The 5th season Saturday Night Live featuring the J. Geils Band is now available on the US iTunes for $1.99 (just search ‘Geils’ then click ‘TV Shows’). This episode was broadcast on Saturday March 8th, 1980. The band performed first ‘Love Stinks’ then later in the show ‘Sanctuary’.
Source: Crawdaddy Radio LP No.4 – Circa 1976. A vinyl LP released by Crawdaddy magazine featuring a 12 minute interview with Peter Wolf just after the release of the double live LP ‘Blow Your Face Out’.
Centerfold was released on October 26th 1981, and eventually went to number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 on February 6th 1982, and stayed there for six weeks. The bands album ‘Freeze- Frame‘ started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart on the same day.
The J. Geils Band entertained more than 1,000 costumed revelers at the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay’s annual fund-raiser at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center on Saturday night. VIPs at the event included longtime big brother Charlie Baker and his wife, Lauren, Highland Capital’s Dan Nova and his wife, Annette, event chairs Joe and Christa Ayoub, former lieutenant governor Kerry Healey, Harrah’s Entertainment boss Gary Loveman, Adage Capital’s Phill Gross, and Celtics co-owner Wyc Grousbeck, who auctioned off a drum set that he had previously bought from Aerosmith’s Joey Kramer. Kramer served as the night’s emcee.
Thanks to George Corneliussen for these exclusive photos he took from April 24, 1979 (the day of the J. Geils show at the Paradiso). The first two photos are the outside of the building. The third is the lobby and shows posters above a doorway.
Boston – The legendary J. Geils Band will perform live at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay’s biggest fundraiser of the year, Big Night 11. This event is the organization’s annual winter event with more than 1,000 guests expected to attend. This special evening helps the agency in its continuing effort to serve more children throughout Eastern Massachusetts.
The emcee for the event is Aerosmith’s drummer, Joey Kramer with performances by the J. Geils Band and French Lick. Guests attending Big Night will arrive dressed in costume as their favorite rock star, and will step into a completely transformed Boston Convention and Exhibition Center that will be reminiscent of both a rock star mansion and Boston’s early rock clubs. Read the rest of this entry »
For a band that broke up years ago, J. Geils sure gigs a lot. Peter Wolf, Seth Justman, Jay Geils, Magic Dick, and Danny Klein are back at it Saturday at the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay’s annual fundraising bash at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. (Past performers have included the Bangles, Blondie, Cheap Trick, Morris Day & the Time, Duran Duran, Hall & Oates, Ziggy Marley, and the Steve Miller Band.) J. Geils, which played a handful of smokin’ shows last year, including a New Year’s Eve extravaganza at Mohegan Sun, has been performing all of their old faves, from “Looking for a Love” and “Give it to Me” to “Ain’t Nothing But a House Party” and “Centerfold.” Believe it or not, J. Geils is the evening’s opening act. French Lick, the outfit featuring Celts CEO Wyc Grousbeck on drums, will keep the party kicking with a set of classic rock, and Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer will MC.
J. Geils frontman Peter Wolf sang “Old Man River’’ at James Pallotta’s funeral this week. We’re told pianist Mitch Chakour accompanied on the tune, the Frank Sinatra version of which was a favorite of Pallotta’s. The service was held Thursday at St. Stephen’s Church in the North End, where the former Polaroid manager affectionately known as “Jimmy Jumbo’’ was a fixture for many years. Pallotta’s daughters Carla and Christine own Nebo while his son, Jim, is the high-rolling hedge fund manager who’s part owner of the Celts. . . .
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