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09-18-2009, 11:53 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: S.E. Connecticut, USA | | | In agree, He's pretty darned good Man.
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09-18-2009, 11:57 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Spector Basses/Genz Benz Amplification | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Dallas, TX | | | yep...and J. Giels Band was a fantastic live act as well...If you ever saw them back in the day, they had every butt in the crowd shakin... |
09-18-2009, 03:20 PM
|  | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fishtx  yep...and J. Giels Band was a fantastic live act as well...If you ever saw them back in the day, they had every butt in the crowd shakin... | +1, I used too see them a lot around NYC in the early 70's when they were still opening a lot of shows, I always felt bad for the headliners,they were a very tough act to follow.
They were another group where the writers credits on those early albums would lead to some lifelong joys for me.
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09-18-2009, 09:00 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Peter Wolf once told a story in Rolling Stone that in addition to great bass playing, DK had amazing coke-locating abilities. He said he was able to score pretty much anywhere they went. Of course, that was in the 80's when coke was considered a fun drug. |
12-05-2009, 10:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wisconsin | | | They opened for alot of bands in the seventies. I saw them 4 times from '75 through '78. Never failed to get the joint up and rockin'. |
12-05-2009, 11:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Twixt a rock and a hard place | | | They were a great live band. I sure miss rock and roll bands.. |
12-05-2009, 12:56 PM
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I grew up in Boston area.
J Geils Band, always delivered the goods.
Great Live Band.
Must of seen them 50 times. |
12-05-2009, 07:51 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Howard's Crispy Fried Chicken Skins | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Lexington, SC | | | Great band and great player. I saw them in New Haven in 1982 and they did something like five encores. The Jon Butcher Axis opened for them...another good Boston band.
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12-05-2009, 07:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | | the first 2 albums are pure r'n'b. killer! great harp playing too from magic dick. |
12-05-2009, 08:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: 97465 | | | Always dug the bass line to "Freeze Frame".
The "Full House" Live album is KILLER. Very good representation of their early live show.
LOVE "First I Look at the Purse"! '70s = good times!!
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12-07-2009, 06:42 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Outside Boston | | Danny still plays out around MA. I've seen gigs listed, but haven't been able to make it to one... http://www.dannyklein.com/
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12-07-2009, 09:39 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Tallahassee, Fla | | A great band. I especially liked their backing vocals in harmony. A lost art.  Monkey Island is my fav JGB song. 
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12-07-2009, 09:59 AM
|  | Billy K Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: North Bay Marin | | | opened for Stones
Saw them open for the Stones at Candelstick Park San Francisco and in my humble opinion kicked the Stones ass.The Stones were more hype than anything.
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12-07-2009, 03:07 PM
| | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike19 A great band. I especially liked their backing vocals in harmony. A lost art. Monkey Island is my fav JGB song. | I've always dug the Monkey Island album, it was always one of their more adventuresome works that I thought was overlooked when it came out.
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01-24-2010, 12:26 AM
|  | Veteran Dispenser | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Newton, Mass | | | I just caught the J. Geils Band reunion show at the Big Brother Big Sister Benefit in Boston. The band can still deliver the goods and DK still sounds great rocking a 5-string Spector through an Eden rig. The songs are too good and the band is too tight to just come together every once in awhile. I hope there will be more to come.
One of the first concerts I saw was the J. Geils Band as the headliner at the Springfield (Mass) Civic Center. The opening wasn't bad either - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
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04-10-2010, 12:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Chicagoland | | Just a heads up that Danny and his Geils bandmates are opening up for Aerosmith at Fenway Aug 14th. |
04-10-2010, 12:25 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Cambridge, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dangnewt IOne of the first concerts I saw was the J. Geils Band as the headliner at the Springfield (Mass) Civic Center. The opening wasn't bad either - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. | That must have been a great show. The first concert I ever saw was also J.Geils. It was 1971 at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, NY. A friend's brother had 2 tickets but he had to work so he gave them to us. I have never heard of or seen J. Geils and opening band before going to the show. The J. Geils Band was very good but, in my young mind (at the time), the opening band, the Allman Brothers Band with Duane, blew them away. I have been an ABB fan ever since.
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04-10-2010, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM that was in the 80's when coke was considered a fun drug. | god I miss the 80's... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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