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The J. Geils Band reminded the close to sold out crowd at DTE Energy Music Theatre last night why they ruled Detroit in the 1970′s and 1980′s.

They are STILL, 31 years after the first time I saw them (July 22, 1980), the best live band on the planet. Peter Wolf commands the stage and is as funky and energetic as ever. With his wild hair hanging out under the fedora, and his skinny legs carrying him everywhere including into the pavilion, he is hard not to watch. But the band never lets up, and as a unit they cooked their way through a set filled with blues, rock, funk, and hits.

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The Uptown Horns added a tight and funky roar of horns to the mix, at one point treating the crowd to a rendering of the Blues Brothers classic intro when Wolf asked them to belt out a solo. As always, their musianship added to the mix immeasurably.

Wolf went crowd surfing during “Musta Got Lost,” creating near hystweria as he walked his way down Aisle 4 from the stage, then vaulted over laps and legs in Row M, and then trotted down Aisle 3 to the stage. The Dogg, BLT Jeff, Jennifer, Danny D. and Timmy B. had aisle seats in the 8th row. aisle 3. We were able to reach out and slap hands with the Rock Legend!
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By GARY GRAFF Of The Oakland Press - No band throws a party — make that a houseparty — quite like the J. Geils Band. We know that in Detroit, of course, where the Boston group has adopted home town status and has recorded all or part of its three live albums. But even by its own roof-shaking standards, Geils’ “Detroit Shakedown” on Saturday night at the DTE Energy Music Theatre was one that will go down as special in the annals of its Motor City concert conquests.
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01 – First I Look at the Purse
02 – Hard Drivin’ Man
03 – Pack Fair and Square
04 – Nightime
05 – Cruisin’ For Love
06 – Freeze Frame
07 – Detroit Breakdown
08 – Surrender
09 – Serve You Right To Suffer
10 – Give It To Me
11 – Musta Got Lost
12 – Love Stinks
13 – Lookin’ For A Love
14 – Whammer Jammer
15 – Peach Tree Street
16 – Pack, Fair And Square
17 – (Ain’t Nothin’ but a) House Party
Encore
18 – Southside Shuffle
19 – Centerfold
Encore 2
20 – Where Did Our Love Go
21 – Start All Over Again
22 – Land of 1000 Dances
23 – Just Can’t Wait
24 – Love-itis

Source: http://www.detnews.com/

By Susan Whitall / Detroit News Music Writer – Sometimes a place is best understood through the eyes of an outlier. That’s true of southeastern Michigan, which becomes “Detroit City” in the inimitable patois of J. Geils Band front man Peter Wolf.
In “Detroit City” everything is possible: the music is legendary, all men are handsome, the women unutterably gorgeous,and everybody is dancing.The J. Geils Band loves Detroit and as all lovers should, the band reminds us of our charms, even if we’ve forgotten. More…..

Thanks to ursulageorge for sharing these videos on YouTube. “Whammer Jammer”

Thanks to ursulageorge for sharing these videos on YouTube. “Crusin’ For A Love”

Thanks to ursulageorge for sharing these videos on YouTube. “Freeze Frame” and “Detroit Breakdown”

Thanks to TonAtey for sharing these videos on YouTube. “Peter Wolf walking down the aisle during J. Geils show at DTE 8-22-10″

Thanks to TonAtey for sharing these videos on YouTube. “Peach Tree Street”/”Houseparty”

Thanks to darin123064 for sharing these videos on YouTube. “Peach Tree Street”

Thanks to darin123064 for sharing these videos on YouTube. “Land Of A 1000 Dances”

Thanks to darin123064 for sharing these videos on YouTube. “Peter Gunn Theme by The Uptown Horns”

Thanks to darin123064 for sharing these videos on YouTube.”Detroit Breakdown”

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By GARY GRAFF Of The Oakland Press: The J. Geils Band is ready for another Detroit breakdown.

Or, if you prefer, a Motor City Shakedown.

The Boston band, which considers Detroit “our sister home, our adopted home” according to frontman Peter Wolf, hasn’t been a full-time concern since 1985. But its members have, over the years, put their differences behind them and, Wolf says, “get together only for special situations.” Those have included an assortment of charity fundraisers and, last week, a concert at Boston’s revered Fenway Park with Aerosmith. And any time Geils does get itself together, Wolf says, it thinks about getting to Detroit.

“It’s like two great loves getting back together for us,” says Wolf, 64, an indefatigable onstage dervish, who was born Peter Blankfield in the Bronx and came ‘through town earlier this year to play Saint Andrews Hall in support of his latest solo album, “Midnight Souvenirs.” More…..

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Blow your face out – Next weekend, I’ll be flying to Detroit to catch the J. Geils Band in concert.

Yeah, yeah, I know what you’re thinking: “You’re going to Detroit? For those ‘Centerfold’ guys?”

Darned right, I am. But if they choose not to play “Centerfold,” I won’t be too upset.

It must be a Midwest thing, because no one in Jacksonville seems to understand why I’d travel a thousand-plus miles to hear “Love Stinks” live. Those people have obviously never been to a Geils concert. This is the last great American R&B showband, and I’m not about to let something as trivial as a thousand miles keep me from seeing the show, one of just two the band is playing this year.

I’ve seen hundreds of musicians perform live, everyone from Earth, Wind and Fire to the Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift to the Beach Boys, Kenny Chesney to the Grateful Dead. None of them could bring as much energy to the stage or leave the audience as emotionally and physically drained as the J. Geils Band. It ain’t nothin’ but a party, to borrow a line from one of their songs.

Of course, that was 30-some years ago. Can they still bring it? We’ll see. But if not, well, at least I get a lovely weekend in Detroit out of the deal.

Tom Szaroleta

Source: http://www.mlive.com/

CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI |FOR THE FLINT JOURNAL – J. Geils frontman Peter Wolf said he feels honoured that his Boston-based band was asked to headline the “Exclusive Saturday Night House Party End of Summer Blow Your Face Out” show on Saturday at DTE Energy Music Theatre.
“For us, it’s a place where we did six in a row one time when the Geils band was going strong,” Wolf said via telephone about DTE Energy Music Theatre, once known as Pine Knob Music Theatre. “I think it broke a record at one time.
“Pine Knob, historically, like Cobo Hall, has great importance to us. We played so many shows there. It’s unique. It was a great opportunity for us to bond with the audience. We had a communion between the audience and the band. The audience would get crazy and we’d get twice as crazy and the audience would get three times as crazy and we’d keep going back and forth like that.”

Wolf, who released the solo album “Midnight Souvenirs” in April, said it may be fans’ last time to see J. Geils.
“We have no plans after the Detroit date,” he said matter of factly. “We make no bones about it. This time could be the last time. We just never know. There’s no rhyme or reason”. More……

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The J. Geils Band’s “Exclusive Saturday Night House Party End of Summer Blow Your Face Out” concert will feature The Rockets as the opener for the show.

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