It was an honor to photograph you and pleasure to hear your music. Geils Band initially called it quits in the mid-1980s, and then reunited for a tour in 1999. Wait 3:25 (Seth Justman, Peter Wolf) Ice Breaker. Geils Band, pubblicato dalla casa discografica Atlantic Records nel novembre del 1970. Geils’ contemporaries, including musicians from the band Foghat and The Fixx, expressed their condolences on Twitter. Geils Band è lalbum discografico di debutto del gruppo musicale rock statunitense The J. He also remained active as a musician, forming the band Bluestime with Salwitz and releasing two records. He sold the business in 1996, according to Autoweek. The J Geils Band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in the late ‘60s. He started KTR Motorsports out of a garage in Carlisle, Massachusetts, to service vintage Ferraris, Maseratis and other Italian cars. Geils’ semi-retirement from music allowed him to return to cars. In some respects it was like any other job it starts to wear on you a little bit,” Geils told The Boston Globe in 2004. We made 14 records, and eventually made some money. Geils band was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the fourth time in October, but was not selected for the 2017 class. The band officially broke up in 1985, occasionally coming together for reunion shows. Wolf left the band to pursue a solo career and did not appear on its final album, released in 1984. Their 12th album, “Freeze-Frame,” featured its popular title track as well as chart-topper “Centerfold,” which spent six weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982. The group released a string of albums in the 1970s but would not achieve commercial success until the 1980s, starting with the release of “Love Stinks,” its first platinum-selling record, according to Rolling Stone. “That was the end of engineering school for all three of us,” he told the magazine. Geils Band in 1967 with lead singer Peter Wolf and drummer Stephen Jo Bladd. He met band mates Danny Klein and “Magic Dick” Salwitz at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he was studying mechanical engineering. It did not achieve commercial fame until the 1980s, when they released radio mainstays such as “Centerfold,” “Love Stinks” and “Freeze-Frame.”īorn in New York in 1946 and raised in New Jersey, Geils’ first love was cars – a passion he inherited from his father along with his ear for jazz, he told Autoweek in 2012. Geils Band was one of the most popular American touring bands of the 1970s.
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