Re: [Harp-L] J. Geils

[<jruss433@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've always been an early J. Geils Band fan.  By that I mean the first 2 
albums with those great Juke Joint Walden tunes and John Lee Hooker's 
"Serves You Right to Suffer."   I always thought those early albums combined 
pucker and TB techniques.  I think "Whammer Jammer is also on one of those 
two albums.  I say that because, as a youth, I had tried in vein to master 
that legendary version of the song, finding techniques in play I had not yet 
mastered.  That was late 60s or early 70s.  Back then, they played a lot in 
the Virginia Beach area  for a buck or two.

They were a really earthy and dirty little blues band with a really fat 
sound.  I thought that the turning point for Magic Dick's sound (and the 
Band) was the "Full House"  album.  That may have been the one you're 
referring to.

I think "very rock and roll" is an apt description for "Full House."   I've 
always thought that, at that point, the Band went where its fans took them 
and ceased to be strictly a Blues band.

Mark Russillo
a.k.a. The Rhode Island Kid

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "fjm" <mktspot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "h-l" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:42 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] J. Geils


> For the first time in perhaps a decade or more I found myself listening to 
> my original vinyl copy of the J. Geils Band Live album.  What struck me 
> more than anything was Magic Dick sounds like a pure pucker player. I 
> don't think I'd ever really realised that before.  I haven't heard any of 
> his new stuff so I have no idea if this is true today. In fact my thought 
> about the older album is subjective, I really don't know for sure.  Anyone 
> out there have an in on this?  Very rock and roll that band.
>
> Thanks a lot Dennis, I've had Tip of the Top on incessantly trying to 
> figure out "Blowin'"  Hey Johnny B, was that what you were walking around 
> Spah St. Louis playing constantly?  It was a William Clarke tune. fjm
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