Don’t tune out and drop out, man –– tune in.’ If a lot of young people will get involved, there’s hope. All we gotta do is say, ‘Tune in and get involved. We’re not a band that really comes on like preachers. “It’s just that there are a lot of people that are interested in us now,” he says. Geils Band The world's greatest party band finally makes it to the top with its love for fast times, fine women and that fabulous Thunderbird wine intact By Kurt Loder. The return of the political lectern as a stage prop does not seem a particularly zingy idea. In the Sixties, you’ll recall, rock stars were also going to lead a revolution. But it don’t look good –– there’re no major leaders out there.” Geils Band founding member, Ace on Bass Danny Klein and his killer band Danny Kleins Full House will ROCK THE LOT in Manchester-by-the-Sea for their. They got their fuckin’ bomb, they’re startin’ the war drums goin’ again. It’s madness out there – libraries are goin’ bankrupt, the cities are goin’ bankrupt. The other would be a real collective sense of community, almost like what happened with the New Deal. “There are two directions America could go in now,” he says. The Boston Globe/Boston Globe It’s so common in rock ’n’ roll, it’s almost a cliche. Geils band are Jewish: Peter Wolf, 71, lead singer/songwriter Seth Justman, 66, keyboardist Danny Klein, 71, bass guitar Magic Dick Salwitz, 71, harmonica The J. And so now it is with no little elation that the world’s greatest party band realizes that the ultimate payoff –– not just big bucks, but major stardom –– is within their unwavering grasp. Geils Band Follow Artist + Down-and-dirty blues band with a pulverizing live show, fronted by Peter Wolf, that became a surprise hit machine in the early '80s. Geils and singer Peter Wolf perform in Boston in 2011. By 1968 they had switched their style to heavier Rock by adding drummer Stephen Bladd and vocalist Peter Wolf (born Peter Blankenfeld) and changing their name. Geils never entertained outside options –– never went disco, for instance. But even at their financial nadir (not so long ago), they never lost the rock & roll faith –– that touching belief in the music’s transcendent magic, so common at the outset of careers, so rare among older rockers. ![]() It’s been a long, traumatic haul, and some of the personal wreckage they’ve left bobbling behind them –– Wolf’s broken marriage to Faye Dunaway, the band’s busted bank accounts – is still painful to contemplate. This must be the big one: Fifteen years after first hooking up in their hometown of Boston, the J. They’re riding the commercial and artistic crest of Freeze-Frame, their 12 th and most ambitious album, which is already perched on the brink of platinum just a few weeks out of the box. Geils, harmonica virtuoso Magic Dick, bassist Danny Klein, drummer Stephen Bladd and, on mouth and mike, the irrepressible Peter Wolf himself –– are selling out big halls and arenas around the country. At a time when fewer and fewer rock fans can afford to buy records, and many bands are afraid even to venture out on the road, the Geils group –– keyboardist Seth Justman, guitarist J. Another incremental indication that, at long, long last, the year of the J. The rented Greyhound scuds on through the icy Rhode Island night, bound for Providence.
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