![]() Geils Blues Band, the newly formed unit defied the popular underground rock convention of the day. ![]() Geils, a guitarist who had fronted the J. Geils Band?’ And that’s a story in itself we need not go into now.”įormed in 1967 by vocalist Peter Wolf, who had fronted a soul band called the Hallucinations made up of Boston Museum of Fine Arts students, and J. And I said, ‘I’m not J.’ ‘Well, who the hell are ya?’ I said, ‘I’m Peter Wolf.’ He said, ‘Well, why is it called the J. When Bill Graham first saw the band, he came running into the dressing room, put his arms around me and said, ‘J., you were great,’ after we had played the Fillmore. Geils is very confusing to people,” he told me in 2011, “ because still today I walk down the street, and people come up to me, ‘J., how ya doin,’ man?’ And so that causes great confusion. It has caused Wolf some problems over the years, however. The Allman Brothers were named after two brothers, Duane and Gregg. “ The Dave Clark Five or Paul Revere & the Raiders, I don’t know. ![]() Peter Wolf, however, takes it all in stride. And that the namesake founding member Jay Geils isn’t even in the band that opens for Bob Seger on Tuesday night (December 2) at the Times Union Center just adds to the confusion. That they haven’t produced a new song together in more than 30 years is not surprising. Geils Band is playing together at all in 2014 is a miracle. Maintaining such collaborations over several decades has been problematic for each. Geils Band, it’s the collaboration of two songwriting band members that makes it jell. The front man in a rock band always gets the attention, but in the case of the Rolling Stones, the Everly Brothers, Aerosmith and the J.
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