wasn't my thing."^[12]

The ring went on to record one more album of new material, You're Gettin' Even While I'thousand Gettin' Odd. Seth Justman took over lead song duties in Wolf's absence. The anthology produced only 1 single, "Curtained Weapons", and was not a commercial success. The group and so disbanded in 1985 subsequently contributing the title song to the 1985 horror film Fear Night.

Reunion appearances [edit]

The group reunited with Wolf in 1999 for a 13-date tour of the East Coast and upper Midwest. Rollins Band drummer Sim Cain saturday in on drums for this tour, which also saw the ring supported by backup singers Andricka Hall and Catherine Russell, also every bit the Uptown Horns (who had also appeared with the group on its Freeze Frame Tour). Afterward the '99 reunion tour finished at that year'southward end, Wolf returned to touring with his own backup band.

On February 26, 2005, the band (with drummer Marty Richards) reunited at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, MA, for a clemency testify for the Cam Neely Foundation for cancer care. On May 22, 2006, all vi original members had a surprise reunion at bassist Danny Klein'due south 60th birthday party at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston.

On Feb nineteen, 2009, the band reunited once more to perform the opening concert at the new House of Blues in Boston on Lansdowne Street (formerly the location of Avalon, Axis, The Embassy and The Modern), with Marty Richards on drums and Mitch Chakour supplying backup vocals. Subsequently, they played ii shows on April 24 and 25 at Detroit's Fillmore Theater (formerly State Theater). They also did a second evidence on Lansdowne Street on April 28.^[13]

On July 11, 2009, The J. Geils Band played at the Borgata Hotel/Casino in Atlantic City, NJ, selling out the Borgata's two,000-seat event eye. On December 31, 2009, the band reunited for a one-nighttime live gig at the Mohegan Sun Loonshit in Uncasville, CT.^[14]

The band played a do good in Boston for Big Brothers/Large Sisters on January 23, 2010. On Baronial fourteen, 2010, The J. Geils Band reunited once again to open for Aerosmith at a sold-out show at Fenway Park.^[15] For their 2010 dates, the band was once again supported by the Uptown Horns forth with backup singers Mitch Chakour, Andricka Hall and Nichelle Tillman. Hall and Tillman toured with the band for their 2012 tour, every bit did the Uptown Horns, while Hall, Mitch Chakour, and Ada Dyer were the backup singers on the 2011 bout. Since this fourth dimension, Wolf and Geils had too both been touring equally solo artists. Danny Klein formed a new band chosen Danny Klein's Full Firm that was dedicated to playing the music of The J. Geils Band.

The J. Geils Band embarked on a short U.S. tour in August/September 2012. However, they left for the tour without J. Geils, replaced by touring guitarists Duke Levine and Kevin Barry, along with touring drummer Tom Arey. Geils filed an unsuccessful lawsuit confronting the other members of the group over use of the name for a bout without him. He named band members Richard Salwitz, Danny Klein, Peter Wolf and Seth Justman in the lawsuit filed in Boston Superior Court, claiming that they "planned and conspired" to continue touring without him and were unlawfully using the grouping's trademarked name. Geils, angry at his bandmates for what they did, permanently left the band. Geils died in 2017.^{[16] [17]}

On May 30, 2013, The J. Geils Ring performed six songs as part of the Boston Potent concert at the TD Garden in Boston. The concert, a benefit for victims of the contempo Boston Marathon bombing victims, as well featured Aerosmith, James Taylor, Boston, Dropkick Murphys, New Kids on the Block, Bell Biv DeVoe, Boyz Two Men, Jimmy Buffett, Carole Male monarch, Farthermost and Jason Aldean.

In 2013 the band was the opening human activity for Bon Jovi in multiple locations across the United States. Start in the fall of 2022 and through the beginning of 2015, The J. Geils Ring was the opening human action for Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band on nigh bout dates across Northward America, along with a few solo shows. Their final tour was in the summer of 2022 with their final bear witness beingness played in Detroit, MI.

The ring was nominated for induction into the Stone and Roll Hall of Fame in the years 2005, 2006, 2011, 2017, and 2018. They were non voted in on whatsoever of those attempts.^[xviii]

Projects outside of the band [edit]

Since the breakup of the band in 1985, J. Geils began restoring sports cars in Massachusetts and started the performance shop KTR European Motorsports in Ayer, Massachusetts.^[nineteen] In 1992, he joined his former bandmate Richard "Magic Dick" Salwitz to class the band Bluestime, which released two records: the self-titled Bluestime (1994) and Little Automobile Blues (1996) on Rounder Records. In 2004, Geils produced the album Nail It! for Massachusetts-based blues/stone group The Installers (Francesca Records No. 1011). He as well occasionally performed live with the grouping. The Dec 2009 edition of Vintage Guitar (magazine) featured an in-depth interview with Geils by Mambo Sons guitarist Tom Guerra. In the interview, Geils revealed his playing approach, jazz influences and choice of instruments. Geils released several jazz albums with Gerry Beaudoin.

Magic Dick contributed his harmonica playing and some vocals every bit function of a live recording called Command Performance by the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue featuring The Tommy Castro Band, Deanna Bogart, Ronnie Baker Brooks and others. Since 2007, he has toured as part of the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue on different Blues Cruises and once more on country-based shows.^[20] Magic Dick is still agile and touring as an acoustic duo with Shun Ng. The duo released an EP "Most Time".

Peter Wolf followed his time in the ring with a moderately successful solo career, having half dozen solo singles chart on the U.Southward. Billboard Hot 100 in the 1980s and early 1990s. He continued to release albums into the 2010s, with his most recent release A Cure for Loneliness being released in 2016. He toured with Child Rock during the first half of 2008 and continues to tour heavily with his solo band, the Midnight Travelers.

Members [edit]

• J. Geils – lead guitar (1968–1985, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2009–2012; died 2017)
• Peter Wolf – lead vocals, percussion (1968–1983, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2009–2015)
• Danny Klein – bass (1968–1985, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2009–2015)
• Stephen Jo Bladd – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1968–1985, 2006)
• Magic Dick – harmonica, saxophone, trumpet (1968–1985, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2009–2015)
• Seth Justman – keyboards, backing vocals (1968–1985, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2009–2015), atomic number 82 vocals (1983–1985)

Touring members [edit]

• Sim Cain – drums (1999)
• Catherine Russell – backing vocals (1999)
• Andricka Hall – bankroll vocals (1999, 2010–2015)
• Marty Richards – drums (2005, 2009–2011)
• Mitch Chakour – backing vocals (2009–2011)
• Nichelle Tillman – bankroll vocals (2010, 2012)
• Knuckles Levine – rhythm guitar (2009–2011), lead guitar (2012–2015)
• Kevin Barry – rhythm guitar (2012–2015)
• Tom Arey – drums (2012–2015)
• Ada Dyer - backing vocals (2011)
• Cheryl Freeman - bankroll vocals (2013–2015)

The Uptown Horns:

• Arno Hecht - tenor sax (1982, 1999–2015)
• Crispin Cioe - alto & baritone sax (1982, 1999–2015)
• Paul Litteral - trumpet (1982)
• Larry Etkin - trumpet (1999–2015)
• Bob Funk - trombone (2010)

Timeline [edit]

Discography [edit]

References [edit]

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3. ^ Modern Blues Harmonica (7 March 2008). "Magic Dick explains "Whammer Jammer"". Retrieved xix March 2018 – via YouTube.
4. ^ ^{a b c} Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "J. Geils Ring | Biography & History". AllMusic . Retrieved 2017-04-11 .
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7. ^ "Peter Wolf at The Egg". NewsTimes. 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2017-04-eleven .
8. ^ "Harmonica Players – Male – Rock/Popular/Folk Blues harp, Diatonic Harmonicas". Harmonicalinks.com. Retrieved 2012-04-11 .
9. ^ "Because Music Matters – Featured Release". Hittin the Note. Retrieved 2016-05-21 .
10. ^ Bloodshot (album)
11. ^ ^{a b c} "THE J. GEILS Ring: Bout Dates 1970 – 1983". thejgeilsband.blogspot.com . Retrieved nineteen March 2018.
12. ^ "Peter Wolf talks J. Geils Band, new album before Atlanta concert - Atlanta Music Scene with Melissa Ruggieri". ajc.com . Retrieved 19 March 2018.
13. ^ Sullivan, Jim (February vi, 2009). "Open House – Music Features". Thephoenix.com. Retrieved 2012-04-eleven .
14. ^ "Mohegan Sunday Newsroom » Blog Archive » J.Geils Band Live New year's day's Eve". Newsroom.mohegansun.com. 2009-10-27. Retrieved 2012-04-11 .
15. ^ "Aerosmith, J. Geils Band to Play Fenway Park on Aug. 14 – NESN Newswire". NESN.com. 2010-04-08. Retrieved 2012-04-11 .
16. ^ Adam Sweeting. "J Geils obituary." The Guardian. 12 April 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
17. ^ Chokshi, Niraj (April eleven, 2017). "J. Geils, Whose Band's Catchy Popular Hits Colored the 1980s, Dies at 71". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 13, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
18. ^ "J. Geils Band'southward Peter Wolf Makes His Case for Roll Hall Induction: 'Our Mission Was to Share the Roots'". Billboard.com . Retrieved 19 March 2018.
19. ^ "KTR Racing Homepage". Ktrmotorsports.com . Retrieved 2016-05-22 .
20. ^ "Legendary Rhythm And Blues Revue | Presented past LRBC". Legendaryrevue.com . Retrieved 2016-05-21 .

External links [edit]

• Official website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_J._Geils_Band

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