As Stephen Thomas Erlewine observed in the All Music Guide to Rock, on Freeze-Frame, “ood-time rock ‘n ’ roll remains at the core of the group ’s music, but the sound of the record is glossier, shining with synthesizers and big pop hooks. The album earned the band some positive critical notices as well. ” Benefiting from heavy MTV airplay and catchy singles, the band ’s next record, 1981 ’s Freeze-Frame, was its biggest ever, and made top ten hits out of the title track and “Centerfold, ” which spent six weeks at number one on the Billboard pop chart (making it one of the biggest hits of the year). Following the success of 1978 ’s Sanctuary (which went gold), the band embarked on a massive 1980 tour in support of the album Love Stinks, which also went gold and included minor hits in the title track and “Come Back. That was all to change in the early 1980s, though. A string of albums followed, with the band even renaming itself “Geils ” for 1977 ’s Monkey Island, which the band produced by itself.
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Given the loyal following the band ’s reportedly energetic stage shows garnered, its third album, 1972 ’s Full House, was, appropriately, a live album recorded during a concert in Detroit. In spite of regular touring and recording, the band failed to become pop chart staples, having to settle instead for the occasional small hit. The pair dated for two years before marrying in 1974, a union that lasted four years.įor the J. During the same period, Wolf was enjoying recognition of a different variety, having caught the interest of film star Faye Dunaway. ” The album won positive notices for its mix of blues and R&B, and prompted Rolling Stone to name the J. With the addition of composer and producer Seth Justman (an organist who became the band ’s keyboardist) in 1968, the outfit was complete.īy 1971, the band had landed a recording contract with Atlantic and released a self-titled debut that produced a minor Top 40 hit in the single “Looking for a Love. Group formed in Boston, 1967 released self-titled debut on Atlantic, 1971 signed with EMI America and released Sanctuary (first gold record), 1978 earned first number one single ( “Centerfold ”) with Freeze-Frame, 1981 replaced Wolf with Justman on vocals, 1983 disbanded, 1985.Īddresses: Record company -Mercury (for Wolf), World Wide Plz., 825 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10019 Rounder (for Buestime), One Camp St., Cambridge, MA 02140. Geils (born Jerome, February 20, 1946, New York, NY), guitar Seth Justman (born January 27, 1951, Washington, D.C., joined band, 1968), keyboards (and vocals, 1983-1985) Danny Klein (born May 13, 1946, New York, NY), bass. Members include Peter Wolf (born Peter Blank-field, March 1946, Bronx, NY, left group, 1983), vocals Stephen Jo Bladd (born July 13, 1942, Boston, MA), drums Magic Dick (born Dick Salwitz, May 13, 1945, New London, CT), harmonica J. Geils Band, founded as a trio, consisted of its namesake, harmonica player Magic Dick (Dick For the Record …
Geils Band (named for founder and guitarist Jerome Geils). The band formed in Boston in 1967 after the Hallucinations -a group that included singer, painter, and disc jockey Peter Wolf and drummer Stephen Jo Bladd -broke up, and the pair joined another local act, the J. When it clicked, few could beat Geils, and its concerts were usually ‘tilwe-all-drop marathons. As Gary Graff noted in MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide, “uring its 18 years together, the Geils gang was always painfully inconsistent … was always frustrating for fans, because Geils had a loaded arsenal of talent …. While it took them more than a decade to get widespread commercial success, when the band peaked, it did so as it did everything else -in a big, splashy way. Geils Band were attention-getters when they burst onto the New England music scene in the late-1960s. Wedding a wealth of classic rock influences -including blues, doo-wop, pop, and R&B -to a lively stage show, the J.
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