The New York Dolls would occupy the #3 slot they were to androgynous in their look for the times.Great band regardless.Īnyway between 1973-1977 the Geilers were rivaling the Stones not only in the studio but on stage as well.yes JGB were that good at once upon a time. There was only 2 bands from the 1970s who walked with the same swagger & bravado as the Stones & those 2 are/were The J.Geils Band & Ronnie Van Zant led Lynyrd Skynyrd. So here was the greatest party/frat band of the early-mid 70s now taking over the Stones #1 slot. Jagger was trying to hold it all together but alas it just couldn't be done. With Keith busy being a junkie & Magic Mick focusing on his status with millionaire jet setters,Monte Carlo & other such high society indulgences the music couldn't help but suffer. Just like the Stones the Geilers held on to & cherished the true spirit of rocknroll & the roots of R&B and 50s & 60s rocknroll with fine examples of all of it.Īnd JGB were the only band to show praise for the soul & funk master Dyke and the Blazers (see So Sharp from The Morning After LP)įor me JGB filled a void left by the 1973-1977 era & post 1978 Stones. Something I can't say about a lot of more well known groups back then.
I worked in underground radio from 1971-1977 and never missed a opportunity to interveiw the band or attend their shows. Wolf also grew up listening to the wrap of pioneering rocknroll DJs Alan Freed & Jocko Henderson (of which Wolf would eventually become noted for due to the Van Morrison connection in Boston) other words Wolf was an original rocknroll outlaw not to mention the premier frontman of 1970s rock (Sorry Iggy you're #2) Let's face facts the Stones during their prime 1965-1972 were masters at balancing sex & politics in the art of rocknroll & truest to its pure form ala Chuck Berry & Bo Diddley.īut in 1970 this scruffy band of greasy East Coast rockers had aspirirations (or so it seemed to some of us) to be the American Stones.įront man extradonaire Peter Wolf was born in the Bronx the same neighborhood that gave us Dion and the Belmonts & Phil Spector. Hold on.I did not say the Geilers were as good or better than the Stones in the early 70s (that would occur in 1973-1977),that would be foolish to even entertain the thought of such rubbish. (Jerome) Geils had put together one of the 1970s best loved longest lasting band of R&B misfits this side of Englands Rolling Stones. I will begin by saying that by mid 1970 guitarist J. I'm not going into the whole pre-Geils history of the band as you can do your own research for that.
Like the title says this thread is for showing the J.Geils Band the love they so richly deserve
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