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Effing right! They were an awesome party dance band. Back in my day, when we had house parties, someone would put "House Party" on the turntable or cassette deck and that was it - EVERYONE was dancing and singing along 🤟💖 Good times, miss them so much.
I saw them twice at Pine Knob outside Detroit. One of those was recorded for their last live album Showtime in 1982. Nobody sat at a J Geils concert. Even their more pop stuff came across awesome live.
Hard Driving Man MUST be played with Whammer Jammer first - LIVE only, guys! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dYMdmpxA2fI.html&start_radio=1
One of the greatest live rock bands of all time! This album "Blow Your Face Out" was made loud to play loud, it says so right on the album! A song that will go on your play list is "Give it to Me" from the 1973 album Bloodshot. Check it out please. By the way it is pronounced, The J. Giles Band.
JGIELS was a fabulous band that was from Boston but loved Detroit. They recorded half of this album at Boston garden and the other half at Cobo Hall in Detroit. I had the pleasure to be at the Detroit show. As always fellas great reaction. Appreciate you 🙏 ❤
George Thorogood had that type of crowd seemed like. It was a fad for a while on the cusp of New Wave these rockers just playing party music. It was about 20 bands doing those kinda 'warehouse dance jams' type gigs.
"Full House Live" is the ultimate party album..... it will blow your face off..."Take out your false teeth baby...I wanna suck on your Gums"...best line ever.
J. Giles "FullHouse Live" has the killer live versions of Whammer Jammer, Pack Fair, and Square, First I Look at the Purse, Homework, Hard Drivin' Man, and Serves You Right To Suffer. These songs will have you jumpin' out of your seats. The album is all killer, with no filler. Much like the Little Feat "Waiting For Columbus, you could do the entire album.
@@neilmartin99 Hell yeah. They really went commercial on Love Stinks, and Freeze Frame, man, that pretty much saw them fade off into the distance and they were gone after that.
@@sheila1965troubles I get it though. Comes a time in most musician's careers when the record producers and the band themselves want to make money. That usually means selling commercial music to the masses and sacrificing their musical roots to do so.
This is one of this bands that are forgotten. They had the radio hits and Centerfold blew them up but…their first 5 albums were really solid rock & roll boogie woogie albums. Another underrated band. They had their big hits time but they had their legitimate rock & roll kick ass time too!
Saw this band live at Elliott Hall of Music at Purdue University in 1981 (I think). On of the best concerts I've seen and I've seen a lot. Peter Wolf is one of the great frontmen ever.
Great band, plenty more from them you guys could do a review on! "Love Stinks", "Centerfold", "Must a Got Lost"(Live of course, for Reputa 'the Beauta') would just be a good start.
Love Stinks and Centerfold are fluff. They are much better than those songs. Give it to Me is a better song that was played on the radio if you are looking for that.
@@johndrx165 some people call whipped marshmallow cream just fluff, but millions of people still enjoy its taste and gobble it down. Fact is, Freeze Frame, Love Stinks and Centerfold was when the band finally broke through and got national success after grinding it out for a decade before hand.
Homework and First I Look At the Purse (circa 1977 live versions at Winterland). The name Geils is pronounced like Eye. Jay was the guitarist. He died a few years back. Peter Wolf is the iconic singer. He’s still touring at 76 years old with a band called The Midnight Travelers. Peter was a popular DJ back in the day. He is one of the nicest people in the industry.
Hit their "Bloodshot" album for "Give it to Me" or "(Ain't Nothing but a) House Party" or "Whammer Jammer / Hard Drivin' Man" off of "Live Full House".
The mighty, mighty J. Geils (rhymes with miles) Band. A jump blues band in the 70s they were a hot concert ticket. Changed it up in the 80s for MTV but still found success. Try Whammer Jammer/Hard Driving Man from their Full House album. Six minutes for two songs but Whammer Jammer is an extended harmonica showcase...
Geils is really pronounced Guy-ells, like smiles, one of the best party bands to come out of Boston, Mass in the early 1970's. Saw them once, and it was just an astounding event, not to be bettered.
J Geils ( GILES ) One of the greatest LIVE bands ever. Check out Musta Got Lost, Centerfold, Freeze Frame, Nighttime, Love Stinks, Flamethrower, Whammer Jammer (Live), etc So many great songs from these guys & In my Top 10 of all time favorite concerts.
live ..full house album has more energy packed in then anything ive ever heard, wore it out back in the day with my old buddies...a true party album...
The J. Geils Band is a Boston band. Also the first concert I went to as a young teen. Many people don't remember or do not realize that Boston produced many great bands. They were so many bands, produced these nonchalant lyrics, "Well, we were just another band out of Boston" - from Boston, "Rock And Roll Band".
One of the most electric live bands ever to come out of Detroit was MC5. They're best known for their first album Kick Out the Jams (recorded live) and the single of that same name. I prefer a track off the album called "Motor City Is Burning", which is about the 1967 Detroit Riots. They were absolutely riveting performers.
Was lucky enough to see these guys twice on two successive New Year's Eve concerts up in Portland, ME in 1980 and again in 1981 - got up on stage for about seven seconds before being yanked off by a security guard 🤣Peter's then wife, Faye Dunaway was there and caught a peek of her backstage looking like she was having a good time. One of THE best party bands ever - glad you guys listened to them live! 💖🤟👍👏 I highly recommend "Southside Shuffle" as well. BTW, the band's name is pronounced "Guyels" - the lead guitarist's last name. They are from Boston.
I saw them in ‘74 at the Baltimore Civic Center, Little Feat was the opening act, awesome performance by both bands. You can’t go wrong with Magic Dick on his lickin’ stick!❤
You should listen to the entire album. Absolutely mind blowing. I have had this in every format it ever came in. It sounds awesome in the car with the windows open.
J. Giles as in MILES of SMILES! 😃 Hoping your next reacts to them will be some more great oldies of theirs.. “Give It To Me” off of their album Bloodshot, and WhammerJammer/Hard Driving Man” from the Full House LIVE LP are pure 🔥.. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! 😎👍
Back in the 70s saw these guys in an open air concert in Des Moines. They were the headliners. The other bands -- Joe Walsh, ZZ Top and, I think, REO Speedwagon. Walsh might have been the opener because he had just gone solo.
Here's another one of their songs, if interested. "J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame" this is from their 1981album called "Centerfold" Freeze Frame was written by Seth Myers and Peter Wolf and was released as the opening track. This was the bands twelfth studio album "Centerfold" was the first single from the album and was a monster hit, going to US #1 and staying there for six weeks. Here's a video of that performance, if you want to listen to it instead. "J. Geils Band - Centerfold (Official Music Video)" This was a fun reaction thanks so much fellas
I wore out this J.Geils (Giles) Band album when it came out. I saw them live two times in 1978. Their live shows were a party. Their first album came out in 1970. My favorite studio albums are their 3rd "Bloodshot" (1973) and 8th "Sanctuary" (1978). Their final three records seemed to be aimed towards radio airplay imo.
The name is pronounced The J. "Giles" Band after late guitarist John Warren Geils. Peter Wolf on lead vocals Danny Klein on Bass Stephen Jo Bladd on drums Seth Justman on keyboards "Magic Dick" on the "lickin' stick" (harmonica). J. Geils Band is from Boston. They are known locally as "Those bad boys from Boston!" I worked for them from 1974- 1977 when I also worked for the bands Boston, The Cars and Aerosmith. I worked at the "Music Complex" in Cambridge, Ma. right down the street from the projects I grew up in. We used to haul their equipment into the studio and do a set up. We got to hear some amazing rehearsals go down between all those bands. The J. Geils Band could kick some ass, and is known as one of the best live bands of all time! Their 1972 live album "Full House" was recorded at the Cinderella Ballroom in Detroit, and is listed as one of the top 10 greatest live albums of all time! Their first big single "Give It To Me" came out on the 1973 album "Bloodshot!" I first saw them in 1968 at the Cambridge Commons in Harvard Square, Cambridge. They were known then as "The J. Geils Blues Band." So fortunate to have met up and worked for them!
Saw these guys warming up for the Stones in 1975, along with Tower of Power, at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Packed to the top and rocking from 1 PM til 10 at night. Peter Wolf is great front man. Give their live version of Musta Got Lost a listen, WITH the introduction. "Raputa the Beauta!"
"Centerfold" was a huge hit when I was in high school, but I didn't know a ton of their tunes. I recently picked up a couple of their albums from a thrift store. TONS of quality music. Much in the same vein as Elvis Costello, Graham Parson, and Joe Jackson. Peter Wolf often sounds a LOT like Mick Jagger, IMO.
A great bar band. I saw them at least a dozen times. Magic Dicks Wammer Jammer was always the peak of the show. Peter Wolfs antics got old after a while. Ironically he still performs, I guess the kid that cries the most gets the biggest piece of the pie. RIP John Geils Jr.
J Geils Band had some great songs. Live party band, but just a party band. Dance band. They had a few radio hits. I saw them in small clubs a few times. Dance clubs. Mostly you can't see the band through arms and legs everywhere type warehouse clubs. Fun times.
If you dig harmonica play Whammer Jammer off the Full House album. Best concert I’ve ever been to and the Stones were headlining and they blew The Rolling Stones off the stage if you could imagine that.🔥🔥🔥🔥👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼🍻 Bands name pronouns J-Guy-ill’s
Solid. Geils is pronounced like miles, hard G. Boston boogie band. Helluva live show. He didn't get to shine here but they had a helluva harp player with one of the best stage names in rock, Magic Dick. Only one I think was better was the sax man in the Silver Bullet Band, Alto Reed.
