Is J. GEILS BAND a taboo band name??

[Jérôme Frenchise]

:confused:
I bought J. GEILS BAND's first 8 albums 11 years ago and I still listen to them quite often. I find their music is most ass-kicking in its style.
I've tried to get opinions in another thread but no one would reply.
So I wonder if mentioning them is secretly forbidden. Their records are very hard to find now in Europe, and I think it's simply abnormal.

What remains from them in the States?

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Gosh! Is it like yelling "rabbit" on board a boat or what???

[Matt White]

"THE DETROIT DEMOLITION!!!"

J. Geils band were a huge draw in Detroit in the late 70's-early80's. Good r&b band. Went techno, lost their audience.
Actually influenced Clapton around the Derek & the Dominoes days.

[FORD]

They began to fall apart when they went pop and Peter Wolf tried to hard to be Mick Jagger.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

[B] "THE DETROIT DEMOLITION!!!"

J. Geils band were a huge draw in Detroit in the late 70's-early80's. Good r&b band.

Yeah! Thanks very much for the picture. I've looked in vain after good ones in the sleeves of my 8 CDs.

"Detroit breakdown" was a hell of a blast ("... we got Detroit demolition here!!..."), and so many more were, as well. But I thought they were from Boston.

Anyway, their music would have a good 100-year-old great grandma jerk like a sweet sixteen... A hellish beat (Dan Klein on bs and Stephen J. Bladd on dms), a very good keyboardist (Seth Justman) (I don't like kbds much though), a mighty, hilarious singer (performer and audience blaster Peter Wolf), a styled guitar player (sound searcher J. Geils) and a harmonica virtuoso (outstanding Magic Dick), from which a highly butt-kicking (rhythm and) blues-rock rushed out. It might be R 'n' B, but it was very tough, even if often high in mood.

One day I read they were considered as the greatest band on stage during the first half of the 70s (despite the Stones, the Who, Led Zep...), then I bought the following records - their first 8 ones (for fun Irated them from *(***) to *****:

J. Geils Band **** (1970)
The morning after **** (1971)
Full house (live) ***** (1972)
Ladies invited **** (1973)
Bloodshot ***** (1973)
Nightmares...and other tales of the vinyl jungle ***** (1974) (feat.Detroit brekdown)
Hot line ***** (1975)
Blow your face out (live) ***** (1976)

The 2 live albums are incredible. From the mid-60s to the mid 80s, I see a series of stage wizards that have passed the title to one another: first there were the Who, then the J. Geils Band, then... Good ole Diamond's Van Halen who haven't been matched yet to this day).
You'll probably find no obvious link between them, but I only take stage fury into account. In my opinion, J. Geils Band is the most unfairly forgotten good-time band in music history. Maybe time for justice?
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I know a few other who were a blast on stage (or still are, like AC/DC), but well, the spirit is different.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by FORD
They began to fall apart when they went pop and Peter Wolf tried to hard to be Mick Jagger.

Sure. A compilation I've listened to (of what they did from 1978 to 1985 when P. Wolf was sacked) contains lots of bull. The magic just gone.
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But the first 8 great albums remain!

[diamondD]

I love Blow Your Face Out. It's one of the greatest live albums ever.

When they played their first reunion show on Letterman a couple of years ago, it was one of the most intense performances ever on there. Dave ran over and was saying "The J Geils Band, getting it done!"

Wish they could have been a little more successful on that tour so I could have finally gotten to check them out.

[twonabomber]

Open the door, bitch, it's the Woofa Goofa with the green teeth, and let me in!!!!!

Geils is grate.

[twonabomber]

Hey Rafuta, Rafuta the Beauta, let down yo' hair and let me climb up the ladder of yo' love!

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by diamondD
I love Blow Your Face Out. It's one of the greatest live albums ever.

When they played their first reunion show on Letterman a couple of years ago, it was one of the most intense performances ever on there. Dave ran over and was saying "The J Geils Band, getting it done!"

Wish they could have been a little more successful on that tour so I could have finally gotten to check them out.

Great news, diamondD! Even if it was 2 years ago. I'm sure Dave used to dig them, back in their big time.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by twonabomber
Hey Rafuta, Rafuta the Beauta, let down yo' hair and let me climb up the ladder of yo' love!

Thanks, Twonabomber! That scat was really great. So far, all I had got here was "the puma, the puma...".

[Roguesgirl]

Peter Wolf is one of the best frontmen in history.

J. Geils live shows were hard to beat! especially here in Boston. What a bash they were.


Who's that chick with the long hair???

LMAO!

[diamondD]

The long out of print live album "Showtime!" has been released in the last year or so for those who were looking for it for years.


The "love rap" on there is a classic too!

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Thanks so much for testifying!

Here's an anecdote about the recording of their first album. A manager had seen them live somewhere and gave them the opportunity to make an LP. Sessions were held, they started recording instruments one by one. He was disappointed with the outcome. "This isn't what I heard when I first saw you. Play your tunes again, dudes. I mean, ALL TOGETHER."
They did, and those were one of the shortest sessions ever. Their first album was live in the studio. I think there have been a good many that were made the same way at the time.

BOSTON shakes! J. Geils, Aerosmith... (?)