J. Geils dies

By adamg on Tue, 04/11/2017 - 9:52pm

WCVB reports.

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That dude could play.

By MC Slim JB on Wed, 04/12/2017 - 12:41am.

Sorry to admit I have only one Geils track in my music library: "Centerfold", from some godawful 80s-pop-hits compilation with crap like Quarterflash and Laura Brannigan. Where the hell did that come from?

I still treasure the memory of many great, if admittedly befogged, memories of live shows from my youth, all at the Providence Civic Center. RIP, boogie-woogie man.

Whoa

By Bugs Bunny on Wed, 04/12/2017 - 6:43am.

"Gloria" by Branigan is not crap!

I can do even better (or

By Dave on Wed, 04/12/2017 - 11:27am.

I can do even better (or worse?) than that. I have one track on this hilariously mistitled compilation and the title track to Monkey Island that I bought from Napster when they became a legit online retailer. I also have a pretty much unplayable copy of Full House I probably paid a quarter for back in the late 70s.

I only saw them live once, when Sanctuary was their most recent album and they showed up as a surprise act at a concert to benefit the striking employees of WBCN at the Orpheum.

Magnificent Band

By Suldog on Wed, 04/12/2017 - 12:28am.

Saw them three or four times, back in the day, at The Garden. Proudly have the ticket stub, from the concert when Blow Your Face Out was recorded, stapled to the record jacket.

Here's to Mr. Geils, now jamming with so many of his favorite guitarists in Heaven.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

stapled to the record jacket

By Dave on Wed, 04/12/2017 - 11:38am.

stapled to the record jacket

*cringe*

cringe?

By Suldog on Thu, 04/13/2017 - 1:41pm.

It doesn't touch the recording, so no problem there. Only thing I can think of is that you're cringing at some lost collector's value? Doesn't matter - it's not going anywhere to be collectable. It's strictly for my pleasure.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

P.S. Downtown Crossing station today, busker was playing "I Musta Got Lost". Nice.

RIP, along with Buzzy's, the

By Chris77 on Wed, 04/12/2017 - 8:07am.

RIP, along with Buzzy's, the Rat, the Channel, WBCN, Daisy's...

Amen to that

By Scratchie on Wed, 04/12/2017 - 10:39am.

And the real Buzzy's, with the handwritten signs and the beef that tasted like dog food. None of this clean, sanitary crap.

j geils story

By bostnkid on Wed, 04/12/2017 - 9:20am.

when I was a kid someone told my friends and i that the guys who sang love stinks were rehearsing in a factory down in union square allston. the jim did it sign factory. we walked, biked, boarded down and began listening. as the day (several days actually) went on we listened to them play from the sidewalk, through the walls. we waited and waited but never heard love stinks but we did hear a few of the same riffs over and over and over. im not sure whether they were rehearsing for a new tour or writing but the riffs we were hearing were freeze frame and centerfold and these songs would be all over the radio a few months later. we never saw any of the guys until one day a skinny guy with black hair came out and walked right up to me and told me to get my ass off his red mg, it was peter wolf. as he walked back in we started yelling at him to play love stinks! but they never did.