Like a Blues Brothers without the horn section or a George Thorogood but without Bad To The Bone.
It just sounds like very competent old style blues-based rock'n'roll, with much of the 'lead' work on harmonica rather than guitar. There's nothing fresh or innovative here among the standard blues tropes (unlike say a Bob Seger/Tom Petty or even Steve Miller). have listened through and this is not for me. I can fully understand why Peter Wolf left the band after Freeze Frame. Geils Band definitely deserve further exploring. Singer Peter Wolf on top of his game, Seth Justman and "J" himself keeping things steady on keyboards and guitars and a solid rhythm section who all tick the right boxes but yes, Magic Dick on Harmonica is the star of the show.Īll the songs are great but First I Look At The Purse, Serves You Right to Suffer and closing track Looking For A Love are the standout tracks.Ī great blues album and a very pleasant surprise - The J.
#THE J. GEILS BAND WHAMMER JAMMER FULL#
Live Full House is one fantastic live record. Not bad, but not much to excite me or to encourage me look out for their earlier stuff.
Until now I was only familiar with their 80s Centerfold and Freeze Frame output. Philip Qvist: Wow - this was an excellent choice. I'll bet this one will be in my 'hot' file until their next album is out, and if this is any kind of clue, it ought to be one bad jam!" ( Rolling Stone) "There are damn few live albums that hold up as strong as this all the way through - or that you'll ever want to play again. Clocking in at just under 40 minutes, it packs a relentless punch that leaves the listener drunk with pleasure from the powerful momentum the band brought to the stage and left them wanting more." ( All About Jazz (opens in new tab)) "Minute for Minute, "Live" Full House is one of the densest rock live albums ever produced. "Live" Full House is a short, punchy shot of rock & roll genius by one of the great bands of the '70s and one of the best live albums ever recorded." ( AllMusic (opens in new tab)) Geils himself on guitar when you have a magnetic frontman like Peter Wolf or the unstoppable force that is harp player Magic Dick (check Whammer Jammer for proof of his greatness), but his soloing on this track serves notice that he could tear off a ferocious solo with the best of them.
#THE J. GEILS BAND WHAMMER JAMMER CRACK#
The album may have failed to crack the Billboard Top 50, but it was a huge critical success with a potent presence on underground radio, and it remains one of the finest live documents of its era. Geils Band – wailing harp, churning organ solos, pungent blues licks and the irrepressible Wolf – into the best part of 10 glorious minutes. Perhaps the best of the bunch was a monumental version of John Lee Hooker’s Serves You Right To Suffer, a song that folded everything vital about the J.
The result was the kinetic Full House, which featured strutting takes of First I Look At The Purse, Looking For A Love and Otis Rush’s Homework, alongside two-fisted originals Whammer Jammer and Hard Drivin’ Man. In April ’72 the band headed for Detroit, a favoured stronghold, and pitched up for two nights at The Cinderella Ballroom. Why don’t you just do a live record? Just capture what you’re doin’ on stage.’” “He came to see us play,” said singer Peter Wolf, "and said: ‘You’re a great live band, but I listened to your albums and I’m just not getting it. One informed (and anonymous) source said "his 45 rpm was his first and only album.Enter manager Dee Anthony, then overseeing rock heavyweights Humble Pie, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Joe Cocker. Songwriter Juke Joint Jimmy is a legendary figure with the Geils crew, having also written "Cruisin' For A Love" and "It Ain't What You Do (It's How You Do It"). Playing against Seth Justman's honky tonk piano, Peter and Jay stay back so that Dickie can do his thing. Where a Stevie Wonder will make the harp a sweet sounding instrument helping him rejoice sentiments like "I Was Made To Love Her", Magic Dick does the opposite, burning sounds into the consciousness as deftly as any great lead guitarist. Covered by harp player Mike Stevens on a 1992 release, this was the song that really put Magic Dick on the map as the quintessential rock & roll harmonica man. It's a short ( two minutes, twenty-one seconds) but lively cover of a Juke Joint Jimmy tune which allows Richard Salwitz, a.k.a. Geils Band's second disc, The Morning After, with a killer live take on their third lp and first stage recording Full House Live.
The studio version of "Whammer Jammer" is on the J.
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