Live Archive Weekend: Blow Your Face OUT!
Who doesn’t want a pice of that energy? J. Geils Band blows the roof off with their second live album. The album was recorded at two concerts from November 1975….
Who doesn't want a pice of that energy? J. Geils Band blows the roof off with their second live album. The album was recorded at two concerts from November 1975. The first show was at the Boston Garden in the band's hometown. The second was recorded four nights later at Cobo Hall in the band's home away from home, Detroit. You ready for the Detroit Breakdown? Winterland 1977 is the oldest performance video we could find. It's not from Cobo, but worth checking out:
Detroit was also the place of choice for J. Geils, other two live albums "Live" Full House (1972 @ the Cinderella Ballroom) and Showtime! (1982 @ Pine Knob).
Peter Wolf was born in the Bronx, New York. He planned a career as an artist, but he got a job in the late 1960s as a disc jockey on Boston FM radio station WBCN and began exploring his interest in blues and rhythm and blues music, giving himself the nickname "the Wolfa Goofa", sometimes expanded to "the Wolfa Goofa with the Green Teeth."
The J. Geils band was actually named for their guitarist, John (J.) Geils. The band's original name was "Snoopy and the Sopwith Camels." The trio of the "J. Geils Blues Band" (J. Geils, Richard "Magic Dick" Salwitz (harmonica) and Danny "Dr. Funk" Klein (bass) expanded to a five piece including Peter Blankefeld (his radio name: Peter Wolf) and Stephen Bladd on drums. Seth Justman joined on keyboards just after the band dropped "Blues" from their name. Peter and Seth wrote nearly all of J. Geils songs.
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