UPDATE: Thanks to Geils fan Frits from the Netherlands for these updated Bluestime dates and posters from May 1993
May 1993
05/05/93 – Magic Dick & J. Geils, Bevrijdingsfestival, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
05/07/93 – Bluestime @ De Lantaarn, Hellendoorn, The Netherlands
05/08/93 – Bluestime @ Rhythm & Blues Night, De Oosterpoort, Groningen, The Netherlands
05/16/93 – Bluestime @ Patronaat, Haarlem, The Netherlands
05/19/93 – Bluestime @ Drie in een Blues Festival, Muziekcentrum Vredenburg,
Utrecht, The Netherlands & Doornroosje, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (Performance at Utrecht was 30 minutes)
05/20/93 – Bluestime @ Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
New archive tour dates (and trivia) added to the ‘1000Dances Tour Dates Database‘.
The Hallucinations
02/18-20/66 – The Hallucinations and The Tokens officially open the club ‘Where It’s At’ in Kenmore Square, a non-alcoholic nightclub for young people.
02/20/66 – The Hallucinations @ New England Collage, Henniker NH
February 1966 – Music Publisher Irwin Pincus in Boston to audit new tunes by The Hallucinations
April 10th 1966 – The Odyssey Club at 3 Hancock St. closed this week
04/24/66 – The Hallucinations @ Moondial Coffee House, 53 Berkeley St. Boston (Benefit for the Students Non Violent Coordinating Committee) The Moondial later became the Boston Tea Party
05/01/66 – The Hallucinations Played in the doorway of the Junior League of Boston, Newbury St. (Part of Newbury Street’s annual art “block”)
June 1966 – The Hallucinations (Led by Joe Clarke?) @ The South Boston Racquet Club
The J. Geils (Blues) Band
02/14-15/69 – The J. Geils Blues Band @ The Catacombs, Rock ‘n’ Roll Festival. Benefit for Project 50, a YMCA affiliated organisation w/Sky People, The Third World Raspberry, Cloud, Travis Pike’s Tea-Party & The Collwell-Winfield Blues Band. Festival was due to take place at The Boston Arts Project in a loft over a bar at 1088 Boylston St. but it lost it’s license after a police raid five days before
February 1969 – The J. Geils Blues Band appear on a music show called ‘Mixed Bag’. Broadcast each Wednesday at 7:30 on Channel 2, Boston
02/14-15/69 – The J. Geils Blues Band @ The Catacombs
03/28/69 – The J. Geils Blues Band @ The Catacombs
04/25/69 – The J. Geils Band & AUM @ Boston Tea Party, Berkley Square
05/09/69 – The J. Geils Blues Band @ The Catacombs
09/26-27/69 – The J. Geils Band & Lonnie Mack @ Boston Tea Party, Lansdowne St
12/18/69 – Van Morrison @ Symphony Hall w/ The J. Geils Band & Peter Johnson
08/05/72 – The J. Geils Band @ The Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park
09/19/72 – The J. Geils Band @ The Orpheum Theatre (Aquarius) w/Peter Frampton
07/07/74 – The J. Geils Band @ The Cape Cod Coliseum
01/25/75 – The J. Geils Band/Duke And The Drivers and John Lincoln @ The Boston Garden
04/22/75 – Muddy Waters @ Paul’s Mall – Guests Peter Wolf, Magic Dick, James Montgomery, Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Duke & The Drivers and Jeff Beck
04/28/76 – The J. Geils Band @ The Music Hall (Benefit concert for Spring For Summerthing)
07/22/78 – The J. Geils Band @ The Cape Cod Coliseum w/Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
11/11/78 – The J. Geils Band @ The Boston Garden
12/22/78 – Southside Johnny @ The Paradise – Intro by Peter Wolf and guest on encore song ‘Stagger Lee’ by Lloyd Price
07/03/79 – WBCN Battle Of The Bands Semi-Final @ Jimmy Harold’s Underground Rock Club, Kenmore Square. Surprise after show concert by “Jimmy and the Juke Joints” (Alias The J. Geils Band). First public appearance of a clean shaven Peter Wolf
07/05/79 – WBCN Battle Of The Bands Final @ Jimmy Harold’s Underground Rock Club, Kenmore Square. Guest Peter Wolf
05/03/80 – The J. Geils Band @ Providence Civic Center
07/26-27/80 – The J. Geils Band @ Cape Cod Coliseum
12/30/80 – The J. Geils Band @ Cape Cod Coliseum w/The Stompers
Bluestime (Jay Geils & Magic Dick)
10/23/92 – Bluestime @ The Paradise – First Bluestime Concert (Seth Justman, Danny Klein and Stephen Jo Bladd watched the show from the bar)
11/19/92 – Bluestime @ The Maximus Ballroom
12/31/92 – Bluestime @ The Paradise
02/13-14/93 – Bluestime @ The Annual Harpers Ferry Blues Festival
04/16/93 – Bluestime @ Groton’s Dunstable Performing Arts Center
07/09/93 – Bluestime @ The House Of Blues, Boston
09/05/93 – Southside Johnny/Magic Dick & Jay Geils (Bluestime) @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom in Hampton Beach, N.H
11/02/93 – Bluestime @ the Orpheum w/ Robert Cray, John Hammond & Johnny Clyde Copeland
09/01/93 – Bluestime @ Provincetown II Cruise Ship – “Music On Board” show by the Bay State Harbor Cruise Company
08/20/95 – B. B. King/Jimmie Vaughan/Etta James/Elvin Bishop/Magic Dick/J. Geils & Bluestime @ Great Woods
10/07/95 – Bluestime @ Sit ‘n’ Bull, Maynard
06/30/96 – Bluestime @ The City of Presidents Blues Festival in Quincy
07/17/96 – Bluestime @ The House Of Blues, Boston
09/07/96 – Bluestime @ The Framingham Blues Festival, Bowditch Field w/Luther Johnson
09/13/96 – Bluestime @ Johnny D’s
07/17/96 – Bluestime @ B. B. King’s Blues Festival w/B.B. King/Robert Cray Band & Tower of Power
05/10/97 – Bluestime @ The sixth annual Boston Brewers Festival at the Bayside Expo w/Matt “Guitar” Murphy and the Shaboo Allstars
05/30/98 – Bluestime @ MusicFest ’98, Maynard’s Alumni Field
08/22/99 – Bluestime @ The Fourth Annual North River Blues Festival
01/28/00 – Bluestime @ Sit ‘n’ Bull, Maynard
11/07/01 – Bluestime @ Vincent’s In Randolph
01/12/02 – Bluestime @ Johnny D’s
Peter Wolf
01/18/93 – Albert King Tribute @ House Of Blues w/Peter Wolf. Pete sang (“Pack, Fair and Square,” “Serves You Right to Suffer” and “Cruising for Love”) that he chose, he said later, because they came from the period in which Geils was most influenced by King. Wolf also did “Little Red Rooster,” assisted by local blues guitar dean Ronnie Earl. (They had first done the song together on the soundtrack to “Fried Green Tomatoes.”)
08/27/93 – Peter Wolf @ Atlantic Connection, Oak Bluffs – Guest list including James Taylor, Carly Simon, Billy Joel and possibly Bill Clinton
10/29/93 – WBCN Rock Of Boston Concert @ The Boston Garden w/Peter Wolf & the Houseparty Five (Joined by DK for Pack Fair and Square)
12/15/93 – Peter Wolf @ Boston Globe Santa Benefit @ Avalon – Pete sang with the newspaper’s house band The Subheds
12/21/93 – Peter Wolf and the Incomparable Houseparty 5 @ Bill’s Bar/Venus De Milo, 5 Lansdowne St. – Benefit for the Pine Street Inn Homeless Shelter
02/21/94 – Going Away Party for Elaine Wood, publicist for The Hard Rock Cafe @ The Hard Rock Cafe, Boston – Peter Wolf joins Aerosmith on stage to perform ‘Looking For A Love”
05/14/94 – Peter Wolf @ The House Of Blues, LA – Dan Aykroyd intro. Bruce Springsteen, Isaac Hayes and John Lee Hooker in the audience
05/16/94 – Peter Wolf @ The Green Street Grill, 280 Green St. (Followed by a Monday night jam at Wally’s in the South End)
09/08-24/94 – Peter Wolf displays 30 of his drawings at the Middle East Bakery in Cambridge
12/15/94 – WBCN ACOUSTIC CONCERT @ The Middle East w/Peter Wolf, Janet LaValley, Dave Herlihy, Upper Crust, Tracey Bonham, Black 47 and others
03/10/95 – Peter Wolf @ The Passim, Harvard Square (Unplugged)
06/01/95 – WBCN RIVER RAVE @ The Hatch Shell on the Esplanade – f/Peter Wolf
06/03/95 – KISS-108 CONCERT 16 @ Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts – f/Peter Wolf
09/29/95 – Boston Garden Closing Ceremonies – f/Peter Wolf and the Houseparty 5
05/13/96 – Peter Wolf @ The Hard Rock Cafe (Record release party for ‘Long Line’)
05/14/96 – WOLF DAY – Peter Wolf get a sidewalk star at Tower Records (Wolf’s new album ‘Long Line’ is released today)
05/25/96 – Peter Wolf @ The Middle East
12/27/96 – Peter Wolf @ The Middle East (Unplugged)
12/29/96 – Peter Wolf @ The Elvis Room, Portsmouth NH (Unplugged)
12/31/96 – Peter Wolf @ The Strand Theatre, Providence
05/31/97 – KISS-108 CONCERT @ Great Woods – f/Peter Wolf
07/10/97 – Peter Wolf @ The Blackthorne Tavern, Easton
07/18/98 – Royal Soul Revue @ Harborlights – Peter Wolf MC’s the show
03/20/99 – The Remains/Lost Reunion @ The Paradise Club – Peter Wolf MC’s the show
03/20/99 – The Del Fuegos @ The Middle East w/Peter Wolf performing ‘That’s Alright Mama’
Stonecrazy
09/28/96 – Stonecrazy @ Sticky Mike’s Blues Cruise
07/10/97 – Stonecrazy @ Rowes Wharf Rock Cruise
06/29/98 – Stonecrazy @ The Paradise
12/12/98 – Stonecrazy @ Mama Kin
