![]() ![]() That said, there’s absolutely no risk taking to be found here, it’s a band held together by their love of the sound and the playing of rhyme and blues, a marriage defined by exploring the traditions that bound them together, the music of black America … perhaps fancying that coming from the Cambridge / Boston area, that they were forever students at the College of Musical Knowledge. So many of their songs sounded spontaneous, as if they were pulling them out of their back pockets while in the recording studio, giving the release a rather homespun warm unfeathered feel, and while certainly not John Lee Hooker, the release is a whole lotta white boy fun. Geils Band for more than a decade held it all in check, held it together with a consistent lineup from 1968 until Peter Wolf bowed out some fifteen years later, playing blues and infused R&B that nearly demanded one down shots of something brown. ![]() With many bands going through personnel and stylistic changes, the J. Giles scene, matter of fact I forever tried, yet the band seemed unwilling to embrace women, with Wolf telling me one night at the Boston Tea Party, “This is a boy’s only band, we do boy things, we talk to other boys, and while it’s fine to see you here, you’re just a girl, so you won’t really understand what we’re all about or what we’re saying.” ![]()
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