Geils Band would play sporadically over the years to come, including opening for Aerosmith in the summer of 2010 at Fenway Park and playing a 20-minute, six-song set at "Boston Strong: An Evening of Support and Celebration," a benefit for The One Fund Boston (for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing), in 2013 at TD Garden, both in Boston. Geils Band kicked off its “Never Say Never” tour in the summer of 1999 at the Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts, Mansfield, but they were never to regain the arena rock status that they abandoned at the height of their career.Ī reunited J. Over the years, Geils often played solo at intimate area venues, including The Bull Run in Shirley.Īfter a 17-year hiatus, the J. Geils, who once told the Telegram & Gazette that he’s always been a “Ferrari fanatic,” was an avid motorhead, devoting his spare time fixing and racing sports cars.įiery blues guitarists Geils and Magic Dick emerged in the 1990s with the short-lived blues combo Bluestime, which played at the defunct Plantation Club in Worcester. As a result, the band broke up in 1982, leaving the concert album "Showtime" (the band's third live album) as the swan song of the great original J. Geils Band's greatest commercial success, 1981's “Freeze-Frame,” and the tour behind that record (including a sold-out New Year's eve show at the Worcester Centrum), singer Peter Wolf split (or was fired, depending on whom you believe) from the band. “His playing was beautiful, economic and pure.”Īfter the J. “He didn’t specialize in flash,” Goodwin said of Geils. Worcester guitarist Cliff Goodwin called Geils “one of the purest white blues players” he ever saw on the guitar.
Geils Band staples included “Looking for a Love," "Whammer Jammer" and "(Ain't Nothin' But A) Houseparty."
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