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Re: Guestbook

funkyjudge — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:09:05 -0000

Hi, I've just added my email address above, under the guestbook heading. For some reason i can't add it to the comments without it screwing-up.

Thanks

Re: Guestbook

Mcnallyentertainment — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:53:03 -0000

what is your e-mail contact, so I can send info on a FULL HOUSE show at a new venue in New Hampshire on May 25?

Re: Peter Wolf Spotting: On Stage With The Roy Sludge Trio @ Radio Bar in Somerville. May 5th, 2012

Jim Smith, CTIE — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:30:39 -0000

PRICELESS!

Re: Saturday 5th May 2012: Danny Klein’s Full House @ the Bull Run Restaurant, Shirley, MA

Dquint91d — Mon, 07 May 2012 06:58:13 -0000

The show at the Bull Run was one of the best to the date. Danny making it apparent that he should have a mic and taking the chorus to Love Stinks vocal primary part. Stevie G, Jim Taft, Rosy, Dave and Artie make a two hour show seem like it was ten minuets (the crowd always wanting more) and Danny seems to have the same fun he had through the 70's and 80's on stage and with all the antics!!!! This is a show you should not miss!!!

Re: Trailer: “The Legendary Cobo” Documentary Featuring Peter Wolf

Anita030300 — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:00:11 -0000

Ditto to Packard_Plant's comments. We love you in the "D".

Re: Guestbook

Anita030300 — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:40:14 -0000

Scanning the internet for tour announcements...hoping and praying for another rockin' summer!

Re: The J. Geils Band: Tour Dates 1980 – 1981

Hoser98629 — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:02:34 -0000

Yes, they must have. I did see the poster so that would make it seem a for sure that they played back to back nights. I do remember it was an amazing show. Still one of the best I've ever attended!!

Re: 1984 – Saturday Night Live. US TV

Olenandtrish — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:38:59 -0000

Funniest thing seen on SNL in the whole decade of the 1980's: Peter Wolf's ridiculous, ape-like, trying-way-too-hard-to-save-a-pathetic-song performance of "Lights Out". Nearly 30 years later and I still remembered this.

Re: The J. Geils Band: Tour Dates 1972 – 1973

MarkC — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:47:43 -0000

I saw them in early 1973 at Merrimack College with Spooky Tooth. Can anybody else put a date on this show?

Re: Trailer: “The Legendary Cobo” Documentary Featuring Peter Wolf

Packard_Plant — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:19:11 -0000

This is awesome, cannot wait till it's finished. Unfortunately, Cobo will no longer look like itself, although I think they may keep the arena but just change the interior. One thing that will not change is the circular drive to the roof parking... a roller coaster ride to the top, and a dizzing horns blaring ride to the bottom. The J. Geils band is so special to this city, there are no words. All I can say is if you could hear Detroit's heart beating, it would sound just like them.

Re: 1979 – Rockpalast (Video)

Sean Stewart — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:35:54 -0000

The deal!

Re: 1979 – Boston Garden

Sean Stewart — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:34:48 -0000

Take me back! Nyce video concert.

Re: Miscellany Memorabilia

Anita — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:05:59 -0000

Wow...I've been searching for a tour poster to display in my home forever. I'm from the Detroit area, and I haven't missed a tour since I was old enough to go...sometime around 1980. I'm a die hard fan and will love them till the day I die. I've raised my children on Full House and have introduced them to a whole new live experience since the boys started touring again a couple years ago. Forever Fan...Anita

Re: The J. Geils Band @ Rib Rock Festival, August 27th & 28th

smitty — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:10:01 -0000

Funky...I just stumbled across my original comment (below).

Now I'm scaring ME!

How weird did that work out? (excuse the American use of English in the previous sentence, please) :-)

Re: The Unicorn Coffee House

DHLyman — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:57:27 -0000

Robert J Lurtsema
A Personal Recollection
By David H. Lyman
Rockport, Maine
Friday, April 6, 2012

Robert J was always know as Robert J, a short squat man with an inquisitive curiosity and a Encyclopedia mind and a great voice. In fact, in 1962, Robert J was selling Encyclopedia Britannic for a living. He would visited homes in the Boston area selling a book case full of books dresses all in white--white shoes, white suit, white vest and a while fedora. He drove a white, early 50s Cadillac, with fins.
I was running the Unicorn Coffee House on Bolyston Street at the time. I was between college semester at Boston University, holding down a day job at WHDH-TV as a floor producer and Ring Master on the Bozo Show, hosting a Saturday evening folk music radio show on WBCN, then the flagship for the Concert Network, and running the folk music club at night.
Robert J would arrive at the Unicorn like clock work at 11 PM, just in time to catch the last act of the night. He’d strut in, making an entrance, brushing by the chap who was collecting the cover charge, assuming the role as one of the regulars--which he was.
The Unicorn was the largest of the folk music coffee houses in Boston at the time. We had all the great acts, from Theo Bikel, Ian and Silvia, The Limelighters. The place was owned by a Greek-Egyptian, George Popadupolo, but I booked the acts, made the introductions from the stage, opened and closed the place. That winter, 1962-63 I spoke with the people at WCRB, a commercial classical music station in Boston, about my hosting a live interview broadcast from the Unicorn. I’d heard Casper Citron’s interview show on WQXR from the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan. I wanted to do a similar show in Boston. I got the show going, but a more exciting opportunity presented itself.
Two other regulars at the Unicorn offered to back me in a start-up coffee house on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. I took the offer, but I had to do something with the night time interview radio show I just launched. Hovering in the background was Robert J with his great voice.
I asked him if he would take over for me that summer while I was on the Vineyard running a new coffee house on the Vineyard. He said yes, and by the time I got back that fall, he was totally ensconced. There was no way he was going to give up the microphone and his audience. I did stay on as his “producer,” organizing the guests he was to interview and operating the control board for the remote broadcast. We worked together for a month then I went off in other directions, including a hitch in the Navy as a journalist in Vietnam. Robert J, of course, became a much loved voice in Boston radio for the next thirty years
In 1976, I was organizing the New England Festival of Folk Music at Waterville Valley, NH, I invited Robert J and humorist Marshall Dodge to be the hosts from the stage. Later, in the 80s, Robert J played Santa Clause at the annual Bay Chamber Christmas Concert at the Rockport Opera House, in Maine--in my town, where I was running a photography and film summer school at the time. He was the epitome of a classic Santa . . . “His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow . . . He had a broad face and a little round belly that shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly. . . . He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf . . . .”
I listened to Robert J most mornings from the early 70 until his passing in 2000. What I loved about him was his inquisitiveness. He was as much a professor of music, leading us to a greater appreciation of various musical styles and trends, as a student himself. He would mix up with classical, jazz, folk and opera in a single morning, but always with a reason behind his selections. He was teaching us something, not just amusing us. His morning “classes” were occasionally hard to take, but it was an education in world music that anyone who loved music needed to sit through. Robert J had an ear for and an appreciated for all kinds of music. He was one of first to embrace the A cappella voice the Scottish folk singer Jean Redpath as well as Bob Dylan.
His bird songs in the morning was the sound that launch us into our day back then. . . I wrote him a few times asking if he could dispense with the 7 AM newscast, as the last thing I wanted to hear upon awakening was how bad things were. Time enough for that after my day had begun. Robert J did not answer.
I’ve had a hand in launching many people on their careers in the past 50 years and Robert J was one of them . . . .

Re: Bluestime: Tour Dates 1993 – 2004

Jb2497 — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:57:34 -0000

6/6/1997 I opened for Bluestime with my band at Toad's Place in New Haven, CT

Re: The J. Geils Band: Tour Dates 1980 – 1981

funkyjudge — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:07:01 -0000

Hi Mike, They must have played two nights if you have a ticket for the 29th. Click the photo below the 28th date. It's a poster for that concert. I'll add your date to the list. Cheers

Re: The J. Geils Band: Tour Dates 1980 – 1981

Big Mike — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:34:22 -0000

I saw the band in Seattle at the Paramount in March, but my ticket stub (yes, I still have it......one of the few I have left from 'back in the day') says March 29, 1980. The date on this site says the 28th. I'm wondering if they played 2 nights or the date here is wrong.

Re: J. Geils Band

1wildwes — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:04:15 -0000

Greatest Live Band in the history of Rock n Rollin'

Re: Podcast: Michael Butler’s Unsung Heroes of Rock – The J. Geils Band

Tuttiemc — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:36:11 -0000

That was so cool, nice to see my favorite band get the kudos they've earned.

Re: Podcast: Michael Butler’s Unsung Heroes of Rock – The J. Geils Band

funkyjudge — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:32:08 -0000

It's from the Rockpalast concert. Three download links here:

http://funkyjudge.net/geils/vi...

Re: Podcast: Michael Butler’s Unsung Heroes of Rock – The J. Geils Band

Jimg2460 — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:26:11 -0000

That was the best Geils concert clip i have ever seen.Does any one know were to find the whole concert?

Re: Happy Birthday: Guitarist, Jay Geils. born on February 20th, 1946. New York

New Yorker — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:57:46 -0000

Thank you for your legendary music. May it remain as youthful as you!

Re: Guestbook

luxdeluxe — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:03:34 -0000

Magic Dick of J. Geils band played harp on our song! check it out. It's called Never Coming Back, by LuxDeluxe.

http://luxdeluxe.bandcamp.com/...

Re: 1971 – Photos By Carter Tomassi

G.Martin-Silzer-Hennen — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:32:51 -0000

I was a little rocker babe in 1971 when I was working in Cleveland Airport when this hot guy came up to me & said he was in a ROCK & ROLL band, I asked "Who R U "? He answered "J. Giles" I then asked "Whats the name of your band?" Duh, Boston guy wasn't well known in Cleveland yet, ha....I however, was a pro dancer in a club where the James Gang started & many more were launched moons ago..I could write a book :>) G. Hennen