Re: Rick Estrin & Magic Dick

[AV1901@xxxxxxx]

Want to be clear about J. Geils... 

Here's what I said:
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>As Barbeque Bob mentions, blues was what brought the J. Geils band together 
early on. The hard driving rock blues came with Peter Wolf, and a brief period 
of great music that was comercially successful. Then they went down the MTV 
crapper with stuff like Angel in the Centerfold..... (it was *my* blood running 
cold...).<
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Please note that I didn't say it was Peter Wolf that brought about the 
schlock of Centerfold.... I said their good rock & blues stuff included him. I liked 
his fronting of the band during the Full House period. The keyboard guy 
should be shot (although I'm sure that Centerfold song brought in some pretty nice 
cash..). In fact, the Freeze Frame Album was their best seller... maybe it was 
their MTV video with all those cuties. Nothing wrong with cuties, a LOT wrong 
with MTV...

Going back to refresh my memory from junior high and high school days, I 
checked the jgeils.com website. This confirmed my memory that the J.Geils Blues 
Band was playing blues standards @1968 in Boston as a trio. Peter Wolf joined up 
with a drummer and keyboard player and added the rockin' /R&B edge to their 
Atlantic era stuff that I love. Hell, it was one of many things that got me 
playing harp back then. 

Watching some early heroes (Atlantic era J. Geils Band including Peter Wolfe) 
selling out gave me the same feeling I got when the Beatles' Revolution 1st 
played on a Nike TV ad.

Peter Wolf = good.

Na na na nana na.... na na na.... nana na na na = bad.

Andy Vincent

Harp content: Ptere Wolf tried to play harp on at least one of his solo post 
J.Geils efforts.